U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and New York State Senator Michael Gianaris, joined by Bruce Zimmerman and Ralph Sherman, sons of two of elderly women who were allegedly inappropriately searched, today called on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to designate a passenger advocate at every airport who can be summoned by passengers to hear their […]
A Dutch architectural firm is expressing regret over a design for towers in South Korea that evoke an image of the burning World Trade Center. The rendition of the buildings
The following is a NY Post article: A state assemblyman — angry over racist comments allegedly posted online by cops about the city’s West Indian Day Parade — is calling
Surfside, FL – An Orthodox Jewish rabbi initially barred from serving as an Army chaplain because he refused to shave the beard required by his faith was sworn in to
When it comes to Rick Perry’s presidential campaign, it’s do or die in Iowa. With a new focus on voter meet-and-greets, his Christian faith, and the announcement of a two-week,
What’s shaking in New Jersey? Apparently not an earthquake. People in the southern part of the state reported feeling the ground vibrate at about 10 a.m. Saturday. But a geophysicist
“Iran is the center of all corruption. They kill, threaten, and poison.They are a significant threat to the entire world, not just to Israel,” said President Shimon Peres today at the opening of the 2011 “Globes” Israel Business Conference taking place at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv. Peres made the remark in response […]
The total number of people whose phones were hacked by journalists at the News of the World tabloid is around 800, British police said Saturday. We are confident that we have personally contacted all the people who have been hacked or who are likely to have been hacked, Scotland Yard said. Police identified 5,795 potential […]
Rebuilding of the highway linking the New York State Thruway to New England has cost taxpayers $621 million, or $72 million per mile double the rate of similar work in the Northeast, an investigation by The Journal News in Westchester County, N.Y., found. “It’s unconscionable in every respect,” said Barry LePatner, a construction industry […]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked Chacham Ovadia Yosef SHlita to agree to the early release of a Palestinian holder of French citizenship who planned his assassination, Ynet reports. On Sunday, French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot met withChacham Ovadia who is expected to give Bigot a letter announcing his consent for the release of […]
Iran will not return a U.S. surveillance drone captured by its armed forces, a senior commander of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guard said Sunday. Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of the Guard, said in remarks broadcast on state television that the violation of Iran’s airspace by the U.S. drone was a “hostile act” and warned […]
An Israeli citizen was killed Sunday in the northern IDF base of Elyakim after being hit by a rifle bullet. The man, an employee of a company working with the
The Rev. Al Sharptons nonprofit paid him nearly $242,000 even as it carried $1.6 million in debt, according to documents obtained by The Post. In all, the controversial activist and his empire, including the National Action Network and two for-profit companies, were $5.3 million in the red, public records show. Most of NANs money […]
If Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa is remembered for anything, it may be for that moment where Mitt Romney made what seemed to many a substantial
Peruvian Cabinet chief Salomon Lerner resigned Saturday after less than five months in the post and was replaced by the interior minister, who inherits an unresolved dispute over the countrys biggest mining investment. The reason for Lerners resignation was not explained, but he was recently involved in failed attempts to negotiate an end to protests […]
Newt Gingrich declared in an interview that Palestinians are an “invented” people, a statement that drew outrage Saturday from top Palestinian officials. Gingrich’s campaign, while standing by the statement, afterward
YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of Meilech Weiss Z”L, who was struck and killed by a vehicle on Friday night. The tragic incident happened at the
Tens of thousands of Russians turned out in central Moscow and across the country Saturday to protest what they believe were rigged parliamentary elections. United Russia, the party of Prime
Prosecutors have offered to trim decades off the possible prison sentence for a New York City police officer if he pleads guilty to charges that he dealt in stolen goods
A Queens lawyer has been suspended for six months for falsely accusing a New Jersey state trooper of using anti-Semitic slurs against him, according to a ruling released yesterday. Attorney
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