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Taxicab companies and a trade group claimed that Uber had an unfair advantage by being allowed to enter without having to comply with various local taxi regulations.

A top US lawmaker has termed the recent attack on a Sikh cab driver in New York as "troubling" and called for joint efforts to end such hate crimes. "I was deeply troubled to learn of the recent attack on a member of the Sikh community in New York City.

A 25-year-old Sikh cab driver in the US was assaulted and his turban knocked off by drunk passengers, an incident the police was investigating as a possible hate crime.

A civil jury awarded $350,000 to a Muslim cabdriver Monday who alleged that he was berated over his religion and attacked by a businessman in a 2013 encounter that was partially captured on video.

"There are more and more of us taking a share of the same pie," said one cabbie, a sentiment echoed across the city.

A quick chat and a two-minute drive is all it took for an American cab driver to be tipped nearly $1,000.

A Sikh cab driver, found guilty of raping and kidnapping a 29-year-old American woman in New York, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2011 attack when he allegedly held her at knifepoint and assaulted her.

For the second time in as many months, a Muslim civil rights group is pursuing criminal charges on behalf of a taxicab driver who was subjected to an anti-Islamic rant caught on tape.

A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for attempting to send money to a terrorist with alleged links to al-Qaeda, telling the 58-year-old he had violated a citizenship oath made to God promising never to do harm to the United States.

It was the first fare of the cabdriver's shift. A young man hailed him at the corner of Second Avenue and East 24th Street, wanting to go to 42nd and Second. It was 6 p.m. on Tuesday; the traffic was dense.Once the fare, Michael Enright, a 21-year-old film student who had been recently trailing Marines in Afghanistan, settled in the back, he starte...

A Pakistani-origin taxi driver with suspected links to Pakistan-based terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri has been indicted on charges of "knowingly" attempting to aid Al-Qaida.

Taxicab companies and a trade group claimed that Uber had an unfair advantage by being allowed to enter without having to comply with various local taxi regulations.

A top US lawmaker has termed the recent attack on a Sikh cab driver in New York as "troubling" and called for joint efforts to end such hate crimes. "I was deeply troubled to learn of the recent attack on a member of the Sikh community in New York City.

A 25-year-old Sikh cab driver in the US was assaulted and his turban knocked off by drunk passengers, an incident the police was investigating as a possible hate crime.

A civil jury awarded $350,000 to a Muslim cabdriver Monday who alleged that he was berated over his religion and attacked by a businessman in a 2013 encounter that was partially captured on video.

"There are more and more of us taking a share of the same pie," said one cabbie, a sentiment echoed across the city.

A quick chat and a two-minute drive is all it took for an American cab driver to be tipped nearly $1,000.

A Sikh cab driver, found guilty of raping and kidnapping a 29-year-old American woman in New York, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2011 attack when he allegedly held her at knifepoint and assaulted her.

For the second time in as many months, a Muslim civil rights group is pursuing criminal charges on behalf of a taxicab driver who was subjected to an anti-Islamic rant caught on tape.

A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for attempting to send money to a terrorist with alleged links to al-Qaeda, telling the 58-year-old he had violated a citizenship oath made to God promising never to do harm to the United States.

It was the first fare of the cabdriver's shift. A young man hailed him at the corner of Second Avenue and East 24th Street, wanting to go to 42nd and Second. It was 6 p.m. on Tuesday; the traffic was dense.Once the fare, Michael Enright, a 21-year-old film student who had been recently trailing Marines in Afghanistan, settled in the back, he starte...

A Pakistani-origin taxi driver with suspected links to Pakistan-based terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri has been indicted on charges of "knowingly" attempting to aid Al-Qaida.