The Interior Ministry’s district committee for construction and planning approved Thursday evening two major plans for some 1,550 housing units in contentious Jerusalem neighborhoods. The construction plans for Har Homa

Responding to President Barack Obama’s major Mideast policy speech, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will not be withdrawing to the 1967 borders as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians. The following is the statement by the Prime Ministers Office: Israel appreciates President Obama’s commitment to peace.  Israel believes that for peace […]

President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians’ demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war, in a move that

Following is a text of President Obama’s prepared speech on the Middle East, delivered on Thursday in Washington, as released by the White House: (NOTE: Text in bold below is part about Israel) I want to thank Hillary Clinton, who has traveled so much these last six months that she is approaching a new landmark […]

It looks like Brooklyn has the biggest share of fire house closings due to New York City budget cuts and the outspoken borough president isn’t happy about the news. Eight of the 20 fire houses on the possible closure list are from Brooklyn, that’s 40 percent of Brooklyn’s stations. Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz is […]

Some Jewish voters may be skittish about supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, but there appear to be plenty who are ready to open their wallets. A high-dollar fund-raiser targeting the Jewish community is set for June 20 in Washington, according to a person familiar with the planning. Mr. Obama plans to speak at the […]

Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, says in court papers that he is under investigation in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings in the Chicago area that killed seven people. In documents

Michigan officials and legislators are moving quickly to change the rules that made it possible for the winner of a $2 million lottery to keep receiving food stamps, the Detroit

The following is a NY Post exclusive: You may as well draw the terrorists a map. Detailed schematics of several floors of 1 World Trade Center — a structure Police

San Francisco – A proposition to ban circumcision for boys younger than 18-years-old will be put to the voters in November. City election officials Wednesday certified that enough valid petition signatures were received to qualify the measure for the ballot, the San Francisco Chronicle  reports. If it’s approved, it would make it a misdemeanor “to […]

For the first time in over a year, the ranks of New Jersey residents who disapprove of Gov. Chris Christie have surpassed those who approve of his performance. Public opinion

Museum officials at the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland have restored the metal entrance sign damaged in a theft 17 months ago. The “Arbeit macht frei” sign was stolen by a gang of Polish thieves acting at the behest of a Swedish far-right-winger. Technicians unveiled the restored sign in the laboratory of the camp museum. […]

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was calling for passage of legislation she said will make it easier for the hundreds of police and fire agencies around New York to communicate with each

Little more than a week after the U.S. Secret Service launched its official Twitter account, the federal law enforcement agency has had a major system failure. Shortly after 3 p.m.

Google on Wednesday began fixing a security flaw that affects some 97% of Android smartphones. The fix, which addresses a hole allowing hackers to access the contacts, calendars and photos

A city bus and an SUV collided last night at Kennedy Airport, fatally injuring one person. Cops said the two people in the SUV were friends who both worked on

Radical Islamic websites Wednesday posted an Arab Spring audio message purportedly recorded by Osama bin Laden shortly before he was killed. The recording, which is more than 12 minutes long

An error by a new air-traffic controller is being blamed for a close call between two planes on a converging course at O’Hare International Airport this week, officials said Wednesday.