The GOP’s “reckless” demand for immediate budget cuts all but guarantees a government shutdown next month, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) warned yesterday. Schumer was on the warpath over House Speaker
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The passage of two Iranian naval vessels through the Suez Canal has been delayed by 48 hours, a canal official said on Sunday. The frigate and supply ship had been
A group of prominent American and Israeli Jewish leaders visited Har Hazeitim on Friday, as part of the ongoing effort by the International Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeitim
The highly regarded head of Icholov Medical Center’s Intensive Care Department Professor Patrick Sorkin has decided to join United Hatzalah. The obviously frum, bearded motorcycle-riding professor of emergency medicine is
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A Delta Airlines flight headed to Minneapolis made an emergency return landing Sunday morning at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after one of the jet engines apparently broke apart, raining pieces
Heroic NYPD cops battled ferocious winds and sub-freezing temperatures as one was lowered from a hovering helicopter onto a mountaintop cliff early today to rescue two near-dead West Point cadets
According to Ynet, Hagon Chacham Ovadia Yosef Shlita, authorized a number of senior Rabbonim on Sunday to add clarifications on his behalf to his controversial ruling which legitimized conversions performed
Hundreds have been killed in Libya since protests broke out across the North African nation six days ago, according to rights watchdogs and eyewitnesses across the country. Residents told Al
A wind-whipped five-alarm blaze tore through a Brooklyn apartment building Saturday, killing a woman and injuring four residents and 25 firefighters, officials said. About 200 Bravest fought the flames that
7:00PM EST: Sources have confirmed to YWN that a police officer has been shot inside the 67 Precinct in Brooklyn. He has been transported to Kings County Trauma Center with
President Barack Obama declared Friday that New York State was a “disaster area” following December’s blizzard, allowing certain areas of the state to get federal recovery money. Staten Island and
A Brooklyn police precinct is under scrutiny after cops told investigators their bosses manipulated crime statistics, sources said. The 77th Precinct, covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, first raised a
Years ago, a major bridge expansion on Long Island was funded with a $5 million congressional earmark, but the project remains untouched and not a penny has been spent. This
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) promised that he would post a picture from his boyhood Bar Mitzvah when he hit 10,000 followers on Twitter. He made his goal last Thursday, Feb.
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