Connor Adams Sheets

POLITICO, a popular Washington, D.C., political publication, launched a distribution scheme in New York City Tuesday morning.

Business Insider contributor David Seaman, one of the web's most-read critics of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), was let go by the news outlet Monday following a spat with NBC News community manager Anthony Quintano.

As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this frigid January Monday, we should also take the time to commemorate his misunderstood contemporary Malcolm X, who society refuses to grant the full credit his legacy demands.

Is Ron Paul betting his presidential candidacy on a Nevada strategy? Coming off his strong second-place finish in the New Hampshire Republican primary, Paul's campaign has shifted its focus to the Silver State's Feb. 4 primary.

Is the SOPA bill dead? After comments by President Obama, many observers predict the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its sister act, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), are dead on arrival.

Like walking under a ladder or breaking a mirror, everyone knows Friday the 13th is renowned for bringing bad luck, but there's a lot more to know about this spooky day.

Carmelo Anthony is injured again. The New York Knicks star small forward -- who has kept them from bombing during the first stretch of the lockout-shortened NBA season -- was back on the bench Thursday night after spraining his right ankle in the second half of the team's 94-83 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies at the FedExForum.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt announced Thursday that they made a friendly wager on Sunday's 2012 NFL playoff game between their hometown Giants and Packers.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave his 2012 State of the City speech Thursday in the Bronx, focusing on education, innovation and jobs in the wide-ranging address.

Ron Paul 2012's New York City grassroots campaign headquartered in a room in a run-down Chinatown-area fallout shelter that his supporters don't want reporters to enter.

When a restaurant can prove itself as a consistently reliable way to cure a hangover and please the taste-buds in a stylish room, the lines are guaranteed to be long, and in the case of Chelsea's Cookshop, all of the above have been true for years.

The Alabama-LSU BCS Championship game at halftime has been a low-scoring affair at just 9-0, much as everyone predicted, but the signs are foreboding for the Tigers.

Mitt Romney said Monday that he likes being able to fire people who provide services to him, adding another soundbite that can be used in attack ads his GOP opponents and Democrats are using to paint him as a rich capitalist out of touch with American voters.

Meme (or Mémé) Mediterranean is a light-dining pleasure squeezed into a section of the West Village overrun with trendy gastropubs and heavy Italian outposts.

Le Pescadeux is a New York City gem, serving up fresh, affordable Québecois fish in a warm, intimate setting.

Blue Ivy Carter, the first child of musicians Beyonce and Jay-Z, is only a couple days old, but illuminati, Satanist and Freemasonry conspiracy theories are already being hatched about the young child.

New Jersey's state legislature plans to take up the controversial issue of gay marriage as a key push one year after New York legalized the practice amid national attention.

Though the child is the Jay-Z's first, there's a whole body of work that reveals Jigga's views toward children.

Ever since Google celebrated the Burning Man festival with a simple doodle on Aug. 30, 1998, the company has had tons of fun with its doodles. This slideshow offers a trip through the history of Google's doodles, from basic to extremely complex.

Charles Addams, creator of the perennial favorite Addams Family cartoons, would be 100 years old today, and Google is honoring the famed artist with a doodle on its home page.

Reddit.com, the wildly-popular online community, received 2.07 billion pageviews in December 2011 alone, capping a year in which the site's traffic doubled the hits it received in 2010.

Anonymous, the leaderless hacktivist collective, has targeted New York's top officials, companies and organizations as part of one of its latest operations.

Ron Paul supporters and other election-watchers have been debating whether or not he was cut short Monday by the national news network when it stopped airing remarks by the GOP presidential candidate as he went into a discussion of the NDAA bill.

Find out which companies support behalf of the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA.

The Anonymous hacktivist collective dropped its #OpHiroshima bomb on New Year's Eve, and despite its success in pulling off a large-scale, wide-reaching document dump, the event has received very little coverage by the mainstream media.

SOPA opponents can use a new Google Chrome extension to ensure they are not unwittingly contributing to the bottom lines of companies that support the Stop Online Privacy Act.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 2012 State of the State address Wednesday afternoon, and there were several items that apply direct to the future of New York City.

Incidents like the firebombing attacks that swept through Queens this past weekend are sadly all-too-familiar for many members of the city's minority religious communities, which have been plagued by periodic flare-ups of violence and vitriol ever since Sept. 11, 2001.

New York City's diners are going the way of the dodo as changing demographics and punitive health inspectors make it hard for diners owners to make ends meet.