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Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" - It's post-Katrina New Orleans and there are snakes in the water - none bigger than Terence McDonagh , an exceptionally corrupt detective, who slinks through town snorting coke, smoking heroin, harassing women and brandishing a .44 Magnum stuffed in the front of ...

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani , who lost a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, is considering running for the U.S. Senate next year against freshman Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand , current and former Republican officials said.

Poor women seeking free cancer screenings are being turned away in some parts of New York state because this year's budget crunch has forced a $3.5 million cut to a program providing them.

In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept.

Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor.

New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to some government benefits provided to same-sex couples legally married elsewhere and now living in New York.

Delays 'going to ripple through the entire system' Updated: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009, 10:47 AM EST Published : Thursday, 19 Nov 2009, 8:51 AM EST HARRY R. WEBER,AP Airlines Writer ATLANTA - A problem with the FAA system that collects airline flight plans caused widespread flight cancellations and delays nationwide Thursday, the second time in 15 ...

Helena Christensen's photographs from a trip to Peru, which document the impact of global warming, have gone on display in London.

Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

A close-up shot of the Statue of Liberty, which has stood on the former Bedloe's Island since 1886.

New to "The Twilight Saga" fan experience, actor Jamie Campbell Bower has discovered that being the Volturi vampire, Caius, in "New Moon" is hardly a pain in the neck.

President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted, as Attorney General Eric Holder defended putting him the U.S. civilian legal system.

A northern New York man is recovering after being attacked by a 10-point buck while he was loading firewood.

Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Oil prices pushed higher for a second straight day on Tuesday even though the dollar strengthened and fresh economic data gave mixed signals on whether demand for oil will increase.

Investigators in New York City have raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 12:00 pm US/Central NEW YORK 1 of 3 New York Gov. David Paterson openly criticized the White House on Monday, saying he thought it was a terrible idea to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists to New York for trial.

It was not a typical night at the Met. The audience, younger than usual, did not a ' could not a ' applaud any hit tunes.

Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said in an interview that New Yorkers are being forced by the Obama administration to host the trials for terrorists suspected of planning the Sept.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has said the Obama administration should not allow five accused plotters of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York to be tried in a civilian court.