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Ex-US captain Reyna to direct NYC soccer team
A day after New York City FC was born, Claudio Reyna became the team's first employee. The former U.S. national team captain was hired Wednesday as ...
Muppets creator Henson's items head to NYC museum
The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" ...
Yankees, Man City to co-own NYC MLS team
Hoping their baseball success will translate to titles in another sport, the Yankees are combining with English power Manchester City to own a Major ...
Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle
An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site ...
NY 'frisk' judge calls criticism 'below-the-belt'
The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she ...
JPMorgan asks Bloomberg for privacy breach data
Lawyers for JPMorgan Chase & Co. are asking financial news and data company Bloomberg LP to turn over any records it has of reporters looking up the ...
High-tech pushes for more in immigration bill
High-tech companies looking to bring more skilled workers to the U.S. pushed Monday for more concessions in an immigration bill pending in the Senate.
New approach to back immigration bill
President Barack Obama's political support group is joining with a Republican pro-immigration organization and an effort run by New York Mayor Michael ...
Bloomberg exec apologizes amid new report of leaks
Financial data and news service Bloomberg LP moved to repair damage to its reputation Monday as a published report said that more than 10,000 of its ...
Rubio's PAC airing ads defending Ayotte on guns
A political group backed by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is coming to the aid of New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, airing a new television ...
Walters announces her retirement on 'The View'
Barbara Walters said Monday that retirement from her epochal television career is near, but it's not happening right away. Walters, who began in ...
NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote
Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here : voting. He'd lived through ...
NYC Council OKs sick days plan, seen as key step
In a significant victory amid a push for paid sick time laws around the country, city lawmakers voted Wednesday to make businesses provide the benefit ...
Gun control forces struggle to keep issue alive
Gun control forces are targeting Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Max Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive ...
NYC to add 640K people to evacuation zones
Hurricane evacuation areas would encompass 640,000 more city residents, and the number of zones would double, under plans disclosed Friday.
Boston bomb suspect moved; FBI probe shifts focus
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center while FBI agents shifted the focus of ...
Police: Boston suspects planned to attack New York
The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York's Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they ...
NYC Mayor: Boston suspect said NY was next target
New York City officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square. Mayor Michael ...
Judge OKs NYC plan for e-hailing yellow cabs
The city can experiment with letting taxi seekers hail rides electronically, a judge said Tuesday in a ruling that could clear the way for riders to ...
NYC proposes raising age for cigarette purchases
After years of striving to set a national agenda for curbing smoking, New York City may set a new bar by becoming the most populous place in America ...
Suburbs now playing a key role in gun legislation
In the emotional politics of gun control, the suburbs seem to be emerging as a new sphere of influence. The Senate's defeat last week of firearms ...
Gun votes carry big risks for Dems in rural states
There is little mystery, from a campaign viewpoint, at least, about the eight senators who crossed party lines in Wednesday's showdown vote on ...
Obama, victims' families overcome by gun owners
Four months ago, President Barack Obama promised a grieving nation he would do everything in his power to change gun laws after 26 students and staff ...
Gun control loses: No expanded background checks
Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades Wednesday, ...
In NYC, strains of solidarity with rival Boston
A stadium full of Yankees fans stood arm in arm at the bottom of the third inning in the Bronx, singing along to "Sweet Caroline," the Boston Red Sox ...