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Housing crisis is not affecting New York City as badly as rest of the nation

While existing home sales fell 27% and new home sales fell an unexpected 12.4% in July nationwide, New York City?s housing market isn?t all doom and gloom.

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Back in the Big City: LiLo’s returning to New York after rehab

Watch out, Big Apple ? your bad seed is coming home. Lindsay Lohan will be leaving Hollywood behind and moving back to New York, her mother revealed Friday on NBC’s “Today” show.

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Political killing stokes tensions in Pakistan city (AP)

A main road of central karachi is deserted as tension mounted following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement in Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Gunmen killed dozens of people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP – The ruling party in Pakistan’s largest city accused its main political rival of supporting Islamist militants suspected of assassinating a party leader, further stoking tensions Tuesday after 45 people died in a night of revenge attacks and arson.


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New York City school test scores take nose dive

City tests scores released Wednesday plummeted after officials made the year’s statewide exams more difficult.

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Neb. city council votes to delay immigration law (AP)

Trucks drive past a patriotic mural in Fremont,  Neb., Wednesday, July 21, 2010. The two lawsuits filed Wednesday against the city of Fremont for its ban on renting to, and hiring illegal immigrants, worried some in the community that it would only worsen tensions over the new ordinance. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, also known as MALDEF, filed lawsuits against Fremont, saying the voter-approved ordinance amounted to discrimination.  (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP – A voter-approved ban on hiring and renting property to illegal immigrants was suspended Tuesday by the Fremont City Council, less than two days before it was set to take effect in the eastern Nebraska city.


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New York City settles for $7.15M in Sean Bell police shooting

THE CITY agreed Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a wrongful death civil suit lodged by the fianceé and pals of Sean Bell, an unarmed man gunned down by cops on his wedding day, sources said.

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Tornado watch issued for New York City, parts of Jersey

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for New York City and the surrounding area.

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