The Senate has approved the nomination of New York's state labor commissioner for the No. 3 post at the Labor Department. The 60-37 vote for Patricia Smith comes nine months after she was nominated for the department's top legal job as solicitor and just ...

A sharply divided Senate panel on Wednesday approved New York state's labor commissioner for the No. 3 post at the Labor Department, despite GOP claims that she gave lawmakers inaccurate testimony. The 13-10 vote in favor of Patricia Smith as solicitor of the agency split along party ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Packing on the pounds may be an unintended consequence of the U.S. Food Stamp Program, according to research that shows that getting food stamps may help contribute to obesity, at least among women. "We can't prove that the Food Stamp Program causes weight gain, but this study suggests a strong linkage," Jay Zagorsky, a ...

The prostitute whispers, wets her lips and prepares to bare... her heart with a poem. Welcome to New York's Poetry Brothel, where punters delve between the lines, not the sheets. At a weekend session in a Manhattan night club called the Zipper Factory the look was bona fide bordello. Literary ladies of the night flitted between intimate, candle-lit nooks ...