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On the heels of Super Tuesday, WNYC caught up with Michael Duhaime, a political strategist with Mercury LLC, who outlined what role New York will play in national politics and what fo...

Newark residents ripped into New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's plan to reorganize the state's public universities and medical and dental school at a public hearing Tuesday.

 

As voters in ten states headed to the polls, the four Republicans vying to be the party's presidential candidate in November battled for the more than 400 delegates up for grabs.

Payne was New Jersey's first black congressman. The 12-term member of the House had announced in February that he was undergoing treatment for colon cancer and would continue to represent his district.

 

The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, spoke at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film.

The Bloomberg administration and the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market have agreed to a 90-day extension to reach a deal to keep the $2 billion operation in the Bronx.  

President Barack Obama switched into campaign mode Thursday night. The president hit four high-dollar fundraisers in Manhattan, after discussing the economy in New Hampshire in the afternoon.

Authorities are searching for two men caught on surveillance video using a Brooklyn man’s credit cards before he was found shot to death along a rural eastern Pennsylvania.

A day after his campaign treasurer was arrested, City Comptroller John Liu skirted blame by saying he was not in charge of day-to-day operations of his campaign.

A man charged with building a pipe bomb to try to attack police, soldiers and other government targets in New York City has been indicted on terror charges, according to documents f...

James Murdoch announced Wednesday that he’s stepping down as executive chairman of News International, the British newspaper subsidiary of his father Rupert's media empire.

Whole Foods can go ahead with its plan to build a 52,000-square foot, two-story grocery store in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Mitt Romney has won the Arizona Republican presidential primary, and bested rival Rick Santorum to win the GOP primary in his home state of Michigan.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 13,000 for the first time since May 2008, about four months before the financial crisis began.

A 13-year-old boy who helped push a shopping cart off of a four story parking garage that hit a New York City woman on the walkway below has been sentenced to a therapy-oriented boarding school.

The Obama administration said Monday it has no control over how the New York Police Department spends millions of dollars in White House grants that helped pay for NYPD programs that put entire American Muslim neighborhoods under surveillance.

A police officer narrowly escaped serious injury during a gun battle in the Lower East Side overnight when the suspect's bullet was deflected by the officer's gun belt, according to the NYPD.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly offered robust defense of a secret police department effort to monitor mosques and Muslim businesses and student groups in other states amid criticism from officials who said they were not properly informed of the operation or that the prying went too far.

The artist who created President Barack Obama's famous "HOPE" campaign poster pleaded guilty to criminal contempt on Friday in New York City.