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Are you ready for "Zohan" versus "Guru"? This summer, Adam Sandler ("You Don't Mess With the Zohan," opening Friday) and Mike Myers ("The Love Guru," opening June 20) will put out new movies - pieces of funny business that will open with much fanfare and then most likely fade away.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced steps including a demand for more information on investors to determine whether they are driving up food prices.

Five rounds into the French Open, king of clay Rafael Nadal still awaits a serious challenge.

Shifting its focus to smaller cars as consumers abandon trucks in response to high fuel prices, G.M. is closing four truck plants and weighing a sale of Hummer.

Ford said its car sales were up 3 percent and its pickup and S.U.V. sales dropped 24 percent, part of a larger trend in the industry.

Gov. David A. Paterson plans this week to send a bill to the legislature capping at 4 percent yearly increases in school property taxes but maintaining school budget votes, a key departure from recommendations made public Tuesday by a state commission studying tax relief.

The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, signaled on Tuesday that further interest rate cuts were unlikely because of concerns about inflation.

The luxury home builder posted a narrower-than-expected loss of $97. million in the second quarter, hurt by weakened demand amid the nation’s housing slump.

Orders for manufactured goods posted a surprisingly strong increase in April as demand rose across a number of industries.

The deaths of six hospital patients who received a blood-based drug at a hospital in Jiangxi Province has prompted an unusually swift response from authorities.

Suffolk County authorities Tuesday said they are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest in the murder of a Central Islip man.

A former East Hampton Town Board member said she was merely expressing her First Amendment right to free speech when security guards grabbed her and escorted her from a meeting of the Democratic National Committee Sunday in Washington, D.C.

The superstar colt breezed 5 furlongs in a minute flat on a warm, humid morning at Belmont Park.

The pizza was perfect for Petr Sykora and the Pittsburgh Penguins.