During a 6-minute segment on the Saturday Early Show on CBS, co-host Erica Hill spoke with liberal journalists Mort Zuckerman, editor in chief of U.S. News and World Report, and Steven Kornacki of the New York Observer, about the future of the Republican Party. Republican strategist and CNN contribu...

A Queens hairstylist is suing the New York Daily News after the paper twice identified her as the woman accused of helping run a prostitution service allegedly patronized by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. In two stories from last week, the paper published a photo of Bojana Vuleta and identified...

My girlfriend circa 1998-2001 was a little witchy.  No, witchy is not a placeholder for a word that might insult women — she was and is lovely — she was a little bit of a witch, including Tarot and all of that good stuff. One thing I love about her is that she honored everything with rites, rit...

New York’s Daily News reports that after several years of searching, the source of Manhattan’s mystery maple syrup smell has finally been tracked down to a New Jersey food additives plant processing fenugreek seeds. While we’re happy that this sweet story of phantom pancakery can f...

The New York Daily News has reported on a crazed woman passenger who bit a driver over the unavailability of a hybrid bus. However, if the Daily News had investigated the background of the upset passenger, Shelia Bolar, they would have found out that she was every bit as qualified to deliver an Obam...

Look: It's a glorious, bona fide press brawl! Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from senate consideration touched off the rivalry between New York and D.C. news desks. New York won. The inauguration and near-socialization of finance was already stoking Washington, D.C.'s ascent. Then came the squabbling...

“Caroline Still Has a Shot, Sez Dave.� So read the headline on Page 7 of the New York Daily News the day that Senator Hillary Clinton was being questioned by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about why she’d make a good secretary of state. Caroline Kennedy, apparently, might yet take her ...

Michael Wolff is scratching his head over why after more than a year of staying almost entirely off the record, his old pal Judith Regan—whom he's known since their undergraduate days at Vassar when she was a "pretty, plumpish hippie"—is trying to get all this attention suddenly by tel...

Whether it was the bloody siege in Mumbai or the Wal-Mart worker trampled to death by crazed shoppers on Long Island, this year Black Friday - the first and busiest shopping day of the holiday season - lived up to its name. November 28, 2008 will be remembered for its post turkey indigestion and a ...

No major daily newspaper has been looking hard lately at Atlantic Yards, but the press keeps running with the Yankee Stadium story, thanks in part to new revelations via Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. E-mail messages from city officials acquired by Brodsky tell an interesting tale, as the Daily News r...