After days of contentious negotiations and last-minute reversals by two Republican senators, New York became the sixth and largest state in the country to legalize same-gender marriage. Pending any court

The city will avoid massive teacher layoffs and keep 20 fire companies open under a budget deal reached late Friday night between the mayor and the City Council. It comes

An NYPD officer claims in a lawsuit that he may be forced to retire due to a hand injury he sustained during a brutal beatdown by fellow officers outside his

Israel made a final diplomatic push to halt a flotilla planning to break its embargo of the Gaza Strip and prevent confrontation similar to that of a year ago when

President Obama hit the links today, making it 13 weekends in a row that he’s gone golfing. As some of you speculated, with Michelle on safari in Africa, golf was

4:50PM (Friday): The Cuomo administration and legislative leaders have reached agreement on language to protect religious institutions from obligations to recognize same-gender marriage, two people involved in the negotiations said

The following statement was just released by the White House: Nearly five years have now passed since Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel and abducted Gilad Shalit. During this time, Hamas

Fox News reports: A U.S. lawmaker wants the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate allegations that Delta Airlines has entered into an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could prohibit American Jews

Legislators worked methodically Friday to clear away a raft of standard bills to make way for a pivotal same-gender marriage vote as advocates and Republicans who hold the key agreed

Shomrim London NW volunteers were called to the scene, at the north end of Golders Green Road on Sunday evening, when three Eastern Europeans threw glass bottles and shouted obscene

A mobile phone of Usama bin Laden’s trusted courier recovered in the U.S. raid last month that killed both men in Pakistan contained contacts to a militant group that is

President Obama hit the Big Apple last night hoping to score a fund-raising hat trick for his re-election campaign — but he faced lackluster donors tired of being taken for

Senate Republicans stunned the Capitol last night by abruptly adjourning without holding a much-anticipated vote on same-gender marriage — a move that also allowed rent regulations to expire. Senate Majority

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is weighing fresh concern about the sweeping nature of domestic spying using one controversial section of the Patriot Act. This particular part of that law

More than a dozen graves at the historic Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem have been vandalized at one of Judaism’s oldest burial places was the latest in a series

Another round of showers and severe thunderstorms moved through the region Thursday — and more of the same is expected Friday. A flash flood watch remains in effect through late

The following is from USA Today: Earlier today some Jewish and Christian readers in the blogosphere were fired up about stories that Delta Air Lines, in its new alliance with

The remains of 17 bodies found at the bottom of a medieval well in England could have been victims of persecution, new evidence has suggested. The most likely explanation is