A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off the Kermadec Islands near New Zealand, triggering a tsunami warning, Reuters reports. The earthquake is about 1,000 miles from New Zealand’s mainland, NewsTalk Radio
New York – A group of Jewish American citizens are planning an urgent appeal to the US State Department to take the necessary action to ensure that the destruction of
Facebook on Wednesday announced a video calling feature that will be provided by Skype, the well-known Internet video chat program. The move comes shortly after Google launched a competing social
Transportation security officials are warning airlines on Wednesday that “human bomb” terrorists may try to use surgically implanted explosives to blow up planes. Though there is no intelligence about a specific plot, the Transportation Security Administration is nonetheless urging domestic and international carriers to be aware of the potential threat. The warnings are part of […]
The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood rampage in Texas will be court-martialed and face the death penalty. Fort Hood’s commanding general announced the decision Wednesday for Maj.
It was last June that longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas was interviewed on camera by RabbiLive.com’s David Nesenoff, an interview that landed Thomas in such hot water that she was ultimately dropped by her employer, Hearst Newspapers, and left the White House press corps. But Thomas hasn’t exactly gone away. She’s continued to chime […]
[INCREDIBLE VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A large dust storm rolling through the Phoenix area obscured visibility and created dangerous driving conditions Tuesday evening. These amazing pictures show a wall of
The following appears on The Hill website: If the election were held today, President Obama would get only 56 percent of the Jewish vote against a generic Republican candidate, down
Who is trying to hurt Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch? The Western Wall rabbi received a personal bodyguard several weeks ago after getting telephone threats and being harassed on a regular basis for the past few months. In the past month, unknown assailants threw stones at the rabbi’s car. Luckily, he wasn’t hurt. In a separate incident, […]
The following is an article by the AP: In the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, the fact that the news is being reported is itself important news. A
No, President Obama won’t be restricted to 140-character answers at today’s Twitter forum. In fact, Obama can speak for as long as he wants as he fields questions from Twitter
Vice President Joe Biden is on the 2012 re-election ticket, President Obama’s aides said Tuesday after a report suggested that the campaign may be willing to replace him with New
In under two hours, armed thugs robbed two businesses just a few blocks away from each other, Tuesday afternoon. The first store was robbed on 47th Street and McDonald Avenue, and the second store was robbed just a short while later on 18th Avenue and East 2nd Street. Dozens of cops were searching for the suspects, […]
The Mayor marched into a firestorm over Wal-Mart on Tuesday. The company’s donating $4-million to help create summer jobs for young people. So reporters asked the obvious, is that donation
A Somali man was brought to the city to be tried on nine terror-related charges, in a move to show President Barack Obama’s commitment to using civilian courts to try
Verizon confirmed Tuesday it will end its unlimited data pricing plan options for smartphone customers on July 7, continuing a broad shift to tiered-use plans amongst cellular carriers. Instead of the existing $30 monthly fee Verizon currently charges for an unlimited data package, the company’s new structure mimics that of others in the industry. Verizon […]
Mayor Bloomberg did a flip-flop today in the direction of French critics who’ve denounced the NYPD’s “perp walk” of Domique Strauss-Kahn by calling such public displays “outrageous” and a “circus.”
The Secret Service said Monday it will investigate the hacking of Fox’s political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says the law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect the president will conduct a probe of the false postings and that “we will […]
President Obama enjoys strong, steady support from Jewish Americans amid concerns that he faced an erosion in their backing. A new Gallup Poll found Monday that 60 percent of Jewish
Obama administration officials are offering to cut tens of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid in negotiations to reduce the federal budget deficit, but the depth of the cuts
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