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Rudy Giuliani on Friday said Ted Cruz should apologize to New York City for attacking its "values" in the presidential race."After all we have been through as a city and as one undivided nation, to have a United States senator running for President paint New York as a city consumed with greed, sin and media obsession is shocking," Giuiani, who has not made an endorsement in the 2016 race, wrote in the New York Daily News."Sen. Ted Cruz should apologize to the people of New York for his remarks and to the people of the United States for his crass...

Nobody can discredit the talent, skill and sheer genius of Frank Sinatra. Emerging onto the music scene in 1935, the hoodlum from Hoboken went from the marketplace to the marquee. For six decades this musical rock of Gibraltar wooed audiences from Jersey to Japan, Connecticut to Cambodia. He was a living legend. But like most legends, Sinatra had an Achilles heel. While drugs, alcohol and cigarettes may be addictive, the spotlight is down right infectious, and when one has occupied the spotlight for decades, it is pretty much impossible to vacate it. Sinatra, even though a maverick of music, fell...

Moves Closer To Full-Fledged Presidential Run (CBS/AP) WASHINGTON -- Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday defended the Iraq war and criticized Al Gore's global-warming movie. As for his presidential ambitions, Giuliani coyly inched closer to a formal announcement. "I am 100 percent committed," he said. "That official part, I still have to do a formal announcement. But we'll figure out how to do that. My idea is that I'm going to try to announce this in 100 different places." Giuliani, a Republican, said he supports efforts to move California's 2008 presidential primary from June to February, a...

Dear Friends - Some of you must be feeling nauseated like me right now, as I just watched Bill Clinton lecture our nation on the virtues of John Kerry. It is scary to see the Clinton crowd so energized and committed to reclaiming the White House. But we need to be even more enthusiastic about defending our values in this election and standing up for President Bush's record. Our efforts are working, despite the tens of millions of dollars Democrats are spending through their shadow groups to defeat our President. And who are they trying to elect? John Kerry, a...