The MTA has resumed operations on the Second Avenue subway project Monday evening. After taking two weeks off of the project, because residents complained about the noise, dust and odors that the construction produces.
The company will partner with New York-based ProPublica, the Chicago Reporter, Philadelphia-based WHYY Radio and Los Angeles-based KPCC Radio.
Last year saw a record number of discarded votes in New York elections--60,000 in total. The main culprit, apparently, was poorly designed ballots that let people vote for more than one candidate in a contest, according to a New York University study..
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that the GOP filibuster of President Barack Obama's pick to the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals would violate the bipartisan 2005 agreement limiting judicial filibusters among the Gang of 14 senators.
Insider trading by federal lawmakers is unlawful, but "distinct legal and factual issues" may arise and make the investigation or prosecutions difficult to proceed. However, any statutory changes on insider trading should be "carefully calibrated" to ensure they do not narrow current law, a top Securities and Exchange Commission official warned Tuesday.
Heisman Trophy runner-up Andrew Luck will be hoping to go one better after the Stanford quarterback was shortlisted again for college football's highest individual award.
Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury home builder, reported a net income of $15 million in the fiscal fourth quarter ending Oct. 31, or nine cents per diluted share, down from $50.5 million, or 30 cents per share, in 2010.
Angelina Jolie is being sued for allegedly stealing a Croatian Journalist's story in her new film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, according to Radar.com.
In an effort to provide relief to families left with no potable drinking water in Dimock Pennsylvania, activists and local leaders shipped roughly 5,700 gallons of fresh water supplies by bus Tuesday from New York City's city hall.
For $725,000, where's the mailbox now that the Great Neck LIRR station has been spiffed up? I think we know.
Cristiano Ronaldo's gorgeous fiance Irina Shayk poses naked for a new UK skincare ad campaign. The results are steamy.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management has hired a former Goldman Sachs banker to join its ultra high net worth family advisory team in Los Angeles, the firm said on Monday.
Police extended moves aimed at keeping anti-Wall street protesters from camping on Monday, arresting 11 people in Orlando and San Diego after a weekend clampdown in cities on both the East and West coasts netted scores of arrests.
U.S. home prices fell 1.3 percent in October compared to the previous month, the third consecutive month of declines, according to CoreLogic.
There is a significant chance that the Federal Reserve will embark on a third round of asset purchases to stimulate the U.S. economy, a major bond fund manager said on Tuesday.
The stock of online retail giant Amazon.com (AMZN) has dipped recently, but is the pull-back a buy opportunity?
UBS announced Tuesday it will be adding five recently-public Web 3.0 companies, including Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ:GRPN) to its benchmark index of young public Internet companies, officially called the UBS Next Generation Internet Index.
A majority of Americans say members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives should receive salary cuts, have their pensions discontinued and be required to spend more time on Capitol Hill.
U.S. Senators Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., have conjured a middle ground they believe could settle the ongoing debate over extending the payroll tax cut.
Partly owing to the huge sex scandal commenced by former French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York earlier this year, French Parliament will debate a bill to ban prostitution in France on Tuesday. If passed, it could become law next year.
Experts can only attempt to understand what went through the mind of Damel Burton, 34, the morning of December 2. In about 15 minutes, Burton murdered two people, wounded another, and sent terrified passengers on a Queens bus running in terror and in fear of their lives.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding a Bronx church holding worship in a New York City public school.
