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Daniel Trotta works from New York, NY. Reuters correspondent covering guns, abortion, LGBT issues. Previously in Cuba, Spain, Mexico and Nicaragua. 2017 NLGJA Excellence in Transgender Coverage award Daniel Trotta has over 1472 followers on Twitter.
In the first round of historic talks between the two countries, the US vowed to continue giving Cubans safe haven, despite Cuba’s objections.
The talks aim to restore diplomatic ties and eventually normalise relations between the two, which have been locked in Cold War-era hostilities.
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is officially the worst the world has seen as the death toll breaches 600, says the World Health Organisation.
A judge has dropped all sexual assault charges against ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, after the credibility of the accuser was questioned.
First she was portrayed as a model of virtue who was violated by a rich and powerful man. Then she was presented as a liar and a schemer.
A blizzard pummeled the north-eastern United States on Monday, burying cities in knee-deep snow and leaving thousands camped at airports.
The first widespread blizzard of the season slammed the north-eastern United States on the heavily travelled Christmas weekend on Sunday.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the Facebook social networking site, was named <i>Time</i> magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year on Wednesday.
A man of Pakistani origin has been arrested on suspicion he bought the vehicle used in the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square last weekend.
New York police doubled patrols of the subway system and sent police cars to transit hubs as a precaution following the Moscow subway bombings.
The new H1N1 flu killed its first patient in Canada, making it the third country after Mexico and the United States to report a death from the virus.
Mexico will resume normal business operations this week after easing its swine flu restrictions, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute.
Microsoft reported disappointing earnings on Thursday and plans to cut up to 5 000 jobs as US jobless claims rose more than expected.
Barack Obama took office on Tuesday with bank shares tumbling, the car sector teetering and a world economy in tatters.
New York has fêted its latest hero, the pilot who landed a distressed US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River, saving all 155 on board.
The US Senate has approved a -billion bailout of the financial industry, putting pressure on the House of Representatives to approve the plan.
A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for ,5-million, the…
Australian actor Heath Ledger’s death was an accident caused by the abuse of prescription drugs, six of which were found in his body, the New York City medical examiner’s office…
New Yorkers are doing all they can to preserve the way September 11 is commemorated, and with it falling on a Tuesday for the first time since 2001, the day is another trigger of…
A Manhattan art gallery cancelled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by Roman Catholics. The…
