The Postal Service said its loss widened to $3.2 billion in the first three months of 2012 and repeated on Thursday its warning that it will likely default on payments
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today presided over a Police Memorial Day ceremony at One Police Plaza honoring 15 members of the New York City
Bill Clinton thought so little of President Obama � mocking him as an �amateur� � that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primaries, a new book claims. �The country needs you!� the former president told Hillary Clinton, urging her to run this […]
New details are emerging about the agent sent by Saudi counterterrorism agents into Yemen to track a plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner.
When midnight rolled around and flight traffic thinned out, air-traffic controllers guiding planes in the busiest U.S. corridor whipped out laptops to watch movies, play games or gamble online. Controllers
An elderly Manhattan couple whose car became stuck near their wooded Catskills vacation home died after nine fruitless attempts to make a cellphone call for help and after the woman
The President’s Residence reported that President Shimon Peres was diagnosed with a hernia during his visit to Canada. He received immediate treatment and continued with his agenda for the trip.
Israel will not be invited to NATO’s May 20-21 summit in Chicago, the alliance’s top official said Friday. But he denied that alliance member Turkey had blocked Israel’s participation. Instead,
JPMorgan Chase, in a surprise announcement, said Thursday that it has suffered trading losses of $2 billion since the start of April. The group that suffered the losses is part
The Cuban government got a rare opportunity to put its position on a U.S. contractor jailed in Havana and on hostile U.S.-Cuba relations before an American audience Thursday when CNN�s Wolf Blitzer interviewed a top Foreign Ministry official. Josefina Vidal, via satellite from Havana, said that while Cuba is ready to dialogue with the U.S. […]
Historic correspondence by President George Washington to a Jewish congregation in Rhode Island is the centerpiece of an exhibit in Philadelphia this summer. The National Museum of American Jewish History
A class of 30 girls was visiting an airport in Venice Italy as part of a regular class outing when this latest anti-Semitic attack occurred. As the girls were getting
Israel�s new air force commander, Major-General Amir Eshel told the media that his force is �ready for anything�, signaling confidence in the shadow of a possible planned assault against Iran�s nuclear facilities. Eshel officially assumed his new command on Thursday, replacing Major-General Ido Nehushtan, who is retiring from IDF service after 37 years. Eshel thanked […]
It appears the number of people visiting Meron on Lag B�Omer increases annually. This year, estimates are upwards of 200,000 people. Over 1,500 police were assigned to the operation, including border police, Yassam commando forces and other specialized forces. Magen David Adom was out in force, even placing a helicopter on standby, deploying hundreds of […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of R’ Shmuel Shindler Z”L of Boro Park, a well known member of the Stolin Kehila. The Levaya will take place in
Egyptian officials on Thursday,�reported they intercepted an arms shipment which was intended for Sinai. The weaponry included should held missiles and anti-tank rockets, originating in Libya. The news of the report is in line with Israeli intelligence reports that warn Sinai is rapidly becoming a major terrorist base, due in no small part due to […]
A Chabad shaliach who is a resident of the Shomron community of Maale Levona was detained at Ben-Gurion International Airport upon returning from a half year shlichus with his wife
A group of doctors, researchers and dietitians is asking President Obama to keep his fast-food runs private. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit advocacy group, has asked the
House Democrats on Thursday urged the New York Police Department to purge its intelligence databases of information gleaned from its clandestine spying on Muslim neighborhoods. They also criticized the Obama
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation on Thursday that would have created a statewide health care exchange, as allowed under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In a message
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