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Plus a super-advanced robotic bartending system, 6 miserably failed TV shows featuring puppets, and a haunting look at the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
Plus a super-advanced robotic bartending system, 6 miserably failed TV shows featuring puppets, and a haunting look at the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
“And it seems to me it’s just on cruise control right now, no one’s doing anything to stop it,” Rep. Peter King says.
Nothing says healing after a horrific catastrophe like a completely bewildering and inappropriate Vogue fashion shoot taken amidst storm wreckage. Also, the collection is called Storm Troupers.
The short “Beach 119” focuses on the residents of one street in the Rockways as they fight to survive after their community is flooded and left without power, gasoline, water, or heat, for weeks after the storm. Watch the official trailer for Beach 119.
“President Obama and Congress owe the people of New York and New Jersey better,” Ryan said.
Railing against the “Boehner betrayal,” Schumer sides with Cantor.
Really.
Christmastime in the New York City borough still recovering from October’s Superstorm Sandy.
Sometimes, they get it so right.
From cars for the FBI to salmon research, bill’s spending would go far and wide. And not all of it is related to the storm’s devastation.
Residents of Union Beach, New Jersey are leaving handmade ornaments and gifts under the tree.
“That’s ridiculous, I mean, that’s ridiculous,” Christie said during a segment for Walters’ Most Fascinating People special.
It’s been said that 2012 was the year of the animated GIF, so let’s see if we can sum up the whole year in GIFs.
A Facebook group is helping residents of a New Jersey town hit hard by Hurricane Sandy recover their family photographs lost in the storm. (via theverge.com)
The Casino Pier coaster is still right where Sandy left it, looming over the beach like a skeleton. Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers has asked the Coast Guard to determine if it can safely be left in the water as a tourist attraction.
Fire Island was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, but Lauren Forman’s online campaign could help it rebuild.
“You don’t need to ask someone ‘in charge’ what addresses need help. You can help yourself help someone else.”
President Obama surveyed the damage wrought by Sandy in New York. Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Cuomo, Janet Napolitano, and other officials were in tow.
“We always worry that they’ll feel like, I’m going to be out on the street with my kids, so I’m just going to have to go back to him,” says the director of a service agency.
Signs, many of them handmade, thank first responders and donors for all their help since the storm hit.
Millions of peoples’ lives have gone back to normal post-Sandy, but some residents of New York and New Jersey are still struggling to recover from the storm’s destruction.
“We take care of our business and then we go home to deal with the dark.” Beach Channel, a high school in the Rockaways, was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, but its football team played on, and their coach’s pep talk was a tour de force.
After an amazing Twitter conversation between Cory Booker and one Newark citizen who ran out of Hot Pockets during Hurricane Sandy, the snack food company decided to lend a hand.
Regardless of politics, Americans are still coming together to help one another during the Hurricane Sandy disaster.
The Knicks’ oft-criticized star should get nothing but praise for this.
New York and New Jersey just can’t catch a break. Still-recovering regions saw between three and thirteen inches of snow Wednesday.
Sen. Chuck Schumer also warns additional federal assistance will be needed for cleanup and recovery in wake of Hurricane Sandy. “Disaster relief has been a federal government responsibility for a long time,” Schumer says.
“I think the decision by Romney to leave Chris Christie at the altar was the most devastating decision they made,” the MSNBC host says.
All but absent from news coverage before Hurricane Sandy, climate change became a campaign issue again — for about two days.
Hurricane Sandy means an urgent need for blood donations. But gay men still can’t donate.