The House followed the Senate on Thursday in approving a four-year extension of the government’s Patriot Act powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists, casting
A Muslim cleric accused the Iranian president of wanting “friendship with Israel,” an Iranian website associated with the opposition reported on Thursday. According to religious scholar Mahmoud Nubian, Ahmadinejad’s top
It was meant to be, as Barack Obama described it in London with his British counterpart beside him, another unified mission to storm the beaches of Normandy in the name
Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned state lawmakers Thursday that if they oppose legalizing same-gender marriage they may be remembered as civil rights obstructionists similar to those who opposed the abolition of
The following is a report by USA Today: Are you ready to pay for everything via your smartphone? Google is the latest tech company banking on it. At a packed
Pakistan has agreed to allow the CIA to send a forensics team to examine the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, giving the agency permission to use sophisticated equipment
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will begin a nationwide bus tour on Sunday designed to drum up support for a potential presidential bid. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential
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New Jersey State Police statistics show that 230 people have died in traffic-related accidents so far this year (Jan. 1 through May 25, 2011), which is up almost 18-percent from
[The following is by Alana Goodman for Commentary Magazine] One of the most important Democratic donors in the past two decades, whose generous contributions helped pay for the DNC headquarters
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Thursday that it is a “gross overstatement” to suggest that President Obama did serious damage to his support from Jewish voters when
A judge has struck down a law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most Wisconsin state workers. Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Thursday that Republican legislators
A City Councilman wants to slap speedy bike messengers and food delivery cyclists with license plates that make them easily identifiable. “Messengers and folks who work for restaurants tend to
A Marine in town for Fleet Week is dead after being struck by a passing car. The fatal collision has resulted in all 900 Marines visiting New York reviewing street
There’s a lot going on at Oorah now as they count down the final hours to this motzei Shabbos, when their Oorah-thon hits the airwaves. The event will once again
Benzion Miller, the man who sent the three boys on their trip to Japan, is scheduled to be released from jail tomorrow, after serving only eight months in the Matisyahu
A Brooklyn man was rescued during an early morning blaze by firefighters from a local company that may end up the chopping block. Ladder 161 in Coney Island responded within
Please be Mispallel for Hagon HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg Shlita, the Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Ohr in Yerushalayim, who has been hospitalized in Shaarei Tzedek Hospital. His exact condition is
Maggie Haberman at Politico reports: The developer and NBC reality TV star, who this week said wouldn’t rule out getting back into the 2012 race he ditched two weeks ago,
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