Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ended a two-day visit to Lebanon by meeting with Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. The overnight meeting took place at the Iranian embassy in Beirut’s Bir
Russia plans to help Venezuela build a nuclear power station, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday. Russia and Venezuela signed an agreement Friday on the construction, during Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s
Enough Tea Party-supported candidates are running strongly in competitive and Republican-leaning Congressional races that the movement stands a good chance of establishing a sizeable caucus to push its agenda in
Long Island College Hospital, a financially troubled community hospital in Brooklyn, has been saved from the threat of closing or bankruptcy through a planned merger with SUNY Downstate Medical Center,
Andrew Cuomo told attendees at the Empire State Pride Agenda’s Fall Dinner, that he wants to make their hopes of legal same-gender marriage a reality. “I don’t want to be the governor who just proposes marriage equality. I don’t want to be the governor who lobbies for marriage equality. I don’t want to be the […]
Sen. Charles Schumer, the last statewide candidate to resist a debate before Election Day, has agreed to a showdown with GOP challenger Jay Townsend, according to people familiar with the discussions. The two will meet on Oct. 24, at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Of all New York’s statewide candidates, Schumer holds the widest lead […]
Senior U.S. officials are concerned over recent intelligence indicating that the Pakistani Taliban, which orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing, may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States
President Barack Obama signed a major disaster declaration for New York and ordered federal aid to help Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island recover from the severe damage caused by the
Verizon Wireless will begin selling Apple’s iPad at its 2,000 retail stores nationwide on Oct. 28, the companies announced Thursday. The move ends AT&T’s exclusive grip as the U.S. wireless carrier for Apple’s wildly popular tablet, and potentially sets the stage for a broader partnership between Apple and Verizon. The two are widely rumored to be […]
A suspected bank robber was shot and wounded by police outside of Penn Station today, law enforcement officials said. The incident happened outside a Chase Bank at 2 Penn Plaza.
Overseas authorities are searching in Tel Aviv, Israel for a mentally ill man who police believe stabbed his parents to death inside their Staten Island home yesterday. Eric Bellucci, 30,
The growing importance of the Stamford Hill Shomrim was recognized this week at a groundbreaking meeting with local police. Dayan Dovid Grynhaus of the Rabbinate, the President of the U.O.H.C Rabbi Dovid Frand and Chairman of the Community & Police liaison committee Joe Lobenstein were among those attending Tuesday’s deliberations at Stoke Newington Police Station. Two […]
The Tri-State area is bracing for what could be a big storm. Forecasters say the region can expect wet and windy weather as a nor’easter starts to develop along the Mid-Atlantic coast. The National Weather Service says the storm will bring strong winds and about an inch of rain starting Thursday afternoon. Conditions are expected […]
Sen. Charles Schumer has the largest lead in the polls of any statewide politician in New York—yet he’s also the only one who so far hasn’t agreed to debate his challenger. With less than three weeks until Election Day, Mr. Schumer hasn’t agreed to any of several invitations by different news organizations to debate Republican […]
More than 100,000 U.S. homes were seized by lenders in September, a record number that probably will decline in coming months as major banks halt repossessions and review their foreclosure
9:15AM EST: The NYPD is searching for a group of thugs who just stabbed three people in the area of Bedford Avenue and Ave T. The stabbing occurred at approximately
Barack Obama is no longer the big man on campus. College students’ support for the President is waning — a worrying sign for Democrats who are trying to reenergize young
The city has reportedly paid out nearly a billion dollars over 10 years to settle lawsuits against the New York City Police Department. According to an Associated Press investigation, the
The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children with serious medical problems, if state law allowed it. Earlier this year, major insurers, faced with an unprofitable business, stopped issuing new child-only policies. They said that the Obama administration’s […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbetzin Esther Epstein A”H, wife of Hagon Rav Chaim Epstein Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Zichron Melech (Brooklyn). She is also
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