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HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — A Long Island mother who plowed into an SUV, killing eight people in a fiery crash, drove nearly two miles in the wrong direction on a familiar highway after telling her brother she wasn’t feeling well, police said.
Diane Schuler was taking her two children and three nieces — ages 2 to 9 [...]
NEW YORK — Ben Silverman has left NBC after two years as entertainment chief of the hit-starved network and is heading back to the content-producing role where he once found success.
He is starting a new company with an initial investment from media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, and already has a consultancy deal in place with [...]
WASHINGTON — The professor, the policeman and the president hope to share a beer at the White House this week.
The gathering may help President Barack Obama write a sudsy but happy ending to an arrest that triggered a fierce debate over race relations and briefly knocked him off his stride.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant who responded to a 911 call about a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. can be heard calling Gates uncooperative during a radio communication with a police dispatcher.
Sgt. James Crowley said he was with a man who claims to live [...]
JERUSALEM — Tensions between Israel and the United States over Iran bubbled up in high-level talks Monday in which Defense Minister Ehud Barak bluntly told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that “no option” should be ruled out.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office subsequently described the talks as occurring “in a highly positive atmosphere.”
But before that, the [...]
PARIS — Nicolas Sarkozy’s high-octane lifestyle just hit a speed bump.
In a single week, the French leader dined with Egypt’s president in Paris, popped down to the Alps to watch a leg of the Tour de France, jetted over to New York for a concert by his model-singer wife and still attended to the all-consuming [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared a new era of “cooperation, not confrontation” with China on Monday, even though two days of high-level talks were not expected to resolve differences over the two nations’ yawning trade gap and China’s unease over soaring U.S. budget deficits.
The Obama administration pledged to get control of the deficits once [...]
NEW YORK — Mixed reports on the economy and earnings left the stock market drifting lower Monday, easing off of a two-week rally that lifted major indexes 11 percent.
A government report showing sales of new homes in the U.S. rose by the largest amount in nearly nine years last month, but also contained troubling news [...]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up as he looked across the threshold of his home at Sgt. James Crowley. Looking back at Gates, Crowley worried about making it home safely to his wife and three children.
Fear was the only thing the white police officer and black [...]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is reaching out to Americans to get a more detailed picture of how the country’s economic debacles have affected household finances.
The Fed, which made the announcement on Monday, is taking this step to update data that it had collected when the recession was just hitting, in late 2007.
“It may seem [...]