A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction. The Sentinel-Standard of Ionia and MLive.com report
Gold dropped as much as 6.3 percent on Monday to below $1,400 per ounce for the first time since March 2011 as the market’s downward momentum gained speed after more
A Munich court said on Monday it would postpone the start of the trial of a suspected neo-Nazi until May 6 after Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled that it must provide
Ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro narrowly won Venezuela’s presidential election on Sunday, the electoral authority said, allowing him to continue the socialist policies of the late Hugo Chavez. The National
UPDATE: 10:30 PM: LPD says the missing man reportedly left messages at his home that he’s okay, in New York, and will be headed back home to Lakewood. Police and Chaveirim are reportedly monitoring the bus stops to make sure he gets home. UPDATE: 9:45 PM. Officials say there’s a chance he may be have boarded […]
There are just a few hours left to file taxes on time without filing an extension. But ahead of tax day on Monday, experts continue to warn about would-be scammers. “They’ve been stealing billions and billions of dollars of refunds,” credit.com founder and chairman Adam Levin told CBS 2?s Cindy Hsu on Sunday morning. Levin […]
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Hundreds of people stood in silence with the empty Kotel in the background as the siren commemorating Yom HaZikaron – Israel’s Day of Remembrance,
In 65 years, Israel has surpassed the dreams of its founders, emerging as the Middle East’s strongest military force, a global high-tech powerhouse and a prosperous homeland for the Jewish people. Yet it remains a divided society, and its most intractable problem — peace with its Arab neighbors — has yet to be resolved. On […]
The Cuomo administration says some 360 charging stations for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids will be installed across the state as part of a five-year initiative to expand their use.
Worried the Internal Revenue Service might target you for an audit? You probably should be if you own a small business in one of the wealthy suburbs of Los Angeles. You might also be wary if you’re a small-business owner in one of dozens of communities near San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta or the District of […]
The FIMI fund agreed to invest up to $75 million in El Al Israel Airlines in return for up to 47 percent of the flag carrier, Israel’s largest private investment fund said on Sunday. FIMI will form a controlling group in El Al with Knafaim Holdings, which owns 39 percent of the airline. Knafaim has […]
Sometimes the bait is a small amount of cash in a stray wallet. Or a credit card. Even a pack of cigarettes can do the trick. Police in New York City leave the items unattended — on subway platforms, on park benches, in cars — and wait to see if someone grabs them. The New […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear weapons.
A potentially deadly terror attack was thwarted yesterday morning (Saturday, April 13). A Palestinian male was arrested when he arrived at the Eliyahu crossing, armed with an improvised firearm, ammunition
The Internal Revenue Service only audits about 1 percent of individual tax returns each year. But the more money you make, the more likely you are to get audited. A
The FBI has requested more than $41 million to improve the bureau’s ability to collect and analyze cyber information and address “critical gaps” in its capability to monitor web activities. As part of an overall $86 million budget request for a “Next Generation Cyber Initiative,” the FBI wants to hire 36 employees, including 10 agents, […]
The following is from the Times Herald Record: Using donations collected from supporters last week, Assemblyman James Skoufis says he’s chartered a West Point Tours bus to take spectators to the site where Kiryas Joel is expected to resume construction of its controversial water pipeline following some court jousting on the issue Friday. Skoufis, a […]
Federal mortgage payment relief has been extended up to one year for more than 200,000 homeowners whose houses were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun
A World Health Organization official said Sunday that it wasn’t surprising that a new strain of bird flu had spread to China’s capital after sickening dozens of people in the
A high school English teacher who had students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment has been placed on leave. The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive writing by penning a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that “Jews […]
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