U.S. chipmaker Intel will invest $2.7 billion over the next two years upgrading its plant in southern Israel to produce its next generation of chips. The amount includes a 740 million shekel ($210 million) grant recently approved by the Israeli government. “We are already in preparation for hiring,” Maxine Fassberg, general manager of Intel Israel, […]
Atlanta – A Spanish-language newspaper in Georgia has drawn bipartisan criticism for publishing a doctored photograph depicting the state’s new governor as a Nazi. El Nuevo Georgia editor Rafael Navarro
A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a “national cyberemergency,” and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year. Internet companies
Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi and members of the New York State Chapter of the National Jewish Legislators today sent a letter to Commissioner Darrel Aubertine calling on him to re-instate a portion of the kosher inspection unit that was eliminated by Governor David Paterson in 2010. “We feel that this population must continue to be protected,” […]
A federal judge entered a plea of not guilty Monday on behalf of Jared Lee Loughner to three counts of attempted murder in the mass shooting that wounded U.S. Rep.
An Israeli mobile phone provider is in trouble over an aborted ad campaign aimed at Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jews. Cellcom, the country’s most popular mobile carrier, received a rare order from the Israeli Communications Ministry to stop a marketing campaign targeted at haredi (ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic) Jews. The laws of the Middle Eastern country grant […]
This is the thing about TV, especially something wit the immediacy of a newscast – you’re always this close to a massive screwup. WLKY, a Louisville-based station, experienced an unfortunate brush with this reality while giving viewers a rundown of yesterday’s AFC Championship Game. The unfortunate chyron writer either needs to watch their typos or […]
As the conversion of Yaffo street in Jerusalem to a pedestrian promenade comes to completion, the area is filled with policemen directing and enforcing the new traffic regulations as well
The government collected a whopping $4 billion last year — the largest sum ever recovered in a single year — through its health care fraud prevention and enforcement efforts, according
1:15PM EST: The Illinois appellate court has issued a ruling saying the Chicago election board’s decision that Rahm Emanuel is eligible to be on the ballot should be “reversed.” The state court ruled that he is not a resident of Chicago. Emanuel did not live in the city while serving as President Obama’s chief of […]
2:00PM EST: A bomber strode into the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday afternoon and set off an enormous explosion, witnesses and Russian officials said, leaving bodies strewn in a smoke-filled terminal while bystanders scrambled to get the wounded out on baggage carts. Russian authorities said at least 34 people were killed […]
In just the past 24 hours, a total of 10 police officers have been shot across the nation – two of them fatally. The latest shootings come on the heels of an officer shot dead in Lakewood NJ, and another two officers killed in Miami Florida. Four officers were shot at a Detroit, Michigan, police precinct on […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagon Rav Nachum Zev Dessler ZATZAL, the legendary Mechanech of Cleveland, Ohio. Rav Dessler was a Menahael of the Mosdos Hachinuch
The U.S. Postal Service plays two roles in America: an agency that keeps rural areas linked to the rest of the nation, and one that loses a lot of money.
Do you ever wonder how much more advanced our world could be without all the naysayers and pessimists? Imagine if Christopher Columbus would have listened to all the expert geographers
An indictment has been filed with the Jerusalem District Court Sunday against a Kiryat Arba resident charged with attempted murder of a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed his wife at a
A 22-year-old tortilla factory worker in Brooklyn was fatally injured in a freakish accident early Monday when he fell into a dough-mixing machine, the police said. The man, whose name
The NYPD is “sick” of brazen bicyclists—and has started a major campaign to slam the brakes on riders’ out-of-control behavior. Early this month, the police began a ticket blitz targeting bike scofflaws by handing out a slew of summonses to riders who refused to follow basic traffic-safety laws, sources told The Post. In just the […]
The Hudson County Sheriff’s Office is sending two of its sheriff’s officers and two German shepherds in its K-9 unit to Ocean County to help search for the murder weapon
Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner and Republican Congressman Peter King have certainly had their differences of opinion. The most notable moment of their testy relationship came in July of last year
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