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It looks like the Federal Reserve is not done with efforts to get the economy back on track. Speaking in New York today, an influential member of the central bank's policymaking group said more action by the Fed is likely.

Chile pepper lovers unite! The 18th annual Chile Pepper Fiesta is happening in Brooklyn on Saturday. The party celebrates the veggie and the nations which love 'em.

Federal and local prosecutors have charged more than 60 people in a massive computer hacking and bank fraud scheme. Eastern European hackers allegedly stole more than $3 million dollars by implanting a virus into victims' computers and stealing their bank account usernames and passwords.

Remember AIG? It was once the world's largest insurer, and two years ago this month, at the height of the financial crisis, it got a multi-billion taxpayer bailout to save it from collapse. Today, the company announced a plan to repay taxpayers and bring government ownership to an end. The company's CEO, Robert Benmosche, called the agreement  a "pivotal milestone."

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch testified on Capitol Hill today in support of immigration reform, urging lawmakers to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

The House passed a health-care bill that will benefit first responders sickened at the World Trade Center site on 9/11. The bill passed 268 to 160, with 13 Republicans voting for passage. It now goes to the Senate.

An appeals court has removed what appears to be the last challenge to a foreclosure auction for the massive Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village apartment complex.

Reports say former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi may plead guilty as early as this morning to a corruption charge for his role in a scandal involving the state's multibillion dollar pension fund.

Deadbeat landlords are having a tougher time tormenting their tenants anonymously in the digital age. The city's Public Advocate has just added 109 new buildings to the "NYC's Worst Landlord Watch List."

For the second time this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling for the large-scale cleanup of a polluted New York City waterway. The Newtown Creek, which runs for four miles between Queens and Brooklyn, was named a Superfund site on Monday.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says defendants in transit court are being illegally denied interpreters. The civil rights group makes the claim in a letter sent to New York City Transit on Thursday. Christopher Dunn, with the NYCLU, says there may be as many as 8,000 transit hearings a year where people require interpreters.

In the latest effort to reign in the state's massive budget deficit, Gov. David Paterson has ordered 2,000 state jobs to be cut through attrition by the end of the year.

On the same day that a movie based on the life of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg opens in theaters, he will announce a gift of $100 million to Newark schools. Zuckerberg and Newark Mayor Corey Booker are expected to announce the donation during Friday's Oprah Winfrey Show.

Protestors took the streets of Silwan, Jerusalem on Wednesday, following the death of a Palestinian man, who was shot by an Israeli security guard. According to The Associated Press, Israeli police said the guard shot Samir Sirhan, 32, after a group threw stones at him. But Palestinian authorities and Sirhan's neighbors disputed that account. They said Sirhan, a father of five, would not have participated, according to The AP.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that the city is planning to implement a city-wide hiring freeze in an effort to close a more than $3 billion budget deficit for the coming fiscal year 2012, which begins July 1, 2011.

AIDS activists descended on Gov. David Paterson's headquarters Monday morning, following the governor's weekend veto of a bill that would have helped low income tenants living with HIV and AIDS pay their rent. Now, protesters say they want state lawmakers to override the veto.

The Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School have announced they'll collaborate -- for the first time -- on a production of Bedrich Smetana's "The Bartered Bride," premiering at Juilliard in February.

A bulkhead caught fire at the Park Avenue Lift Bridge at 138th Street in Harlem, just under the Metro-North line Monday morning. Service was suspended in both directions out of Grand Central Station for about three hours, but service has now resumed.

The ferocious, fast-moving storm on Thursday that toppled trees onto cars and caused lots of building damage in the outer boroughs included two tornados and an even more powerful macroburst, packing winds up to 125 mph, and stretching over an area eight miles long and five miles wide. One twister struck Brooklyn with winds up to 80 mph. The second one hit Queens with 100 mph winds.

A fast-moving thunderstorm swept across the New York area late this afternoon, pounding the region with heavy rain and gusting winds that caused considerable damage, especially in B...