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Brooklyn’s notoriously toxic Gowanus Canal is such a health hazard that the feds today specifically warned the public not to fall in the water or to eat fish or crabs
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Heavy gunfire reverberated in central Cairo before dawn Thursday as supporters and foes of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak continued to face off at Tahrir Square, where chunks of concretes
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Egypt: “The rapidly deteriorating situation in Egypt leads me to the conclusion that President
Roofs caved in as a massive snowstorm enveloping much of the nation invaded the Northeast on Wednesday, bringing buildings to the breaking point in a winter that has already delivered
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News Corp. launched its most ambitious effort yet to re-invent the way news is delivered and consumed with the introduction Wednesday of The Daily— the first national news publication designed
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President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked a Republican bid on Wednesday to repeal his healthcare overhaul, likely leaving the fate of the year-old law up to
A Rikers Island inmate ran a nationwide cyber-crime ring from behind bars that forged fake credit cards to buy $1 million in iPads and Apple computers, officials said Wednesday. Shaheed
The City Council today approved a proposal today that will make it illegal to smoke at city parks and beaches. The measure, known as the Smoke Free Air Act, passed
After being shut out of the President’s Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) is appealing to the White House to give the press corps access to
Members of the Chasdei Naomi organization, which provides food to the needy, decided to protest the recent gas price hikes by replacing the cars normally used for their weekly meal
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