Authorities said the shooting was not a random act of violence and the gunfire was exchanged between two suspects.

Thousands of nurses at some of New York City's biggest hospitals could go on strike Monday during a severe flu season, three years after a similar walkout forced some of the same medical facilities to transfer some patients and divert ambulances. The looming strike could impact operations at several of the city’s major private hospitals, including Mount Sinai in Manhattan, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Nearly 15,000 n

The German Journalists' Association (DJV) on Thursday condemned an attack on reporters in a village in central Germany that was the site of a previous incident. Police said two men attacked three journalists in the small municipality of Fretterode on Wednesday, using physical violence and a suspected irritant substance.