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Kate Taylor notes : “On the last Sunday before a city policy went into effect barring religious services in public schools, leaders of congregations around the city expressed a range of responses, with some taking a pragmatic attitude and others vowing to not give up without a fight.” Nina Bernstein reports : “New York’s charity care system, partly financed by an 8.95 percent surcharge on hospital bills, is one of the most complicated in the nation, but many states have wrestled with... Read Full Story

Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died. She was 48. (Feb. 11) Read Full Story

By BRIAN MAHONEY 02/10/12 11:06 PM ET Jeremy Lin does it again! NEW YORK — Jeremy Lin keeps getting better. Better even than Kobe Bryant on Friday night. Lin had the most astounding performance of his remarkable week, scoring a career-high 38 points and outdueling Bryant as the New York Knicks held off the Los Angeles Lakers 92-85. Buried deep on the bench a little more than a week ago, Lin led the Knicks to their fourth straight win, tying their longest streak of the season. His two free... Read Full Story

Americas Argentina: 'Nuclear weapons' in Falklands Last Modified: 11 Feb 2012 14:46 in Share Argentina has accused Britain of sending nuclear weapons to the disputed Falkland islands, in an ongoing controversy between the two countries. The South American country took its case to the United Nations (UN) secretary general and UN Security Council on Friday , where Ban Ki-moon, the UN leader, appealed to both sides to avoid an "escalation" of their sovereignty battle. With both countries about... Read Full Story

Travel Dispatch Whatever Happened to First Class? By JESSE McKINLEY Once it meant lobster thermidor on china. These days, it might not even mean a hot meal. Exploring the domestic skies from the front of the plane. New York to Dubai for $19,000 Coast to Coast, Soup to Nuts Slide Show: Champagne, Showers and a Double Bed Choice Tables In London, Flavors of India Without the Fuss By MARK BITTMAN Mark Bittman tells you everything you need to know about where to eat Indian food in London. Read Full Story

Your Free Press is proud to publish the following e-mail written by El Diario former Managing Editor, Miguel Alvaro Sarmiento, to former and present employees of El Diario de Nueva York warning them of sale of the "influetial" daily to the Argentian newspaper the NATION . Read Mr. Sarmiento warning and boycott El Diario . Rafael Martínez Alequín To all: I am Not a former disgruntled Impermedia employee. I am a currently disappointed El Diario/La Prensa ex employee. El Diario is the oldest... Read Full Story

“Gotham” columnist Michael Powell weighs in on the critical audit of the Port Authority: “…There has been for some time a scandal-foreordained feel to this audit. Mr. Ward is widely hailed as a public infrastructure visionary with an independent mind. That trait can be a character failing in politics. So in October, a Cuomo official appeared to whisper to the New York Post columnist Fredric U. Dicker that the audit had found that Mr. Ward engaged in ‘extravagant overspending.’ This was... Read Full Story

Blau & Deutsch report : “A veteran jail supervisor will be criminally charged for beating an inmate who had just punched a female correction officer, the Daily News has learned. Veteran Assistant Deputy Warden Edwin Diaz has been asked to turn himself in to authorities Thursday for his role in the attack on inmate Jesus Alejandro on Sept. 24, 2008, a source familiar with the investigation said.” Parascandola & Fisher write : “Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has ordered a top-to-bottom... Read Full Story

First Posted: 02/ 8/2012 9:12 am Updated: 02/ 8/2012 9:54 am In a fiery new Special Comment, Keith Olbermann blasted the Susan G. Komen Foundation and its founder and CEO Nancy Brinker on his Current TV show Tuesday night. According to Olbermann, the Susan G. Komen Foundation remains corrupt under Brinker's leadership despite the resignation of the foundation's controversial vice president of public affairs, Karen Handel . Handel, who strongly opposes abortion, reportedly drove the foundation... Read Full Story

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