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But the lives of these two iconic figures of 19th century America were both parallel and intertwined, as a new exhibit opening Friday at the New York Historical Society makes clear.

NEW YORK - He's taken his lumps in the tabloids, now he'll be ducking swings in the boxing ring.

New York's Nassau County once was such a bedrock Republican stronghold that nearly 16,000 admirers of President Nixon gathered in 1972 at the newly opened Nassau County Coliseum for a GOP rally.

This undated photo provided by Elitis shows Elitis' Tenue De Soiree flocked metallic wallcovering.

Gov. Paterson takes credit for saving drivers a half-billion dollars by jawboning insurers into reducing rate hikes in light of the reduced driving triggered by high gas prices, Release after the jump.

This photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows Sasha Cooke as Kitty Oppenheimer and Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer during the final dress rehearsal of "Doctor Atomic," Thursday Oct.

Patients have on average a 70 percent lower chance of dying at the nation's top-rated hospitals compared with the lowest-rated hospitals across 17 procedures and conditions analyzed in the eleventh annual ...

The Ithaca Beer Company took home a pair of medals from a nationwide beer competition in Denver.

The Pro-McCain march which took place during a street fair on Manhattan's ultra liberal Upper West Side had onlookers booing and shouting, "you have no brain" and "wake up". As the New York Republican's marched ...

Columbia University has a collection of playing cards that is among the world's largest, a trove of 6,356 decks that the Ivy League institution painstakingly catalogued this spring after they were donated to ...

Top Story Headlines Stocks rise in early trade Stock prices are solidly higher in early trading.

Fire marshals were investigating whether there was a functioning smoke detector in a Brooklyn apartment where a blaze killed a Guyanese immigrant and his 12-year-old nephew.

The fire early Sunday was the second fatal blaze over the weekend. Just a day earlier, a couple and three of their children died in a fire at the family's Manhattan apartment after it became a smoky deathtrap, firefighters said. The lone survivor of Saturday's fire, a 10-year-old boy, remained hospitalized with critical injuries.

AP - The four manmade waterfalls of New York's East River are about to dry up - much to the relief of critics who say salty water from the art installation has destroyed waterfront foliage.

Posted Oct 10th 2008 9:30AM by Wilson Morales Filed under: It's All Reel , Entertainment Naturi Naughton , who's set to play Lil' Kim in the Biggie Smalls film 'Notorious', has just landed another plum role.

Today is Monday, Oct. 13, the 287th day of 2008. There are 79 days left in the year. This is the Columbus Day holiday in the United States, as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

On this date:

In A.D. 54, Roman emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina.

In 1775, the United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.

The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were ...

Pushy, ambitious, bold, Michael Bloomberg's bid to remain mayor for another four years marks him out as the archetypal New Yorker.

Joan Marie Kaye and 45,000 runners gearing up for the Chicago Marathon know that muscle-aching, mind-numbing, hurts-so-bad-you-want-to-die kind of pain almost surely awaits them.

A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze Saturday that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door, fire officials said.

A 10-year-old boy who survived was in critical condition after the fire in a public housing complex in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The boy was found with two other family members in a back bedroom, while the rest of the family sought refuge in a full bathtub and underneath a bathroom sink, officials said.

NEW YORK A woman who moved to Louisiana to help Hurricane Katrina survivors, a marathon runner who gets homeless people on their feet and several community organizers will be honored by CNN in its second ...