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A prosecutor told jurors in opening statements of the trial of hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam that the Galleon Group founder made tens of millions of dollars illegally.

NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned from her post Wednesday morning.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade will be shifting east one block this year in order to accommodate the new Times Square pedestrian plaza — and business owners, used to serving t—he tens of thousands of spectators, are frustrated with the change. 

New York Congressman Peter King, who will hold hearings this week on Islamic radicalism, is defending his support in the '80s and '90s of the Irish Republican Army.

Jury selection is set to start in Manhattan on Tuesday in the trial of hedge fund boss accused of making more than $50 million by trading secret information in the stock market.

The city's teacher's union went on the offensive against the Bloomberg administration's plan to lay off teachers by releasing a new television ad today that rips into the mayor's proposal to lay off teachers.

President Barack Obama — who promised to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — has now signed an executive order to allow military commissions to resume there.

Democrats in the New York Assembly have a message for Speaker Sheldon Silver: don't cut education - tax the rich.

In a move aimed at increasing the number of organ donors, a new bill, if passed, would add a section to the driver's license application requiring applicants to opt for or against organ donation before the license is processed.

More kids are trying to get into private schools, according to data released on Monday by the Educational Records Bureau.

Ex-state Senator Pedro Espada Jr., from the Bronx, and his son Pedro G. Espada appeared in Brooklyn federal court Friday on charges of embezzling more than $500,000 from their federally funded Bronx health clinic.

The New York City Central Labor Council, the umbrella organization representing more then a million workers, lost two powerful unions this week because of a controversy over its president.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan held off on a decision on a challenge by former clients of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff about how a trustee is calculating gains and losses.

Two New Jersey men arrested at JFK last June on their way to the Middle East pleaded guilty to charges that they tried to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group.

The city has scrapped a plan to build a pedestrian plaza in the middle of 34th Street.

The one-time aide of former Governor David Paterson pleaded guilty to one count of harassment stemming from a 2009 domestic violence case.

President Barack Obama has signed a bill that continues funding for the federal government for the next two weeks, until March 18.

In a move to curb excessive risk-taking on Wall Street and the influence of credit ratings, the Securities and Exchange Commission has voted in support of rules outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act.

Kenneth Starr, financial adviser to the stars, faced sentencing in Manhattan federal court Wednesday for a multimillion dollar investment scheme.