A few evenings every month, some of Israels wealthiest and most powerful people can be found in a living room in this seaside city, waiting to have a few minutes with a rabbi they see as an adviser, guru or miracle worker. Yoshiyahu Pinto is slightly stooped, his long beard and hair unkempt. He looks […]
At first glance, the guy in the white polo shirt and khaki pants looks like anybody else walking down Broadway. He’s looking forward. He walks with purpose. Now, he’s stopping
The triple-digit scorcher that taxed the electrical grid and made life uncomfortable in the tri-state is expected to simmer down somewhat Sunday. National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Pollina said temperatures
Investigators recovered an old cellphone and computer yesterday from Brooklyn kid-murder suspect Levi Arons home, sources said. Cops spent most of their time in the basement of Arons Kensington home, and will check the phone and computer for evidence, sources said. The cops hauled five boxes and three large bags of evidence from the East […]
Airlines are tossing consumers aside and grabbing the benefit of lower federal taxes on travel tickets. By Saturday night, nearly all the major U.S. airlines had raised fares to offset
Monsey, NY – A man believed to have left his 2-year-old daughter inside a parked car for two hours during Fridays record-breaking heat is facing misdemeanor endangerment charges. The girl was taken to Nyack Hospital about 2 p.m. after one of her parents called Hatzolah Ambulance to report the girl had been left in the […]
The heat wave is in its sixth day of sweltering temperatures and stifling humidity and has caused power outages across the Tri-state area. Utilities are reporting record usage and are
An off-duty New York City detective on vacation was shot at a high-end South Beach boutique hotel early Saturday morning and rushed to Jackson Memorial Ryder Trauma Center. Miami Beach Police said they dont know what led to the shooting, but believe it was a random incident. An undetermined number of suspects are at large. […]
Iran’s president wants to shed the nation’s secrecy and forge ahead openly with developing nuclear weapons, but is opposed by the clerical leadership, which is worried about international reaction to
House Speaker John Boehner on Friday pulled out of negotiations with President Obama on raising the nation’s legal limit to borrow money, just days before an Aug. 2 deadline when
It was a day for breaking records in New York. At around 3:40 p.m. Friday, Con Edison announced that it hit an all-time, record-high 13,700 megawatt load, and said that
Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and a Democrat, is crossing party lines to endorse Republican candidate Bob Turner in the race for Anthony Weiners vacated seat in the 9th Congressional District. In a telephone interview, Koch told NY1 that he is backing Turner to send a message to President Barack Obama about […]
The heat wave that has melted the tri-state for the past week has broken a record in New York City, hitting 103 degrees in Central Park by early afternoon. The
Norwegian police — reportedly including anti-terror units — were responding Friday to a shooting at a youth camp run by the ruling Labor Party, where authorities confirmed that several people
The main defense lawyer for the man suspected of abducting and killing an 8-year-old boy he met on the street has acquired a new partner with experience in high-profile murder
A senior U.S. diplomat said Washington hopes an American government contractor imprisoned in Cuba will be released, even as the Maryland native was making a final appeal Friday to have
The heat wave that claimed lives as it staggered across the nation has settled into the tri-state, pushing temperatures to 97 degrees Thursday in Central Park and a record-breaking 103
Con Edison reduced power to tens of thousands of customers in Queens and Westchester County because of electrical equipment problems. The move comes as New York City swelters under an intense heat wave, with the real feel temperature expected to soar into triple digits today. The company says in a statement that the voltage reduction […]
The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp. relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemail of Sept. 11 victims, The
The Foreign Press Association in Israel sent a sharp letter to the Prime Minister’s Office Thursday, complaining of multiple humiliating incidents, which the organization claims both impedes foreign reporters’ work,
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