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Please Clap with Shlok Sharma and Joe Greenfield plays March 27–28 at Nu Box Theater, NYC — a political comedy show named for Jeb Bush's most famous two words.
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In January 2015, US Attorney Preet Bharara announced corruption charges against New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — one of Albany's most powerful men.
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Two New York wine collectors sued Chicago chef Charlie Trotter in 2013, claiming $46,000 bottles of 1945 Burgundy were counterfeit.
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Arvind Mahankali, 13, won the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee on 'knaidel' — the sixth straight Indian-American champion, after years lost on German words.
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94-year-old Norman Hendrickson died steps from his wife Gwen's funeral — and his daughters decided the couple who never parted would be mourned together.
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New York's schools keep redesigning gifted-program admissions to beat the test-prep industry — and the industry keeps winning. A 2013 look at the arms race.
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Genevieve Cook, Barack Obama's New York girlfriend, kept a diary. David Maraniss's biography reveals what she wrote about the young future president.
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In May 2012 a French prosecutor in Lille opened a preliminary rape investigation against Strauss-Kahn over an alleged December 2010 incident in Washington.
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Two 2012 civil suits accused John Travolta of unwanted sexual advances during massages. Both were dismissed — a reminder that civil litigation is not
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A reported $1.4 million bill for one undocumented patient's care reopened debate over emergency treatment, uncompensated care, and 'medical deportations.'
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The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was dismissed in August 2011 after prosecutors lost faith in their witness. What actually happened.
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In 2010 Google paid $1.9 billion for 111 Eighth Avenue in New York — a decade after its NYC team began as one person working from a Starbucks.
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