Maxwell Eliot Stringer (Photo: Manhattan Borough President's Office)

Manhattan Borough President Stringer showed off pictures of his newborn son, Maxwell Eliot Stringer (left).

Congress narrowly avoided another shutdown.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu wants Trinity Church to let protesters occupy its vacant lot on Canal Street.

Former Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey owns the web site Bloomberg2012.com. 

Is Councilman Eric Ulrich the future of New York's Republican party?

Janet DeFiore, head of the controversial Joint Committee on Public Ethics, denied the group had its first meeting behind closed doors.

JCOPE's first public meeting is scheduled for December 20.

A group of Long Island high schoolers were suspended after mimicking Tim Tebow's infamous post-touchdown prayer pose in a school hallway.

The House Judiciary Committee postponed action on the controversial SOPA internet piracy bill.

Bill Clinton went back on his vow never to appear on Bill O'Reilly's show.

Senator Liz Krueger discussed the possibility of a Republican coup in the state senate.

Mayor Bloomberg doesn't think people in wheelchairs are capable of taking cabs.

The state Capitol is getting new art to put on display.

Kim Kardashian's ex-husband, Kris Humphries, once went on a date with one of Jon Huntsman's daughters.

FBI agents considered mounting an undercover corruption sting against Newt Gingrich in 1997.

Republican Florida Congressman Allen West said Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, would be "very proud of the Democrat party."