May 10, 2007

The telecommunications company quietly moved to end its affiliation with Akon last week after critics called attention to a video of him simulating sex with a fan onstage.

A police officer who broke up a fistfight in front of his Queens home in August became the target of a murder plot, the authorities said yesterday, when a man he arrested that day tried to hire a hit man from his Rikers Island jail cell.

The bill would give the F.D.A. new power to police drug safety, order changes in labels and regulate ads.

Carlos Delgado drove in the tying run in the eighth and David Wright’s bases-loaded double in the ninth propelled the Mets to a victory in the finale of their seven-game trip.

Steven Udvar-Hazy is a pioneer in airplane leasing, owning more airplanes than any airline in the world.