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With Tilda Swinton having racked up Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for her role in We Need to Talk About Kevin, distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories has pushed up the New York City release date for the psychological thriller.

Smoke cigarettes, and you'll pay the price--especially if you're in New York City. Island Smokes, a business that allows patrons to roll their own cigarettes, has two locations in New York (one in Long Island, the other in the Lower East Side), but has agreed to shut down its business in order to avoid a lawsuit from the city. The stores will be closed by February 1.

Alec Baldwin, the famous 30 Rock star, has said he's lost his appetite for running in the 2013 New York City mayoral race. Baldwin revealed the news on his biweekly podcast at WNYC. The actor had previously claimed he was going to quit his role as Jack Donaghy on NBC's hit comedy show 30 Rock in order to attend Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Al-Jazeera's good year just got a whole lot better.

I've tried my best to embrace Spotify. Ever since news broke of its collaboration with Facebook, I've done my best to remain an active user. That's what Mark Zuckerberg wants. He envisions a world of seamless sharing on the internet. I know this because he said so at his F8 presentation, the annual Facebook developers' conference. But of course, Zuckerberg just wants more users on his company's app platform.

Kim Jong-Il died on Dec. 17, 2011, ending his brutal reign over North Korea. Experts have determined that he exhibited the so-called big six personality disorders that include being sadistic, antisocial, paranoid, narcissistic, schizoid, and schizotypal. Now they reveal the impact this will have on his son, Kim Jong-Un.

Shares of troubled search engine and media developer Yahoo surged nearly 6 percent late Wednesday after a report the company may unload its stake in China’s Alibaba Group for about $17 billion.

Rick Santorum has been a sideshow for most of the Republican presidential campaign. Now, two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, he has nabbed endorsements from two evangelical leaders, Bob Vander Plaats and Chuck Hurley. But is it too little, too late?

Technology shares slumped on Wednesday and pushed the Nasdaq down 1 percent after Oracle reported results that cast doubts on the sector's health, even as broader markets closed mostly flat in a thinly traded day.

Which areas of the United States are likely to receive a White Christmas and which are not?

Christian Louboutin is seat to open a men's store in New York's Meatpacking District next spring.

If you're one of those people who sympathizes more with the Grinch than with Santa Claus, have we got films for you. From anti-Christmas movies like Bad Santa and Black Christmas to films like Die Hard and Batman Returns, here are 13 movies to help you survive the schmaltzy, corny holiday season one eggnog at a time.

Airline pilots will fly shorter shifts and get longer periods of rest under new rules the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finalized Wednesday in a landmark effort to prevent potentially dangerous fatigue.

She claimed he texted her several times in a single day, late at night or in the early morning hours.

Institutional investors such as unions won the right to file private common-law suits against Wall Street firms for alleged securities-related fraud and negligence.

The starter's gun sounds Christmas Day on an National Basketball Association (NBA) sprint of a season that will reward cohesiveness and fitness in a compressed 66-game campaign that has the Miami Heat as clear front-runners.

Two stores with idiot-proof rolling machines that would sell you cigarette-paper tubes and loose 'baccy and let you use machines on the premises to bang out your own will stop it.

Tourism is a plague that threatens to destroy culture and society.

Lovelace also stars Hank Azaria, Peter Sarsgaard and Amanda Seyfried.

A devastating plane crash on New Jersey's I-287 left five dead in a business trip turned sour. What's more is that for a small plane, the wreckage was huge.

Kate Upton, 19, is an American model known best for her appearance in the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She also models for Victoria's Secret. Rumors have recently surfaced that Upton is dating New York Jets quarterback, Mark Sanchez.