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  • NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot

    The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...

  • Two New York men accused of assembling X-ray weapon

    Federal authorities accused two men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel.The indictment charged 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists with the ...

  • Wife mom and cousin plead guilty to helping CityTime scammer

    The wife, mother and a cousin of the mastermind behind the massive CityTime payroll-system scam pleaded guilty today to helping Mark Mazer launder $25 million in kickbacks.Mazer’s wife, Svetlana, his mother Larisa Medzon, and cousin Anna Makovetskaya also agreed to forfeit more than $27 million in cash and various properties worth more than $4 million as part of their agreements ironed out ...

  • Judge OKs Genovese crime family soldier wake attendance

    This judge has respect for respects.A Brooklyn federal court judge today allowed a reputed Genovese crime family soldier to remain out on bail despite his ill-advised attendance at a mobbed up wake.Despite bail conditions that prohibit his mingling with mafiosi, James Bernardone, 46, showed up at a March 21 Bronx memorial that drew more than 25 known hoods - including Luchese underboss Steven ...

  • Feds make find at former home of NY mobster

    A woman ducks under crime scene tape in front of a New York city house once occupied by a famous gangster, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in New York. The work started Monday at the home of James Burke, a Lucchese crime family associate known as "Jimmy the Gent." He was the inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in the 1990 Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas." Burke died ...


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Limitless

Limitless

Although it has long since been discredited by neuroscience and functional imaging techniques, the old adage that we only use a small percentage of our brains (the number generally ranges from 10 to 20%) has had an impressive staying power in our cultural consciousness for close to a century ... ...

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  • New York man given three-year sentence for computer hacking

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is still developing and testing computer systems meant to determine consumers’ eligibility for government subsidies, the Government Accountability Office said. Plans to train “navigators” to assist people in finding new insurance plans have been delayed about two months past a June deadline, the GAO found. The exchanges are set to ...

  • Rick Perry bashes New York in ad to attract businesses to Texas

    Photo credit: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Getty Images) Texas Gov. Rick Perry threw a gauntlet at the Empire State Wednesday in an attempt to woo employers to his neighborhood. The former presidential candidate stars in a TV ad that urges businesses to come to Texas by painting New York as a heavy taxer and business-unfriendly state. "If you're tired of the same old recipe . . . get out ...

  • Ichiro Yankees spoil Mattinglys return

    LAD@NYY: Ichiro adds to lead with solo homer to right NEW YORK -- Don Mattingly's first game back at Yankee Stadium was hardly the most exciting part of the first half of a split doubleheader Wednesday. Yankees right fielder Ichiro Suzuki hit a home run, drove in three runs and robbed an extra-base hit with a leaping catch on the warning track in the eighth. Dodgers designated hitter ...

  • New York to vote on bill increasing penalties for human trafficking

    human trafficking are among the worst in the nation, are expected to vote on a bill this week that would bring it into line with federal law to protect sexually exploited minors from prosecution.The bill would raise to 18 the age at which a victim coerced ...

  • Two men get prison time for massive asbestos-dumping in Herkimer County

    Utica, N.Y. -- A federal judge sentenced two men to prison today for their roles in a massive illegal asbestos-dumping case in Herkimer County. U.S. District Judge David Hurd sentenced Dominick Mazza to more than four years in prison and Cross NiCastro to nearly three years behind bars. The judge also ordered Mazza's company, Mazza & Sons Inc., to pay $492,494 in restitution and a ...

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