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Call it the head-scratcher. January's employment report, showing anemic job growth, surprised and dismayed almost everyone, including Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers:

Just when you thought enough snow had fallen on the city this winter — the Parks Department is bringing even more of the white stuff to Prospect Park in Brooklyn this weekend.

The astronaut husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will head into space, a decision that came nearly one month after his wife survived a gunshot wound to the head.

A Muslim scholar recently named as the new senior imam at the Islamic center being built near the World Trade Center parted ways with the project less than a month after being named to the position.

More than 100,000 protesters have been pouring into Tahrir Square in Egypt's capital Cairo as pressure to remove President Hosni Mubarak mounts, according to the Associated Press.

The beloved lefty pitcher is ditching his pinstripes. "My heart's not where it needs to be," he said Friday at Yankees Stadium.

Mayor Bloomberg said the New Yorker cover this week featuring a caricature of himself gazing lovigly at his reflection in a heart-shaped mirror is "cute."

Mayor Bloomberg defused claims by the Sanitation Union chief that his demands are "an attack on the middle class" that would "destroy" city employees: "We will, in the end, come to an agreement," the mayor said.

Mayor Bloomberg, making good on his bet with Pittsburgh's mayor after the New York Jets lost to the Steelers in the AFC championship, unfurled a Steelers "Terrible Towel" at the New York Public Library on Thursday.

Jersey City elementary school teacher Aliaa Gouda woke at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday and found she had missed 10 calls from Egypt.

A 1/4 to 3/4 of an inch of ice fell on the tri-state area Tuesday night, downing power lines and tree limbs, cancelling flights and making for treacherous driving conditions. The brut...

Cyclone Yasi roared its way across the coast of Queensland, Australia, Wednesday night, bringing strong winds and rain to an area still recovering from weeks of rain and flooding.

A yearlong study of the Gowanus Canal confirmed what many New Yorkers and environmentalists already suspected: the waterway is severely polluted and may never be safe enough for swimming and fishing.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he won't run again in September elections. President Barack Obama, who spoke to Mubarak following his announcement on Tuesday, is urging an "orderly transition."

Thomas Dold of Germany must have been in an Empire state of mind.

A Florida judge has ruled that the nation's new healthcare law is unconstitutional, marking a victory for the 26 states who challenged it. The states challenged a provision of the law that requires Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.

Another storm expected to dump two to five inches of snow on the city is on its way.

The people who brought New York the arresting images of a woman whose fingers were amputated because of a crippling nicotine addiction and the folks who showed how effortlessly soda turns into fat have unleashed a new grossed-straight video.

Comedian Jon Stewart has joined the board of the foundation in charge of building the September 11 memorial in New York.

Rahm Emanuel is back on the Chicago mayoral ballot.