Some residents fear that partyers pushed north by Hurricane Sandy could exacerbate a societal shift. Above, revelers headed out east from Penn Station on Friday.

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11 Madison Park is either a very good restaurant or the absolute best restaurant in New York City. It depends on whom you ask. But don't ask me: I've only had a drink at 11 Madison Park, and that drink was a Long Island Iced Tea. It came in a highball with four perfect cubes of ice and a wedge of lemon. It cost sixteen dollars and tasted just like college.

"I haven't served one of these in six months," the bartender told me. Like his peers at the other fine New York bars and restaurants where ...

The first-ever estimate of how fast frogs, toads and salamanders in the United States are disappearing from their habitats reveals they are vanishing at an alarming and rapid rate.

According to the study released today in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, even the species of amphibians presumed to be relatively stable and widespread are declining. And these declines are occurring in amphibian populations everywhere, from the swamps in Louisiana and Florida to the high mountains of the Sierras ...

In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund, India, made an alarming discovery. More than three miles above sea level, he stumbled across a frozen lake surrounded by hundreds of human skeletons. That summer, the melting ice revealed even more remains, floating in the water and lying haphazardly around the lake's edges.

Since this was the height of World War II, there were fears that the skeletons might belong to Japanese soldiers who had died of exposure while sneaking through India. The ...

European governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a "gamechanging" report on global drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for blanket prohibition.

Publication of the Organisation of American States (OAS) review, commissioned at last year's Cartagena Summit of the Americas attended by Barack Obama, reflects growing dissatisfaction among Latin American countries with the current global policy on illicit drugs. It spells out the ...

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An estimated 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) National Council just voted 61-38 percent to end the ban on gay youth participating in the program...Today’s decision was degrading, dehumanizing, and disgraceful...The new policy continues to tarnish the organization’s image and TWO urges increased pressure on the BSA.

It's easy linkbait but still, Photoshop is an abomination.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. - A Prince William County man says he was suspected by Walmart security of possibly kidnapping his three young daughters -- all because they aren't the same race.

Joseph, who doesn't want his family's last name revealed, and his wife Keana are an interracial couple. They have been married for nearly 10 years and have three daughters: a 4-year-old and 2-year-old twins.

The superficiality in these projects is what rubs me the wrong way. In 2004 it may have been groundbreaking to show porn stars without the platform stilettos, false lashes, and lingerie or fetish gear that they were usually shown in. In the past nine years we've seen these garments come in and out of mainstream fashion and plenty of porn has been shot without them. Also, social media happened. Thanks to Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine, and whatever other similar websites that have popped up in ...

Experts call the nutrient shortage a public-health crisis and a national emergency—and are astounded that the government and manufacturers have let the situation become so dire.

“Children are dying,” says Steve Plogsted, a clinical pharmacist who chairs the drug-shortage task force of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). “They’re not getting any calcium or any zinc. Or they’re not getting any phosphorous, and that can lead to heart standstill. I know ...

We know, thanks to a growing body of research on suicide and the conditions that accompany it, that more and more of us are living through a time of seamless black: a period of mounting clinical depression, blossoming thoughts of oblivion and an abiding wish to get there by the nonscenic route. Every year since 1999, more Americans have killed themselves than the year before, making suicide the nation’s greatest untamed cause of death. In much of the world, it’s among the only major threats ...

I don’t have enough faith in Microsoft, or any other company to guarantee that my information will remain private. Have we already forgotten Sony’s Playstation Network debacle of 2011? Our own Joey Davidson gave a lengthy op-ed discouraging gamers from storing private information on consoles. What is more private than every conversation and movement being listened and watched?

A SHOPLIFTER had a £20,000 crown court trial over claims a stolen joint of beef reminded him of his dead grandmother.

John Casey was caught on Asda’s shop camera hiding a £12 roast in a rucksack at the Washington Galleries store last October and arrested for theft.

But the 51-year-old denied he was being dishonest and said he had moved the meat out of sight as it was giving him “flashbacks” about his grandma, who died of a blood clot when he was a chil

Michael A. Dotro, 35, was arrested earlier in the day after he allegedly set fire to the home of Edison Police Department Capt. Mark Anderko.

The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium should have known its African painted dogs exhibit was dangerous before a 2-year-old boy fell in and was mauled to death in November, according to a lawsuit the boy's family filed Thursday. The boy fell into a safety net below the railing, but bounced out of the netting and into the exhibit, where he was attacked by the dogs.

A portion of an Interstate 5 highway bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash., collapsed Thursday night, sending cars and people into the water, authorities said.

Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, Wash., was expecting two patients taken from the accident, according to Kari Ranten, a spokeswoman. She believed a third patient was transported to another hospital. She did not know the patients' conditions.

ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle reported rescue crews with boats were operating at the ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Russia'a Far East in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts. “Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?”

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to end its controversial policy banning gay kids and teens from joining one of the nation's most popular youth organizations, ditching membership guidelines that had roiled the group in recent years.

Over 60 percent of the The National Council of 1,400 delegates from Scouting across the country voted to lift the ban, BSA officials said.

"Today, following this review, the most comprehensive listening exercise in Scouting's history ...