In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts

What happens when you apply an 1884 law to BlackBerries? Mass confusion. The Antideficiency Act, passed by Congress during Chester Arthur’s administration, prevents non-essential federal employees from working when the

New York, NY – The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate, which will continue more than 15 years of rising

The Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the IDF arrested members of a terrorist cell in Ramallah in the first weeks of January, 2011. The cell admitted to having planned a

Mohammed Tantawi, the head of Egypt’s ruling generals, was an obstacle to Israeli efforts to stop arms smuggling within the Gaza strip, according to Israeli security forces. The assessment was

The condition of the 16-year-old critically injured in the anti-tank missile attack on a school bus in the Negev on Thursday remains unchanged, Dr. Itzhak Lazar of Beersheba’s Soroka Medical

New York State troopers will once again be on the lookout for cell phone users behind the wheel. The crackdown starts on Monday and runs until Thursday. Some drivers in

In Texas, it seems 80 mph just isn’t fast enough. A bill passed in the state House of Representatives would raise the speed limit to 85 miles per hour on

A partial shutdown of the federal government could begin Saturday morning and would affect some people, programs and services more than others. Here’s a look at what could happen. Q:

Brooklyn Civil Court is a crowded place, but one judge handles the litigation backlog by forging compromise between debtors and banks. At a recent Tuesday morning calendar call, acting Kings

The Obama administration is replacing the five-color terror-alert system with two warning levels and plans to sometimes use Facebook and Twitter, the Associated Press reports, citing a draft proposal from

An ex-con accused of shoving a New York City police officer to his death during a domestic violence call in Boerum Hill last month has pleaded not guilty to a

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office Thursday announced it is revamping how state-issued parking placards are handed out. The state Inspector General’s Office launched its own investigation. As part of the system

Before it was UBS, now it’s HSBC. The Department of Justice is continuing its efforts to prosecute US persons with unreported foreign bank accounts and the DOJ is expected to

House Republicans burst into applause at the passage of their one-week government funding measure Thursday afternoon. The bill, which also funds the military through the end of the fiscal year,

1:10PM EST: [UPDATE IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A device believed to be a pipe bomb exploded about 6:45 a.m. Thursday in the parking lot of a Chabad Shul in Santa Monica,

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Thursday, triggering a tsunami warning for one prefecture. Workers evacuated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the quake, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

Donald Trump just won’t let go of the President Obama citizenship issue. The potential maverick Republican presidential candidate continued to question Obama’s American citizenship during an appearance on NBC’s Today

Controversial NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black is leaving her post, just three months after taking the job. She’ll be replaced by Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, a Bloomberg administration source said.