U.S. law enforcement officials say there is no apparent link between the bombing of a military recruiting center in New York City and letters sent to Congress containing a photo of the center with the message "We did it."
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Authorities in New York City say a small explosive device detonated near a U.S. military recruiting station in the Times Square district of the city. The blast happened in the very early hours Thursday morning. From New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.
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The White House has accused The New York Times newspaper of regularly trying to "drop a bombshell" against Republican presidential nominees.
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Four of the country’s leading media companies today reported the creation of quadrantONE , a new online sales organization focused on premium advertisers seeking high-quality audiences and national reach. Investors in the new network include Tribune Company, Gannett Co., Inc., Hearst Corporation and The New York Times Company.
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PLAY: The New York Times Sports Magazine reports in its June 3 issue that Wall Streeter Bill Hambrecht and Google executive Tim Armstrong are launching a professional football league, called United Football League (UFL) to compete with the N.F.L., and have lined up billionaire Mark Cuban as their first team owner.
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Officials in Ethiopia are vehemently denying a report in The New York Times newspaper, which says that the U.S. military secretly used an airstrip inside Ethiopia to conduct attacks against Islamic militants in Somalia last month. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has that story from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi.
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The killing of an Armenian-Turkish editor Hrant Dink in Istanbul last week and the sorrow it has generated within Turkey are leading to rare conciliatory gestures between Turkey and Armenia, historic enemies, and to calls for changes in laws here defending Turkish identity, The New York Times writes. Hrant Dink like many other intellectuals has been sentenced to 6 month imprisonment for insulting Turkishness under 301 article of Turkish Criminal Code, underlines The New York Times.
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