New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent months.

As of Thursday morning, seven suspects involved in the incident have been taken into custody, Pocono Mountain Regional Police said.

Gleydis Carvajal, left, and her husband, Gabriel Montilla, carry their children from a bus stop to a migrant shelter in Queens after picking them up from school in Brooklyn, in

Among the great champions of the 1970s, Vitas Gerulaitis was also one of the most beloved. However, his life was tragically cut short when he was only 40 years old.

Donald John Trump completed a remarkable return to power on Monday as he was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in a midday ceremony. He plans an immediate blitz of orders and actions meant to begin dramatically changing the course of the country.

Colombian president Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation's military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of attacks in the country's northeast that left dozens of people killed and forced thousands to flee their homes.

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday at the US Capitol. Follow for live news updates

More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National

Asylum seekers living in tax-funded Big Apple shelters are bracing for promised federal immigration raids on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration.

As President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Monday, families worry he will fulfill his campaign promise by ordering sweeping deportations across the country.

Lionardo Hernandez, 22, was shot to death and two others were wounded in Sunday afternoon's incident, authorities said.

This was the environment that created Al Capone. The first celebrity gangster, Capone was happy to be perceived as the head of an organised, nationwide mafia rather than a local gang. Federal prosecutors played into his hands by describing him as “glamorous” and “a bejewelled prince” living under a “halo of mystery and romance”.