President Barack Obama is coming to the city today and, as is always the case, traffic is likely to follow. The president’s first stop will be a sandwich shop in

A threat and an attack against a synagogue in the synagogue of the Swedish city of Malmö last Friday have shocked the Jewish community. Security has been stepped up after

In advance of the July 29th Toeiva parade scheduled to begin in Jerusalem and conclude with a reception at the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the

New Yorkers will soon be asked to pay more to ride trains and buses that just weeks ago suffered the severest service cuts in a generation. The series of fare

Manhattan prosecutors made their best offer to the accused teenaged Starbucks bomber today: a grande three-and-a-half years behind bars if he pleads guilty to the 2009 Upper East Side blast.

While the Israeli military helicopter crash in the heart of Romania was not widely reported in the European country, any reports on the incident in local websites were swamped with

Bedbugs have gotten under New York City government’s skin. After a somewhat hands-off policy that left individuals and companies to handle bedbug problems on their own, the city Wednesday plans

American officials from the president down tried Tuesday to downplay the leak of tens of thousands of documents about the war in Afghanistan, a disclosure experts are calling the biggest

The family of police shooting victim Sean Bell has settled a civil case against the city, and city officials will pay more than $7.1 million to the plaintiffs. Bell was

The following is from the Wall Street Journal: The Paterson administration, under mounting pressure from county governments owed hundreds of millions of dollars by the state, is promising local officials

Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield today applauded the Taxi & Limousine Commission’s (TLC) Group Ride Vehicle Pilot Program, which will provide point to point, shared ride van service between specified

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States remained at a “sustained and troubling” level in 2009, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which compiles annually a statistical audit

On Tuesday afternoon (July 27), all seven men who were on board an Israeli Air Force CH-53 series helicopter were R”L confirmed dead. The fatal helicopter crash which took place

In case you haven’t learned the hard way, dropping off your rental car at the airport with an empty tank can cost you more in gas than your airfare. The

Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on “at least two countries” in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run

The Defense Department is unable to account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in Development Fund for Iraq monies in received for reconstruction in Iraq. This according to a

Military investigators are checking computers used by Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst charged this month with leaking classified information, to see if he is the source of thousands

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sent a warm thank you letter Chacham Ovadia Yosef in response to the latter’s “get well” card sent two weeks ago in the wake of reports

The fix is in for cops who toss out tickets for friends and family. The NYPD has started tracking every summons electronically – even before officers hand them out on

While the courts have been busy making decisions about digital rights, Washington has also been having its say on copyright law, at least as it relates to the iPhone and