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A secret surveillance program by the New York Police Department in 2007 has lead New Jersey Muslim leaders to meet with law enforcement officials in the Garden State. The meeting stems from the Associated Press revelations that the NYPD had been monitoring New Jersey Muslims. Activities from the NYPD reportedly include the mapping out of mosques in Newark, as well as the monitoring of Muslim student groups.

Davy Jones' funeral plans were announced on Friday, though no specific dates have yet been given. Davy Jones's wife, Jessica Pacheco, tweeted her sorrow over her husband's sudden passing.

Late Friday night, BP announced that a $4.7 billion settlement had been reached with individual plaintiffs who sought damages related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Lindsay Lohan is set to take the stage at Studio 8H on Sat., March 3, for her Saturday Night Live return. The troubled actress might be able to use the 'SNL' gig as a launching pad to restart her faltering career. TMZ reported Saturday that she will sing the majority of her opening monologue.

Syrian forces pounded the battered city of Homs Saturday as they blocked Red Cross/Red Crescent aid from reaching civilians stranded for weeks without food and fuel in the former rebel stronghold -- the country's third-largest city -- activists and aid workers said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received grisly reports that Syrian government forces were arbitrarily executing, imprisoning and torturing people in the battle-scarred city of Homs after rebel fighters had fled.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and two of her sisters, Khloe and Kourtney, have been slapped with a $5 million lawsuit alleging they and the makers of QuickTrim diet pills falsely touted the product's effectiveness for losing weight.

Richard Parsons will step down as chairman of Citigroup Inc. at its annual meeting in April and be succeeded by Michael O'Neill, the former CEO of the Bank of Hawaii Corp., Citigroup said on Friday.

A senior investment banker of Morgan Stanley has been charged with a hate crime involving stabbing and threatening a cab driver in New York over a fare dispute.

Adrienne Bailon recently bared it all in New York City when her sheer dress shifted to reveal her bare nether-region on the red carpet. Here is Adrienne Bailon's sheer dress and other awful celebrity wardrobe malfunctions.

Cupcake automats are coming to the streets of Manhattan by summer to offer cupcake-craving consumers the 24-hour spot for sugar satiation--how will the health-conscious Bloomberg administration react?

At a fundraiser Thursday night, President Obama gave a special shout-out to theParks and Recreation star... by teasing Ansari relentlessly. Watch Obama's attempt to keep the comedian humble and hungry here, including the revelation that daughter Malia has a crush, and see what Ansari said in response.

Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons will resign from his post and the banking giant's board, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Parson, who joined the board in 1996, has reportedly told fellow directors he won't stand for re-election at Cit's annual meeting in April.

President George W. Bush's re-election campaign manager and openly gay former Republican Committee chairman Ken Mehlman expressed regret with his role in the 2004 campaign's anti-gay marriage agenda. Mehlman, who left the Republican National Committee to work for a private equity firm shortly after coming out in 2010, apologized in an interview for pushing against gay marriage in 2004.

A top British lawyer will visit the U.S. next month to explore the possibility of suing News Corp., the American arm of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, on behalf of three people who believe a Murdoch detective may have hacked their voice mail while they were in the United States, according to reports.

Wardrobe malfunctions are unfortunate for anyone, but for Adrienne Bailon, who is in the public eye, they can be disastrous.

Blake Lively was granted a restraining order on Friday against her stalker, obsessed fan Sergei Mifle who claims he has a metaphysical connection with the actress.

The number of black and Latino students admitted to one of New York City's elite high schools has increased by 14 percent since last year, according to recent statistics released by the Department of Education. Admittance to these specialized schools including institutions such as Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the Bronx High School of Science and the High School of American Studies at Lehman College, is based on the results of a single standardized test distributed amongst prospective ...

36 people were arrested in New York for allegedly cheating auto insurance companies out of a quarter billion dollars in an elaborate scheme run by a Russian gang. The $279-million insurance fraud involved corrupted doctors and lawyers, feigned medical claims and over 100 fake clinics, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The 74th annual Hunger Games will begin on March 23 when The Hunger Games movie opens in theaters across the nation on March 23. Here is how you can win tickets to advance screening.

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi may be still denying pregnancy rumors, but all signs seem to be pointing towards a baby guido. TMZ is reporting that 495 productions, the company behind “Jersey Shore,” asked a baby store for permission to film a couple weeks ago.