White House spokesman Jay Carney denounced a Republican “Plan B” aimed at avoiding the looming “fiscal cliff” on Thursday, calling it a “multi-day exercise in futility.” At his daily news

The New York City Marathon has offered refunds to those who paid to run in the 2012 race, which was canceled due to the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. The storm

As a year-end deadline looms, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed ahead on Thursday with their own “fiscal cliff” plan that muddles negotiations with the White House to

The U.S. Senate will not consider the alternative package of tax hikes on millionaires and spending cuts expected to be passed by House Republicans on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, best known for taking big positions in stocks in hopes of pushing for management changes, is taking on weight management Herbalife Ltd as his big

As part of its disaster assistance loan program, the Lakewood Development Corporation (LDC) with the support of the Lakewood Township Committee approved another $500,000 for Lakewood Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ) businesses impacted by super storm Sandy. Originally the LDC had set aside one million dollars. Patricia Komsa, the executive director of the UEZ, says, “The […]

New York officials are scrambling to negotiate the first new gun control laws in the nation since the mass shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat-led Assembly are pushing again for bans on all assault rifles, high-capacity ammunition magazines and other measures which have been stopped in the […]

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Newtown, Connecticut, on Thursday to meet law enforcement officials and investigators who are examining the school massacre there, a Justice Department official

President Barack Obama on Thursday formally granted “permanent normal trade relations” to Russia, following congressional action that cleared the way for him to remove a Cold War-era vestige on trade

When it comes to making coins, the Mint isn’t getting its two cents worth. In some cases, it doesn’t even get half of that. A penny costs more than two

Police in northern Greece say they have recovered more than 600 marble headstones and other fragments from Jewish graves destroyed during the Nazi occupation in World War II — a find that local Jewish groups have described as highly significant. The 668 fragments were found buried in a plot of land in central Thessaloniki, Greece’s […]

Lawmakers want to know why security was “grossly inadequate” at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya when militants stormed the facility on Sept. 11, killing the ambassador and three other

The Long Island Expressway reopened just before 6 a.m. on Thursday after a fiery crash involving a tractor-trailer and dozens of other vehicles. One person was killed and 33 people

Four men charged with plotting to kill Americans by aiding terrorists in Afghanistan have pleaded not guilty to a conspiracy count in a U.S. court. A federal judge in Riverside, Calif., set an Aug. 6 trial date for the men after they made their first joint appearance in court Wednesday. Three of the men — […]

Anthony Wurman went more than a month without power after Sandy and was displaced from his TriBeCa home on Washington Street until this week. Now, he’s upset after getting a

Victims of Sandy could be entitled to billions of dollars in unclaimed funds held by the New York State Comptroller’s office, according to an I-Team analysis. The money is managed as part of the state’s Office of Unclaimed Funds, and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is making a public push in Sandy’s aftermath to reunite as much […]

Iran is becoming increasingly creative in dodging Western sanctions, managing to sell a rising volume of fuel oil to generate revenue equal to up to a third of its crude

Any solution to the conflict in Syria must ensure President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and his opponents do not simply swap roles and fight on forever, Russian President Vladimir Putin said