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NEW YORK - United States President Barack Obama's new 3.7 trillion dollar budget is encouraging, but it is difficult to answer whether it stands a chance in a Congress in which Republicans, who now dominate the House, are obsessed with making indiscriminate short-term cuts in programs they never liked, according to an editorial in the New York Times.

NEW YORK - Bernard L. Madoff, the man who is serving a 150-year sentence over defrauding people of billions of dollars while operating a vast Ponzi scheme that began at least 20 years ago, has said that in a prison interview that various banks were 'wilfully blind' to his crimes.

NEW YORK - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has asked New York to take back 'Jersey Shore' cast members who he thinks are giving his state a bad name.

NEW YORK - The Pakistani man, who has been stalking President John F Kennedy's granddaughter, wants to take the case to court.

NEW YORK - Pakistan did hand over alleged Al-Qaeda suspect Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the United States, suggests a new audio recording of a senior Pakistani police official.