Verizon customers interested in signing a one-year contract (as opposed to the standard two) should lock in their selections now; the company has confirmed that it is eliminating the one-year
There are more surprising revelations coming from Ponzi schemer, Bernard Madoff. During yet another prison interview, Bernard Madoff told ‘The Financial Times’ he wants to teach – of all things
The successful search for a missing child in North West London has highlighted the quick response of Shomrim NW London. Last week a child was reported missing after he failed
The budget deal reached Friday would affect two initiatives contained in last year’s health-care law that were bitterly opposed by businesses, killing one outright and slashing funding for the other. The agreement would eliminate a provision of the health-care law enabling low-income workers to opt out of employer-offered health insurance and shop for more affordable […]
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards website, Sepah News, reports: In his first press conference of the new year 1390 [Iranian New Year was on March 21] which took place on Monday
The budget for Fiscal Year 2011 will finally pass Congress. After a historic dealbetween the Republicans and Democrats, itis expectedthat Congress will pass theFY 2011Budget to fund the government for theremainderof the year. This is truly a breakthrough. Six months into the fiscal year and we finally have a budget deal. This is a budget […]
Police in Paris arrested dozens of people for trying to hold an unauthorized demonstration to protest a ban on the wearing of Islamic veils such as burqas, they said Sunday.
New Yorkers may be short tens of millions of dollars in unclaimed tax refunds. The Internal Revenue Service estimates the federal government owes 26,000 city residents more than $33 million
A grand jury in the Bronx has launched an investigation into accusations that as many as 40 police officers are up to their necks in a quid pro quo, ticket-fixing
A 21-year-old man was seriously wounded in an anti-Semitic attack by two youths, after returning home from a Torah course in a synagogue in Villeurbanne, in southern France, the Jewish Communitys protection service (SPCJ) said. As he was walking home from the synagogue late Thursday night, the two aggressors, in their twenties, asked their victims […]
Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, says that he will cooperate with the country’s general prosecutor during a corruption investigation, and defended himself against a campaign of “distortions, lies and
The five-day New York City police-led “dirty bomb” training drill has come to an end. More than 100 police and other first responder agencies in New York, New Jersey and
First it was believed to be a bomb, then it was dismissed as a freak industrial accident, and now authorities are again saying that the explosion last week near a
The New York City Council officially responded Friday to Mayor Michael Bloombergs preliminary budget proposal, telling the mayor it would be imprudent to slash critical city services or short-circuit the citys economic recovery. Laying off teachers, closing fire companies and shredding the social safety net are not actions worthy of the progress we have made, […]
An intrepid Japanese journalist has driven into the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone to film these extraordinary pictures. He made it right up to the plant, although he had to walk
A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators. “Among the cops it’s commonly referred
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petirah of R Dovid Levin ZL, a veteran member of Lakewood Hatzolah, who was Niftar this morning following a lengthy illness. R Dovidwasone of the first members of Lakewood Hatzolah, (Unit # L-04). He suffered from an illness for approximately 15 years R”L. He was approximately 53 years […]
With a last-minute budget deal, Congress averted a federal government shutdown Friday night. But the epic clash between Democrats and Republicans was just the first of a series of fiscal
A Manhattan hearing on homeland security exploded yesterday after an Arab-American activist testified that she was taught as a youngster to “hate Jews” and “hate America,” enraging a Brooklyn lawmaker
Over the past 48 hours, in response to the incident in which a childrens bus was hit with an anti-tank missile near Saad on Thursday, combined Israel Air Force, Armored and Infantry forces are operating in the Gaza Strip in order to restore the calm to Israels southern communities. IAF aircraft and armored forces targeted […]
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