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  • Claudio Reyna named director of football at New York City Football Club

    Manchester City and United States international midfielder Claudio Reyna was named as the first director of football for new Major League Soccer (MLS) team New York City Football Club, the team confirmed yesterday. The new club, which will start playing in 2015, was announced on ...

  • Anthony Weiner hides from the tough questions and serves up pizza for reporters

    Andrea Peyser Shame-faced, prickly and evasive, Anthony Weiner stayed in hiding yesterday, the day he announced he’s running for mayor. But the disgraced ex-congressman materialized on the telephone - so terrified of talking to me, a known pussycat, that he refused to speak unless another reporter was on the line to deflect hard questions. Nice try. Weiner camped out inside his Park Avenue ...

  • Hofstra suspect won praise from parole panel

    UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- The parolee shot and killed along with a Hofstra University student by police won praise from a state parole panel in 2011 before his conditional release from ...

  • New U.S. Census report Syracuse area shows more signs of stability

    This is an aerial view of downtown Syracuse, looking to the southeast from Clinton Square. The city has halted five decades of steep population losses, according to U.S. Census Bureau reports. As of July 2012, the city had a population of 144,170, new Census Bureau estimates show ...

  • Angered over bathroom fan request Syracuse man defecates in roommates car police say

    Syracuse, NY -- Roommates sometimes fight. Other times, they share things from deep within themselves. James V. Palmieri did both one day in March, according to Syracuse police. Palmieri, 59, was suffering from severe diarrhea March 10 in the apartment he shared at 473 Pleasantview Ave. with David Utt, 62, according to a Syracuse police report. "I asked him to use the bathroom fan so ...


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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Shrouded in ashen cigarette smoke, heavy silences, backroom intrigue, and horridly despondent early 70s British interior dcor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy unfolds with maximum perplexity, ensuring that we will never, despite being able to grasp the stakes an ... ...

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  • Obama to limit drone strikes restart Guantanamo closure

    Obama will say Thursday. The president will also announce new limits to unmanned combat drone strikes, the officials said of the program that has been central to White House efforts to combat terrorism. Obama's 2 p.m. speech at the Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington will lay out how he intends to bring his counter-terrorism policies in line with the legal ...

  • Bronx ghetto tours stop amid residents outrage

    A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New ...

  • With Weiner NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic

    FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...

  • Qns. kid hangs herself

    A 12-year-old Queens girl hanged herself in her family home yesterday after being relentlessly cyberbullied by her middle-school classmates, sources told The Post. Gabrielle Molina was found hanging by a belt from a ceiling fan at about 2:15 p.m. on 220th Street in Queens Village, cops said.The troubled tween left behind a heartbreaking note that recounted the torture she endured at the hands of ...

  • Dead Boston bombing suspect said involved in triple murder

    Boston Marathon bombing suspect is now tied to a triple murder, officials said after an alleged accomplice was gunned down by an agent questioning him. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was fingered by Ibragim Todashev in Orlando, Fla., in a 2011 Waltham, Mass., murder in which three people had their throats slashed, federal law enforcement officials told several news outlets. Todashev also implicated himself ...

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