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For $725,000, where's the mailbox now that the Great Neck LIRR station has been spiffed up? I think we know.

With California once again running short on revenue, Governor Jerry Brown said on Monday he would circumvent the legislature and press a statewide ballot measure to raise the state's sales tax and increase tax rates on the wealthy for five years.

Another Hamas MP Mohammad Abu Tei was deported from Jerusalem exactly one year ago.

Core values define company culture, which is a big part of why they’re so important to driving performance

Normally, when people confront her on gay rights, Michele Bachmann has a response ready. But when an 8-year-old boy approached her at a book signing in South Carolina, Bachmann was stumped.

A majority of Americans say members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives should receive salary cuts, have their pensions discontinued and be required to spend more time on Capitol Hill.

U.S. Senators Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., have conjured a middle ground they believe could settle the ongoing debate over extending the payroll tax cut.

Nasrallah was surrounded by bodyguards and that the crowd chanted “Death to Israel” during his speech.

Partly owing to the huge sex scandal commenced by former French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York earlier this year, French Parliament will debate a bill to ban prostitution in France on Tuesday. If passed, it could become law next year.

Former Vice President Dan Quayle has endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, calling him the only candidate who meets all the criteria for the job: leadership, character, conservative philosophy and electability.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding a Bronx church holding worship in a New York City public school.

When Parents Text is a blog that chronicles user submitted texts that show the trials and errors that come when a parent handles a cellphone. We bring you our 16 favorite funny texts posted on When Parents Text that show that even with modern technology, parents will always be parents.

Baby Lisa Irwin has been missing for two months, however the 1-year-old's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, surprised authorities Sunday when they requested local prayer vigils be put to an end. Lisa's Aunt Ashley said that neighbors and volunteers suspect Bradley killed Lisa and dumped her body at a local abandoned casino.

Most of the workers will return January 3 – toiling at half their prior pay.

Islamic militants al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb in the Somali capital on Mogadishu on Tuesday.

Newt Gingrich continues to increase his support among likely Republican voters in early primary states, according to two new polls released Tuesday. He leads Mitt Romney by 15 percent in Iowa and by 17 percent in South Carolina.

On Monday, S&P placed the euro zone nations on “Credit watch,” which means a 50 percent likelihood of a downgrade over the next ninety days.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region fell to its lowest in 23 years in the year through July, the government said Monday, attributing the drop to its tougher stance against illegal logging.

Dow Chemical saved part of the London 2012 Olympics, but across the world people in India are furious about the sponsorship, because Dow is thought to be responsible for the 1984 Bhopal disaster

As Occupy Wall Street transitions away from the Lower Manhattan encampment that was formerly its beating heart, organizers face the task of finding somewhere for the park's former inhabitants to stay. For now, several churches have been allowing Occupiers to spend the night. But that is widely viewed as a temporary solution.

At both the individual and collective level, Americans have created and embraced a culture of debt. Spurred by our gluttony, we have developed an untenable habit of spending beyond our means, and it must be stopped or else generations to come will be saddled with debt, left unable to harness the American dream and prosper because it simply will no longer exist.

Fashion model and online blogger Lauren Scruggs, 23, is responsive and making a slow recovery according to a statement made by her parents Tuesday. Scruggs, from Plano, Texas, suffered severe injuries to her face, shoulder and left hand, after accidentally walking into a spinning airplane propeller late Saturday.

A suicide attack killed dozens of Shi'ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others died in a smaller blast in a key northern city, in the worst sectarian violence Afghanistan has seen since the fall of the Taliban.

Voters in the city of Los Angeles, home to the nation's porn industry, could be asked next year whether condoms should be required in adult film shoots to cut down on sexually transmitted diseases.

Ron Paul dominated the Oklahoma Straw Poll, pulling in 46 percent. Herman Cain, who recently dropped out of the race, received 25 percent.

International Olympic Committee President, Jacques Rogge, on Tuesday, urged India's Olympic Association to talk to its athletes over the ongoing protests related to the 2012 London Games' sponsorship deal with Dow Chemical.

The growth rates of all four BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies have surpassed expectations in the decade since the term came into existence. However, India's record in terms of productivity, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and reform has been the most disappointing, according to Jim O'Neil, the Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, on Tuesday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) compliance office appears to be preparing guidance for utilities to ask for an extension of the three-year deadline, FBR Capital Markets said in a note to clients.

The stringent anti-immigration laws that have proliferated in states since Arizona passed SB1070 encompass more than older immigration laws the U.S. Surpeme Court has deicided