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ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images UPDATE (8/8/20, 1:07 p.m. ET): The 2020 VMAs will no longer be held at Barclays Center. Find a statement from MTV and Barclays Center spokespeople below, in italics. Original post follows. The 2020 VMAs will be held on Sunday, August 30 and pay homage to…

(NEW YORK) — There will be protest, and rainbow flags and performances — it is LGBTQ Pride, after all. But what is normally an outpouring on the streets of New York City is going to look a little different this year, thanks to social distancing rules required by the coronavirus.…

The 2020 edition of the New York City Marathon has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic, organisers have said.New York has been one of the hardest hit cities in the world from the virus recording 388,000 confirmed cases and 30,927 deaths as of June 25.The New York Road Runners,…

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea testified on Monday that officers who drove their cars into protesters were complying with department standards, and he defended the arrests of legal observers monitoring police conduct at demonstrations.FILE PHOTO: New York City Police (NYPD) Commissioner Dermot Shea speaks at…

By Jonathan AllenNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea testified on Monday that officers who drove their cars into protesters were complying with department standards, and he defended the arrests of legal observers monitoring police conduct at demonstrations.Shea's testimony was part of a series of online public…

New York City police have released video of a violent assault in Harlem and they are asking for the victim to come forward.Read More

A 32-year-old nurse - among at least nine others - died from the coronavirus in April after a retired New York surgeon with the illness was admitted to a high end dementia care facility in Los Angeles.According to the LA Times, the nurse, Brittany Bruner-Ringo, died on 20 April. Since…

On the evening of May 29th, a New York state senator named Zellnor Myrie, a mild-mannered son of Caribbean immigrants from Flatbush, went to join a protest against police abuse outside the Barclays Center, in downtown Brooklyn. It was one of the first large rallies in New York City protesting…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called President Trump's tweet promoting conspiracy theories about an elderly protester who was hospitalized after being shoved to the ground by police in Buffalo "reprehensible.""President Trump did a tweet today that surprises me — even after all the tweets that he has done," Cuomo said…