In reality, the obelisks known as “Cleopatra’s Needles” were constructed more than a thousand years prior to Cleopatra’s reign. The London and New York obelisks, for example, were built during the ...

Nicknamed Cleopatra’s Needle soon after its installation ... The London obelisk was raised in 1878, and this one arrived in New York three years later. The Obelisk’s trip from Egypt to New York was a ...

PETER QUINN The last time I saw Brendan was in Burke Rehabilitation hospital shortly after Christmas. He’d been hospitalized since August. We ...

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The ladies of the Krewe of Cleopatra celebrated their 52nd annual Rendezvous bal masque Saturday at the New Orleans Hilton Riverside with the theme, “Cleopatra’s Taking Care of Business!” ...

Locals near a needle exchange site in a Bronx park are cheering a councilman’s proposal to require city health workers to collect hundreds of discarded syringes littering the ground. Oswald ...

The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra’s half sister was misidentified for nearly a century, new research from Nature Scientific Reports concludes, raising intriguing questions about ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect reporting that New York Democrats have decided not to move ahead with the legislation. A controversial New York state election bill will no ...

The order to drop the corruption case against New York’s mayor presents her with a pivotal choice. By Benjamin Weiser and Jonah E. Bromwich The New York City comptroller’s office ...

Update: On Tuesday evening, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced his veto of the needle exchange law expansion passed by the City Council. More needle exchange programs could soon be allowed in ...