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Most retailers lured shoppers to their online and brick-and-mortar stores this Black Friday and Cyber Monday with ads promising deals that were too good to pass up. Outerwear retailer Patagonia, however, effectively tried to do the opposite.

Silent film The Artist and the apocalyptic tale Take Shelter led the Independent Spirit Award nominations on Tuesday, each taking nods for best feature, director and for acting.

The New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday named silent film The Artist the best movie of the year, and gave its top acting honors to Meryl Streep and Brad Pitt.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said on Tuesday that 98.7 percent of creditors representing more than $405 billion in claims had voted to back its reorganization plan, an important step towards ending its bankruptcy.

Happy birthday, Mariano Rivera, who turned 42 today, the same number he has worn on his jersey since he made his debut with the New York Yankees in 1995.

Malaysian Bar Council President Lim Chee Wee said the ban on street demonstrations was outrageous.

After beating a federal corruption rap Nov. 10, a New York State lawmaker was charged again for trading his influence for money.

A Manhattan judge has blocked Consolidated Edison from evicting Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the controversial Park51, which is colloquially known as the Ground Zero Mosque.

The Malkin family, the New York landlords who own the Empire State Building, plan to file to become a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) in around three months, it said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will be stopping in New York's more conservative borough, Staten Island on Saturday. He will be hosting a town hall meeting that is sponsored by the Staten Island Tea Party.

The aggrieved students of New York City's public university system took to the streets of Manhattan Monday evening to protest tuition hikes many of them say will cripple their ability to afford to earn a college degree.

Justin Bieber will not perform live at Rockefeller Center on Wednesday.

Adrienne Maloof from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Palms Resort & Casino mogul has just launched her very own shoe line with French designer Charles Jourdan.

I'm from New York, so when I'm on the street, I'm talkin' here, as Dustin Hoffman said in the movie Midnight Cowboy. I mean, as a New Yorker, I like to talk, live, to other people. That's half the fun of living in a crowded city. That's changing, it seems, as a new generation focuses more on texting than talking, and it's changing everything.

Jennifer Lopez has been sued by Bronx-based graffiti artists who say their artwork was used without permission in her Fiat commercial.

The Descendants and Drive received multiple nominations, Tree of Life exceeded budget cap

Still another private equity bidder may be eyeing a bid for Yahoo: Boston-based giant Thomas H. Lee Partners

U.S. housing prices fell in the third quarter ending in September by 3.9 percent, compared to the previous year, according to the Case-Shiller Home Price Index, a larger drop than forecast.

As news continue to trickle down as to what the bankruptcy of the third-largest airline in the U.S. (NYSE:AMR) will look like, there are three groups of stakeholders in the company that should have already realized they're in for a rough landing.

AT&T hopes that an asset sale will ease regulator concerns regarding the $39 billion merger with T-Mobile USA, according to reports.

Last night's Kourtney and Kim Take New York episode featured a nude instructor coaching Kim and Kourtney Kardashian in Hot Naked Yoga, with Kris Humphries stumbling upon the steamy scene at home. Watch episode excerpts here, as the Kardashian marriage nears separation and divorce by the episode's close.