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In most American text books, Samuel de Champlain serves as a sort of historical speed bump between Christopher Columbus and Lewis and Clark.

Almost 70 Scores top strippers want their bosses to hand over the 10 cents they skimmed from every dollar slipped into their G-strings. Following a hearing Monday in Manhattan Federal Court, lawyer Justin ...

Making John A. "Junior" Gotti stand trial on racketeering charges in Tampa instead of New York would be like "cutting off the supplies he needs to fight the fight," his attorney told a federal judge Thursday.

The Justice Department and the New York Police Department are feuding over secret terror investigations, with the city pushing for faster approval to spy on suspects - a move that the feds charge could break ...

Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's 'Shadow Country,' a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award nearly 30 years ago.

'I'm back!' exclaimed Matthiessen, who received the nonfiction prize in 1979 for 'The Snow Leopard,' and was a finalist in two previous years. He consoled his fellow finalists, three of whom hadn't been born when he was first published. 'And they're going to be back, too.'

The Jean-Paul Riopelle 1951 canvas "Sans titre " is shown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ho-Heffel TORONTO - A drip painting by late Montreal artist Jean-Paul Riopelle drew a winning bid to the tune of $1.4 million at the ...

Art dealer Jan Krugier, an Auschwitz survivor who collected the works of Picasso and other renowned artists to help himself move past the horrors of the Nazi era, has died.

OIL prices sank on Monday amid worries about a deepening global financial crisis that is crimping demand, stoked by news that Japan, the second-largest economy, has followed the euro zone into recession.

By David Caruso New York - After nine fruitless months of looking for work, Paul Nawrocki turned to a Depression-era tactic to find a job.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew about 18 million votes as a presidential candidate. But that doesn't necessarily count for much in the Senate, where seniority rules, and so far not in her favor.

In recent weeks, according to Democratic officials, Clinton's allies have maneuvered to secure the New York lawmaker a role more prominent than her seniority entitles her to, in recognition of her historic run for the White House.

They angered Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy by asking him to set up a subcommittee for her to chair to oversee efforts to draft health care legislation, these officials said.

Money showers the stage like confetti in 'Road Show,' the exhilarating Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical that finally has surfaced in New York after a long, arduous journey that included several different titles, directors and casts.

Sondheim and Weidman have been as tenacious as their antiheroes, Wilson and Addison Mizner, whose constant pursuit of dollars and the American Dream has its ups and downs _ mostly downs.

But persistence has paid off, at least for the show's creators. They have put together a small show about big ideas, an intelligent, fascinating examination of the American psyche, both good and bad. The musical opened Tuesday at the Public Theater off-Broadway.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his climate change summit on Tuesday by telling attendees from around the world that they can balance environmental protection with economic growth.

The alleged ringleader of a large-scale drug-smuggling operation that straddled the Canada-U.S. border remained at large Tuesday following an RCMP-assisted bust in upstate New York, authorities said.

A blast of cold wind spread snow along the Great Lakes from Michigan to New York on Monday, dumping 2 feet on this central New York town.

Monday, November 17, 2008 DAILY ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS: Get the Latest Celeb Gossip! 24 star Kiefer Sutherland is planning to move to New York City, so he can be closer to his journalist girlfriend.

Five school districts in Westchester could receive 9 percent cuts to their 2008-09 state aid under Gov.

Arts representatives from a Cumberland-sized town on Lake Ontario in New York recently spent two days studying the arts and entertainment section of Cumberland's downtown.

President-Elect Barack Obama has written a thank you and farewell letter to the people of Illinois.

Crippling, disastrous, damaging and disruptive are some of the words school, government and union leaders used Friday to describe the potential effects of Gov.