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The rumors swirling around New York for the past week turned out to be true: U2 took over Fordham University campus this morning for a most unconventional gig. As part of a weeklong residency in the Big Apple promoting the release of No Line on the...

by Frank James OK, I'll admit I didn't know there was a legal sub-specialty field called fashion law but evidently there is. Susan Scafidi, a legal scholar in that field and a visiting professor at the Fordham University Law School,......

John Feerick, chairman of the state's Public Integrity Commission, resigns. He cites health reasons. (This item has been revised to eliminate a link to an unrealted story). Full release after the jump.......

by James Oliphant LAKE PLACID, NY-- On a rain-spitting Sunday in Lake Placid, the faux-Alpine ski town famous for the United States' victory in hockey over the Soviet Union during the 1980 Winter Olympics, Jim Tedisco was fanning the......

FORDHAM, N.Y. (XIP NEWS) -- Fordham University's Erin Natalicchio  takes a closer look at Mayor Bloomberg's plans to charge New Yorkers for each plastic bag they take home from the store. The plastic bag tax would have two purposes, helping the city...

As unemployment escalates and Americans face uncertain futures, cost-cutting has become the new national pastime. Coupon-clipping is in. Big-ticket items and indulgences are out -- as are many of the home-related services so many Southern Californians...

Simon Channing Williams British film producer Simon Channing Williams, 63, a British film producer who made a string of acclaimed movies with director Mike Leigh, died Saturday after battling cancer for several years, his London production company...

She was, by her own account, a "daughter of destiny," a pampered girl from an aristocratic Pakistani family who inherited her father's political mantle and went on to become the Muslim world's first female prime minister. But in the end, that destiny...

As the mortgage industry swooned in late 2006 and 2007, Countrywide Financial Corp. Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo cashed in stock options valued at $138 million -- vastly expanding his wealth even as his shareholders watched their stock shrink in value....

En sus manos está el futuro. Son los maestros quienes moldean y guían las mentes que despuntan por el camino del saber. La profesión docente, sin embargo, ha dejado de inspirar la admiración que tuvo en generaciones pasadas y los bajos salarios y...

Samantha Roper sometimes dreams about the mashed potatoes her mother makes on Thanksgiving, from potatoes grown at an uncle's farm 10 minutes from her Southern Idaho home. But today, with airfare costs and distance making a trip home impractical, the...

Funny doesn't discriminate. At least, that's the philosophy that prompted Lawrin Goulston Salazar and her husband to launch the Los Angeles Comedy Festival last year. The "all-inclusive" biannual event is a sort of comedy smorgasbord featuring improv,...