President Obama and his family arrived Friday for a weekend getaway in Maine, but along with a little rest and relaxation comes criticism that the president is taking it easy
A court in Tyumen, Russia threw out incitement charges against a college professor who spread the Blood Libela medieval belief that Jews ritually murder Christian children, according to a report by the Slavic Law and Justice Center. Svetlana Shestakova gave a series of lectures in 2008 on the topic of Sectarian Studies in a course […]
Sen. Charles Schumer raised $2.2 million for his re-election effort in the past three months, giving him nearly $24 million in cash in a race that is not expected to be competitive. The figures are not surprising given Schumers well-earned reputation as a prodigious fundraiser. His last campaign in 2004 left him with about $10 […]
The city Department of Health says it has found an unusually high number of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus this season, but no human cases have been detected yet.
Ninety-four people have been charged for their alleged participation in schemes to collectively submit more than $251 million in false claims to the Medicare program in the continuing operation of
I am an attorney practicing in Monroe and have read many articles in this publication that portray my fellow Hasidim as confrontational, aggressive and radical, while battling over hosts of issues. Many readers may erroneously assume that the vast majority of Hasidim support and promote this form of contentious behavior we don’t. I have […]
A former State Department analyst was sentenced to life in prison Friday for spying for Cuba for almost 30 years. His wife and partner in spying received a sentence of
The so-called “underwear bomber” apparently isn’t the only terrorist who wanted to stage a X-mas day attack in the United States last year. Another plot targeting night clubs and restaurants
U.S. stocks slid, wiping out a weekly advance, as revenue at Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and General Electric Co. missed analyst estimates and a gauge of consumer confidence
An NYPD helicopter was circling overhead late at night, making a lot of noise, an Edgewater Park man woke up and wondered what to do. Then, literally, a light went
Hackensack, NJ – A parking garage at a New Jersey apartment building tower collapsed this morning and rescuers are being called to the Hackensack building to determine if anyone has
Turkish diplomats and government officials told the New York Times that the Turkish organization that led the Gaza-bound flotilla in late May has extensive connections with Turkeys political elite, and the groups efforts to challenge Israels blockade of the Hamas-run territory received support at the top levels of the governing party. A senior Turkish official […]
After a decade of hit products that made Apple the cutting-edge darling of the mobile and computing world, the rollout of the iPhone 4 has been an atypical and ugly
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake woke the Washington metro region Friday, rattling homes and startling people. The U.S. Geological Survey says it happened at exactly 5:04:49 a.m. about 3 miles under
In one of the largest penalties in Wall Street history, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil charges that it duped clients by selling mortgage
As they drove together along the back roads of Kennedy International Airport on a surveillance mission, the older of the two men pointed out the fuel tanks yet again, re-emphasizing
Gov. Paterson today is expected to sign a controversial bill that would delete an NYPD database with the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were stopped and frisked
A top Democratic money man for Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential run was yesterday tossed in jail for 12 years for bank fraud. Hassan Nemazee, 60, the finance chair for Clinton’s campaign, pleaded guilty in March to a $292 million ponzi swindle. The investment banker was facing more than 19 years but Manhattan Federal Judge Sidney […]
Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that $4,995,121 in federal grants are coming to Jewish synagogues, schools, and community centers across the New York City area.Jewish institutions across all five boroughs and Nassau County will receive funding under the Urban Areas Security Initiative Nonprofit Security Grant Program (UASI-NSGP). Seventy-one non-profit Jewish organizations were qualified […]
6:55PM EST: Highly credible sources tell YWN that an NYPD Inspector has just taken his life while on the job. The Inspector, whose name can not yet be published, is
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