NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two years after resigning from Congress in a lewd photo scandal, former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner announced in a video message early on Wednesday he is running for New York City mayor.

“I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down, but I also learned some tough lessons,” Weiner said in the video. “I’m running because I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it my entire life.”

/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thousands of Connecticut commuters faced delays and crowded trains on Monday as Metro-North workers scrambled to repair damage on the United States’ busiest rail line, caused by the collision of two trains.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said commuters should expect “serious disruptions” throughout the week and encouraged riders to stay home if possible.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn spoke out on Tuesday about her decade-long struggle with bulimia and alcohol abuse after her mother’s death from breast cancer.

“It was such a challenging time, and it was a time where everything was just bad,” Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council, told an audience at Barnard College. “I thought I was the only 16-year-old girl in the world who had no ability to deal with her mother dying.”

DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) – Delaware legalized gay marriage on Tuesday, making it the 11th U.S. state to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

The state Senate approved the bill by a vote of 12-9 on Tuesday and Governor Jack Markell signed it into law half an hour later.

By Edith Honan

(Reuters) – Delaware lawmakers will take up a gay marriage bill on Tuesday in a bid to make the state the 11th to allow same-sex couples to wed.

The scheduled vote in the state’s Democrat-controlled Senate follows the General Assembly’s passage of the bill several weeks ago. Governor Jack Markell, an outspoken supporter of gay marriage, has vowed to sign the bill into law if it clears the Senate.

By Edith Honan

(Reuters) – Rhode Island lawmakers gave final approval to a bill to legalize gay marriage on Thursday, making it the 10th U.S. state to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples and the last of the six New England states to do so.

Governor Lincoln Chafee, an independent, said he would sign the bill into law immediately after the vote on Thursday. The new law will take effect on August 1.

By Edith Honan

(Reuters) – Rhode Island lawmakers were expected to give final approval to a bill legalizing gay marriage on Thursday, making it the 10th U.S. state to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples and the last of the six New England states to do so.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, was expected to sign the bill into law following a largely procedural vote in the Democratic-controlled state House of Representatives set for Thursday afternoon. The new law would take effect starting August 1.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) – The two brothers
suspected of carrying out last week’s deadly Boston Marathon
bombing decided, after the FBI released photos of them, to drive
to Manhattan and detonate more explosives in Times Square, New
York City officials said on Thursday.

Their plan unraveled when they realized a Mercedes sport
utility vehicle they had hijacked on April 18, three days after
the Boston bombing, did not have enough gasoline for the
journey, said New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) – The two men
suspected of carrying out last week’s deadly Boston Marathon
bombing decided after authorities identified them to drive to
New York and set off additional explosives in Times Square, New
York City officials said on Thursday.

Their plan unraveled only when they realized that a Mercedes
sports-utility vehicle they had hijacked on April 18 three days
after the bombing did not have enough gasoline for the journey,
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The two men accused of carrying out last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday.

The brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s original intent when they hijacked a car and its driver in Boston last Thursday night was to drive to New York with bombs and detonate them in Times Square, but their plan fell apart when they became embroiled in a shootout with police.