Two NYPD Officers were shot in the train station on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 62nd Street, law enforcement sources confirm to YWN. Both officers were taken to Lutheran Trauma Center
An off-duty police officer was shot in the leg during an apparent robbery in the Bronx, law enforcement sources say. The officer was shot at a the “Boston Auto Mall”
A New York county clerk justified his refusal to release the names and addresses of handgun permit holders to a newspaper, saying it would give stalkers and thieves a convenient roadmap to target potential victims — and determine whether they have a gun. “This certainly puts my public in danger,” Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant […]
After a period of instructing talmidim not to report to IDF induction centers, the Vishnitzer Rebbe Shlita is now changing his psak in light of a new agreement reached with
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is resting at home in New York after being treated for a blood clot and plans to return to her office next week, the
From their New Hampshire home, the parents of a foreign journalist who has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than a month ago appealed to his captors
The following is the results of an election poll commissioned by the Yisrael Hayom daily newspaper carried out by New Wave Research involving 820 respondents representing a cross- section of
The U.S. State Department said on Thursday the time was not right for Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former diplomat Bill Richardson to travel to North Korea. State
Police in Britain have extradited a terror suspect to the United States to face charges that he took part in an alleged al-Qaida plot to detonate explosives aboard the New
The U.S. flood insurance program will run out of money to pay claims for Hurricane Sandy and other disasters in coming days unless Congress lets it borrow more funds, the
The House and Senate ushered in a new Congress Thursday, re-electing embattled Republican John Boehner as speaker and hailing one of their own who returned a year after being felled
Offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle U.S. government charges arising from BP Plc’s massive Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in
An Israel Radio poll released on Thursday 21 Teves 5773 shows the Likud/Beitenu list continues to lose support as the right-wing Bayit HaYehudi list continues to gain momentum, moving from
Some major U.S. retailers had a tough December, with chains like Target and Family Dollar feeling the pinch as consumers were cautious in their holiday spending. The economy took a
The new 113th U.S. Congress, which convenes on Thursday, is set to take a fresh crack at a number of old, and highly contentious, issues, such as gun control, immigration,
As a congressional delay put into potential jeopardy a $60 billion in federal aid to rebuild from superstorm Sandy, leaders tapped by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are scheduled to
With the general elections drawing near, Yahadut Hatorah will be hosting a major Asifa to be held in the Jerusalem Convention Center (Binyanei Ha’uma). Gedolei Yisrael Shlita will be in attendance. To date, HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman Shlita and the Gerre Rebbe Shlita have confirmed they plan to attend. The event is scheduled to […]
Democratic mayoral contender Bill de Blasio yesterday tore into rival Christine Quinn’s decision to keep Ray Kelly on as police commissioner if she is elected mayor later this year. The public advocate, one of Quinn’s likely challengers, painted the closed-door move as a “backroom deal” orchestrated by Mayor Bloomberg. De Blasio admitted he doesn’t know […]
The stock market pulled back slightly Thursday, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average posted its strongest gain in more than a year. Retailers reported mixed sales and the
Likud MK hopeful Moshe Feiglin, who heads the Manhigut Yehudit faction, believes that residents of PA (Palestinian Authority) autonomous areas can be bought out. He proposes paying them a half
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