Iran’s foreign ministry says the Islamic Republic has sent invitations to all the world’s leaders to attend the Aug. 4 inauguration of its new president. Spokesman Abbas Araghchi was quoted by the semiofficial ISNA news agency as saying Sunday that American and European leaders and officials were among those invited to the swearing-in of Hasan […]
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Looking to court the Orthodox Jewish vote, promote your company or organization? Show me the money, says Assemblyman Dov Hikind. Other than serving as representative for the Orthodox Jewish community
US Secretary of State John Kerry can chalk up a victory as Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority) have agreed to return to the negotiating table following the secretary’s last round of meetings. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) announced on Shabbos (13 Menachem Av 5773) that the basis for his agreement to resume talks […]
Covering 10 presidents over five decades, Helen Thomas aged into a legend. She was the only reporter with her name inscribed on a chair in the White House briefing room — her own front row seat to history. Starting as a copy girl in 1943, when women were considered unfit for serious reporting, Thomas rose […]
The Republican effort to challenge Councilman David Greenfield has reached a blockade. Joseph Hayon, a Republican activist seeking the Republican line for the 44th City Council District, has apparently been
The nation’s military leaders are considering two sites in upstate New York — an active Army post and a shuttered Air Force base — and one site in Maine as potential missile interceptor sites on the East Coast. The Missile Defense Agency is looking at 10 sites on the East Coast, including Fort Drum in […]
The authority that runs New York City’s subway system is considering whether to raise money by selling naming rights to some of its stations. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently drafted
A handful of top Democratic candidates for mayor of New York City plan to spend the night at a public housing project in Harlem as part of an unusual campaign
One week after a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, people gathered nationwide Saturday to press for federal civil rights charges
After a week of chaos, the suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings emerged from his hiding spot bloodied and seemingly exhausted — the red dot of a sniper’s rifle lighting his forehead. Photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev released by a state police officer give a long-awaited glimpse into the end of an episode that kept […]
On a recent evening, George P. Bush was telling a packed room of wealthy North Texans how he got his start in politics. It was May 1979 and the then
Six months ago, President Barack Obama stood on the Capitol steps and offered a soaring liberal vision for his second term. Buoyed by re-election, he said the nation must pursue
During the bleakest days of the Great Recession, Congress agreed in bipartisan votes to bail out two of Detroit’s biggest businesses, General Motors and Chrysler. Today, however, there seems little
6:40PM (Friday): YWN Catskills has received multiple reports of power outages in some developments in the Fallsburg area. Lake Forest on Brickman Road is currently without power, as is some
A teenager survived the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco only to be struck and killed by a fire vehicle rushing to fight a blaze that broke out on the
Police could soon be getting some extra backup — from their cars. Ford Motor Co. has a new surveillance system for police cars that automatically sounds a chime, locks the doors and puts up the windows if it detects someone approaching the car from behind. The system — which Ford is patenting — is the […]
President Obama spoke about the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws on Friday at the White House. PRESIDENT OBAMA: I got you. All right. Sorry about that. Do you think anybody else is showing up? Good. Well, I — I wanted to come out here first of all to tell […]
Bayit Yehudi party leader Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday responded to a Reuters report pertaining to efforts to restart negotiations between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority). According to Reuters,
The National Security Agency is implementing new security measures because of the disclosures by former NSA-systems-analyst-turned-fugitive Edward Snowden, top defense officials said Thursday. NSA chief Keith Alexander said his agency
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