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A federal judge Thursday declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
unconstitutional, faulting it for not including an exemption for
cases in which the procedure was used to protect a woman’s health.
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City officials clashed with protest organizers during a Tuesday court
hearing over their bid to hold a rally for 200,000 people in Central
Park on the eve of next week’s Republican National Convention.
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The fiancee and family of a Manhattan journalist being held by
kidnappers in Iraq remained in seclusion Thursday as key aides to
Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr urged his release.
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Charles Kushner, a wealthy real estate developer who was the largest
contributor to Gov.
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Governors Island is a place of paradoxes, a 172-acre island just a
five-minute ferry ride from Manhattan that was off-limits to ordinary
New Yorkers for more than two centuries.
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The lawyer for the man with whom Gov.
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The spiritual leader of an Albany mosque was ordered held without
bail Tuesday after a prosecutor said his name,
U.S. address and
telephone number were found in a notebook in a terrorist camp in Iraq.
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Mohammed
M. Hossain liked to picture himself as a classic example of
thrift and the American dream.
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The pilot of a Staten Island ferry that slammed into a concrete pier
last year, killing 11 passengers, pleaded guilty to manslaughter
Wednesday, saying that medication he had taken had caused him to lose
consciousness while at the wheel.
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The Statue of Liberty opened to the public Tuesday for the first time
since the Sept.
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