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
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are returning to the sometimes-nasty rhetoric of a close presidential campaign after a brief truce, renewing their focus on two battleground states and preparing for next week’s final, perhaps pivotal, debate. Romney and Obama set aside their differences — mostly — to poke fun of themselves and […]
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
Those annoying prerecorded phone pitches known as robocalls aren’t just getting on the nerves of millions of consumers: The government is fed up too, and it’s turning to the public for help, offering a cash reward for the best way to stop the unwanted sales calls. The Federal Trade Commission, which oversees the government’s do […]
Auckland, New Zealaned – Jewish graves at a central Auckland cemetery have been desecrated with anti-semitic messages. Police are appealing for information after about 20 gravestones were vandalised at the
A 5-year-old New York City boy with a history of sleeping-walking has been found safe and sound. Police say his mother reported him missing early Thursday morning as soon as
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says in a new interview that she can’t stand “whining” by women who are unhappy with the work and family choices they’ve made in life and complain that they have no options. Clinton, in the interview with Marie Claire, was discussing Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning at the […]
Vice President Joe Biden asked supporters Thursday at a Nevada campaign event, “How many of you know someone who served in Iraq or Iran?” Biden was joined at the event by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and embattled Senate candidate Rep. Shelley Berkley. At Biden’s question, Reid raised his hand. At the event, Biden also said that […]
There was a time when the newsweeklies set the agenda for the nation’s conversation — when Time and Newsweek would digest the events of the week and Americans would wait by their mailboxes to see what was on the covers. Those days have passed, and come the end of the year, the print edition of […]
Last December, the State Department issued a student visa to the Bangladeshi man arrested this week for trying to blow up the Federal Reserve building with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb, the State Department confirmed today. Twenty-one-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, who was arrested Wednesday as part of an FBI sting operation, wasreportedly […]
A new poll shows Republican Mitt Romney leading in Pennsylvania, a state that Republicans had all but written off just weeks ago but which is now listed as a toss up by the Real Clear Politics website. Susquehanna Polling and Research provided The Washington Examiner with a poll it conducted for state party officials that shows Romney […]
It is no secret that President Obama’s and green-energy supporters’ (from both parties) foray into venture capitalism has not gone well. But the extent of its failure has been largely ignored by the press. Sure, single instances garner attention as they happen, but they ignore past failures in order to make it seem like a […]
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who recently revealed his true colors on his Facebook page is now brazenly accusing Israel of “destroying any hope of the two-state solution”. Abu Mazen, who does little more than spend donor nation funds and accuse Israel of violations is at it again, doing what he does best, re-writing […]
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