A longstanding agreement that allows 60 city fire engine companies to be staffed with five firefighters expires Monday. New York City isn’t planning to renew the agreement, and the firefighters’
The 74-page bill was sent to the Senate late Friday, the last possible time to allow for a Monday vote. Republicans, who narrowly control the chamber and overwhelmingly support a cap on property tax growth, welcomed the measure, saying they would seek action immediately. “New Yorkers need and deserve relief from high property taxes, and […]
[VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] In August 2009, Journalist Charlie Rose of the PBS Network visited Cairo, and interviewed President Hosni Mubarak. Given the current situation in Egypt, this video is
Yemen – A Yemeni Jewish child was kidnapped from Reda district in Amran province on Saturday, informed source told media outlets. Yameen Ameran Al-Nahari, 8 years, disappeared while the Jewish
The Monticello Fire Department was on the scene battling a fire at a Kosher winery in Sullivan County, Sunday evening. Fire Departments from multiple towns were dispatched to the Armon
Israeli security forces have assessed the security situation over the past few days following the development of events in Egypt where the masses continue to protest against the thirty-year reign
Maybe you’ve heard about the dust-up between American Airlines and several online travel agencies, including Orbitz and Expedia. Maybe you’ve noticed that when you go fare-shopping on those travel sites, you aren’t offered any American flights. “It’s really an inside baseball kind of story,” admits William Swelbar, a research engineer in MIT’s International Center for […]
The active winter continues as a high pressure system brings another arctic chill into the Tri-State after a slow snow melt on Sunday morning. That blast will arrive over the next 24 to 36 hours as Sunday’s high reaches 36 degrees. The low will be 29 and will continue to drop into the work week. […]
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today: “We are anxiously monitoring what is happening in Egypt and [elsewhere] in our region. Last night, I spoke with US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. I also held consultations with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, […]
As the dangerous situation continues to unfold in Egypt, YWN will be loading the latest videos available from Egypt in this post. As new videos are added, the time will be changed in the headline. WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
New York City could lose $1 billion in education aid from the state, forcing the nation’s largest school system to cut more than 21,000 teachers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday.
Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi issued a strong statement of support Saturday for the Tunisian revolution that ousted longtime strongman Zine el Abidine ben Ali and the ongoing uprising against
Video shot on Saturday morning in Cairo by Egypt’s Daily News, an English-language newspaper, gives a sense of the confusion there about which side the military is on. The newspaper’s
“The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising,” British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday. According to the report, the US-backed figures have been planning a regime
[ALL UPDATES ARE FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON – UPDATES FROM MOTZEI SHABBOS IN STORIES ABOVE] As darkness fell Friday, thousands of angry Egyptians defied a government curfew and stinging police tear
Stocks tumbled, putting the market’s eight-week win streak at risk, as fears over unrest in Egypt sent oil prices surging and investors scurrying to safer assets. The Dow Jones Industrial
For just $100, you too might be able to own a copy of President Obama’s birth records. Democratic lawmakers in Hawaii introduced a bill this week that would allow anybody to obtain Obama’s personal documents, an effort aimed to silence so-called “birthers” and close a projected $800 million budget deficit over the next two years. […]
[Videos below of President Regan’s speech, and footage of explosion] Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion. Seven people, one of them a school teacher, died in a
On the same day that Egypt has suspended online activity, Syria has also blocked internet service. Syria is known for a tight control of the internet, which was tightened further
FBI agents have executed 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks targeting major companies, the agency said. The United Kingdom’s
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