Yesterday, Rep. Charles Rangel walked out of his House Ethics hearing, after begging his colleagues for a postponement so he could find a lawyer. As the Washington Post reports, "No, they said, and quickly began deliberations, saying the facts were so clear they didn't need to call witnesses." The panel, made up of four Democrats and four Republicans, deliberated for hours yesterday and will continue deliberations today. Update: Rangel was found guilty of ethics violations; more details below. [ MORE]
 | Kate Middleton and Prince William (AP) It's a moment 28 years in the making: Prince William, second in line to the British throne, is engaged to his college sweetheart Catherine "Kate" Middleton. An announcement was issued from Clarence House, the residence of Prince William's father, Prince Charles: "The Prince... [ MORE ] |
 | The city's first Pop-Up Cafe, on Pearl Street last year. As any car owner knows, New York City is a veritable utopia of free parking, with such an excess of space that it's not unusual to see tumbleweeds blowing through vast expanses of forgotten curbside parking prairies. We even... [ MORE ] |
 | Yesterday, the NYPD began photographing and scanning prisoners' irises as they pass through Central Booking, as part of a $500,000 program that the department expects to expand citywide. The new high-tech identification program was ostensibly created to keep prisoners from slipping away as they move through the court system—in... [ MORE ] |
 | Via Capn Design With the cost of a monthly MetroCard rising to $104 in January, we calculated that it would take 50 swipes a month to make the purchase more valuable than just paying per ride. But now there's an interactive chart! Capn Design mapped out the cost differences... [ MORE ] |
 | A 17-year-old residing in Queens found a way to pay for college (he hopes to attend NYU): give the people white iPhone 4s (which aren't yet sold by Apple). Allegedly there's a certain group of people that want the iPhone 4, but also only want it in white, and... [ MORE ] |
 | [UPDATED] Can you guess which year this photograph was taken, and where these girls were getting ready to perform? We'll update later with the answer and more details. UPDATE: The first photo above was taken in 1947; more have been added, all taken in the late 1940s at the Copacabana.... [ MORE ] |
 | Hey, Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo, here's some bad news: According to State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the state budget deficit is about three times bigger than Governor Paterson and the State Legislature projected, weighing in at $1 billion, thanks to "rising Medicaid costs and slower-than-projected tax revenues." Even Paterson's budget director... [ MORE ] |
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