New York Bomb Scare

New York went on alert for two hours Friday during the morning rush hour because of three suspicious objects that turned out to be empty rice cookers.

Police are investigating a suspicious package addressed to actor Robert De Niro in New York, news reports said Thursday.

The White House has accused the CNN of dividing America as the news network criticised the Trump administration for a "total and complete lack of understanding" of the seriousness of its attacks on the media following the discovery of an explosive package sent to CNN's New York City office.

A Lufthansa flight headed to Germany from Texas was diverted to a New York City airport on Monday after a bomb threat was called in to the airline's headquarters, officials said.

Two terminals at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport are resuming normal operation today morning after reports of shots fired prompted evacuations and grounded and diverted flights.

A United Airlines flight has been delayed at a New York airport after a male passenger uttered the word "bomb."

A Harvard student has been charged in a bomb hoax that forced the elite US university to evacuate four buildings, call in police and disrupt final exams, prosecutors said on Friday.

An abandoned sport utility vehicle on the Brooklyn Bridge brought traffic to a halt for about an hour at the tail end of the Memorial Day holiday weekend as New York City police temporarily shut down the roadway to determine if the vehicle was a threat.

Federal investigators swept cargo planes at two United States airports on Friday morning, searching for suspicious packages, after a potentially explosive device that later turned out to be harmless was found Thursday night at an airport near Birmingham, England, originating in Yemen and bound for Chicago, officials said.Officials isolated UPS carg...

An airport official said a man 'made a comment about a bomb' on a flight from Chicago to New York's MacArthur Airport, forcing passengers to deboard as authorities inspected the aircraft.No explosive device was found. The man was taken into custody after the last afternoon's incident on a Southwest Airlines flight.MacArthur Airport Commissioner Ter...

Pakistani officials have detained an 11th suspect in connection with the probe into the failed car bomb attack in New York by Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, a media report said on Thursday.The latest suspect to be detained is a man named Qamar Ejaz, a Pakistani intelligence source said. Ejaz's brother, Adnan Ejaz, is a former Pakistan Army majo...

Two men detained in Pakistan for alleged links to the attempted Times Square bombing have admitted playing a role in the botched attack and are unrepentant, with one angrily accusing interrogators of "siding with the infidels," a senior intelligence official said on Saturday.The pair are among six men, officials say, and have been detained in Pakis...

New York City police have cleared a few blocks of Manhattan while investigating a suspicious car near Union Square. At least one building has been evacuated.The car was spotted Thursday night not far from busy Union Square subway station, where several lines connect. Police say two gas cans were seen in the back of the car.The bomb squad and Emerge...

US Attorney General Eric Holder says the Pakistani Taliban was "intimately involved" in the failed Times Square bombing. Holder says the Taliban in Pakistan "directed this plot." A US citizen of Pakistani descent, Shahzad is accused of spending five months in Pakistan before returning to the United States in February and preparing his attack. Holde...

NYPD bomb squad has said cooler in Times Square is not a threat and has opened streets to traffic.

New York went on alert for two hours Friday during the morning rush hour because of three suspicious objects that turned out to be empty rice cookers.

Police are investigating a suspicious package addressed to actor Robert De Niro in New York, news reports said Thursday.

The White House has accused the CNN of dividing America as the news network criticised the Trump administration for a "total and complete lack of understanding" of the seriousness of its attacks on the media following the discovery of an explosive package sent to CNN's New York City office.

A Lufthansa flight headed to Germany from Texas was diverted to a New York City airport on Monday after a bomb threat was called in to the airline's headquarters, officials said.

Two terminals at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport are resuming normal operation today morning after reports of shots fired prompted evacuations and grounded and diverted flights.

A United Airlines flight has been delayed at a New York airport after a male passenger uttered the word "bomb."

A Harvard student has been charged in a bomb hoax that forced the elite US university to evacuate four buildings, call in police and disrupt final exams, prosecutors said on Friday.

An abandoned sport utility vehicle on the Brooklyn Bridge brought traffic to a halt for about an hour at the tail end of the Memorial Day holiday weekend as New York City police temporarily shut down the roadway to determine if the vehicle was a threat.

Federal investigators swept cargo planes at two United States airports on Friday morning, searching for suspicious packages, after a potentially explosive device that later turned out to be harmless was found Thursday night at an airport near Birmingham, England, originating in Yemen and bound for Chicago, officials said.Officials isolated UPS carg...

An airport official said a man 'made a comment about a bomb' on a flight from Chicago to New York's MacArthur Airport, forcing passengers to deboard as authorities inspected the aircraft.No explosive device was found. The man was taken into custody after the last afternoon's incident on a Southwest Airlines flight.MacArthur Airport Commissioner Ter...

Pakistani officials have detained an 11th suspect in connection with the probe into the failed car bomb attack in New York by Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, a media report said on Thursday.The latest suspect to be detained is a man named Qamar Ejaz, a Pakistani intelligence source said. Ejaz's brother, Adnan Ejaz, is a former Pakistan Army majo...

Two men detained in Pakistan for alleged links to the attempted Times Square bombing have admitted playing a role in the botched attack and are unrepentant, with one angrily accusing interrogators of "siding with the infidels," a senior intelligence official said on Saturday.The pair are among six men, officials say, and have been detained in Pakis...

New York City police have cleared a few blocks of Manhattan while investigating a suspicious car near Union Square. At least one building has been evacuated.The car was spotted Thursday night not far from busy Union Square subway station, where several lines connect. Police say two gas cans were seen in the back of the car.The bomb squad and Emerge...

US Attorney General Eric Holder says the Pakistani Taliban was "intimately involved" in the failed Times Square bombing. Holder says the Taliban in Pakistan "directed this plot." A US citizen of Pakistani descent, Shahzad is accused of spending five months in Pakistan before returning to the United States in February and preparing his attack. Holde...

NYPD bomb squad has said cooler in Times Square is not a threat and has opened streets to traffic.