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  • 60 hurt as US trains collide New York-Boston corridor closed

    Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour in southwestern Connecticut, injuring 60 people, five of them critically, and closing the key corridor between New York and Boston. A Metro-North train heading from New Haven to New York City derailed around 6:10 p.m. Friday, hitting the other train in Bridgeport, Connecticut, about 60 miles northeast of New York City ...

  • Iranian Wrestlers Abruptly Leave US Early

    The U.S. State Department has denied Iranian media reports that the United States deported the Iranian wrestling team ahead of a Sunday meet in Los Angeles. A State Department official tells VOA's Persian News Network that U.S. authorities had nothing to do with their departure. The wrestlers abruptly returned home after beating the American team in an exhibition Wednesday at Grand ...

  • US Russian Missile Shipments to Syria Very Unfortunate

    The top U.S. military officer says Russian missile shipments to Syria are "ill-timed" and "very unfortunate." The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, said Friday the missiles will embolden President Bashar al-Assad and prolong the suffering in Syria. He said Mr. Assad could think the missiles somehow will make him safer and more prone to a miscalculation. The ...

  • Demi Moore demanding Ashton Kutcher pay for home renovations

    Demi Moore wants Ashton Kutcher to pay for renovations to her apartment in New York as part of their divorce settlement. Sources told TMZ that the apartment is worth somewhere between 25 - 40 million dollars. This comes after it was revealed that the couple - who announced their split in November 2011 - are locked in a battle over 10 million dollars, with Demi asking for the eight-figure sum ...

  • Topless activist sues NYPD for violating her constitutional right to bare boobs

    Topless activist Holly Van Voast has filed a lawsuit against New York City Police Department for violating her constitutional right to tour the city without donning a shirt. The 46-year-old cited 10 arrests, including one near a "Hooters" restaurant - known for its skimpy clothed waitresses, the New York Daily News reported. The lawsuit also noted that the state Court of Appeals has ruled ...


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Children of Men

Children of Men

Children of Men posits a frightening near future in which the world is collapsing because women have become inexplicably barren. Terrified by the prospect of their own extinction, the human race has turned on itself, resulting in societies around the world burning themselves ... ...

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  • New Jet in pot gun bust

    Snared $6.9M pact. A tow-truck driver saw the SUV and called 911 "concerned about the condition" of Goodson, said police Lt. Stephen Jones.Goodson, 25, was taken by ambulance to St. Clare’s Hospital in Denville - but not before cops found the native of Irvington, NJ, had a "small amount of marijuana" on him, Jones said.State police also arrived at the scene and found ...

  • ‘Fraud’ owner shutters club

    A swanky Russian-themed Brooklyn hot spot shut down yesterday, just over a week after its owner was busted on fraud charges.The feds accused Rasputin Supper Club owner Michael Levitis, 36, of masterminding a crooked debt-relief agency.Neighbors said they saw city marshals shut down the club and change the locks last night. Defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said Levitis shut down temporarily to ...

  • Axing Jay a liberal NBC laugh gaffe

    Andrea Peyser Bring back Jay Leno!He hasn’t left the building yet? Maybe there’s still hope.This boneheaded move stands to go down along with history’s greatest mistakes:The ascent of Anthony Weiner. Tiger Woods, too. The public disembowelment of former NBC "Today’’ show host Ann Curry.Now we can add to this list the painful decision that, come February, the ...

  • LI Navy SEAL killed

    A Navy SEAL from Long Island was killed and seven fellow service members were injured when their Humvee overturned during a training exercise, the Navy announced yesterday.Wednesday’s accident at Fort Knox, Ky., took the life of Special Warfare Operator Third Class Jonathan Kaloust, 23, of Massapequa, said Lt. David Lloyd.The cause of the accident is under investigation. No details have ...

  • ‘Glass’-action suit vs. Mickey D

    A Brooklyn gospel singer says she bit into a piece of glass bigger than a penny while eating a chicken sandwich at a lower Manhattan McDonald’s and it ruined her voice."Now when I sing, I have a hoarse, rattly voice," said Jacqueline Simpson, 52, who yesterday filed suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court. "I still sing alto, but I can’t sing soprano like I used to."She ...

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