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(CNN)- Conservative writer and activist Dinesh D'Souza, who attracted wide attention with his recent anti-Obama film «2016: Obama's America,» resigned Thursday as president of a Christian college in New York after questions were raised about his marriage.

CNN: Dinesh D'Souza resigns as Christian college chief in face of questions about marriage Conservative writer and activist Dinesh D'Souza, who attracted wide attention with his recent anti-Obama film «2016: Obama's America,» resigned Thursday as president of a Christian college in New York after questions were raised about his marriage.

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Another Bush nominee, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, withdrew his name from consideration for secretary of homeland security in 2004 after he disclosed that questions had been raised about the legal status of a former housekeeper and nanny.

This week, after The New York Times contacted Morgan Stanley with questions about Mr. Greenberg, the bank put him on «administrative leave pending further review of this situation,» said a Morgan Stanley spokeswoman, Christy Jockle.

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Trump also disputed claims of collusion and obstruction of justice in tweets on Tuesday after more than 40 questions that special counsel Robert Mueller wa nts to ask him were revealed in a New York Times article.

President William Dudley will provide remarks during the briefing, and will join a panel of New York Fed economists to answer questions after the presentation.

Last autumn after I lectured to University of Chicago alumni on the turf of New York's Harvard Club, one alumnus put forth a creative stinger of a question.

I pondered the question after reading a CNN Belief Blog post in which Imam Khalid Latif, executive director of New York University's Islamic Center, argued that public schools should close for two prominent Muslim holidays in New York City.

Throughout the series and particularly after the Bucks easily won the second game, played in Baltimore, where the Bullets had terrorized the New York Knickerbockers, only one question lingered: would a glimmer of flamboyance or a peep of exuberance escape the Milwaukee machine when it finally won the title?

After having been traded to New York a week before spring training began, Rodriguez learned a new position, lived for two months in a hotel with his then pregnant wife (who gave birth to a daughter, Natasha, in November), contended with frequent questions and gossip about his sometimes cool relationship with Jeter, worried what the newspapers were writing about him and tried to accommodate unending media requests for his time.

A week after baseball commissioner Fay Vincent's action against New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (SCORECARD, Aug. 6), many questions, some of them troubling, remain:

A day after U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly demandred an AR - 15 ban, the New York Democrat sidestepped a question about whether doing so would actually be effective, preferring to focus on a different gun control goal.

After dodging months of questions about where he stands on key issues important to the future of the state of New York, now candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo is doing his best to answer them all — and quickly.

After several days of statements, former New York Democratic Executive Director Charlie King responded by questioning the leadership strength of Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

A New York federal judge asked Rudy Giuliani and Michael Mukasey for supplemental information on their representation of Turkish - Iranian financier Reza Zarrab, who is accused of helping Iran dodge U.S. sanctions, after finding the lawyers» affidavits failed to answer all the judge's questions.

On this week's Capitol Connection, our Alan Chartock asks Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group about one of the six ballot questions New Yorkers will vote on next Tuesday — specifically, question as to whether certain judges in New York should be allowed to serve up to ten years after the age of 70...

Shortly after criticizing de Blasio for not testifying at a second mayoral control hearing in New York City late last month, Sen. Carl Marcellino appeared to doze off briefly while his colleagues questioned city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña.

This is the question many New York progressives have asked themselves as they stepped into the voting booth in election after election over the past sixteen years to see the party's name, usually on Row D.

After the Department of Commerce announced on March 27 that it would restore a question asking who is a citizen to the next census, New York Congress members have pushed back, stating that the question would undermine the reliability of the count - and that it would scare immigrants away from responding.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A day after voters went to the polls in New York City, questions were flying fast and furious about the future political aspiration about men named Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio.

After the subpoena was first reported by the New York Daily News, the governor's counsel, Alphonso David, said «questions» from investigators about «undisclosed conflicts of interest» would prompt an external review of contracts associated with the Buffalo Billion.

When Marist last reported this question in August 2010, two years after his resignation, New York City Democrats» view of Spitzer was upside down.

Senator Liz Krueger questioned why, after two votes in previous years to grant the mayor of New York City control of city schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de Blasio.

«Right now, New York City Democrats are willing to give Spitzer a second chance, but the big question is what happens after the shock value of his return to politics fades and the campaign for comptroller heats up,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

After a lengthy call - and - response, the newest employees of the New York City Department of Correction were asked one final question:

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Advocates for transgender rights hit back hard on Friday after the State Senate's Republican leader raised questions about the propriety of Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent announcement that New York will treat discrimination based on gender identity and expression as discrimination based on sex and disability, areas already covered by the State Human -LSB-...]

So the only real question is whether Democratic Assemblyman Luis Sepúlveda will break 90 percent in the race to replace Rubén Díaz Sr., who is returning to the New York City Council after 15 years in Albany.

After two consecutive nor» easter storms pummeled Westchester County earlier this month, downing trees and power lines, and leaving some residents without power for a week or more, lawmakers across the local, county and state levels have begun to question the preparedness of Con Edison and New York State Energy and Gas, NYSEG, the two suppliers of energy in the county.

Spitzer, a Democrat, leapt into the fray for city comptroller Sunday and has spent the last few days scrambling to get the necessary signatures while fielding questions around his return to politics five years after resigning as New York state governor amidst a prostitution scandal.

NEW YORK — If there were any question whether New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman could withstand the accusations by four women of physical abuse, he answered it quickly: Three hours after the allegations surfaced on Monday, Schneiderman announced his resignation.

After two years of major declines in New York City's traffic deaths, the number of people killed in crashes dropped slightly last year while pedestrian deaths rose, leading to questions about whether Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious campaign to eliminate traffic fatalities has stalled.

During a question - and - answer session with reporters after announcing an expansion of Geico in western New York, Cuomo pivoted back to his criticism of the state Legislature for questioning his economic development efforts.

After it was revealed that ConEd had given $ 250,000 to the Committee to Save New York, raising questions of impartiality in a contract dispute with unionized workers, a Cuomo spokesman countered by noting the union had given the governor $ 17,000.

Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, made a relaxed appearance at New York University last night, answering questions about her life in economics and her time at the Fed one day after she announced plans to leave the central bank next year.

Investigators sought to question an official at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and requested agency documents about a contract that was awarded to a local company after the firm's owner donated $ 100,000 to a nonprofit affiliated with de Blasio.

A deal to redevelop the MTA's former headquarters was put on hold after a top New York City official questioned whether a private developer should be able to avoid paying potentially hundreds of millions in city taxes.

'» said Erik Engquist, assistant managing editor at Crain's New York Business and one of two moderators asking DiNapoli questions after the comptroller gave remarks.

Here's yet another data point on how much the Ultimate Fighting Championship league wants to legalize mixed - martial arts in New York: The UFC today released its code of conduct after a letter from anti-domestic violence advocates to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver raised questions about the sport.

After a Saturday morning meeting between charter officials and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, the head of the New York Charter School Center, James Merriman, posed the only question that should matter about the mayor's approach:

Since Nelson Rockefeller signed a law legalizing abortion here in 1970, New York has not elected a pro-life governor, and a June poll showed voters, after several questions explaining the legislation, supported a Cuomo - backed proposal to change abortion law and establish an affirmative right to an abortion by a 56 - 31 margin.

Cuomo, who did not take questions after the event, has said previously that he's too busy working as governor in New York to have much time for national politics.

Sachs announced in 2011 that he'd immediately «frozen all contact on behalf of clients with state officials» after questions from The New York Times about his influence on state health policy.

Lisa S. Coico, the president of the City College of New York, the flagship of the largest urban public university in the country, abruptly resigned on Friday, a day after The New York Times contacted officials with questions about her administration's handling of more than $ 150,000 of her personal expenses.

But Mr. Espaillat himself — even after the New York Post reported last year that the FBI was questioning how he funded a favored nonprofit — has avoided the taint of corruption.

After Heastie made his opening remarks, Crain's editor Erik Engquist and Politico New York reporter Laura Nahmias asked the speaker a wide variety of questions, including several that pushed Heastie for his take on what actually plays into corruption in Albany.

She also said she would not take questions about a widely - read New York Times article published Thursday, a day after the event was announced, that found students had been counseled out of a Success school in Fort Greene.

Opening statements in the corruption trial of a former New York Assembly speaker appear likely to start Tuesday after a judge questioned individual jurors into the evening.

But the status of the talks was in question after the Senate sponsor, Senator Diane Savino, became angry over what she said were leaks by the Cuomo Administration to the New York Daily News over bill negotiations.

Mr. Sachs pledged to cease contacting state officials on behalf of clients for the duration of the Cuomo administration after an article in The New York Times in February raised questions about potential conflicts between his business interests and his work for the Cuomo administration.