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Eating a diet based on fish, legumes, vegetables and moderate amounts of alcohol is linked to lower chances of dying from a heart attack, stroke or other vascular events, according to a new study of New York City residents.

Senator Charles Schumer wants to protect you from being stalked at the mall. By tracking your movements via your cell-phone, that is.

An assistant Syracuse University basketball coach accused of inappropriate behavior with a ball boy is hoping for a credible and expeditious review of the matter by police, his lawyer said on Sunday.

Less than a third of the $16 million gathered in 2010 by hip-hop star Wyclef Jean for earthquake relief in Haiti actually made it to emergency efforts in the country, the New York Post reported on Sunday.

For the first time in 40 years, Catholics the world over are reading a new translation of Mass, emphasizing the Latin roots and formal tone of the Roman missal (prayer book). See what's changed from the old services, prompting many churches to rely on cheat sheets as they adjust, and why some Catholics are up in arms about the new translation.

Wycelf Jean is facing new allegations of embezzlement within his former charity, created to benefit the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

It looks like Kris Humphries will be cast as the villain and Kim the victim

By the time you have kids, no one will probably care about you, Humphries told his wife

Teen sensation Justin Bieber has just released a music video for the first single off his Christmas album, Mistletoe.

In response to a blog post by Dallas psychic Stephanie Almaguer, volunteers initiated a thorough search for Lisa Irwin in the vicinity of a closed casino about two miles from the missing baby's residence. Like numerous other leads in the case, however, Almaguer's hunch proved to be an empty one.

Occupy Los Angeles activists said Saturday they intend to continue inhabiting their protest site on the grounds of City Hall despite a fast-approaching deadline for their eviction set by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

The Philadelphia Eagles may need to win all seven remaining games to keep their playoff hopes alive, and face a difficult test when they host the New England Patriots on Sunday.

The NBA lockout is over. We want to play basketball, NBA commissioner David Stern said, perhaps forgetting that he actually didn't want to play basketball for the first scheduled month of the season.

Black Friday shopping became a deadly holiday pastime on Friday when a West Virginia man was pronounced dead after he collapsed in a Target followed by a stampede of shoppers. More violence erupted nationwide as other major retailers with Black Friday deals, like Walmart, opened their doors. Here are some of the worst videos of frenzied shoppers getting violent on Black Friday across the web.

The public relations campaign at end of year 2010 is proving to be a hard one for U.S. oil giant Chevron Corporation. Faced with an oil leak, the suspension of its drilling rights and severe public backlash all in Brazil, the company has now been labeled the most toxic energy company.

Ready for Christmas?

First there was Black Friday, then as e-commerce reached popularity in 2005, Cyber Monday was created. Now there is a new shopping holiday: a grassroots movement known as Small Business Saturday sponsored by American Express to help flailing local merchants and businesses.

For Cyber-Monday, SoHo fashionistas and fashionisters looking for environmentally friendly, socially responsible clothing, there's a slew of hot online stores to check out -- and even a brick-and-mortar one in downtown Manhattan!

Once again, eating a diet based on fish, legumes, vegetables and moderate amounts of alcohol is linked to lower chances of dying from a heart attack, stroke or other vascular events, according to a new study of New York City residents.

Nassau County has a New Year’s gift for 100,000 daily passengers on L.I. Bus: it’s going French, having been sold to France’s Veolia Environment SA, whose transportation unit operates many other U.S. systems.

I had just been chatting, over a ridiculously expensive turkey sandwich that Monday (right before Thanksgiving, what was I thinking?), about the declining fortunes of the once-great American Empire. But enough, for the moment, about me, first let's see what Columbia's Herbert J. Gans, emeritus professor of sociology, had to say about superfluous jobs in his recent New York Times Op-Ed piece--and whether what he astutely observed could lead, within the century, to the breakup of th...