Rejecting a plea for leniency from Rep. Charles Rangel, the House ethics committee voted to censure the New York Democrat, marking the first time in more than three decades that
Today, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) and 39 of his colleagues announced they are sending a letter to President Obama urging him to pardon Jonathan Pollard, who received a disproportionately severe sentence when he was convicted of spying for Israel, one of the United States’ closest allies. “We write to urge you […]
2:55PM EST: For the second time in two weeks, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit has been sent to investigate a bias crime in the heart of Williamsburg’s Chasidic community. Numerous swastikas were found by a resident Thursday afternoon scrawled onto the walls of an elevator in a residential apartment building located on Penn Street just off of Marcy […]
A terror attack was thwarted in Jerusalem on Thursday, after a 50-year-old resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya tried to stab a young Jewish woman near Hadassah Mount
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) today condemned a report issued by the U.S. Department of State that criticizes the State of Israel for alleged religious discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox Jews. The Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor set forth numerous criticisms of Israel’s practices in its 2010 International […]
Senator Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn), Chair of the Finance Committee, wrote to Governor Paterson today opposing the plan to cut the two remaining inspectors from the state’s kosher inspection division, leaving just an administrator in place to monitor the enforcement of kosher food laws throughout the state. Sen. Kruger spoke out against previous cuts that reduced the […]
As Rep. Charles Rangel pleaded for “fairness and mercy,” the ethics committee’s top lawyer has recommended a censure of the New York lawmaker, one of the harshest punishments that the House can deliver short of expulsion from Congress. The full ethics committee will go into a closed session Thursday afternoon to consider the punishment, just […]
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) expressed doubts about the latest Catskills casino project yesterday, while a rival casino developer dismissed the plan as “improbable.” Silver, who owns a home in Sullivan County, told The Post he was skeptical the Wisconsin-based Indian tribe planning the casino would be able to get the rare federal waiver it […]
The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm. Orlando Sanford International Airport has
Assemblyman Vito Lopez represents Brooklyn, but for at least five years during his tenure, he admitted that he actually lived in Queens — an apparent violation of state law. This bombshell revelation comes courtesy of a $70,000 mortgage that Lopez (D–Williamsburg) and longtime girlfriend, City Planning Commissioner Angela Battaglia, took out in 1997 to buy […]
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani was found not guilty on all but one charge Wednesday by a civilian jury in New York, in a case with ramifications for President
Mayor Bloomberg today is expected to order thousands of layoffs next year in bruising budget cuts intended to close a massive gap, sources told The Post last night. Bloomberg will
Federal agents nabbed two more suspects in connection with the ongoing investigation into disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. Joanne Crupi was arrested by the FBI this morning at her home in New Jersey and Annette Bongiorno was arrested at her home in Florida. Charges filed against the women in connection with the Madoff investment […]
Angry community leaders in Stamford Hill have accused Hackney mayor Jules Pipe of “oppressing” orthodox Jewish families and pushing them out of the borough in a row over loft extensions. Veteran Tory politician Joe Lobenstein was joined by the borough’s four Conservative councillors in condemning Mr Pipe and the town hall’s treatment of large families. […]
11:06PM: The child has just been found by Lakewood Hatzolah – the search has been terminated. (Original article below) Lakewood, NJ – A massive search is underway Wednesday evening for
(Earlier reports below) NY1 reports: An interstate manhunt has ended in Connecticut with the arrest of a Bronx man who originally escaped police custody in New Jersey by driving in
Sarah Palin says she is seriously considering a run for the White House, and she believes she could beat President Obama in 2012, the former Alaska governor told ABC News’
Rescue teams are searching for a fighter jet that went missing during a routine nighttime training mission out of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. The Air Force pilot and his
Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska won re-election, using write-in votes to beat the businessman who had defeated her for the party’s nomination, the Associated Press said. Murkowski, 53, mounted a write-in challenge after losing the Republican primary in August to attorney Joe Miller, 43. The AP called the race today after Murkowski took […]
House Republicans have officially elected Ohio Republican John Boehner as its nominee for speaker of the House. The unanimous voice vote came in a closed-door conference meeting in the Longworth
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