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President Hosni Mubarak said he transferred some power to his vice president but refused to step down Thursday as tens of thousands of protesters calling for his resignation gathere...

Christopher Lee, a Republican congressman from suburban Buffalo, has resigned, after a shirtless photo of him appeared on Gawker. The gossip news site said that the Congressman, who ...

Thousands of protestors continued to crowd Cairo during the third week of protests in Egypt, refusing to cease their demonstrations until President Hosni Mubarak resigns. Thousands are also striking, ramping up their demonstrations against the government.

More than 1,500 geese were rounded up and killed in the city last year in the name of safer air travel, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The city says it needs more money from Albany even though it's overlooking millions of dollars at home, according to an audit by the city's comptroller.

Alternate side of the street parking regulations took effect again Monday, for just the fifth time since December's blizzard.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg detailed a doomsday scenario for the city during a visit to Albany Monday in an attempt to get officials to restore funding that was slashed by Governor Andrew Cuomo when he unveiled his lean state budget last week.

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.