In this tech-savvy city teeming with commuters and tourists, the cell phone has become a top target of robbers who use stealth, force and sometimes guns. Nearly half of all

A worker at a 7-Eleven in Brooklyn has lost his job after he and other store employees were recorded ripping the clothes off a suspected shoplifter. The video was recorded

Israeli troops on Saturday commandeered a Gaza-bound ship that tried to break through Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled seaside strip, the military said. European lawmakers and other pro-Palestinian activists aboard

Palestinians voted for new local councils in dozens of West Bank towns in long delayed elections Saturday, part of an attempt by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement

Medicare is coming under scrutiny in the meningitis outbreak that has rekindled doubts about the safety of the nation’s drug supply. The giant health insurance program for seniors long ago

Assemblyman Gary S. Schaer (D-Passaic) and Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) today announced an agreement which aims to ensure timely burial for Jewish New Jersey residents. In most circumstances,

They began as tools in military combat. Now aerial drones are being considered by Bay Area law enforcement agencies as a cost-cutting way to replace helicopters, and use technology to

The British hospital treating a 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban raised hopes for her recovery Friday when doctors said she was able to stand with

A car bomb ripped through eastern Beirut on Friday, killing at least eight people, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in more than four years. Dozens of people were wounded in the attack. While the motive was not immediately […]

Workers at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery plant heavily funded by taxpayers, tell Target 8 that they have so little work to do that they spend hours playing cards and board games, reading magazines or watching movies.  They say it’s been going on for months…. “There would be up to 40 of us that would just sit […]

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and his state of health is so precarious that he has trouble feeding, speaking and recognizing people, said a Venezuelan physician who assured El Nuevo Herald that he has access to firsthand sources and information. “He suffered an embolic stroke and recognizes absolutely no one,” said […]

This Friday morning, tens of thousands of residents in Midwood & Boro Park woke up to find the fifth print edition of Yeshiva World News on their doorsteps. This free

‘Women of the Wall’ chairwoman Anat Hoffman confirms signing a police order banning her from the Kosel for 30 days after being arrested on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan after reciting Shema out loud. The battle of these women has been ongoing for many years, returning to the Kosel every rosh chodesh, trying to put on talis […]

Everyone in Haifa’s Seret-Vishnitz community knows Boris, the Romanian goy who is a maintenance worker and the local ‘shabbos goy’- gladly assisting Jewish families every Shabbos. A decision was made to check into some recent statements made by Boris, and this probe revealed he is indeed Jewish, as per the p’sak of the beis din […]

At the Missouri college where Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis enrolled, a classmate said he often remarked that true Muslims don’t believe in violence. That image seemed startlingly at odds

Wet weather is making for a messy commute throughout the tri-state this morning as scattered showers and locally heavy thunderstorms move through the area. A few of these thunderstorms will

In a modest milestone for President Barack Obama’s high-speed rail vision, test runs will start zooming along a small section of the Amtrak line between Chicago and St. Louis at