The United States is providing hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid to countries that it borrows billions from, according to a report by Congress’s research arm. The Congressional
An American ship carrying 34 passengers, some Jewish, is set to join the new Gaza-bound flotilla in June, according to a New York Times report Thursday. Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker, 86, whose parents dies in the holocaust will also board the United States ship. “It’s in the tradition of Dr. King’s direct-action […]
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a Michigan pathologist who championed physician-assisted suicides, reportedly died early Friday after being hospitalized with kidney problems and pneumonia. The 83-year-old Kevorkian died at Beaumont Hospital in
President Barack Obama will defend his economic stewardship on Friday by reminding voters in a visit to an Ohio auto plant that his rescue of the industry saved jobs in
As if the E. coli outbreak in Europe wasn’t frightening enough, British scientists have announced the discovery of a new strain of a dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria that infects both humans and cows. In a report being published online Friday in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers said they stumbled across the new strain of […]
The federal government delivers Social Security checks and processes tax returns electronically, but its use of the old-fashioned mail systems is soaring nonetheless, according to a new study. Declining mail volume overall has caused the U.S. Postal Service’s total revenue to plunge in recent years, but the federal government’s use of first-class mail jumped 11 […]
Mayor Bloomberg said a pared down Homeland Security funding bill passed by the House Thursday would jeopardize New York because it remains a major terror target. “Just a few weeks
City firefighters will take to the Brooklyn Bridge Friday morning in an effort to save the 20 fire companies on the chopping block. A thousand firefighters, City Council members and
Rudy Giuliani said Thursday he made a mistake in 2008 by not dedicating more time to campaigning one-on-one with New Hampshire voters. But he suggested he may ask them to
Days into my tenure as mayor of Chicago, with my focus on keeping our city’s streets safe, our schools strong and our finances stabilized, I expected my attention to be in the Midwest, not in the Middle East. But as an American and the son of an Israeli immigrant, I have a deep, abiding commitment […]
What do George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have in common with Adolf Hitler, Usama bin Laden and Charles Manson? They’ve been named the “Top 5 worst people of all
The Gmail hacking episode this week shows this if nothing else: Hackers have come a long way since the days of Nigerian banking email scams. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that U.S. officials are investigating Google’s claim that Chinese hackers are responsible. Clinton told reporters the Obama administration viewed the allegations as “very […]
CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to the Capital Hill office of Congressman Anthony Weiner to try to get some answers which Weiner is refusing to answer. You’ll never believe what happened. When she tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat, the Congressman had the cops called on […]
The cost of official time used by federal employees participating in union activities increased nearly 7 percent between fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2009, according to a new report from the
Infectious disease detectives worldwide rushed Thursday to find the cause of an outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli that has spread to 10 countries and is blamed for
[VIDEO & PHOTO LINKS BELOW] As the temperatures in Jerusalem continued to rise over the last few days, dry brush on the hills of certain neighborhoods have been prone to
Gov. Chris Christie and the state Republican Party will repay the state for two trips on a State Police helicopter to get to his son’s baseball game, according to The
New York’s Senate is pushing a bill that would require criminal background checks for drivers of tour and charter buses. The bill is a reaction to tour bus crashes in
Is your teenage son struggling? Is your daughter underachieving? Erev Rosh chodesh is an auspicious time to daven and pray in general and particularly for the success and hatzlocha of
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, will make his second bid for the presidency official on Thursday with a broadside against President Obama and a call for a new
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