Taxed-out New Yorkers are voting with their feet, with a staggering 1.6 million residents fleeing the state over the last decade, a new report found. That’s as if the entire populations of Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, White Plains and West Babylon combined had packed up and left. For the second consecutive decade, New York led the […]
After years of steady declines, New Jersey’s notoriously high auto insurance rates are on the rise again. And, to stem the tide, the Christie administration is proposing new rules that would limit the kinds of medical care injured drivers can receive under their auto policies. The proposed rules could rekindle debate over auto insurance, an […]
An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons standing protectively beside him in white prison uniforms, pleaded innocent
A convicted Muslim American terrorist who killed a U.S. army soldier two years ago has admitted he also fired ten bullets at a rabbi’s home in Arkansas, according to a letter obtained by the Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act. Abdulhakim Muhammad said he shot at the home of Little Rock Reform leader […]
Two years after introducing direct flights to Brazil, El Al today announced that it is cancelling its flights to Sao Paulo from November 10. El Al said that the route
A man who jumped the White House fence on Tuesday was apprehended by uniformed Secret Service officers who approached him with guns drawn. After the man jumped the fence, armed
When New York City firefighters and police officers rushed into the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, their commanding officers on the street had little knowledge of
The recent drought has ruined millions of acres of farmland in Texas, turning lakes into mud puddles, and has many praying for rain. But in the East Texas city of
The Samaria District Military Court on Tuesday convicted Hakim Awad, 18, in the murder of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar five months ago. Awad was also convicted
Stocks sold off sharply to end at session lows Tuesday with the Dow down for an eighth day amid economic worries and even after President Obama signed a bill to
Town of Ramapo Supervisor Christopher P. St. Lawrence today called on the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to reject a new rate hike request from Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R). St. Lawrence sent a letter today to PSC Secretary Jaclyn A. Brilling and requested intervenor status, which would enable him to take […]
Vice President Biden found himself under fire Tuesday from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), who condemned alleged comments he made attacking the Tea Party.
About 200 laborers stood down from their jobs for a second day Tuesday at the World Trade Center site as part of a citywide work stoppage over contract disputes and
Communities across the nation, are taking part in the National Night Out Against Crime tonight to promote police-community relations. National Night Out Against Crime was created by the National Association
In recent years, a number of the state’s ethnic communities have complained that police do not take hate crimes seriously, but Victoria Police has hit back, with the force’s interim leadership team launching a three-year strategy to address the issue. Recognising the increasing diversity of the Victorian community and the lack of an organised approach […]
Treasury won an immediate reprieve of $400 billion in new borrowing authority Tuesday, as the Senate gave final approval to a hotly contested debt and deficit-reduction agreement hammered out with
[By Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)] Over the past few weeks, Congress has been engaged in a very important debate. It may have been messy. It might have appeared to some like their government wasn’t working. But, in fact, the opposite was true. The push and pull Americans saw in Washington these past few […]
New York State education officials announced Monday that they had begun to review the way they detect and prevent cheating on standardized tests, taking a step to avoid the cheating
Of Verizon customers planning to buy an iPhone in the future, many will skip the iPhone 4 and go straight for the yet-to-be-released iPhone 5. According to a small survey by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, 74 percent of Verizon subscribers are holding out purchasing an iPhone until the iPhone 5 comes out. “We believe […]
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant said Monday that it measured the highest radiation levels within the plant since it was crippled by a devastating earthquake. However, it said the discovery would not slow continuing efforts to bring the plant’s damaged reactors under control. The operator, Tokyo Electric Power, said that workers on […]
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