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Twenty-two churches have stopped providing shelter to homeless New Yorkers _ on city orders.

With temperatures below freezing on Saturday, the churches had to follow a city rule requiring faith-based shelters to be open at least five days a week _ or not at all.

Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that serves as a link between city officials and shelters, delivered the news to the churches several weeks ago that that they no longer qualify.

As a result, hundreds of people now won't have a place to sleep, he said.

File shot of Michelle Obama, with her mother in the background. NEW YORK -- Sure, there's plenty of pressure on Barack Obama.

President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, and senior Democratic officials say he intends to name Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary as soon as Monday.

It was not clear when Obama intended to formally unveil any of his other picks for the administration that takes office at the stroke of noon on Jan. 20. One Democrat said John Podesta, a leader of Obama's transition team, had told Senate aides on Friday that Obama hoped for speedy confirmation so the new administration could get to work quickly thereafter.

As the State University of New York implements $93 million in state budget cuts and plans to increase tuition, its enrollment has reached a new high of 439,624 students on its 64 campuses, according to ...

The line at a New York job fair in June. So much for that narrative! Counter to the stories upon stories of an economy in freefall, people are still working; at least they are according to October jobs ...

ALBANY New York is projected to face a shortage of registered nurses by the year 2020, according to a new report by UAlbany's Center for Health Workforce Studies.

The Associated Press will trim 10 percent of its work force over the next year as a cut in fees paid by member newspapers and a declining economy take their toll, Chief Executive Tom Curley said Thursday.

When the economy was booming, many hotel companies began building new properties.

Retired Marine Gen. James Jones emerged as a leading contender for White House national security adviser as President-elect Barack Obama worked on Thursday to assemble his foreign policy team.

Italian Culture Ministry officials and the director of the Cleveland museum signed a deal in Rome to transfer the artifacts within three months in exchange for long-term loans of other treasures.

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.