New York

Apple continues its privacy fight against the FBI

In court documents filed on Friday (April 15), Apple bosses quoted the head of the FBI, throwing his own words back at him to prove a point on privacy.

"[L]itigation is a terrible place to have any kind of discussion about a complicated policy issue," Apple quoted James Comey as saying.

"Especially one that touches on our values, on the things we care about most, on technology, on trade-offs and balance."

Global goals for sustainable development a roadmap to Pacific prosperity

The Global Goals for Sustainable Development could get these things done. In all countries. For all people. 

Pope wants technology to make us better humans

When the pontiff called on Congress to take "courageous action" on climate change, he also talked about the role he sees for technology in the world, quoting a papal encyclical published earlier this year.

“We have the freedom needed to limit and direct technology,” Francis said, “to devise intelligent ways of developing and limiting our power, and to put technology at the service of another type of progress, one which is healthier, more human, more social, more integral."

IOC President to deliver speech at UN General Assembly

The Summit will adopt the post-2015 Development Agenda on 25 September. Three days of debate about the realisation of these goals by world leaders will follow. Among the speakers will be dozens of Heads of State and Government and other world leaders, including Pope Francis.   

New York opportunity for Pacific artisans

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) are inviting cultural enterprises in the crafts, visual arts and fashion sectors from Fiji, Samoa and Solomon Islands to apply for funded participation at the popular tradeshow which attracted over 30,000 buyers from over 80 countries this year.

VIDEO: Presidential hopeful Trump reports for jury duty

Trump may not have been courting voters, but he was certainly enjoying the attention as he took time to sign autographs, wave to fans and speak to the media as he made his way through the crowds and up the steps of the courthouse.

But once inside, he found himself seated next to ordinary, wage-earning New Yorkers, forced to wait - and wait some more - for the wheels of justice to turn.

Morgan Freeman's granddaughter stabbed to death in New York

An NYPD rep told E! News that the killing took place early on Sunday. She was found with multiple stab wounds on her torso on a street in Harlem and taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. A 30-year-old man was detained at the scene and later taken to another medical center. His identity has not been released and no charges have been filed. Police are still investigating the incident.

Cost of hunt for escaped NY killers topped $1 million a day

State comptroller records obtained by The Associated Press for June and July show overtime totaled $41 million for the corrections department and $17.6 million for state police. That's roughly twice the amount spent for those months in 2014.

Those two agencies led the 23-day manhunt by more than 1,100 officers for Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped June 6 from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

New York prison worker: I got 'caught up' in escape plot

Joyce Mitchell, 51, an instructor in the tailor shop at the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, tearfully pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat escape. She faces a sentence of 2 1/3 to seven years in prison under terms of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Her lawyer, Stephen Johnston, said Mitchell realizes she made a "horrible mistake" by getting involved with Matt and Sweat, who staged an elaborate escape from the maximum-security prison on June 6.

Police: 4 killed in NY wine country when SUV hits limo

The limousine was leaving a winery and making a U-turn at a blinking traffic signal to head west when the pickup truck collided with it, Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley told Newsday. The driver of the pickup truck hit the brakes before the crash but could not stop in time, Flatley said.

He said all four people killed were women. Their names were not immediately released.