The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government
There was a new parking decree Monday from Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Drivers will no longer be “nickeled and dimed” to death when they park on city streets. Instead, they’ll need
A 23-year-old Yeshiva Bochur is in critical condition after being struck by a bus early Tuesday afternoon, YWN Israel has learned. The accident occurred on the corner of Bar Ilan
In a sharp escalation of hostility along their disputed sea border, North Korean and South Korean forces traded fire Tuesday, a deadly skirmish that jacked up diplomatic tensions in a
The following Op-Ed by Rafi Sela, an Israeli airport security consultant, was printed in todays NY Times: The problem with the Transportation Security Administration is that it is both the
In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video
Iran’s parliament planned to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and was blocked from doing so by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing domestic newspaper
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Mrs. Irene Klass, Publisher of the Jewish Press. she was Niftar late Monday evening at Maimonides Hospital. She was in her
Relatives of two New Yorkers murdered in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, have sued Pakistan’s intelligence agency and the Kashmir-based terror organization that was reportedly behind the operation.
Two F-16 fighter jets briefly took to the sky over Washington on Monday after a small passenger aircraft violated the capital’s airspace restrictions, according to military officials. A portion of
After many hours of debates and political drama the Knesset approved in second and third readings the referendum law which requires a public majority and the votes of 60 Knesset
On Monday, the Orthodox Union, wrote a letter to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, regarding the proposed ballot initiative in San Francisco that would effectively ban Bris Milah, reported on
The developers behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque have applied for about $5 million in federal grant money set aside for redeveloping downtown Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided the offices of three hedge funds as part of a high-profile insider-trading investigation, and more could be on the way, according to people familiar
After a raid uncovered that three Charedi organizations have embezzled millions from the government, police revealed Monday that 40 other establishments were involved in the case. Six men were arrested
New York City won the ignominious prize of worst rush-hour traffic Monday, beating out Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Montreal in a study released before the crush of Thanksgiving traffic.
Americans preparing for Thanksgiving travel face the highest gasoline prices in more than six months, with prices at the pump topping $3 per gallon in New York and on the
Governor David Paterson is expected to announce a deal later today to bring an Indian-owned casino to the Catskills. Approving construction in Sullivan County would satisfy a land-claim settlement with
After decades of silence, former U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy have come forward to offer their accounts of what happened 47 years ago today.
The Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court has extended the remand for the six Charedi organization members who are under suspicion for defrauding the State out of millions of shekels. The remand was
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