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Today, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week kicked off in its new home, Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park in New York City. The event draws tastemakers, editors, onlookers, and buyers to witness the hottest in design industry talent. The semi-annual fashion events, formerly at Bryant Park, draw more than 230,000 attendees every year and generate more than $770 million […]

After chasing bad guys all day, it’s understandable cops could use a good laugh.

In his first press conference since late May, President Obama offered one of the sternest rebukes to date of the Republican Party’s position on the Bush tax cuts, saying that those pushing to extend the cuts for the wealthy are holding the “middle class hostage.”

President Obama, looking to assure the country that he’s the man with an economic plan, is taking his message to the media, and ultimately, the American public.

Donald J. Trump offered to purchase the site of the proposed Islamic community center near New York City‘s Ground Zero for the price paid plus 25 percent.

The pastor planning to burn Qurans on the Sept. 11 anniversary said Thursday that he had called off the event after being given assurances that the Muslim group seeking to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site would move the project.

Patricia Wilson was in a longstanding feud with her landlord, police said. A Brooklyn landlord has been charged with murdering her tenant – bringing a longstanding feud to a brutal end, police said. Jacqueline Wesley-Rosa, 49, was arrested at the 75th Precinct stationhouse after detectives questioned her at length about the shooting death of Patricia […]