Lightning near Jamaica Station, where most trains from Penn Station, and all trains from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, pass, crippled the Thursday evening commute for thousands of passengers.

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City Room: L.I.R.R. Service Is Knocked Out by Lightning Strike

Syracuse and Pittsburgh have begun the formal process of leaving the Big East by applying to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, an A.C.C. official said Saturday.

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Big East Exit Is Said to Begin for Syracuse and Pittsburgh

The reflective towers of New York City, which is on the Atlantic migratory flyway, can be deadly for birds. An estimated 90,000 birds are killed by flying into buildings in the city each year.

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Making New York’s Glass Buildings Safer for Birds

Hurricane Katia swirled through the northern Atlantic early Wednesday, far from land, but still capable of threatening both the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda, forecasters said.

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MIAMI — Hurricane Katia has weakened to a Category 3 storm as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean after briefly becoming a Category 4 system. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Katia’s maximum sustained winds early Tuesday have decreased to near 125 mph (205 kph). The hurricane center says some fluctuation in strength is possible over the next 24 hours followed by slow weakening. Forecast maps show Katia veering to the northeast, away from the U.S. in the coming week, but the hurricane center says large swells from the hurricane could affect the East Coast, Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and parts of the Bahamas over the next few days. Read full article > >

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Hurricane Katia weakens to a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds as it crosses the Atlantic

MIAMI — Hurricane Katia has weakened to a Category 3 storm as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean after briefly becoming a Category 4 system. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Katia’s maximum sustained winds early Tuesday have decreased to near 125 mph (205 kph). The hurricane center says some fluctuation in strength is possible over the next 24 hours followed by slow weakening. Forecast maps show Katia veering to the northeast, away from the U.S. in the coming week, but the hurricane center says large swells from the hurricane could affect the East Coast, Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and parts of the Bahamas over the next few days. Read full article > >

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Hurricane Katia weakens to a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds as it crosses the Atlantic

Tropical Storm Gert is gaining strength as it barrels toward the Atlantic island of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday.

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Tropical Storm Gert gains strength

The operation to recover bodies from the crash of Air France 447, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago, has ended, French air accident investigators announced Wednesday.

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Air France 447 crash recovery ends

The Capitoline Venus, one of the most precious and best preserved artifacts from Roman antiquity, is visiting Washington for the summer. The National Gallery of Art announced Thursday that the famed statue , making its first voyage ever across the Atlantic, will reside in the rotunda of the West Building until September. Beginning Saturday, the public will be able to see the masterpiece that was stolen from its Roman home by Napoleon in 1797 and then returned in 1816 to its primary home, the Capitoline Museum . This particular Venus inspired a short story by Mark Twain and was photographed for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “ The Marble Faun .” Read full article > >

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National Gallery to host Rome’s famed Capitoline Venus

The initial findings from the black box of the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 paints a picture of confusion in the cockpit as pilots struggled to get the plane under control. Shortly before the crash, one of the pilots warned…

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Air France Flight’s Final Minutes

The Air France jet which crashed into the Atlantic en route from Rio in 2009 stalled and fell in three and a half minutes, French investigators report.

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Air France jet ‘plunged suddenly’

LONDON — President Obama landed in London on Monday night for a state visit at a time when Britain faces a reckoning over whether it can afford the global reach its allies in Washington have come to expect. Officials on both sides of the Atlantic are publicly hailing the strength of U.S.-U.K. bilateral ties, with Obama set to address parliament Wednesday in a speech billed as the highlight of his European trip. Yet Obama arrives as Britain is attempting to balance financial constraints against a still ample desire for global influence — an influence bought in large part through its strategic and military alliance with the United States. Perhaps foreshadowing an election season debate in the United States about the cost of America’s own projections of power overseas, the British are wondering whether their deeply indebted nation can maintain its substantial international role. Read full article > >

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Obama’s London visit comes amid British reckoning

Three to six major hurricanes could form over the Atlantic Ocean this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday in its annual hurricane season forecast.

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More hurricanes, storms forecast

Four Western journalists being held in Libya have been released from custody and will likely be allowed to leave the country Thursday. The four are Clare Morgana Gillis, an American freelancer for USA Today and The Atlantic; James Foley, an American…

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Investigators say the flight recordings from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 have been preserved and are readable.

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Air France recorder data ‘intact’