The heat wave that claimed lives as it staggered across the nation has settled into the tri-state, pushing temperatures to 97 degrees Thursday in Central Park and a record-breaking 103

Con Edison reduced power to tens of thousands of customers in Queens and Westchester County because of electrical equipment problems. The move comes as New York City swelters under an

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp. relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemail of Sept. 11 victims, The

The Foreign Press Association in Israel sent a sharp letter to the Prime Minister’s Office Thursday, complaining of multiple humiliating incidents, which the organization claims both impedes foreign reporters’ work,

Four beaches have been polluted and more may be closed as city workers scramble to stop raw sewage from being spilled after a blast at a Harlem wastewater-treatment plant, officials

Detectives hauled out more children’s clothes from murder suspect Levi Aron’s apartment yesterday and are investigating whether he is a first-time killer, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The theory is

More than 900 men and women from the Five Towns/Rockaway area filled the White Shul, Congregation Kneseth Israel for a community symposium offering suggestions for helping families cope with the

The Israeli Prison Service said Thursday they discovered a cellular phone in Marwan Barghouti’s prison cell in Hadarim Prison during a routine search. The Fatah’s former secretary-general in the West

As police prepared to remove more evidence from Levy Aron’s attic apartment, his legal team suffered a body-blow today. Defense co-counsel Gerard Marrone abruptly resigned from the case, telling Eyewitness

Investigators say they haven’t established any links between New York murder suspect Levi Aron and unsolved crimes in other states, a day after the Brooklyn man was indicted in the

He’s the controversial civil rights campaigner whose colourful past includes accusations of bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism. Now cable news network MSNBC is reportedly handing Reverend Al Sharpton the 6pm primetime

When Rabbi Nachman and Esty Kletzky announced the formation of the Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund, they did not know what to expect. Just one day later, the results have been

A Democratic polling firm said President Obama’s already weak job-approval numbers are “worse than they appear” and he likely would lose the election if it were held today. For the

Investigators spent four hours yesterday scouring newly discovered color surveillance video from a New Jersey gas station that shows Brooklyn monster Levi Aron escorting Leiby Kletzky to the bathroom late

The sweltering heat wave that has stifled the tri-state throughout the week and already has claimed nearly two dozen lives in its trek across the nation stretches into a sixth

A British police investigation into illegal phone hacking by journalists has expanded beyond Rupert Murdoch’s disgraced News of the World tabloid to many other newspapers, the British Information Commissioner’s Office

On Wednesday afternoon, the news broke that the Medical Examiner’s Office had announced the official cause of death of Leiby Kletzky a”h. What didn’t make the news, however, was the

A group of computer hackers claims to have breached NATO security and accessed hordes of restricted material. The group called Anonymous says it would be “irresponsible” to publish most of

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday had an outburst in court as he was testifying in the corruption trial against him. “It’s not me that traveled to lectures to