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Mayor Bloomberg called Israel’s Acting Consul General in New York, Ido Aharoni to reiterate that, like always, New York City’s stands closely with Israel this afternoon. The Mayor asked if

The House on Thursday voted to formally censure Rep. Charlie Rangel for financial misconduct despite pleas from the New York Democratic lawmaker and some of his colleagues for a less

Congressional Democrats rammed a bill through the House of Representatives Thursday indefinitely extending the Bush-era tax cuts only for families making $250,000 a year or less. It would maintain the

ZAKA volunteers working in the area of the bus incident have discovered a pile of about 15 bodies, one on top of another. This shocking and horrific sight would suggest

Special to Yeshiva World News by Rabbi Tuvya Melonsky: In an unprecedented speech, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Grand Rabbis of Satmar, spoke out sharply against the standards

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President Obama’s clarification of his stance on the mosque to be built near ground zero shows that he needs new advisers, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says in an interview

The trustee seeking to recover funds for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme sued JPMorgan Chase on Thursday for $6.4 billion, accusing it of profiting from the huge

The following is a CNN report: Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday. But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found

Sweden’s royal family has been rocked by a new scandal which has exposed the hidden Nazi past of the Queen’s father. The latest revelations concern Walther Sommerlath, the late father

NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases shut down a 10th-floor treatment area after a patient said she saw a bedbug. The woman’s claim forced the evacuation of the hospital’s infusion center

Authorities say the shutdown on the New York State Thruway in suburban Buffalo has been extended to 16 miles (26 kilometres) of eastbound lanes, while a 10-mile (16-kilometre) westbound stretch

The Census Bureau will announce later this month that the New York Congressional delegation will shrink to the smallest it has been in 200 years, continuing to erode the state’s

A former worker at Memorial Sloan-Kettering stole nearly $4 million from the cancer center in a massive scheme that involved ordering a boatload of unnecessary printer cartridges and reselling them,

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