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  • Shocking lawsuit claims NY high schools admissions policy racially biased

    New York City high school admissions policies are racially biased against black and Hispanic students. A lawsuit filed in a federal civil rights complaint said that parents and activists have charged the school. According to the New York Daily News, in the complaint, filed with the federal Office of Civil Rights, the parents and their lawyers call for a federal investigation and overhaul of a ...

  • US charges three NYU researchers for taking bribes from Chinese company

    Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses. Federal prosecutors said that Yudong Zhu, a U.S.-educated NYU professor, and Xing Yang, a lab engineer, were released on bail after appearing in federal court in Manhattan to face commercial bribery and other charges. ...

  • Did Justin Theroux have bachelor party at NYC

    Justin Theroux is rumoured to have had celebrated his bachelor party in New York City. The 41-year-old actor, who was photographed enjoying a stag party at the Big Apple on Sunday, is fuelling speculation that he could be tying the knot with Jennifer Aniston sooner than expected, Contactmusic reported. A pal of Theroux, writer Gavin McInnes, posted a photo of himself fooling around with the ...

  • Queens bus-slay ‘target’ is warned ‘You’re next’

    A girl riding a Queens bus with 14-year-old D’aja Robinson when she was fatally shot in the head later received a terrifying text message: "You’re next," law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday.Cops believe the unidentified girl who got the message had been the real target of a gunman who shot up the Q6 bus Saturday, killing D’aja, the sources said. Police ...

  • Heat-related deaths to increase in New York City study

    New York city may see deaths from heat rise by as many as 20 percent in the 2020s and 90 percent by the 2080s in a worst-case scenario, according to a study published in this week's journal Nature Climate Change. The study was done by Columbia University's Earth Institute and the Mailman School of Public Health. Higher winter temperatures may cut cold-related mortality, but net ...


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Movie Review

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [Blu-Ray]

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [Blu-Ray]

One of the running gags throughout Kevin Smiths fifth and (supposedly) final Jersey movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, is that it is a dumb idea to make a movie centered around Jay and Silent Bob. The whole movie is a kind of outlandish, self-reflexive, ... ...

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  • Moscow Safer Than New York - Minister

    NEW YORK, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the United States. Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late on Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly."We have compared the crime ...

  • House passes Stolen Valor Act to stop lies about military medals

    Stolen Valor Act of 2013 , a bill that makes it a crime to make false claims about receiving military medals in order to gain financially or obtain government benefits. ...

  • Ethiopia Over U.S. $100000 Was Raised in New York for Construction of Renaissance Dam

    Over $100 thousand was raised for the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam at Ethiopian Renaissance Day organized in New York on Saturday, sources from the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs indicated. The Day was organized by the Ethiopian Renaissance Council in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut with the cooperation of the Ethiopian Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The ...

  • Keith’s on hand for sexy Nicole

    Nicole Kidman gets a courtly kiss from hubby Keith Urban at Cannes. The actress, serving as a juror at the prestigious film fest, and the country star, a judge on "American Idol," were attending the premiere of the Coen brothers’ "Inside Llewyn ...

  • NY residents voting on school budgets

    BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- New York school districts are proposing an average tax levy increase of 2.8 percent in budgets being voted on, with all but a relative few staying within taxing limits set by the state to virtually assure ...

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