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  • US Defense Chief Calls for End to Military Sex Assaults

    U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called for an end to sexual assaults in the military Saturday in a commencement speech to graduates of the West Point military academy in New York state. Hagel called sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military a "profound betrayal" of sacred oaths and trusts and a "scourge" that must be stamped out. A day earlier, President Barack Obama ...

  • Bang With Friends mysterious CEO revealed

    Bang with Friends- the controversial Facebook app run by its CEO and co-founder who just goes by his initial 'C' has been revealed accidentally by Internet New York which included the founders' name on the online ballot. BWF app creator Colin Hodge, 28, and Omri Mor had remained anonymous till last week, but the leak of their identity through Internet Week New York disappointed Hodge, the Daily ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • NYPD investigating actress Bynes allegations

    NEW YORK -; The New York Police Department is investigating allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that she was sexually assaulted by officers arresting her for throwing a bong out of a ...

  • Guitar Center Employees Unionize in New York

    May 25, 2013 1:20 PM ET Employees at Guitar Center's flagship store in Manhattan overwhelmingly voted on Friday to form a union of its 57 retail workers. The new bargaining unit will press the company for improved working conditions and a reversal of declining wages at the 14th Street store. The ...


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Movie Review

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Atame!)

Near the middle of Pedro Almodovar's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," a young man tells the object of his affection, "I'm 23 years old, I have 50,000 pesetas, and I'm alone in the world. I'll try to be a good husband to you, and a good father to your kids." It's lines like this that make this deranged black comedy work despite its shortcomings because you never have any doubt that he means it. It's humo ... ...

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  • Baby dies after being found unresponsive when he slept in parents bed

    A baby boy died this morning at a Bronx hospital, cops said.The parents of 4-week-old Maximus Mussenden found him unresponsive after he slept in their bed, according to a police source.The couple lives near the North Central Bronx Hospital in Woodlawn and brought him there shortly before 9:50 a.m., where he was pronounced dead.There were no obvious signs of the trauma on the baby's body, ...

  • Cops haul poncho-clad mental case from chilly East River

    The NYPD rescued a Tennessee man from the East River this morning, authorities said.A passerby spotted the unhinged man in the water near the FDR Drive and East 81st Street shortly before 10 a.m., and called the police.When ESU Detective Robert Mirfield and his partner Officer Paul Braver heard the job come over, Mirfield began driving quickly up the FDR while Braver suited up in a dry suit, ...

  • Amanda Bynes tweets that cop sexually harassed her lied about bong toss

    Amanda Bynes today accused the NYPD of sexual harassment, claiming the cop who arrested her for allegedly tossing a bong out the window of her Times Square apartment "lied" about it and was "creepy."The troubled starlet told her Twitter followers, "Don’t believe the reports about me being arrested. It’s all lies."I was sexually harassed by one of the ...

  • Rescuers look for pilot in deadly New York Angel Flight

    First responders gather at a command post in Ephratah, N.Y., on Saturday, May 25, 2013, as the search for the pilot of a downed Angel Flight out of Massachusetts continues. The twin engine light plane plane carrying two passengers and the pilot crashed in a wooded area in upstate New York on ...

  • Mets drop suspended game to Braves in 10 innings

    ATL@NYM: Lagares makes a great running grab in center NEW YORK -- The delay was long and intricate, the resolution sudden and abrupt. The Mets played to their first suspended result in more than 25 years Friday night, an impasse caused by inclement weather in a tie game. Eighteen hours passed before the game resumed, but Atlanta worked quickly Saturday and notched two crucial runs in the ...

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