When New Yorkers head underground, they cannot always be sure of what awaits them. The city’s subway system can be mysterious, with daily delays resulting from minor emergencies, track work and other events in the tunnels that riders know they will never truly understand. The city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been trying to provide a […]

While most speakers at the Faith and Freedom Coalition played up conservative themes, Donald Trump delivered a crowd-pleasing reprise of a few old favorite themes. But also in his sights:

In a glaring security breach, a Port Authority police supervisor allowed a PATH train with a potential bomb aboard to travel from Jersey City to the World Trade Center, sources

German officials said sprouts from an organic farm near the town of Uelzen played a role in the country’s lethal E. coli outbreak, returning suspicions to the region where the infections began last month. The outbreak has killed 22 people and sickened 2,333, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and put […]

Rep. Anthony Weiner ditched the Israel Day parade for the first time in years as the congressman continues to avoid answering questions surrounding the ongoing saga of an inappropriate picture that appeared on New York Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter feed. Weiner – who married a Muslim in 2010 – is famous for walking down the […]

A fire broke out in an apartment building on Rechov Aharon Fischel in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sunday night. Firefighters rushed to the scene of the blaze

The parents of a very sick child are pleading for help to save their daughter from a rare and deadly disease. One-year-old Ayelet Galena is fighting for her life. Ayelet’s is suffering from a rare disease and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant and now her parents are asking for your help. […]

President Shimon Peres’ Boeing 737 plane was hit by lightning on Sunday minutes after taking off from a Milano airport. No injuries or delays were reported. Peres was onboard an

Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012. Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year. “I think she could win,” Dean […]

Two state lawmakers are calling for an end to horse drawn carriages which is a popular tourist attraction in the city. State Senator Ton Avella, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and horse

A British schoolboy was set to earn up to £250,000 ($410,000) after inventing a doorbell that fools burglars into thinking somebody is home at an empty property, The Mail on Sunday reported. Laurence Rook, 13, from Whyteleafe in southern England, is the inventor of Smart Bell. The device dials a homeowner’s mobile phone when pressed, […]

Two U.S. senators said Sunday they will ask federal authorities to crack down on a secretive narcotics market operated on the Internet with anonymous sales and untraceable currency. Heroin, cocaine

“The Sunday Times” claims today that ships owned by the Ofer family that docked in Iran may have carried Israel Air Force Blackhawk helicopters, which were used by commando units.

After a week of facing some tough questions, Rep. Anthony Weiner Saturday had more explaining to do: why his Nissan Pathfinder has New York license plates but a 2007 registration sticker. A photo of Weiner behind the wheel of his more than 20-year-old SUV appeared in Saturday’s Daily News as he left his Washington home […]

The Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination – – even if that person is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. That’s the affirmative word from Tea Party

“I’m proud of what I did,” so declared Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, on Sunday just moments before an indictment against him and his partner Hakim Awad was filed before the