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A New York judge has overruled the US$9.5 billion in compensation for toxic waste dumping that Chevron had been ordered to pay to Ecuadorian villagers.

Comedian David Brenner died at 78. A favorite of Tonight Show host, Johnny Carson, Brenner made over 150 appearances as a guest and substitute host on the NBC latenight show, starting in the '70s.

Prosecutors in New York on Friday rested their case in the trial of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who is accused of conspiring to kill Americans when he acted as a spokesman for al Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

The documentary "Particle Fever" tells the story of the search for the Higgs boson.

Remarkably unguarded at Ecuador's presidential palace, the top legal adviser to President Rafael Correa gave a point-by-point refutation of the New York decision blocking enforcement of his country's $9.5 billion litigation with Chevron.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City, alongside Jewish Federations of North America , is mobilizing to help the estimated 350,000 Jewish residents of Ukraine through the Ukraine Assistance... JERUSALEM - Purim has its share of food customs as it is observed by most of the Jewish communities around the world, however, some ask, why the poppy ... (more)

U.S. stocks ended the day roughly unchanged on Tuesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 index up 0.03%, while the narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average .

Bypassing Congress, President Barack Obama intends to order changes in overtime rules so employers would be required to pay millions more workers for the extra time they put in on the job.

Tom Leppert, former Dallas mayor and former U.S. Senate hopeful and future CEO at Kaplan Inc., said he likes the idea of home rule for DISD, but the matter needs more study.

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Gary Cannon, artistic director of the Vashon Islandhorale and Cascadian Chorale, will explore questions about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with his mentor and former teacher, Abraham Kaplan, in the Arts & Humanities lecture "What's So Great About Mozart?" this weekend.

Graham Holdings Company today announced that Andrew S. Rosen has been named executive vice president of the Company.

As is common in such cases, Texaco performed some $40 million worth of environmental "remediation" when the job was done; the government of Ecuador certified that everything had been done to its satisfaction and released Texaco from future liability.

DEAR ALBERT EINSTEIN, with Music by Russ Kaplan, Lyrics by Sara Wordsworth and Book by Russ Kaplan & Sara Wordsworth, will be directed by Josh Penzell and runs May 3 - 18, 2014.

I am a "collaborating physician," and I support the effort to remove the requirement for a collaborative agreement for nurse practitioners to practice in New York.

Piro sued Russo, Karl, Widmaier & Cordano PLLC for legal malpractice. Piro used attorney Rodriguez for that case.

How could a casino mean so much to someone in Sullivan County, he kisses Gov. Andrew Cuomo's hand for trying to bring one there? That's what Monticello's Darryl Kaplan did when Cuomo visited Sullivan after the passage of the law that could finally land the county a casino - or two.

After singing a local folk tune, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Saturday answered a New York judge's decision blocking a $9.5 billion verdict against Chevron with a three-hour speech that decried "lies," "bias" and "imperialism."

A lawyer from Roseville has been appointed as a judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals by Gov. Mark Dayton.

Analogia" was created by New York-based artist Ben Tritt . It is installed in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan until March 18th.