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For Senator Chuck Schumer, it's apparently better politics - and karma - to name the Brooklyn courthouse for a Republican son of Manhattan who died in 1919 than the dominant Brooklyn Democrat who saved New York ...
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Coleman's Best Hope is in Court: The GOP Incumbent's Chances Appear...
Coleman's Best Hope is in Court: The GOP Incumbent's Chances Appear to Ride on Getting Rejected Absentee Ballots to Count or Contesting the Election.
Franken Race: Minnesota Court Deals Coleman New Blow
In a Sept. 23, 2008 file photo Democratic candidate for the Minnesota Senate Al Franken makes remarks at the National Jewish Democratic Council in Washington.
2009 a year for everyone to make sacrifices
The economic collapse in the latter half of 2008 gave rise to the title for 2009: The year of sacrifice.
Sen. Schumer: Minn. Democrat Al Franken is clear winner in Senate race, should be seated
New York Sen. Charles Schumer, who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says Al Franken should be seated in the Senate when it convenes Tuesday.
A donor's gift soon followed Clinton's help
WASHINGTON : A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton's foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of ...
Chris Cobb loves to watch his television shows. On Feb. 17, he may no longer be able to watch them.
Group of investors to buy IndyMac for $13.9B
A group of investors has agreed to buy Pasadena-based IndyMac Federal Bank for $13.9 billion, federal officials announced Friday.
U.S. governors push for federal stimulus package
ALBANY -- Governors from five states, including New York, today laid out how a $1 trillion federal stimulus package could prevent them from having to make drastic cuts to education and social programs and ...
KHAZARIAN Jews Attacks vs Caroline Kennedy Escalate, plus SEC Officials Receive Bribes from Madoff
We can now report that the anti-Gentile, anti-Christian, anti-Catholic KHAZARIAN Jew attacks vs Caroline Kennedy continue to escalate.
FactCheck: Cow tax is just hot air
Q: Is the EPA considering a tax on cows and pigs? A: No. The farm lobby warned that EPA "could" push for such a tax, but EPA never proposed any such thing and says it lacks authority to impose one anyway.
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The Associated Press
3 private investors seek to purchase IndyMac
WASHINGTON _ A trio of private investors _ J.C. Flowers & Co., Dune Capital Management and Paulson & Co. _ have teamed up in an effort to buy failed thrift IndyMac, a person familiar with the deal said Monday.
The two private-equity firms and hedge-fund Paulson have applied for a federal holding company charter, according to the person, who asked not to be named because the deal has not been completed.
The investors want to convert IndyMac Federal Bank, which was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in July in the second-largest bank failure of the year, to a stock-held institution.
Here's how bad it got for the Oregon GOP in 2008: The "Republican" candidate running for the state's top law enforcement post in November was a former aide to President Clinton and U.S. Sen.
Brooklyn federal courthouse named for Theodore Roosevelt
The federal courthouse in Brooklyn has been renamed in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt.
MyFoxNY.com -- 33 people were reportedly hurt after two bus crashed inside of the Lincoln tunnel on Monday morning.
Congress's Plan To Reinstate Censorship
Former Democrat icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life." Moynihan was right and we are about to see that destructive force manifest ...
Buyer found for IndyMac, according to mortgage Web site
Private equity firm Dune Capital Management has emerged as the likely buyer for IndyMac Federal Bank, according to information reported Friday on the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter Web site.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Kennedy says she will commit to upstate, public service
Caroline Kennedy vowed Saturday that upstate New York would not be shortchanged if she's picked as the state's next U.S. senator, saying she would promote renewable-energy initiatives, look to rebuild the ...
The Post-Journal, Jamestown New York
Schumer warns against gift cards hi.....
With more than half of upstate New York shoppers buying gift cards this holiday season, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer warns of gift card scams that could cost consumers millions of dollars.
IndyMac customer calls for better communication with depositors
Losing money is bad enough. But it's worse when the loss occurs because your bank failed to inform you that your deposits exceeded the federally insured limit.