A strong earthquake Friday struck the same Japanese coast devastated by last year’s massive quake and tsunami, generating small waves but no immediate reports of heavy damage. Several people along
Many motorists don’t know it, but it’s likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there’s a snitch along for the ride. In the next few days, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to propose long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders — better known as “black boxes” — […]
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday, ending 45 years of exile with a visit that underscored the Islamist terror group’s growing confidence following a recent
The 2012 presidential election broke the $2 billion milestone in its final weeks, becoming the most expensive in American political history, according to final federal finance reports released Thursday. The reports detailed a last-minute cascade of money from mega-donors and an onslaught of spending by the Obama and Romney campaigns and “super” political action committees. […]
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The Washington Post, one of the few major newspapers not yet charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to introduce a payment system next year, the Wall
A man accused of plotting to storm a Seattle military recruitment center with machine guns and grenades in retaliation for U.S. military conduct in Afghanistan pleaded guilty on Thursday to
Three drivers nabbed by New York City cameras monitoring traffic violations have filed suit challenging their tickets, claiming the city’s yellow traffic signals are rigged to turn red too quickly.
New York and New Jersey officials say trains, tracks, tunnels, bridges, roads, and airports damaged from Superstorm Sandy will cost billions of dollars to repair – and that even more
The Muslim Brotherhood’s main office in Cairo was set ablaze on Thursday, the group’s political party said, and another office used by the party was torched in a suburb south
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has for a first time appointed a spokesman, Ziv Maor, a member of the dati leumi community. Maor, 28, becomes the first ever official spokesman
It is difficult to envision just how one makes off with the engine of an F-16 fighter plane, but according to a Walla News reports, a number of the engines
Austria’s official Jewish organisation has banned billionaire Ron Lauder, head of the World Jewish Congress and a former U.S. ambassador, from its property over complaints he meddled with its elections.
U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday prevented a simple majority vote on a proposal to give Democratic President Barack Obama unilateral power to raise the U.S. debt limit.
The United States has seen intelligence raising serious concerns that President Bashar al-Assad’s government is considering using chemical weapons, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday without elaborating on the nature of that intelligence. “I think there is no question that we remain very concerned, very concerned that as the opposition advances – in particular […]
“Thank you very much Prime Minister Ne?as, Petr, for the warm welcome you have given me and my delegation here in Prague. It’s good to be back here again, to follow up on our bilateral relations, which are improving rapidly, and our friendship that has grown stronger by the day. “But my real purpose in […]
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While he held a prominent senior slot on the Labor ticket, veteran MK Amir Peretz on Thursday morning, hours ahead of the deadline to submit party lists, announced he is
A new program for chareidi women is about to get underway, under the auspices of the Jerusalem Welfare & Social Services Division which controls the city’s public health services. The impetus behind the initiative is Rabbi Shlomo Braska (?????), who operates yeshivos that include professional training for chareidim. The nursing program has been in the […]
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina conservative who made waves by condemning House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner’s offer to resolve the fiscal cliff stand-off, will retire from the
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