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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 ...

  • Jersey town mourns loss of regular guy Gandolfini

    Working-class Westwood, New Jersey mourned the loss of their hometown hero, TV mob boss James Gandolfini. The Emmy Award winner, who was born in the town’s Pascack Valley Hospital in 1961, still visited the town and was remembered as a regular guy."We’ve known him for a very long time, since he was a teenager," said Mike Meidanis, the owner of Ridge Diner. "He came ...

  • New York KKK member designs death ray against enemies of Israel

    A KKK member from upstate New York was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly designed a "death ray" that is meant to kill Muslims and other "enemies of ...

  • Wanda to launch $1b New York hotel project

    Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's largest property developers, plans to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda said on Wednesday. Wang said that Wanda is negotiating with potential partners for ...

  • NY baseball greats daughter catches falling baby

    NEW YORK (AP) -- The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has ...


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Movie Review

Waking Ned Devine

Except for a brief dream sequence, we never see the titular character of the Irish comedy "Waking Ned Devine" alive. No, Ned is dead from the beginning of the film--sitting in his armchair in front of his television set, a winning lottery ticket worth 6.8 million pounds clutched in his fingers. Dead of shock we are left to assume, a smile plastered across his face, his joyful eyes indicating that ... ...

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  • Academy 3 midshipmen charged with sexual assault

    The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three midshipmen - all current or former football players - with sexually assaulting a female student at an off-campus house in Annapolis more than a year ago. The ...

  • Feds unravel plot to build sell x-ray weapon in Upstate New York

    USA An FBI investigation has uncovered a plot by a New York state engineer with ties to the Ku Klux Klan to construct a radiation particle weapon, with the intention to sell the device to either a southern branch of the KKK or Jewish groups. Federal investigators first began to investigate Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, when he allegedly approached an Albany-area synagogue and "asked to ...

  • Former outfielder Kidd throws first pitch in Bronx

    Email NEW YORK -- Hours before throwing the first pitch prior to the nightcap of Wednesday's twin bill between the Yankees and Dodgers, Jason Kidd reminisced about what made him confident the throw would be a success. In high school, Kidd was a highly regarded baseball player and even worked out with the team at California when he first arrived in Berkeley, Calif. "That was part of ...

  • Turkish parade in New York is a show of power Turkish Minister

    Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said Turkish parade was a cultural show of power NEW YORK - Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said, " Turkish Day Parade is a signal of Turkey's power, a cultural show of power." Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) organized the 32thTurkish Day Parade in New York.Addressing the crowd after the parade, ...

  • New York Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists

    ALBANY, NY-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of York announced that Glendon Scott Crawford, age 49, of Galway, New York; and Eric J. Feight, age 54, of Hudson, New York, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The arrests followed a lengthy investigation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that began in April ...

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