NASHUA, N.H. I’ve long suspected that if editors knew how little journalism occurs on the campaign trail, they would never pay our expenses. Forget door-knocking. In reality, it’s more trainspotting. Reporters hang out at candidate appearances — and restaurants — talking primarily among themselves and comparing notes on which canned events they attended. (Did you see Santorum in Salem? No, I went to Romney in Hudson so I could catch Newt in Nashua.) Read full article > >

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Journalists’ campaign trail secrets revealed

For decades, children in the Newburgh area of the Hudson Valley bypassed Santa for Eggbert, who disappeared for a dozen Christmases but is back.

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Santa-as-Talking-Egg Returns to Post in New Windsor, N.Y.

Remnants of a bid to host the 2012 Olympics have helped jump-start construction at Hudson Yards, which could soon have more office space than all of Baltimore, city officials said.

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On Far West Side, Bloomberg’s Failed Olympic Plan Spurs Development

After a planned $4 toll increase on the major Hudson River crossings drew gasps and political backlash, the agency unveiled a more modest measure.

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City Room: Port Authority Proposes Less Drastic Toll Increase

The U.S. Airways plane that landed on the Hudson River in January 2009 is being sent to a museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Airbus A320 made an emergency landing in the river when it lost power to both engines after striking a flock of birds….

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Museum Gets ‘Miracle on Hudson’ Plane

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — A woman who had just been involved in a domestic dispute loaded her four children into a minivan Tuesday night before letting one out and driving the rest of them into the Hudson River, firefighters said. The woman and three young children were killed.

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Mom drives van into NY river after domestic spat, killing herself, 3 kids; 1 son let out first

Police in Newburgh, New York, say a suicidal mother drove her minivan into the Hudson River, killing herself and her three young children. She had two boys, aged five and two, and a girl, 11 months old, in the car with her. According to investigators,…

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Mom Kills Three Kids in NY River

Bill Murray better start practicing saying, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Sources said Tuesday the comedian will star as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the film adaptation of the British radio play Hyde Park on the Hudson. The…

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Bill Murray to Play FDR: Report

Attention Kate Hudson, Natalie Portman, and Jane Krakowski: You have company. We can now add Ivanka Trump’s name to the list of pregnant celebrities, as she is expecting a child with her husband, Jared Kushner. “I have been wanting to share some…

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Ivanka Trump is Pregnant

Actress Kate Hudson, 31, is 14 weeks pregnant, a source confirmed to Us Weekly. She and Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy, 32, were not planning a pregnancy, but are looking at the news positively. “It was not planned, but they are excited and embracing…

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Kate Hudson Pregnant

General Electric announced Thursday that it had agreed to continue the environmental cleanup of the Hudson River under tighter new federal requirements.

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G.E. to Continue Hudson Cleanup Under New Rules

Today is a good day for liberty. By striking down the unprecedented requirement that Americans buy health insurance — the “individual mandate” — Judge Henry Hudson vindicated the idea that ours is a government of delegated and enumerated, and thus limited, powers.

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Opinion: Gov’t can’t make you buy stuff

Last week, the Federal Reserve announced a plan to buy an additional $600 billion worth of Treasury bonds in an attempt to stimulate the economy. On Democracy Now! , economist Michael Hudson argues that the $600 billion T-bill buy will help Wall Street at the expense of ordinary Americans. read more

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Banks Get Big Bucks, Consumers Get Bupkis

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is terminating the construction of a train tunnel under the Hudson River that would have doubled rail capacity into New York City. The federal government and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had promised…

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Christie Stops NJ-NY Tunnel

A day after Tyler Clementi’s body was found in the Hudson River, his parents have commented on his apparent suicide, which took place after his college roommate at Rutgers broadcast