"Breaking News" feature for OS X Yosemite Recently I have gotten more and more "Breaking News" features from the NY Times which appear on my desktop. 

(1) How did I initiate this feature? 

(2) How do I turn this off?
While visiting the New York Times website, you (probably unwittingly) allowed the site to send push notifications to you on your Mac, but removing them is very simple:


Open Safari
In the menu bar, click Safari->Preferences->Notifications
Once there, check the box for "Deny" to the right of "The New York Times".