German authorities said on Wednesday they had uncovered a network of far-right activists in prisons communicating by secret code. Among the names on the network’s address list was that of
A military judge is clearing the way for a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound to testify in the trial of an Army private charged in
President Barack Obama’s budget plan would increase taxes by $580 billion over the next decade, but it relies on many proposals that have been repeatedly rejected by Congress. Some were
The U.S. Postal Service says it will delay plans to cut Saturday mail delivery because Congress isn’t allowing the change. The Postal Service said in February that it planned to cut back in August to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages, as a way to hold down losses. But a statement Wednesday from agency’s Board […]
In light of the recent fare and toll increases instituted by the MTA on buses, subways, bridges and tunnels, Councilman David G. Greenfield questioned MTA officials at a recent City
President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive “grand bargain” to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy
10:40AM EST: Highly credible sources tell YWN that Rubin Ublies, the man suspected in torching more than 12 Mezuzos in Williamsburg, has just been taken into custody. Authorities say they used facial recognition to identify the suspect as Rubin Ublies. Police say he was spotted by surveillance cameras lighting a match in the Clymer Street building where the […]
Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned over a scandal in 2011, says he’s weighing a run for New York City mayor this year. The Democrat tells New York Times
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after police say he made a bomb threat outside the White House. D.C. police spokesman Araz Alali says the man approached an officer at
10:20AM EST: As was reported earlier, police were initially investigating whether the incident could have been a terror attack, but later assessments pointed at a failure in the truck’s brakes. “At this moment in time we don’t believe it was a terror attack,” Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told The Times of Israel. ”We strongly believe […]
Police are searching for a 35-year-old man in connection with the burnings of a dozen mezuzahs, Hebrew-inscribed parchments affixed to doorways of Jewish homes, in Brooklyn over the last several
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to consider liberalizing access to the Kosel, officials said on Wednesday, citing concern that police-enforced Orthodox controls on women worshippers alienate Jews abroad. A
Jewish leaders this week pointed to a recent independent study by Penn Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that found little evidence to support the claim that a circumcision practice
The Bronx district attorney is scheduled to unseal an indictment against a former state assemblyman and an attorney says it is part of a larger New York political corruption case.
The lawyer for a mayoral candidate’s former campaign treasurer says a rash of arrests in political corruption cases makes it likely that prospective jurors will show up for trial next
New York City has agreed to pay Occupy Wall Street protesters more than $100,000 for property damaged or lost when police cleared out their encampment in a downtown Manhattan park
A purse snatcher struck at a Southfield market, but a Good Samaritan went above and beyond to catch the suspect. Aron Tobin, who owns an auto parts remanufacturing company in
South Korea said on Wednesday it has asked China, North Korea’s only major ally, to rein in the hermit state and has raised its surveillance after the North moved at
The NYPD has released a photo of a person of interest in the Williamsburg Hate Crimes. He’s described as about 20 to 25 years old, and was seen inside 130
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