Analysis: Gay vote played role in election
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, …[read more]
Month: December 2012
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]