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A day after Sandy, New Yorkers find a changed city
Stripped of its bustle and mostly cut off from the world, New York was left wondering Tuesday when its particular way of life — carried by subway, lit ...
Crippled NYC subways could hamper storm recovery
The floodwaters that poured into New York's deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city's recovery from the worst natural ...
Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm
Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York.
Water, fire, destruction: NYC after the superstorm
The massive storm that pummeled the East killed 10 people in New York City and left the nation's largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running ...
Mammoth storm Sandy plunges NYC into darkness
Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and ...
Megastorm could wreak havoc across 800 miles of US
Tens of millions of people in the eastern third of the U.S. in the path of the unprecedented freak storm had hours Sunday to prepare for the first ...
US superstorm threat launches mass evacuations
Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably ...
Wine and fracking don't mix, say vineyard owners
The hillside vineyards of New York's Finger Lakes region make money producing fine Rieslings and inviting tourists to sip white wine by the water's ...
Gasps, applause: What you didn't see on TV
Most voters watching the debate from home didn't get to see what happened before and after President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt ...
Down economy exacerbating US town dissolutions
Carmen Wilkerson ran for mayor of St. George with one clear goal in mind for the tiny Missouri town: Get rid of it. Like many of St. George's 1,200 ...
Ex-NY Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies
Few moments in American journalism loom larger than the one that came in 1971, when New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger had to decide ...
Bank of America to pay $2.43B in settlement
Bank of America says it has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch at the height of ...
NY's latest sex scandal dogged by sordid past
It was an odd assignment for the young, pretty staffer when she was ordered to go along on a trip to Atlantic City with her boss. But the reason soon ...
Gas drilling protests held in US, other countries
Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say ...
Bills, county open to 1-year lease extension
Stalled lease negotiations have led to the Buffalo Bills and Erie County favoring a one-year lease extension that would allow the team to keep playing ...
Agreement reached for Sept. 11 museum's completion
An agreement that paves the way for the completion of the Sept. 11 museum at ground zero was reached on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the terror ...
At ground zero, can there be a politics-free 9/11?
The Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero has been stripped of politicians this year. But can it ever be stripped of politics? For the first ...
War-weary US is numbed to drumbeat of troop deaths
It was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict ...
Cuomo: White House race a 'gut check' for nation
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday called the race for the White House a "gut check election" and offered a stinging indictment of Republican ...
Democrats creating 2016 White House buzz
If Cory Booker decides to run for president one day, he already has a personal connection to the first caucus state of Iowa. The mayor of Newark, N.J.
NY regulator has friends, foes after bank deal
New York financial regulator Benjamin Lawsky, an Ivy League ex-prosecutor and top lieutenant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, shook a record $340 million ...
Colo. shooting prompts gun bills in big states
Democratic leaders in three big states have used this summer's mass shooting in Colorado to push bills that would crack down on assault weapons and ...
Some states try to fill national gun control void
OVERVIEW: The July 20 shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater that killed 12 people has prompted Democratic leaders in at least three large states ...
UK bank settles Iran money probe in NY for $340M
A British bank accused of scheming with the Iranian government to launder billions of dollars will be subject to two years of monitoring at its New ...