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Only 26 percent of New York City voters want Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president in 2012, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Marist College poll found that
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The Obama administration has notified Congress of plans for a multiyear, multibillion-dollar weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, a State Department official said Wednesday. The sale is meant to further align
New York is instituting new filing requirements in order to ensure the integrity of the home foreclosure process, the state’s chief judge said Wednesday. Lawyers bringing foreclosure claims will now
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, will start selling Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Tab tablet computer next month, introducing one of the first competitors to Apple Inc.’s iPad in
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A half dozen New York officials today strongly endorsed Attorney General nominee Eric Schneiderman’s plan to create a “New York Sanctions And Financing the Enemy” (NY-SAFE) task force to investigate
A controversial sculpture of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in a coma is to be exhibited in Tel Aviv. The life-size sculpture is part of an installation by Israeli
A senior official in Ottawa denied early Wednesday Dubai Police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim’s claim that Canada had arrested a suspect in the assassination of senior Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
He is a former Democrat, born and raised on Staten Island, the first Republican elected as district attorney there in a half century and then re-elected in 2007 with 67
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