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In a statement posted to his website on Monday, the Republican shared that he will not enter the race. “Over the last several months, many Americans have urged me to run for president as an independent, and some who don’t like the current candidates have said it is my patriotic duty to do so,” he wrote.

Only 1.5 percent of Stop-and-Frisk arrests, the discriminatory policy that racially profiles Black and Brown men on the streets of New York City, has resulted…

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Shannon Richardson, 35,   also known as Shannon Rogers and Shannon Guess, was arrested and charged Friday with sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama…

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is demanding action from Washington after 24 people where shot in the city during a span of 24 hours, this Labor Day weekend. A rash of shootings in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday left many injured and one man dead. As […]

NEW YORK  — Conservative groups filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court that challenges the legality of the state’s same-sex marriage law. Led by the New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom (NYCF), the lawsuit seeks an injunction on the Marriage Equality Act, claiming that open meeting laws were violated, campaign contributions were promised, and […]

While the state of New York is set to give its first marriage licenses to same-sex couples in two weeks, one senator who vehemently opposed gay marriage accused Mayor Michael Bloomberg of paying four Republican senators to vote in favor of the legislation. Sen. Ruben Diaz (D-N.Y.) wrote in a press release that senators Stephen […]