N.Y. governor confirms explosion was a bomb, 'no evidence of an international terrorism connection'

FBI agents investigate the bomb in New York&#039;s Chelsea neighborhood that injured 29 people

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last updated 18 September 2016

The explosion that hit New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 29, Saturday night has no known connection to international terrorism, said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday as he confirmed the blast came from a bomb. "A bomb exploding in New York is obviously an act of terrorism, but it's not linked to international terrorism," Cuomo clarified.

An extra 1,000 police officers and National Guard troops have been deployed to NYC's public transit terminals "just to err on the side of caution," Cuomo continued, though he said he wants "New Yorkers to be confident when they go back to work on Monday that New York is up and running, and we're doing everything that we need to do."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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