Matthew Sollars

Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty to eight felonies in federal court in White Plains this morning. Prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to between 27 and 33 months in jail.

The House approved a bill extending jobless benefits and a tax credit for homebuyers today. The measure will provide up to 20 additional weeks of unemployment benefits to those who have been out of work for a long while.

At least 12 people were killed and as many as 31 people wounded in two shootings Thursday at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

The White House devoted a full day to classical music on Wednesday.

New York's City Opera is making its homecoming tonight.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits on Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack by a 'rogue' Afghan police officer that killed 5 British soldiers on Tuesday.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal anti-trust suit against Intel Corp. on Wednesday. He claims the chip-maker used "bribery and coercion to to maintain a stranglehold on the market" for microprocessors.

An Italian judge convicted 23 Americans for their role in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street.

Republicans won major races in New York, New Jersey and across the country Tuesday.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said on Tuesday that health care reform legislation may not make it through Congress before the end of the year.

Beyond the mayoral race, New Yorkers go to the polls to in some high profile, citywide offices on Tuesday.

Bernard Madoff's accountant pleaded guilty to fraud charges on Tuesday, but insisted that he did not know Madoff was running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.

President Barack Obama has appointed a number for people, including several New Yorkers, to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

The special election for an upstate House seat drew yet another political heavyweight. Vice President Joe Biden campaigned in Watertown on Monday for Democrat Bill Owens.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dampened her praise for Israel on the issue of settlements in Palestinian areas during a visit to the Middle East.

The Broadway revival of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" closed abruptly on Sunday, just one week after opening at the Nederlander Theater.

President Barack Obama said on Friday that he will move to overturn a 22-year-old provision that bars those diagnosed with HIV from traveling or immigrating to the U.S.

Federal funding of arts and cultural programs would reach its highest level in 16 years under a bill heading to the White House.

Federal prosecutors told a judge on Friday that Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant is expected to plead guilty to charges of securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, making false filings and obstructing the administration of tax laws.