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Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Rudy Giuliani has been criticized for frivolous, dishonest litigation and is on the receiving end of calls…

Joy remembers the life and legacy of Fmr. New York City Mayor David Dinkins and how Rudy Giuliani’s white grievance politics of that era set up Donald Trump’s eventual political career.Nov. 25, 2020Read More

How I'm doing on time?Sorry, I got another set at a hot dog cart in Central Park,that I gotta get to.That's right, I played the same stage as The Beatles,and then God stopped my joy.Every club in New York City is fucked. How essential is a comedy club? Comedians have…

The giant drugmaker Pfizer and a German biotech called BioNTech developed the world's first effective coronavirus vaccine. The COVID-19 shot is an unprecedented scientific accomplishment: The vaccine was created and tested in record time. Vaccine research has historically been a multiyear process. Here's how Pfizer and BioNTech did it —…

It’s lucky that votes usually don’t get counted till late at night. Victorious presidential candidates have two audiences to speak to. Their zealous volunteers generally get little reward other than the sense, inculcated over months of battle, that they are fighting to vanquish the forces of evil. On election night,…

The music icon signed the record hours before being murdered by Chapman outside The Dakota apartment building in New York City in December 1980.The historic copy of 'Double Fantasy', his collaboration album with Yoko Ono, was actually submitted as evidence in the New York Police Department's investigation into Lennon's murder.And…

“A person with many talents or areas of knowledge” The dictionary definition of a “renaissance man” is a fitting portrayal of New York rapper and serial experimentalist, Action Bronson. Having cut his teeth in a range of exploits alongside his rap career – hit cooking shows, recipe books, craft beer,…

The New York Knicks have selected Obi Toppin with the No. 8 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Toppin, the consensus National Player of the Year after a stellar season at Dayton, is one of the lottery's more unorthodox prospects. He didn't play for a blue-blood collegiate program, and…

New York City schools close as U.S. coronavirus deaths surpass 250,000; Public can pick a name for this adorable panda cub at the National Zoo.  Read More

The rendered fat of dead animals may seem like an unlikely aphrodisiac, but the scent adheres to a certain erotic memory for Dorothy Daniels, the narrator of Chelsea G. Summers’s new novel, A Certain Hunger. The book takes the form of an extended monologue about her life of violent crime,…