The House passed a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling in an 11th-hour vote Monday despite grumbling from liberals and conservatives, who stretched the bounds of rhetoric to express
The assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran last week was the first major operation of Mossad director Tamir Pardo, the Der Spiegel website reported Monday. The article, which
[PHOTO LINK BELOW] A man and woman were injured this afternoon after a white van mounted the pavement at a bus stop on Upper Clapton Road. Police were called shortly after 4:00PM, Monday afternoon, to a report of a van in collision with two people.� Both were taken to hospital by Hatzolah, and are� not […]
Long Island Rail Road service is suspended on several lines because of signal problems caused by lightning strikes. Service on the Hempstead, Ronkonkoma, Huntington, Port Jefferson, Oyster Bay, Montauk and
Dealing with the details of religious ritual observance is not often the subject of public discussion by prominent politicians. Senator Joseph Lieberman, who moves confidently in the highest echelons of
Some cable viewers in New York City, Long Island, Westchester County and New Jersey can now add Al-Jazeera English to their menu of television news providers. Al-Jazeera English became available
Turns out Osama bin Laden was wanted more dead than alive. The Navy SEALs who raided bin Laden’s Pakistani compound never intended to capture the terror leader responsible for orchestrating
Fire claimed an 18-unit apartment building at about 11:00 p.m. Sunday night in Kiryas Tosh, north of Laval. The 18-unit building was located at 130 Place Andre-Ouellette. Numerous fire department
The final countdown in on!� The 2nd annual Bike4Chai event will take place on August 3rd and 4th and boasts 100 cyclists from Brooklyn, Lakewood, Deal, Monsey, the Five Towns and beyond. Their efforts will benefit Chai Lifeline�s flagship programs, Camp Simcha and Camp Simcha Special, which treat 430 ailing children from around the globe […]
Visitors to the Kolel Polin section of Har Hazeisim made a gruesome discovery today. They found graves so badly destroyed that even the names could not be distinguished. Avrohom Lubinsky, Chairman of the International Committee on Har Hazeisim called this �the most grotesque and vicious destruction of tombstones to date.� He noted that the graves […]
[The following is by Peter Beinart, for the Daily Beast] While the details of the debt-ceiling deal remain fuzzy, this much is clear: Barack Obama may be president, but the Tea Party is now running Washington. How did this happen? Simple: This is what American politics looks like when there�s no left-wing movement and no […]
Nine people have been hurt in three different accidents on Route 17B in just two days. All three incidents happened within a short distance of each other. The latest accident happened Monday morning at the intersection of Airport Road and Route 17B. Catskills Hatzolah reported that�they had three victims in the vehicles, and requested Mobilemedics […]
Pedestrians and motorists alike should look both ways � twice � before crossing Delancey Street at Essex. There have been more than 520 motor vehicle accidents, 134 of which have involved pedestrians or bicyclists, at the Manhattan intersection over the last 12 years, according to state Department of Transportation statistics obtained by the Daily News. […]
Some members of the Jewish community in northeastern Vermont are asking why no effort was made to remove anti-Semitic graffiti from a Lyndonville building until after a child complained to
The U.S. Secret Service is charged with protecting Joe Biden and his family, but the agency is also charged $2,200 a month to rent a cottage next to the vice
NYPD cops are writing fewer and fewer tickets for moving violations as an unofficial summons-writing slowdown picks up steam. Summonses for moving violations were down about 22.9% across the city
Authorities nabbed a crooked Diamond District mail carrier with the help of a cleverly placed GPS device, law-enforcement officials said. Rogue mailman Shameek Dickerson�s scheme came to light after customers along West 47th Street in Midtown began complaining that they never got packages they had been expecting, the officials said. More than 25 packages went […]
Two days before the deadline for a possible U.S. government default, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached agreement Sunday on a legislative package that would extend the federal debt
The FBI today revealed that it believes it has America’s most elusive fugitive finally in its sights 40 years after famed hijacker DB Cooper disappeared when he jumped out of
New York City continues to be at the risk of a terrorist attack even after the killing of al-Qaida�s longtime chief Osama bin Laden, city police chief said on Sunday. �The elimination of Osama bin Laden was an important milestone, but not a game-changer. We�re still very much at risk,� New York City Police Chief […]
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