WASHINGTON  — President Barack Obama is expected to seek a new base tax rate for the wealthy to ensure that millionaires pay at least at the same percentage as middle income taxpayers. A White House official said the proposal would be included in the president’s proposal for long term deficit reduction that he will announce […]

PARIS — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, maintained Sunday his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid did not involve violence, constraint or aggression but still constituted a moral failing on his part. In his first interview since his May 14 arrest over accusations of sexual assault, Strauss-Kahn told […]

Rev. Al Sharpton called on mourners at the funeral of a Brooklyn mom who was killed by a stray bullet as cops waged a gun battle with an ex-con to “stop the shooting.” RELATED: Sharpton wants NYPD to answer for shooting of woman killed by stray bullet “Somehow you must reach inside you and stand up […]