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A new survey finds diners may be tightening their belts a bit more this year.

The generation described as "obsessed with technology" and "detached from society" may not understand or appreciate those stereotypes.

Michigan's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Friday as he struck down a law that was widely embraced by voters a decade ago -- the latest in a recent series of decisions overturning similar laws across the country.

A group of Muslims from New Jersey is appealing a federal judge's ruling that the New York City Police Department's surveillance of Muslims didn't violate their civil rights.

Amid grappling with crisis in Ukraine, President Barack Obama made a pitch for women's pocketbook issues Thursday, calling for legislation requiring equal pay for equal work and saying Congress would get more done if it had more women.

Federal investigators say a gas main leak has been discovered near the site of last week's deadly New York City building explosion but it has not been identified as the cause of the blast.

The Internal Revenue Service is reporting a potential security breach involving personal information about 20,000 IRS workers, former workers and contractors.

About 1,500 minorities who took New York City fire department entrance exams that were found to be biased will be eligible to receive back pay totaling $98 million, a black firefighters' group that had sued the city over racial discrimination said Tuesday.

Eight people killed in a suspected gas explosion that leveled two Manhattan apartment buildings died of either blunt trauma or smoke inhalation and burns, officials said Monday.

New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade stepped off Monday without Mayor Bill de Blasio marching along with the crowds of kilted Irish-Americans and bagpipers amid a dispute over whether participants can carry pro-gay signs.