Andrea Peyser
Bring back Jay Leno! He hasn’t left the building yet? Maybe there’s still hope. This boneheaded...
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Fredric U. Dicker
ALBANY — Disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez will beat Gov. Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver...
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Michael Goodwin
Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the...
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Keith J. Kelly
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes is nearing the home stretch in his search for a successor to lame duck...
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Fredric U. Dicker
The scathing reports that found Assemblyman Vito Lopez harassed and abused several female staffers,...
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WASHINGTON — Top Obama-administration Treasury Department officials knew last June — amid a heated presidential campaign — that IRS auditors were targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups, bombshell testimony revealed yesterday. J... Full Story
DES MOINES, Iowa — It's all about the odds. With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that...
LOWELL, Mass. — Boston's police department and mayor's office will conduct twin reviews of the response to last month's bombing of the Boston Marathon, police commissioner Ed Davis said Saturday. Davis said the aim of the reviews is to learn from...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air Friday in an ongoing eruption that is visible for miles when the weather allows. An air traffic controller in the region said small planes have...
PHILADELPHIA — His 15 minutes of fame did him in. “Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker” — wanted in the murder of a gay, 73-year-old lawyer he met in Times Square last weekend — was nabbed after a barista at a Philadelphia Starbucks recognized him...
A Navy SEAL from Long Island was killed and seven fellow service members were injured when their Humvee overturned during a training exercise, the Navy...
Beyoncé is pregnant again. Rumors that the 31-year-old superstar was going to give daughter Blue Ivy a sibling were confirmed yesterday by E! Online and other entertainment-industry watchers. Neither Beyoncé nor hubby Jay-Z commented on the...
WASHINGTON — Conservative groups yesterday blasted the Obama administration for putting the Internal Revenue Service boss who let agents target them in...
The Air Force’s top general cited excessive boozing and a lack of respect for women as contributors to the alarming number of sex assaults in the...
O.J. Simpson not only lied about knowing that two of his pals were packing heat during a confrontation with memorabilia dealers — he was the one who asked them to bring the guns, his former lawyer testified yesterday. Miami attorney Yale Galanter’s...
WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday announced a new initiative to fast-track federal approval of infrastructure projects, including the replacement...
Mayor Bloomberg is privately fuming at the data breach that has imperiled the reputation of his global media company, according to sources. “The mayor is very upset,” one source said of the scandal that has been dubbed Bloomberg Spygate. A second...
Lottery fever is gripping New York and the rest of the country, with the Powerball jackpot likely to grow beyond $700 million before tonight’s drawing....
SAN DIEGO — Finals week was dangerous for Thomas Saenz. The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes — transmitted live via the...
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's...
BALTIMORE — Trying to reset the agenda amid scandal in Washington, President Barack Obama turned his attention Friday to the economy and said lawmakers should spend every day resolute on how to help it grow and get people back to work. "Our focus...
He was a hero cop who loved sharing a cold one with his buddies. Now, almost a month since Sean Collier was allegedly gunned down by the Boston Marathon bombers, a Massachusetts brewing company is creating a beer in his honor. The Cambridge Brewing...
He's gonna need a lot more than an umbrella. Already wrestling with the flood of disclosures from three ongoing scandals, President Obama was hit yesterday with a damning new internal report that showed his administration gave witness-protection...
CLEVELAND — An official says a charity set up to help the three women freed from a decade of captivity in a Cleveland house has raised more than $480,000 so far. Lynne Woodman of KeyBank tells The Plain Dealer that there have been more than 5,100...
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing continues to grow. The Multi-State Lottery Association, which operates the game for 45 lotteries including Louisiana's, said Friday the jackpot climbs to $600 million, the highest...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Officials say one US Navy sailor was killed and several others were hurt in a training exercise at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Lt. David Lloyd, a spokesman for Naval Special Warfare Group Two in Virginia Beach, Va., said Friday morning...
LAS VEGAS — The lawyer who unsuccessfully defended O.J. Simpson against armed robbery charges in Las Vegas says his client knew two companions had guns in a 2007 confrontation with memorabilia dealers. Miami attorney Yale Galanter is testifying...
In a chilling calm, former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle detailed to a 911 operator where to find his body. Trickle, whose larger-than-life personality and penchant for fun won him legions of fans despite a lack of success beyond the nation's small...
WASHINGTON — The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency's tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He said they resulted from a misguided effort to...
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrawled an angry message when he thought he was going to die in a police shootout — justifying his attack and praising his terrorist brother. His victims were “collateral damage” who suffered in revenge for...
More people will likely fly this summer compared with a year ago as US airlines gain a record level of international passengers, an industry...