The emotional reunion took place in Rakeem Tayquon Young’s room at Bellevue Hospital, where he is recovering from a 13-hour surgery to reattach the fingers that were sliced off his left hand.

The NYPD and Queens district attorney’s office arrested and charged 10 alleged members of the international weapon ...

Outlining a new plan to tackle grooming gangs in the Commons, Yvette Cooper revealed the government would fund five local inquiries into child sexual exploitation as part of a pilot, which could ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A gang of youths who stabbed, punched and kicked a teenager in a transphobic attack after luring her to Harrow Leisure Centre under the pretence ...

Firefighters in the Bronx worked to save an apartment complex that caught on fire. Around 6 p.m. Wednesday, someone reported the fire, which had broken out at 3030 Heath Avenue in the Bronx ...

Chazz Palminteri‘s “A Bronx Tale: One Man Show,” the autobiographical stage play that inspired the 1993 movie starring Palminteri and Robert De Niro, has been acquired by Tribeca Films for ...

Speaking in Parliament, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said she had commissioned a rapid three-month audit into the “current scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country ...

Swift police action led to the arrest of four suspects, aged between 22 and 44, in a pre-dawn highway robbery on Tuesday, January 14, where truck parts worth R50,000 were stolen and crew members ...

A gang of youths has been detained after they lured a student to a north-west London car park where she was beaten up and stabbed because of her transgender identity. The Old Bailey heard the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new government-backed local inquiries into grooming gangs, as ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans for a nationwide review of grooming gang evidence and five government-backed local inquiries. She stopped short of launching a statutory national ...

After New York Mayor Eric Adams announced the planned opening of a massive, 2,000-bed migrant shelter in the South Bronx, Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres slammed the decision, accusing Adams ...