President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will finally hit the links for a round of golf – and al fresco negotiation – on June 18, a White

The man described by counterterrorism officials as al Qaeda’s “military brain,” Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a drone strike Friday night in Pakistan, a spokesman for his group, the jihadist

The following is from the NY Times: When a group of activists proposed banning circumcision in San Francisco last fall, many people simply brushed them aside. Even in that liberal

Kew Gardens Hills – A gas line rupture has forced the evacuation of about seven buildings in Flushing, Queens. The incident happened Friday around 3:30 p.m., when an underground manhole

A report issued today concludes that the slow clean-up after December’s blizzard was not the result of a deliberate slowdown by city sanitation workers. The city’s Department of Investigation found

Upper West Side police say Starbucks locations around the neighborhood don’t cooperate with some of the NYPD’s crime prevention efforts, DNAinfo reports. Cops said the cafes refuse to let police

Grocery stores and gas stations could soon be shelling out sacks of cash on electrical upgrades. The Daily News reports state legislators are mulling over a bill requested by Mayor

U.S. employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May as the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.1%, according to a report Friday. Economists had forecasted job growth of 100,000 in

The following is a NY Post article regarding the story first reported by BoroParkScoop.com two days ago, about an armed robbery at the Maple Lanes Bowling Alley: Two armed robbers

The United States is providing hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid to countries that it borrows billions from, according to a report by Congress’s research arm. The Congressional

An American ship carrying 34 passengers, some Jewish, is set to join the new Gaza-bound flotilla in June, according to a New York Times report Thursday. Writer and Pulitzer Prize

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a Michigan pathologist who championed physician-assisted suicides, reportedly died early Friday after being hospitalized with kidney problems and pneumonia. The 83-year-old Kevorkian died at Beaumont Hospital in

President Barack Obama will defend his economic stewardship on Friday by reminding voters in a visit to an Ohio auto plant that his rescue of the industry saved jobs in

As if the E. coli outbreak in Europe wasn’t frightening enough, British scientists have announced the discovery of a new strain of a dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria that infects both humans

The federal government delivers Social Security checks and processes tax returns electronically, but its use of the old-fashioned mail systems is soaring nonetheless, according to a new study. Declining mail

Mayor Bloomberg said a pared down Homeland Security funding bill passed by the House Thursday would jeopardize New York because it remains a major terror target. “Just a few weeks

City firefighters will take to the Brooklyn Bridge Friday morning in an effort to save the 20 fire companies on the chopping block. A thousand firefighters, City Council members and