A Democratic polling firm said President Obama’s already weak job-approval numbers are “worse than they appear” and he likely would lose the election if it were held today. For the

Investigators spent four hours yesterday scouring newly discovered color surveillance video from a New Jersey gas station that shows Brooklyn monster Levi Aron escorting Leiby Kletzky to the bathroom late

The sweltering heat wave that has stifled the tri-state throughout the week and already has claimed nearly two dozen lives in its trek across the nation stretches into a sixth

A British police investigation into illegal phone hacking by journalists has expanded beyond Rupert Murdoch’s disgraced News of the World tabloid to many other newspapers, the British Information Commissioner’s Office

On Wednesday afternoon, the news broke that the Medical Examiner’s Office had announced the official cause of death of Leiby Kletzky a”h. What didn’t make the news, however, was the

A group of computer hackers claims to have breached NATO security and accessed hordes of restricted material. The group called Anonymous says it would be “irresponsible” to publish most of

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday had an outburst in court as he was testifying in the corruption trial against him. “It’s not me that traveled to lectures to

A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday night for going on a shooting rampage that he said was in retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Mark Anthony Stroman, 41, was

A cop who told investigators he was unfairly transferred for arresting a troubled Bronx prosecutor has gotten a favorable transfer closer to home, sources said. Elliot Zinstein, who was shipped

After 30 years of spaceflight, NASA’s iconic space shuttles will fly no more. The space agency’s storied shuttle program ended today (July 21) when the shuttle Atlantis soared down from

A lengthy, blistering heat wave that is blanketing the eastern half of the United States is putting significant stress on the nation’s power grid as homeowners and businesses crank up

Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced yesterday that New York took in nearly $800 million more than expected during the first three months of the new fiscal year — but he

Various countries have sent secret messages to Israel informing Jerusalem that they are aware that Mossad agents are using their passports in overseas operations, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday. The countries,

A Los Angeles lawmaker is pushing legislation that would bar cities and counties from banning male circumcision – a proposal aimed squarely at San Francisco. A San Francisco initiative seeks

The city Health Department is warning swimmers and kayakers to stay out of the Hudson River after a four-alarm fire shut down a Harlem waste treatment plant Wednesday – causing

The following is a WCBSTV Exclusive: There were charges Wednesday that the FDNY is stretched so thin that response times to a fire at an historic Upper East Side synagogue

4:54PM EST: [UPDATES IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Highly credible sources tell YWN that Levi Aron, the man who confessed to kidnapping and murdering Leiby Kletzky A”H, is being charged with an