By ROBERT GARCIA President Barack Obama benefited from taking the gay vote. While the presidential debates did not see a single question on LGBT matters, 76 percent of gay voters…
Nomad’s Route from Desert to Israeli Diplomacy
By MELANIE GOLDBERG Ishmael Khaldi, the brown-skinned man who represents the face of Israel on college campuses is not Jewish and is not telling a story of oppression, but is…
Closing Arguments in Slay Trial Sparked by Dogfight
By NAKIA COPELAND & STEPHANIE BERZON The ex-con had no intent to kill a former martial arts instructor over a dogfight at the Prospect Heights bar, but used a knife…
Murder Defendant Takes Stand to Deny Guilt
By SIGOURNEY SEALEY & CONOR FEBOS The Brooklyn man accused of murdering a Pace University student during a drug deal that went awry, told the jury Tuesday that his co-defendant…
New York City: the Elixir of Life
By MELANIE GOLDBERG Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed his tips for long life at a conference at the City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Tuesday: keep working and…
News analysis: How veterans voted
By KIRAN SURY The 2012 presidential election was the first since 1944 in which neither major party fielded a candidate with military experience. Yet Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both…
News analysis: Obama and the Jewish vote
By MELANIE GOLDBERG The Jewish vote and American-Israeli policy are not always exclusively intertwined, results of the 2012 presidential election show. Even though the Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign was…
Jurors See Video of Dogfight That Led to Brooklyn Murder Trial
By GILBERTE SAINT-PRIEUX and NAKIA COPELAND Jurors witnessed footage in a Brooklyn courtroom recently of the dogfight that, prosecutors charge, led ex-con Daniel Pagan to stab a fellow dog owner…
Suspect Pleads Guilty in Rare State Terror Case
By AVRIL REGIS After a year and a half of professing innocence, an Algerian immigrant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to terrorism charges in Manhattan Supreme Court in a rare instance…
Teen Accusing Hasid of Sex Abuse ‘Traumatized,’ Witness Testifies
By RYAN SIT & YVONNE JURIS The social worker who went to the police with the teen to report the alleged sexual abuse from a Satmar Hasidic counselor, told the…