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First Lady Michelle Obama briefly d...

First Lady Michelle Obama briefly dated Inspector General whose audit set off IRS investigation: report

It could have been a match made in tax haven. A young Michelle Obama once dated the inspector general who recently uncovered the IRS scandal, according to a bombshell report.
    
Obama to address drones, Gitmo in s...

Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech

President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face ? even from fellow citizens.
    
Four Americans have died in U.S. st...

Four Americans have died in U.S. strikes: White House

The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that American citizens have been killed in U.S. drone strikes overseas.
    
Four Americans have died in U.S. st...

Four Americans have died in U.S. strikes: White House

The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that American citizens have been killed in U.S. drone strikes overseas.
    
SHY WEINER: Anthony spends 1st day ...

SHY WEINER: Anthony spends 1st day of campaign at home, shunning standard news conference and 5-borough tour

Anthony Weiner promised an unconventional mayoral campaign ? and on day one, he delivered.
    
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-staffer who once slam...

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-staffer who once slammed Sheldon Silver for ignoring her rape claim says she got threatening letters from speaker's pals

ALBANY ? First, the most powerful man in the state Assembly blew her off, then his aides tried to shut her up.
    

WCBSTV

Rangers Great Adam Graves Not Ready...

Rangers Great Adam Graves Not Ready To Give Up On Blueshirts

(credit: Al Dukes/WFAN)It ain't over 'til it's over. That's the message from Graves as New York, in an 0-3 hole, faces elimination against Boston at MSG.
NJ Police Chief Running 106 Miles F...

NJ Police Chief Running 106 Miles For Sandy Victims

Frank Del Vecchio start his 106 mile run for Sandy victims on May 23, 2013 (credit: Steve Sandberg/1010 WINS)Fairview Police Chief Frank Del Vecchio is running 106 miles from the town of Moonachie, through Hoboken, down to Edison, and then along the Jersey Shore to Seaside Heights in what he calls a "Run For Hope."
Anthony Weiner Makes First Appearan...

Anthony Weiner Makes First Appearance As NYC Mayoral Candidate

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner outside a subway station in Harlem on Thursday, May 23, 2013. (credit: CBS 2)Anthony Weiner got a supportive reception outside a Harlem subway station on Thursday.
Cicadas Return To New Jersey After ...

Cicadas Return To New Jersey After 17 Years Just In Time For Memorial Day

Cicadas (file / credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)They've been spotted in Tenafly, Wayne, Colonia, Fanwood, Mendham, and Montclair.
Chuck Norris Believes Tim Tebow Cou...

Chuck Norris Believes Tim Tebow Could Be A ?Legend? In NFL

Chuck Norris (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images), Tim Tebow  (Photo by Rich Schultz /Getty Images)Petitions to the White House, a Florida lawyer's advertising blitz, and now Walker, Texas Ranger. Tebow may not have a job, but he still has some fighters in his corner.
Robert Moses State Park Reopens Tod...

Robert Moses State Park Reopens Today

Morning at Robert Moses State Park - May 23, 2013 (credit: Mike Xirinachs / WCBS 880)The last of the Long Island state parks shut down by superstorm Sandy reopens Thursday.

NY Times

City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Brus...

City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Brusque Manners in the Jewelry Department

Metropolitan Diary: A customer newly arrived from the Midwest discovered that a Macy?s jewelry repair clerk didn?t have time for her full name.
    
New Yorkers Respond to Weiner?s Can...

New Yorkers Respond to Weiner?s Candidacy

From around the five boroughs, New Yorkers expressed their opinions on Anthony D. Weiner?s bid for mayor, weighing in on his past and his potential as a candidate.
    
City Room: A Soviet Spy in Congress...

City Room: A Soviet Spy in Congress Still Has His Street

When a block on the Lower East Side was named 50 years ago to honor Samuel Dickstein, a former American congressman, not even the F.B.I. suspected that Mr. Dickstein had been a paid Soviet agent.
    
Suspects Are Arrested in Kidnapping...

Suspects Are Arrested in Kidnapping and Torture of Queens Man

The ordeal of Pedro Portugal, 52, a businessman, ended when officers posing as building inspectors raided a warehouse where he was kept for 32 days, the authorities said.
    
Cicadas Take Stage for Their Final ...

Cicadas Take Stage for Their Final Act on Staten Island

After weeks of anticipation, Staten Island has seen some of the first of a brood of cicadas that has matured underground for 17 years, and which will be emerging in the coming days.
    
Cuomo Unveils Tax-Free Plan for Bus...

Cuomo Unveils Tax-Free Plan for Businesses at SUNY Sites

?Tax-Free NY? will offer college-friendly companies exemptions from a wide variety of state taxes and could help jump-start upstate New York?s economy.
    

ABC Local

AccuWeather forecast for the New Yo...

AccuWeather forecast for the New York area

Rain gear is needed across the area for the rest of the day!
WATCH ABC is available to Channel 7...

WATCH ABC is available to Channel 7 viewers

WATCH ABC authenticated service brings Channel 7 to viewers on the go in the tri-state region on their iPhones, iPads, laptops and other devices. The service begins on Tuesday afternoon.
Secret Sales with Tory Johnson: Bro...

Secret Sales with Tory Johnson: Brownies, diamond earrings and a super secret deal

Check here for this week's Secret Sales from consumer expert Tory Johnson!
New Eyewitness News app for your iP...

New Eyewitness News app for your iPhone or Android

Eyewitness News has a new way for you to get more news than ever before in the palm of your hand! Keep on top of breaking news, AccuWeather and traffic, and watch Eyewitness News LIVE on the go with our new News app for your iPhone or Android.
UK: Man hacked to death in London a...

UK: Man hacked to death in London attack was serving soldier

Police said Thursday morning that they believe they know the man's identity but will not be releasing it at his family's request.
West Point soldier charged with vid...

West Point soldier charged with videotaping women

An Army sergeant has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including in a bathroom.

Queens Courier

Queens? Morning Roundup

Queens? Morning Roundup

TODAY’S FORECAST  Thursday: Overcast with a chance of rain, then a chance of a thunderstorm and rain showers in the afternoon. Fog early. High of 77. Breezy. Winds from the SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70% with rainfall amounts near 0.3 in. possible. Thursday night: Overcast with a chance of a [...]
Three charged with kidnapping, hold...

Three charged with kidnapping, holding Queens man for month in $3M ransom attempt

Three men have been arrested for kidnapping a man off a Jackson Heights street and holding him in a warehouse for a month in a $3 million ransom attempt, the district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Christian Acuna, 35, of Corona, Dennis Alves, 32, of East Elmhurst, and Eduardo Moncayo, 38, of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, are currently awaiting [...]
Community urges new Ridgewood Theat...

Community urges new Ridgewood Theater owners to discuss site plans

The curtain might be closed for good at the Ridgewood Theater. The 1915 building has been vacant since March 2008, said Theodore Renz, executive director of the Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District (BID). In 2010, the Guzman brothers took over ownership and intended to put a supermarket in the building, but the plan was never [...]
Mets players move into Long Island ...

Mets players move into Long Island City luxury buildings

BY CHARLES OSBORN LIC has become Citi Field West. Several members of the New York Mets have been living in Long Island City since the start of the 2013 season, though their neighbors may have no idea. ?I really wouldn?t even know who they were if I ran into them,? said one resident of Center [...]
Anthony Weiner launches mayoral run

Anthony Weiner launches mayoral run

Anthony Weiner has officially kicked off his political comeback. Almost two years after resigning from Congress because of a Twitter sext scandal, the former Queens politician is running for mayor. Weiner made the announcement late Tuesday in a video posted to YouTube. “Look I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot [...]
Barry Grodenchik drops out of BP ra...

Barry Grodenchik drops out of BP race after key endorsement goes to Katz

Former assemblymember Barry Grodenchik has ended his borough president bid less than a day after being beat for a key county endorsement. ?The next borough president must focus like a laser on jobs, education, healthcare, economic development and Sandy recovery,? Grodenchik said. ?I am proud to have brought those issues to the forefront of the [...]

NY Village Voice

Longing and Interdependence Fill th...

Longing and Interdependence Fill the Void of an Hasidic Community

Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that when pieced together, the sensuous images accumulating into a fuller picture, become a wedding dress, tulle and silk diffusing the glow. Engagements, weddings, births, and deaths: This film is...

For Fans of its Predecessors, Proce...

For Fans of its Predecessors, Proceed with Armor for Before Midnight

Ask people about their favorite movies and the same titles come up regularly—Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane. But some movies have special meaning for people even if they don't turn up on lists of established favorites. These are the secret mo...

Lens Flares and the End of Film

Lens Flares and the End of Film

Daniel Mindel, A.S.C., is part of an ever-shrinking population: cinematographers who have yet to shoot a feature digitally. He acknowledges that he "will be forced" to do it eventually by "the corporate entities that drive our industry," but he believes "there is no need to use an inferior techn...

Entitled Fraternity Dicks Return to...

Entitled Fraternity Dicks Return to The Hangover Part III

The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves the "Wolf Pack" without anybody ever making fun of them.

In the slobs-versus-snobs comedies of the 1970s and '80s, the snooty rich kids...

How Undercover Animal Rights Activi...

How Undercover Animal Rights Activists are Winning the Ag-Gag War

Cody Carlson had no way of preparing for this moment. He was a Manhattan kid, days removed from working as an analyst for a business-intelligence firm, where he scrutinized corporations and their executives.

Now he was standing in a bleak barn at New York's largest dairy farm.

Th...

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wiki...

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Can't Get a Fix on Its Thorny Subject Matter

There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning, and, sometimes, miracle-working before a story goes to print: An editor higher on the food chain will receive a disheveled manuscript from a writer, make a few halfhearte...

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