Matthew Sollars

President Barack Obama has a bill that would grant the federal government the power to seize troubled bank holding companies and other financial firms.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought a fragment of an ancient Egyptian shrine last fall -- an unremarkable event for an organization with a large collection of Egyptian antiquities. What is remarkable is that the Met never meant to keep the piece.

Bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan killed 8 American troops on Tuesday. The deaths bring the number of American soldiers killed in October to 53, making it the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since it began in late 2001.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Comptroller William Thompson, Jr., met in the final debate of the New York City mayoral campaign last night.

Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid has revived the public option in the U.S. Senate.

Circulation figures at U.S. newspapers continued their rapid deline over the last six months, as more Americans shift their news consumption to the Internet.

Iran put off until next week a formal response to a U.N.-drafted plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for enrichment.

There are still 11 days to go before anyone votes, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg has already broken his own campaign spending record.

Governor Paterson is suspending a requirement that healthcare workers get immunized against seasonal and swine flu.

The Obama Administration has unveiled two separate plans to curtail executive pay at banks.

Federal authorities in 19 states swept up over 300 people accused of links to a violent Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia.

New York's highest court has dealt a heavy financial blow to the owners of Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.

Virtuoso violinist Aaron Rosand has sold his 1741 Guarneri for about $10 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a violin.

The Obama Administration wants to force executives at companies that got the biggest bailouts to take steep paycuts, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) has selected a young French Canadian conductor to take the baton.

Federal authorities arrested a man living in suburban Boston on terrorism charges on Wednesday.

Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister of Afghanistan and President Hamid Karzai's chief political rival, says he is busily preparing for a runoff election slated for Nov. 7.

The Catholic Church is making a bid to lure conservative Anglicans who are disillusioned by the ordination of women and election of openly gay bishops in their church. 

Only in Manhattan's opera world can Amato be reborn as Amore.

Cecilia Bartoli, the world-famous Italian mezzo-soprano, is set to release a major project that explores the Baroque world of the castrati.