Donald Trump ended last week getting straight up owned at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by the comic stylings of both President Barack Obama and Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers. So, it stands to reason that, newly chaste…
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The New York Daily News had probably the most forceful headline out of all of the world’s newspapers that covered the death of Osama bin Laden. The News’ front page reads, “ROT IN HELL.” PHOTO:Read More…
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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has decided to let companies continue to trade certain contracts used to guard against swings in currency values outside regulators’ view.New rules require that many such trades occur more tr…
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Don Hill’s Closes Its Doors For Good
The New York Post reports that the Greenwich Village bar Don Hill’s is closing one month after its founder, Don Hill, passed away. In September the club was reopened and re-imagined by nightlife impresarios Nur Khan and Paul Sevigny (of Beat…
The New York Times found itself with egg on its face when it was forced to admit that it had been fooled by The Onion.The paper ran a correction on Saturday, acknowledging that, in a gallery of covers of Tiger Beat magazine that it used to c…
NEW YORK — The publisher of The New York Times and 17 other daily newspapers says its first-quarter earnings fell 58 percent because of a decline in print advertising revenue.The results released Thursday by The New York Times Co. is t…
By A. James RudinReligion News ServiceNEW YORK (RNS) The heady days of American congregational expansion are over.Read More…
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NEW YORK, April 12 (Joseph A. Giannone) – An arbitration panel ordered Citigroup Inc (C.N) to pay a group of investors $54.1 million for losses from municipal securities funds that cratered between 2007 and 2008, the biggest award yet involv…
For such a simple segment, Jimmy Fallon’s “Thank You Notes” is consistently way funnier than it should be. Monday night’s edition on “Late Night” was no different, with Fallon writing thank you notes to quilts, the game of Cricket, President…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The daughter of the author of a recent memoir on tough Chinese-style parenting that sparked an uproar has been accepted to Yale and Harvard.Yale law professor Amy Chua confirmed through her publisher that her daughte…
The New York Times’ new plan to charge online readers is no more complex than the print system, the newspaper’s publisher insisted at a Columbia University journalism school event.Read More…
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A week after Amazon Kindle New York Times subscribers received word that their subscriptions granted them free access to the paper’s website, Barnes & Noble Nook subscribers will also soon be able to access NYTimes.com for free.Read More…..
At a breakfast Thursday morning The New York Times unveiled its new e-book bestsellers that will appear in print in its February 13 edition.Read More…
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Unless that is extended by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in the US, publishers will be required to ensure third-party testing of finished books and products. Publishers currently have substrates tested during the production p…
Welcome to 2011! Er, maybe we should have said that just a tad bit more quiety on account of your epic headache right now. Yes, that would have been better.To celebrate the new year and to help cure your hangover, here’s a list of the best b…
CAIRO — A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year’s Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early Saturday, killing at least seven people, officials said.After the blast, enraged Christ…
A new species of mistletoe is among plant discoveries in 2010. Nobody is likely to be found kissing under a sprig of it, though, because so far it’s been found only on a single mountain in Mozambique.Read More…
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LOS ANGELES — Prime-time leader CBS is tweaking its schedule to bring midseason shows aboard.Joining the CBS lineup is spinoff series “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” which will debut Feb. 16. Other newcomers are the comedy “Mad Lov…
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NEW YORK — McDonald’s plans to add 150 to 200 restaurants in China, part of its plan to increase its investment in China by 40 percent next year.The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.Read More…
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NEW YORK — Turns out the Philadelphia Phillies do have enough money for both Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay – and Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels, too.A year after Phillies traded him away, Lee chose to rejoin them and form a fearsome fou…
NEW YORK — Elected officials and activists from around the country gathered Monday to bemoan the excesses of political partisanship and seek ways to restore civility and practical solutions to government.The inaugural meeting of a grou…
NEW YORK — A private Swiss bank has agreed to pay up to $500 million to investors defrauded by Bernie Madoff.The trustee appointed to recover money for the notorious Ponzi schemer’s victims on Monday said he reached an agreement with G…
NEW YORK — Gil McDougald, an All-Star infielder who helped the New York Yankees win five World Series championships during the 1950s, has died. He was 82.McDougald died Sunday of prostate cancer at his home in Wall Township, N.J., the …
NEW YORK — The aggressive push federal prosecutors are making against potential insider trading is sending investigators into a legal gray area that may redefine insider trading itself.Mutual fund company Janus Capital Group said Tuesd…
NEW YORK — The timing of Britain’s royal engagement announcement couldn’t have worked out much better for NBC News.The network had announced, back in April, that it would air a documentary on Prince Charles’ environmental work. Accompa…
NEW YORK — General Electric Co. plans to sink more than $2 billion into its efforts in China through 2012 as the conglomerate looks to build partnerships there.GE said Tuesday that it will likely spend $500 million on research and developm…
SAN DIEGO — The new commandant of the U.S. Marines Corps said Saturday that now is the wrong time to overturn the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military, as U.S. troops remain in the thick o…
NEW YORK — Well known for stylish but affordable housewares, Sweden’s Ikea Group is cutting prices on some big-ticket items as it seeks to outfit more homes around the globe.From couches to bed frames, the price cuts are part of new preside…
WASHINGTON — Brian Frederick might be the country’s most important sports fan, but he rarely wears the colors of his favorite teams or can be heard cheering them on.Read More…
