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The man who's led the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for nearly 20 years has announced he's stepping down from his post as director.

Thomas Krens' time at the foundation has been marked by an effort to create a global presence for the Guggenheim and he leaves ...

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Despite consistently saying in public that he was not a candidate for president, Mayor Bloomberg kept traveling like a candidate and aides kept working on a potential White House bid behind closed doors.

Well, no longer. In this morning's New York Times, Mayor Bloomberg writes definitively ...

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It's nighttime in North Korea and The New York Philharmonic has has just concluded its historic concert at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, in the nation's capital. WNYC's John Schaefer has been traveling with the orchestra. He spoke with Soterios Johnson.

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Over the weekend, the Writers Guild of America reached a tentative agreement that would allow their members to end a walkout that's dragged on for almost 4 months.

The writers are expected to be back at work this week.

Melissa Locker Benavidez is a staff writer at ...

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The mob is still alive and well in New York.

That's one of the messages from federal authorities yesterday, as they indicted 62 alleged Gambino crime family members and associates.

They're charged with crimes that date back more than 3 decades.

New York Times reporter William Rushbaum is ...

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This morning, WNYC visited several polling sites around the tri-state area. (Including New Jersey, Manhattan and Queens.)

Reporter Nancy Solomon, and WNYC's Arun Venugopal and Richard Hake, live at the polls.

Arun Venugopal

Nancy Solomon

Richard Hake

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As voters head to the polls tomorrow, many will be facing new electronic voting machines. In New Jersey, this is the first presidential primary where voters in all of the state’s 21 counties will be voting on them. And, despite reassurances from election officials, some ...

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One day to go until Super Tuesday.

What once appeared to be a chaotic scramble for the presidential candidates to get their party's nomination is now down to 2, 2-horse races - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democrats and John McCain and Mitt Romney ...

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That was the sound of evening commuters heading home to New Jersey from the World Trade Center PATH station this week.

And what a week it was! Both the Republicans and Democrats saw major contenders drop out and the political landscape shift radically within a single ...

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Senator Hillary Clinton's adopted hometown is waiting to see if its most famous residents are going back to the White House.

People in Chappaqua have gotten used to their celebrity neighbors, though not all of them support her candidacy for president.

WNYC's Fred Mogul recently spent the ...

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Rudy Giuliani is expected to step down and head to California to endorse John McCain.

After staking his entire campaign on a Florida victory, the former mayor got just 15% of the vote, far behind John McCain and Mitt Romney.

WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has been with the ...

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The Sundance Film Festival is currently underway in Park City, Utah. It wraps up on Sunday.

This year, there are only a handful of New York filmmakers and films in the festival. We called New York-based film critic Stu Van Airsdale to walk us through the ...

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So where do we go from here?

Will Wall Street steady itself after yesterday's bumpy ride and what does this mean for our local economy?

With us now to help answer those questions is David Wyss. He's the chief economist of Standard and Poor's.

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The scaffolding atop Brooklyn's tallest building is coming down and soon enough the borough will get its famous clock back. Brooklynites have been missing the giant clocks on the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building. They've been under wraps while the building is refurbished.

Now the clocks on ...

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In the aftermath of voter outrage over the conduct of the 2000 elections, both federal and state government committed to bring more integrity and reliability to the voting process.

The federal Help America Vote Act was passed.

In 2005, New Jersey voting rights activists hailed a move ...

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One of Dan Doctoroff's last official acts as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development was to open the city's first street-side public toilet last week.

Doctoroff has now moved on to the executive washrooms of the private sector. Taking his place at City Hall is Robert Lieber.

He's ...

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It's still an open question - will he or won't he run for president?

Aides to Mayor Bloomberg have been quietly laying the groundwork for an Independent bid, while in public the mayor continues to deny he's running. Here's his latest denial, given to reporters just ...

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New York Senator Hillary Clinton stunned the political world last night when she won New Hampshire with 39 percent of the vote to Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s 36 percent. Just five days earlier a third place Iowa finish threw her campaign into a tailspin.

Meanwhile Arizona ...

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Meanwhile, the Republican race is also in flux. Rudy Giuliani is hoping to survive New Hampshire to compete in Florida at the end the month, and in New York and the other Super Tuesday states.

WNYC's Elaine Rivera has been with the Republican candidates in New ...

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Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee won handily in last night's Iowa caucuses.

In an unexpected turn, Hillary Clinton came in 3rd, a half a point behind John Edwards. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani spent the caucus in Iowa and came in sixth on the Republican side.

Here with ...