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By his own account, former Afghan tribal leader Bashir Noorzai resisted the Soviet Union's invasion of his country three decades ago. But when U.S. forces showed up following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he put down his arms.

'Afghanistan is in anarchy,' the one-time Taliban ally recalls telling his tribesmen. 'Americans are establishing our future government.'

Rather than thank him, Noorzai claims the U.S. government betrayed him: In 2005, he was branded a most-wanted drug kingpin, lured to New York and arrested.

A controversial pilot program that uses red light cameras to catch traffic violators is about to get under way in New Jersey .

A woman struck and killed by a Manhattan-bound commuter train in one of New York's northern suburbs has been identified.

Mr Evaristti aims to begin the work on the controversial art work within a year if Hathorn is refused an appeal for the third time In pictures: Marco Evaristti's works The final requests of death- row prisoners ...

A homeless man occupies the doorway of the vacant "Scores" gentleman's club on New York City's West Side, Saturday, Sept.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton marched for labor and stumped with Democrats on Saturday, but sidestepped questions about the woman who has taken her place as the nation's most-talked-about female leader.

Clinton brushed aside questions about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin during appearances at New York City's annual Labor Day parade and later during a stop on Staten Island.

'This election is about issues, and that's what's going to matter to people at the end of the day,' she told reporters who asked her about the Alaska governor at a rally for a Democratic congressional candidate at Wagner College.

Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power ...

A 28-year-old man from Chester serving two life sentences in New York for killing a former classmate has been given another 25-year prison sentence.

The state Commission on Property Tax Relief announced today that it has scheduled six hearings across New York to delve into the high property-tax problem.

In this July 30, 2008 file photo, Manuel Mejia, who recently lost his job as a garment worker, applies for unemployment benefits with the New York State Department of Labor, in New York.

Oil prices sank below $106 a barrel Friday as a jump in the U.S. unemployment rate signaled to traders that Americans might keep paring back their energy use to save money.

Gregorio Borgia September 05, 2008 10:31 AM EST ROME - The world will mark the first anniversary of the death of Luciano Pavarotti with a series of concerts, an exhibit and other events, organizers and his ...

NEW YORK -- Where have all the new plays gone? On Broadway this fall, it will be lonely pair -- 'To Be or Not to Be' and 'Dividing the Estate' -- that will qualify as new works in a season studded with starry ...

"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.