Temperatures could take a nosedive in the tristate region. The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for Sussex, Warren, Morris, Hunterdon, Somerset, Passaic, and parts of Bergen, Essex

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace hammered Vice President Joe Biden’s excessive smiling and laughing during the debate, saying that he’s never seen anyone be so disrespectful in a presidential or vice presidential debate. And Wallace said that he’d seen most of them — all but the first four in 1960. He called his demeanor “unprecedented.” […]

Forty-eight percent of voters who watched the vice presidential debate think that Rep. Paul Ryan won the showdown, according to a CNN/ORC International nationwide poll conducted right after Thursday night’s faceoff. Forty-four percent say that Vice President Joe Biden was victorious. The Republican running mate’s four point advantage among a debate audience that was more […]

Escalating a confrontation with Russia, Turkey’s prime minister said Thursday that Russian military equipment and munitions bound for Syria’s Defense Ministry had been confiscated from a Syrian civilian jetliner on a Moscow-to-Damascus flight, which was forced to land in Ankara on suspicion of illicitly carrying war material. The accusation by the prime minister, Recep Tayyip […]

The Queens District Attorney on Thursday told the mother of an unarmed motorist who was fatally shot last week by a New York City Police detective that a grand jury

New York, NY – Several Jewish organizations and three rabbis filed suit today against the New York City Department of Health (DOH) seeking an injunction against regulations that would illegally

In response to rising crime statistics and increasing concerns from local communities, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway) has called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to stop ignoring the problem and give the NYPD the tools and resources they need to be successful in keeping our neighborhoods safe. “Commissioner Ray Kelly and our local precincts do an […]

The latest news in the Walmart labor protests — which have included walkouts and marches in Dallas, San Diego, Chicago and Los Angeles — is the threat of a strike

The vice presidential candidates meet for their only debate Thursday night in Kentucky. While vice presidential debates are not known as being game-changers, after President Barack Obama’s widely criticized performance during the first presidential debate against Mitt Romney, analysts say the stakes are especially high in the contest between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden […]

Mitt Romney is gaining in three key swing states one week after his strong debate performance, according to a new poll released late Wednesday. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist

The IDF on Thursday confirmed the discovery of the remains of a Druze soldier who had been missing since May 2005, ending seven years of searches and uncertainty for his

A day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called early elections, the rumor mill over the possible return of his immediate predecessor, Ehud Olmert, is working overtime and dividing the political world. Haim Ramon, an associate of Olmert’s who is trying to forge an anti-Netanyahu alliance of Center-Left parties, said Wednesday that Olmert had yet to […]

The Israel Police today announced that it has uncovered a gambling and money laundering ring which had a turnover of over $1 billion over the past two years. The police

If you live in New York and want to vote in November or you want to cast a ballot in next year’s mayoral primary, Friday is the last day to

The City Council began weighing on Wednesday rules to tighten controls on the New York City Police Department, including appointing an independent inspector general to monitor the force. In a

The U.S. trade deficit widened in August as exports fell to the lowest level in six months, a worrisome sign that a slowing global economy is cutting into demand for

In 2011, New York City police officers shot and killed 9 suspects and injured 19 more, the second-lowest annual toll in recent city history, according to a Police Department report. The report concluded that the experiences of the 62 officers last year who fired at suspects demonstrated that “restraint is the norm” in police shootings. […]