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  "id": 4822523,
  "title": "Two die after stabbing in New York’s Times Square",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/two-die-after-stabbing-in-new-yorks-times-square-4822523",
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  "published": "2026-09-01T08:46:39.000Z",
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  "summary": "A knife-wielding woman stabbed and killed a person and injured another in New York’s tourist-filled Times Square on Monday, before she was shot and killed by police. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the deaths in a press conference, saying that the second victim was in a stable condition in a hospital. The attacker, identified as 49-year-old Read More:…",
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        "title": "Two die after stabbing in New York’s Times Square",
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