New York City plans to test a tire-locking clamp that scofflaws could unlock themselves with a code after paying their fine over the phone. Finance Commissioner David Frankel told the

Sen. Chuck Schumer says the House budget vote this week is a lose-lose situation for Senate Republicans, promising the Democrats will make the vote a key issue in 2012. Schumer

Airlines and air traffic controllers across Europe watched and waited nervously Tuesday as a cloud of volcanic ash spread west from Iceland, threatening to disrupt flights on a wide scale.

[PHOTO LINK BELOW] More than 30 people were injured Tuesday morning after Egged bus 405 collided with a truck on highway 1 near Ben Shemen interchange. One person (an Israeli

An explosion blamed on a gas leak rocked Iran’s largest refinery on Tuesday around the time of a visit to the plant by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iranian media reported that

The effort to sell wine in New York grocery stores is back. A bill with bi-partisan support in the Senate and Assembly would allow grocery stores to sell wine as

Israel’s prime minister promised to present his vision for an Israeli-Palestinian peace in a speech before U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday, but vowed his country would not return to mid-1967 borders

With half of the small city of Joplin, Mo., destroyed by the second-deadliest tornado in United States history, relief workers and rescue personnel are pouring into the Midwestern town to

John Demjanjuk’s son accused Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper of “sensationalism” on Monday for publishing photos of his father walking outside the Bavarian nursing home where he lives after his release

The New York State Senate today passed legislation that will require certain trucks to be equipped with a special convex mirror that helps improve visibility and reduces the risk of

A transient suspected of setting off a large explosive device outside a Westside synagogue pleaded not guilty Monday in Los Angeles federal court to multiple felony charges in connection with

Volcanic ash from an Icelandic eruption could reach British airspace Tuesday, sooner than previously predicted, Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority warned Monday. Scotland’s Loganair announced that all flights will be canceled

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad suffered a heart attack while visiting the U.S. and is recovering at a Texas hospital, a spokesman said Monday. Fayyad, who was born in 1952,

After meeting with leaders of the American Jewish community Sunday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, clad in sportive attire, went on a sunset stroll through Washington

The pilot of the doomed Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 people on board was not in the cockpit when the first warning signals

Count House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) as one top Republican who’d like to see Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) jump into the presidential race. Cantor responded immediately when asked Monday

The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that “needless suffering and death” had resulted from putting too many