Barack Obama says the federal debt ceiling must be raised, that it would be calamitous and...
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Read OnThe giant stuffed animals won't be leaving Fifth Avenue after all. FAO Schwarz has renewed its...
Read OnALBANY – The state’s top ethics watchdog slapped Gov. Paterson with a whopping $62,000 fine this...
Read OnALBANY – Out-going Gov. Paterson this morning blamed many of his political woes on the early...
Read OnALBANY – Gov. Paterson has quietly dumped scandal-scarred ex-aide David Johnson from the state...
Read OnALBANY – Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo said he was girding for a multi-million-dollar war with public...
Read OnALBANY – Democratic Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo is heading into office with broad support – including...
Read OnWASHINGTON -- Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) announced on his Twitter account Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to the House of Representatives and will instead focus on his run...
Rudy Giuliani will head back to New Hampshire on Thursday as he mulls another White House bid -- but prominent state Republicans don't believe he'll run. "A business associate...
WASHINGTON -- Taxes are good for you. President Obama told leaders in Washington yesterday that it's time to "eat our peas" by making some unappetizing budget decisions. He...
In "a shot across President Obama's bow," Democratic former Mayor Ed Koch yesterday urged voters in Queens and Brooklyn to make "history" by voting for the Republican candidate to...
WASHINGTON -- The USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council is hoping President Obama's reference yesterday to the little green food will cause Americans to increase their consumption of peas...
WASHINGTON -- GOP White House hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann's hard line on debt is boosting her standing in Iowa. Bachmann topped rival Mitt Romney, 25 percent to 21 percent,...
Barack Obama says the federal debt ceiling must be raised, that it would be calamitous and unprecedented and horrible and nightmarish and terrible if it were not raised. Then...
ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo's choice of senior adviser Lawrence Schwartz, onetime top aide to bumbling Gov. David Paterson, as his new chief-of-staff has stunned some investigators...
Thousands of veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are now living in New York City with no jobs, according to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). And nationwide, more than 20...
It's the battle over who's the more effective governor along the Hudson -- rookie Democratic New York Gov. Cuomo or sophomore Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Both...
WASHINGTON -- He won't take no for an answer. President Obama strode into make-or-break budget talks yesterday ready to go to the mat over his plan for tax hikes, despite...
WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, trailing in public-opinion polls, yesterday called out rival Michele Bachmann as having done absolutely nothing in Congress...
WASHINGTON -- Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, taking the gloves off, said Sunday that fellow Minnesotan Michele Bachmann's congressional record is "non-existent." Pawlenty's...
It may be curtains for Carl Kruger. The state senator told confidants he'll announce his resignation by the end of the summer, a prelude to a potential guilty plea in a...
Municipal labor leaders facing difficult contract negotiations are openly talking of "waiting out" Mayor Bloomberg to reach more favorable settlements with the next mayor. "If...
WASHINGTON -- House Republican budget negotiators have abandoned plans to pursue a massive $4 trillion, 10-year deficit-reduction package in the face of stiff GOP opposition to...
Let the spin begin. One of France's top consultants was flying to New York yesterday to meet with old friend, former client and shamed ex-IMF honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a...
WASHINGTON — House Republican budget negotiators have abandoned plans to pursue a massive $4 trillion, 10-year deficit reduction package in the face of stiff GOP opposition to any...
WASHINGTON -- The House has voted to slow the new policy allowing gays to serve openly in the military, backing a measure to ban chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on...
BOSTON -- Following news of a disappointing unemployment report, 2012 presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said yesterday that President Obama should fire David Plouffe, a key adviser...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama blamed just about everything -- except his own economic policies -- for yesterday's dismal jobs report that showed the lowest monthly increase in...
Republican leaders tapped Bob Turner as the GOP candidate for randy ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's vacant congressional seat. Turner will take on Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin...
ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday declared he would not run again when his term ends in 2013, in an interview with the daily La Repubblica. He...
WASHINGTON -- Dismal unemployment figures released yesterday complicated efforts to avert a looming US debt default, and a top Republican said negotiators were not close to a deal...
ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo yesterday moved to step up the state's crackdown on Medicaid fraud as he nominated James Cox, a former high-level federal auditor, as New York's new Medicaid...
King of Queens Joe Crowley isn't the only Democratic Party poohbah who doesn't live in the borough. Michael Reich, the Queens Democratic Party's executive secretary and party...
WASHINGTON -- No big deal. President Obama emerged from debt-crisis talks yesterday without a major breakthrough in the stalemate -- but he vowed that Democrats and Republicans...
Democratic leaders yesterday ended the suspense over whom they'll pick to replace Anthony Weiner in Congress, tapping state Assemblyman David Weprin as their nominee in the Sept...
Don't mess with Ed Koch's legacy. City Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Queens) got that message when Council Speaker Christine Quinn slashed his annual discretionary funding -- a...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that talks at the White House with Democratic and Republican leaders from both chambers of Congress had been staged "in a spirit...