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"Frozen River" is a story beautifully told and realized. Along with "The Visitor," it stands as the finest film so far this year.

Once he was the bachelor boy, now he's the oldest swinger in town. But Sir Cliff Richard has rarely courted the degree of controversy likely to be provoked by a chapter in his new autobiography, in which he ...

Thu, Sep 4, 2008 Four days, hundreds of speakers, thousands of delegates, endless pontificating and one hurricane looming large from afar.

U.S. President George W. Bush saluted Republican John McCain as the man to replace him on Tuesday at a convention featuring assaults on Democrat Barack Obama and a strong defense of McCain's No.

A New York State Supreme Court justice has ruled that NY Gov. David Paterson did not exceed his authority last May when he directed state agencies to recognize marriages granted to gay families in other ...

Joshua David remembers vividly the first time he stepped out onto the rusted-over elevated railway track that snaked above Manhattan.

'It was this incredible, hidden landscape that was invisible from the street that just stretched for blocks and blocks and blocks _ as far as you could see,' he recalls. 'All these grasses and wildflowers and trees, hidden like a secret garden in the middle of the city. And it just made your heart rise.'

There was no public access to the shock of green above the rusty underbelly of the High Line railway. With wrecking balls looming, David helped lead a campaign to turn the abandoned track, winding through a desolate corner of the city, into a public park.

In the latest sign of the accelerating climate change, a huge ice shelf has broken away in Canada's northern Arctic, and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a "massive and disturbing" rate.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. FedEx Express said Monday it has upgraded its next-business-day delivery service, FedEx International Priority, from Europe to major U.S. East Coast cities.

Federal regulators on Wednesday accused two former Wall Street brokers of defrauding their customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of securities tied to subprime mortgages.

Consumer confidence climbed by 4.8 points last month, the monthly Siena poll indicated, far outdistancing a nationwide increase of 1.8 points in a similar survey conducted by the University of Michigan.

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Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and reported the chaotic scene live on the air, has died at 75.

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, have backed out of a joint speaking appearance, although the two still have several separate events on their schedules.

Policy is 'permissable step toward the objective of equality' NEW YORK A Bronx judge has thrown out the first direct legal challenge to Gov.

Holmes converted to Scientology after meeting her husband Tom Cruise. Tuesday, September 2, 2008 DAILY ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS: Get the Latest Celeb Gossip! An anti-Scientology group plans to stage a protest when ...

Oil prices tumbled nearly $7 on Tuesday from last week's close ahead of the U.S. Labor Day weekend as investors shifted their focus to slowing global demand after fears subsided about Hurricane Gustav's impact on Gulf Coast oil rigs and refineries.

By afternoon in Europe, light, sweet crude for October delivery was down $6.94 a barrel to $108.52 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier in the session it had dropped as low as $105.46.

On Friday, the contract settled at $115.46 a barrel as Gustav approached the U.S. Gulf coast, a key region for oil drilling and refining. But traders were relieved that Gustav weakened as it neared the offshore oil rigs and Louisiana refineries, and appeared to have caused less damage than expected in New Orleans and surrounding areas.

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Oil prices tumbled to $111 a barrel Monday as Hurricane Gustav weakened along the Gulf Coast and posed less of a threat to oil drilling and refining operations.

A stronger dollar also helped send oil lower after crude gained nearly $3 to trade above $118 a barrel in anticipation of Gustav's hitting Louisiana. Light, sweet crude for October delivery was down $4.34 at $111.12 in late afternoon electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract fell 13 cents to settle at $115.46 a barrel.

Ray Boutilier saw some awful things while in the navy during the war but nothing like the horrors that floated on the water after a Swissair passenger jet crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia 10 years ago.

The pound crashed to a record low today as the City reacted to Chancellor Alistair Darling's warning on the economy.