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Officials in Suffolk County, N.Y. have mandated evacuations in vulnerable areas of Brookhaven as Hurricane Irene sweeps towards Long Island.

Charles Monnett, an Alaska scientist who was suspended for suspended for six weeks, is back at work.

Amazon is reportedly getting ready to launch its Android-powered tablets that will be priced very aggressively - hundreds less than Apple's best-selling iPad. But the billion dollar question is - will it be just as good?

Watches and warnings have been issued up the East Coast from South Carolina to Maine as states prepare for the impending storm that is Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Irene is bearing down a path toward assault on the U.S. East Coast Friday. Irene is nearing North Carolina and forcing evacuations and planned closings of public transportation in New York as the I-95 corridor prepares and gets ready to hunker down for the massive storm.

New Jersey Transit will suspend all commuter train and bus services starting at noon on Saturday as the region braces for Hurricane Irene. Its three light-rail lines will shut down at 6 p.m.

Major petroleum pipelines in the United States began partial shutdowns Friday, the result of terminals supplied by those pipelines closing ahead of Hurricane Irene's arrival.

All transportation will run normally on Friday and through Saturday morning in order to allow people who live in areas threatened by the storm surge to evacuate as easily as possible. After that, the system will begin to shut down at noon on Saturday.

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Less than a week after saying he was seriously considering running for the Republican presidential nomination, George Pataki reversed course and said he would not, in fact, enter the race.

For the first time ever, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation for residents of low-lying and coastal areas, in fear of the worst that Hurricane Irene's upcoming wrath can bring to the city that never stops nor sleeps.

Hurricane Irene promises to ruin everyone's weekend plans, to say the least, and the storm has already started by delaying Sunday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial event, pushing the event to September or October.

Actress Minka Kelly and New York Yankees star Derek Jeter, once the subject of engagement talk, have ended their three-year relationship, a representative for Kelly told People magazine on Friday.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled as airlines scramble to come up with a plan ahead of Hurricane Irene's expected hit along the East Coast.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it has restarted the clock on its review of AT&T Inc's (T.N) proposed $39 billion purchase of smaller rival T-Mobile USA.

Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the U.S. East Coast Friday, nearing North Carolina and forcing evacuations and planned closings of pubilc transportation in New York as the I-95 corridor prepares and gets ready to hunker down for the massive storm. The Category 2 storm is packing maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, moving north at 14 miles per hour. Already, forecasters and officials are suggesting Hurricne Irene is the storm of a lifetime, with potential to inflict a wide path of d...

Gold rose Friday nearly 2 percent after the head of the U.S. central bank, in a closely analyzed speech, declined to signal more money printing as a way energize the moribund U.S. economy.

South Africa's rand advanced to a one-week high against the dollar, breaking through resistance at 7.15, supported by a rise in U.S. stocks.

Responding to Hurricane Irene's inexorable progress toward New York City, mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Friday that he was ordering mandatory evacuations for residents of vulnerable low-lying and coastal neighborhoods.

Hearings scheduled by the Obama administration to defend an embattled immigration enforcement tool known as Secure Communities have led to protests and walkouts, a sign of the program's enduring unpopularity amongst immigration advocates.