Rep. Dennis Kucinich showed up in Syria this week and held a press conference in which he appeared to praise embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — who is ruthlessly crushing opposition to his government — as “highly loved and appreciated by the Syrians.” But the Ohio Democrat released a statement Tuesday saying he was misquoted […]

Travelers were delayed at John F. Kennedy Airport Wednesday morning after about 100 turtles ambled onto a runway and blocked air traffic from moving. JetBlue first tweeted news of the

Residents downwind of a wildfire that is threatening the nation’s premier nuclear-weapons laboratory are worried about the potential of a radioactive smoke plume if the flames reach thousands of barrels

Brooklyn – Yesterday was the busiest day of the year for the New York City Council. It was the day that the Council would vote on the city’s $65 billion budget. Despite that, Council Speaker Christine Quinn took out the time to join her colleagues Council Finance Chairman Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Assistant Majority Leader […]

French ship Dignity which departed for the rendezvous with vessels participating in the Gaza flotilla on Saturday has apparently decided to skip the Athens stop and is en route to

The disgraced megathief is outraged at the maximum 150-year jail sentence federal Judge Denny Chin dropped on him two years ago. “Explain to me who else has received a sentence

The daughter of a Brooklyn man charged with attacking his Turkish neighbors and calling them “Arab terrorists” insisted Tuesday that her father wasn’t a bigot. “I’m very upset because I’m

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s irascible, unpredictable but devout president, may be forced to resign in the coming weeks as a political crisis far greater than the massive street violence which followed

The White House offered a vigorous defense Tuesday of a presidential campaign video filmed inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., saying no lines were crossed by using federal facilities in a political

The New York Police Department is stepping up counter-terrorism measures at hotels in the wake of a terrorist attack in Afghanistan. Police spokesman Paul Browne says the move wasn’t prompted by a specific threat in the city. But the nation’s biggest police department is taking no chances as it learns more about the attack on […]

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) has slammed a decision by the Dutch parliament to ban Jewish religious slaughter. CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt called the ban an outrage in that it would prevent Jews from living a Jewish life in The Netherlands. “We have passed the stage of arguing the nuances of intention of […]

President Obama and top White House aides are waging a behind-the-scenes push to win over skeptical big-dollar donors — whose early money is needed to help fund a dramatic summertime expansion of his battleground-state machinery. Campaign officials are working to broaden Obama’s network of “bundlers,” the well-connected rainmakers tasked with soliciting big checks from wealthy […]

European Jewish Congress (EJC) President Dr. Moshe Kantor slammed today’s decision by the Dutch Parliament to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughter. The new law requires that livestock must be stunned before being killed, contrary to Jewish law, and now passes to the Dutch Senate for ratification. EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor said that his organization is […]

Please take a moment and be Mispallel for Hagon Rav Chaim Stein Shlita, the Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe Cleveland, who has taken a turn for the worse R”L, and is in extremely critical condition. His name is Chaim Yaakov ben Chasia Miriam. Rav Chaim Stein, is the senior Rosh Yeshiva in the United States. As one […]

Malaysia Airlines has banned babies in the first-class sections of its Boeing 747-400 jets. It also plans to do the same in its yet-to-be-delivered Airbus A380 superjumbo jets, according to