For residents of Staten Island already displaced by Hurricane Sandy, an early nor’easter was an ominous warning: winter is coming, and help isn’t exactly on the way.
Video: Election Night in Hurricane-Darkened New York
Several neighborhoods in the city remain without power. TIME spent the night of Nov. 6 in a still-unelectrified part of Queens
California Saves Its Schools: Can the State Now Save Itself?
Voters in the Golden State have averted disaster, and now, with Democrats holding a rare supermajority, politicians have a window of opportunity to end the fiscal crisis for good
Mitt Romney’s Transition Website: Where ‘President-Elect’ Romney Lives On
Like most vanquished candidates, Mitt Romney’s website displays a simple “Thank You” message along with an banner image of the nominee framed by the waving American flags of his supporters.
Porn Industry Threatens to Sue Over L.A. County Law Requiring Condoms
Voters want actors in adult films to wear condoms, but the industry is threatening to sue and shift production elsewhere.
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SEAL Those Lips
The Navy has issued career-ending letters of reprimand to seven members of SEAL Team 6 – including one involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year – for showing some of their secret gear to a video-game …
Did That $6 Billion in Campaign Spending At Least Help the Economy?
After each election, the media tends to brood over a predictable set of issues, like the small mindedness of campaign policy proposals to the nastiness of negative advertising.
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Days of Wine and…NATO
The top U.S. military officer in Europe lost his chance to run the U.S. Navy because of a trip he took aboard a U.S. military aircraft to attend an event sponsored by the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, an international …
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“A Soldier of Kindness”
With Veterans’ Day looming, it’s important also to recognize those who didn’t live long enough to warrant that title.
We noted Army Lt. Col. David Cabrera’s car-bomb death in Afghanistan last year because we had interviewed him on the dearth of military mental-health professionals. “We’re …
“Look Ma! No Pilot!“
Marines in Helmand province Nov. 6 check out the Cargo Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System, which ferries food, fuel and other stuff to troops at remote bases where the IED threat has made ground deliveries too dangerous.
Marijuana in Colorado: Ready for Business, Complete with Regulations
The medical marijuana trade has set up the protocols for the newly-approved recreational version
New York’s Emergency Management Chief Fired
Acts of kindness abounded in the aftermath of the destructive Superstorm Sandy, but that communal spirit didn’t enter every soul, it seems — including some of the ones most responsible for rendering aid.
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Spinning the War
A briefing for allied military spokesmen in Afghanistan has come up with a list of Don’t’s and Do’s.
First Don’t:
Lie or spin.
First Do:
Stick to the facts.
Having been at the receiving end of lots of briefings on …