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The figures are plane terrifying—especially for New York fliers. Air-traffic controllers monitoring the Big Apple’s choked airspace rack up mistakes at more than twice the national rate, an exclusive Post analysis of government data found. Controllers in the New York City area make one error per 40,000 flight operations, Federal Aviation Administration figures show. That’s […]
Shortly after midnight on Jan. 28, desperate Egyptian authorities effectively pulled the plug on the Internet amid a wave of protests roiling the government of Hosni Mubarak. To many, the
Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it
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As the budget dogfight continued in Washington on Friday, we finally heard some good news: the unemployment rate went down below the 9% mark, as employers in the private sector
Peanut butter fans may want to “skip” eating Skippy’s reduced fat brands. The New Jersey-based Unilever United States, Inc., the manufacturer of Skippy Peanut Butter products, is recalling two of
Mayor Bloomberg says the clock is ticking and the City needs to hand out layoff notices for teachers as soon as possible. Thousands of teachers will face the ax, he said, and the time to reach a deal with Albany is running out as well. “We have to lay off teachers right now and we […]
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Part 3: Move it! The Benefits The previous articles in this series have focused on the benefits of adopting a healthier lifestyle and the changes we can easily make in our daily lives to do so. But getting started can be quite challenging, particularly if you are generally sedentary. You will find this lifestyle […]
Hundreds of students “doing their year” in Israel gathered this past Friday in Gan Sacher for a 5k run ending at the Hebrew University Givat Ram track and field stadium.
The Ministry of Public Security has obtained permits from Israel National Roads Company Ltd. to install the poles for high-speed cameras along Israel’s roads. The lack of permits was one
City Hall is hunting down municipal employees who aren’t paying their parking tickets—4,600 deadbeats with 12,000 outstanding tickets worth a total of $1.6 million—in one of the biggest crackdowns in years, The Post has learned. The city Finance Department intends in the next few months to garnishee the wages of evasive employees who have failed […]
Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is apologizing for invoking Hitler and Stalin on the Senate floor. “I should not have mentioned the hostility of tyrants, like Hitler, to unions,” he
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YWN received the following email from a community activist in Montreal: Dear YWN readership, We are appealing to our friends around the world to help us with this in a
When Moishe Schwartz, a resident of Monroe walked through the crafts section of Wal-Mart in Harriman late Wednesday night, what he saw made him feel faint. He had just been
UPDATE MOTZEI SHABBOS: Flatbush Shomrim continued their search into Shabbos, and at approximately 10:00PM on Friday night, the NYPD contacted the Shomrim command Center, that the child was found. Sources
Saudi Arabia has banned all protests and marches following recent anti-government protests in the kingdom’s east, reports say. State television on Saturday quoted the interior ministry as saying that security forces would use all measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public order. The ban on public demonstrations comes amid media reports of a huge […]
Minister of Housing and Construction Ariel Atias agreed on a new plan with senior executives of the Association of Contractors and Builders in Israel to employ Charedi yeshiva students in
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