NEW YORK (Reuters) – Most New Yorkers are opposed to a proposal by New York Governor David Paterson to legalize “ultimate fighting” an often-bloody sport that combines boxing and martial arts, to help close a $7 billion deficit, according to a poll rel…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Manhattan federal judge refused on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Merck & Co Inc’s osteoporosis drug Fosamax caused jaw damage to an Indiana woman during the nearly eight years she took the pill.
The US media largely ignores Tony Blair’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, because Americans have lost interest in IraqSince the Chilcot inquiry discussed details of President Bush’s thinking before the invasion of Iraq, you might assume that Tony Blair’s appearance today would get wide coverage in the US media. But no.There has been some coverage, [...]
New York State Governor David Paterson joined a growing chorus on Thursday of those demanding that the upcoming trial of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be moved from lower Manhattan.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Pakistani woman charged with shooting at her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan testified at her trial on Thursday that she was trying to escape because she feared being taken to another “secret prison.”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Senate Intelligence Committee’s chairwoman on Thursday backed calls by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the trial of the accused plotters of the September 11 attacks to be moved from Manhattan.
A Transportation Security Administration agent at New York’s LaGuardia Airport has been reassigned after a traveler photographed her napping while in uniform.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The trial of a Pakistani woman charged with shooting at her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan is grabbing headlines amid tight security in a New York court, but most of the drama has unfolded out of jurors’ earshot.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Macy’s Inc said it is cutting some store-level jobs and adding others as part of its efforts to standardize how it manages stores and staffing.
Prolific novelist who took the world of the New York wealthy as his subjectIn his two careers, as a lawyer and a novelist, Louis Auchincloss, who has died aged 92, spent a lifetime exploring the American ruling class and its money – how it was made, inherited, spent and lost. Born in New York, Auchincloss grew up in [...]