Abbie Fentress Swanson

Fabio Luisi will replace Andrew Davis as conductor of all "Hansel and Gretel" performances at the Metropolitan Opera this season.

The New York City Ballet, the New School and the Joyce Theater Foundation all have one thing in common today: they each got up to $250,000 in grant money from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Retail sales may be down nationwide, but economists say low inflation will slowly drive consumers to shop.

Two Queens men have been arrested for yelling anti-gay slurs, as well as taunting, punching and kicking Jack Price after Price left a 24-hour deli near his home October 8.

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to make a dozen Chelsea row houses once used as an Underground Railroad stop a historic district.

Senate leaders will begin today to merge the Senate Finance Committee's 10-year $829 billion health care bill approved yesterday, with another more liberal bill which was passed in July in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.

President Barack Obama is meeting with Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today in what might be the beginning of a new diplomatic relationship.

A $200 million interdisciplinary science building is headed for Columbia University.

In Russia today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has made "considerable progress" with Moscow on a new strategic arms treaty.

The Senate Finance Committee will vote today on whether or not to approve President Obama's $829 billion health care reform package.

Three years after it first expressed interest, the Whitney Museum of American Art will finally move forward with building a museum on Manhattan's West Side.

Federal officials have arrested Louis Armando Peña Soltren, a man accused of hijacking a 1968 flight who they've been trying to track down for nearly 41 years.

The homers that Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada hit Sunday at the Minneapolis Metrodome didn't just mean victory over the Minnesota Twins. They mean the Bronx Bombers will head to the American League Championship Series.

The last of the Nobel prizes in Economics has been awarded today to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson.

Forty one people were killed Monday at a market blast near the Swat Valley in Pakistan, according to the Associated Press.

Malaysia's government is hoping to slow its country's spiking divorce rate by offering two-night island and beach resort vacations for couples whose relationships are on the rocks.

Golf and rugby will join trampoline, synchronized swimming and badminton as summer Olympic sports.

Riots broke out in Detroit this week, when tens of thousands of residents lined up to apply for federal help to pay their rent, mortgages and utilities. We'll hear from the former pol...

"Frasier" TV star David Hyde Pierce will play the Adagio from Widor’s Symphony No. 5 this Sunday on an organ that his family donated the money to rebuild in his native Saratoga Springs.

President Barack Obama, 48, said that he was "both surprised and deeply humbled" when he learned that he had been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize this morning.