Sudan is planning to build a nuclear reactor and its first nuclear power plant for peaceful electricity purposes by 2020, the state news agency SUNA said. “The Ministry of Electricity

New rules designed to protect credit card users from “unreasonable late payment and other penalty fees” come into force Sunday as a result of the Wall Street reform bill. The

Supporters and opponents of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center site are set to hit the streets of Lower Manhattan today. They’ll hold competing rallies

The following is a NY Post exclusive: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has spun the 9/11 lawsuits into gold. Ground Zero workers are on the hook to pay steep interest on

9:10PM EST: YWN has learned that the NYPD has made an arrest on Friday night in the recent shooting on Boruch Halberstam, in Williamsburg. As YWN had reported, on August

Statement from the NYS Agriculture Commissioner in regards to the massive egg recall: “Ensuring a safe food supply is our top priority here at the New York State Department of

The latest development in the furor over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero has been sparked by Rep. Rick Lazio, whose latest commercial attacks Attorney General Andrew Cuomo

The United States has persuaded Israel that Iran would take one year or longer to build a nuclear weapon, dimming the prospects of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities,

A plan to open an urgent care clinic at the former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital is being delayed, amid concerns over Catholic traditions and birth control. North Shore-Long Island

Rabbi Menachem Stern’s stringy brown beard is hardly an unusual sight in his Brooklyn neighborhood. But in trying to become a chaplain in the U.S. Army, Mr. Stern has gotten tangled in a military bureaucracy that has made exceptions for other beards, but not his. The 28-year-old rabbi was notified last year that he had […]

The $100 million New York Knick, who recently traveled to Israel to research his Jewish roots, told NY Post Page Six yesterday that he’s a practicing Jew “spiritually and culturally”—and he’s even keeping kosher, he says. “I’m not a religious person, so it’s not from a religious standpoint,” he said. Stoudemire sat with Page Six […]

10:10PM EST: (Click on image to enlarge) A Jewish man was just shot on Nostrand Avenue near Avenue J, in what appears to be a botched robbery of a liquor store. Hatzolah, and Flatlands Volunteer Ambulance Squad arrived on the scene and found the victim, who is an employee in the store, in traumatic arrest. He was […]