BREAKING NEWS

Pakistani Taliban claims NYC car bomb

ISLAMABAD— Pakistan's Taliban chief promised attacks on major US cities in a video apparently dated early April and released following the weekend's car bomb attempt in New York City, a monitoring group said Monday. It followed reports of another video in which the group apparently tried to take credit for that attempted strike.
The claim comes a day after police in New York found a potentially powerful car bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square.
The vehicle contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, officials said.