1:40PM EST: U.S. crude futures briefly crossed the critical $100 mark Wednesday, the first such move since October 2008, as escalating violence in Libya shook crude markets and extended supply worries. In London, Brent crude futures rallied above $110 a barrel, posting the biggest three-day percentage gain in a year. Between 300,000 and 400,000 barrels per […]
A Libyan plane reportedly carrying the daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s leader, has been turned back from Malta after it was denied permission to land. “The [crew] initially said they
How does $4 a gallon for gas sound? Well, it’s on the way. A trend seems to be emerging. Gas is $3.59 on the Merritt Parkway in Greenwich, $3.63 on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Harrison, $3.65 in Scarsdale, and $3.99 on the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx. A year ago in the New […]
Over 200 dignitaries, community leaders, and members of the Jewish community gathered at the Condor Hotel in Williamsburg to honor the Executive Team of NYU Medical Center for their consistent and dedicated work with their patients, and for attentiveness and sensitivity toward the Jewish community and its cultural and medical needs. Dr. Andrew Brotman, Professor […]
A judge in a tentative ruling denied an $18 million claim that the president of Chabad of California Inc. maintained was verbally promised him by a philanthropist before the man’s death. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Ann Murphy stated in a 69-page proposed statement of decision issued Tuesday that she found insufficient evidence after […]
Moammar Gadhafi’s regime controls $32 billion in liquid assets around the world, including hundreds of millions of dollars invested in US banks, according to a confidential cable written by the U.S. Ambassador to Libya last year. The leaked diplomatic message was distributed through WikiLeaks. The same cable reported that Libya had been approached by two […]
President Obama has determined that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, and that the Department of Justice should no longer defend the measure, which severely limits the potential of
Police reported Wednesday that they have completed their investigation of the stabbing incident that occurred two weeks ago in Jerusalem, during which 24-year-old Hussam Rawidi was killed. Four Jewish teenagers
The number of stop and frisks of potential suspects conducted by the New York City Police Department topped the 600,000 mark for the first time last year. That is according
Hagon Rav Shmuel Halevi Wosner Shlita, paid a visit to Hagon Chacham Ovadia Yosef today, at his home on Rechov HaKablan in Har Nof, Yerushalayim. The visit, which lasted approximately
The family of the top lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission invested with Bernie Madoff and earned more than $1.5 million in ill-gained profits, according to trustee Irving Picard,
The crew chief aboard an NYPD chopper that rescued two West Point cadets from a mountain ledge described for the first time yesterday the potential catastrophe he faced while painstakingly
Authorities in Florida arrested a 16-year-old boy and intend to charge him with first degree murder in the shooting death of St. Petersburg police Officer David Crawford. The killing was
Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, won the Chicago mayoral election Tuesday, topping the 50% threshold to avoid a run-off vote, CNN reports. Emanuel, the
9:09PM EST: Rahm Emanuel is out to an early lead in the Chicago mayor’s race tonight. With 84 percent of precincts counted, Emanuel had 54.9 percent to 24.3 percent for Gery Chico. Emanuel is trying to score more than 50 percent to avoid a runoff election on April 5. Major contenders Rahm Emanuel, Gery Chico, Carol […]
Los Angeles - The officer that arrested Mel Gibson in his infamous 2006 DUI charge has been granted permission to pursue a court case against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. TMZ reports that James Mee, who stopped the actor on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, is seeking to sue his employer over […]
The following is a WCBSTV report: There was an ugly war of words Tuesday between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the fire unions over the impact budget cuts had on fighting a deadly fire in Brooklyn. CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer has obtained dispatch tapes that reveal the difficulty firefighters had battling the inferno. Bloomberg weighed in […]
The Obama administration plans to nominate a top White House Middle East advisor to be the next U.S. envoy to Israel, POLITICO has learned. President Barack Obama intends to nominate one of his most trusted Middle East aides, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa Dan Shapiro, to be […]
With state revenues beginning to thaw, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey nonetheless proposed a tightfisted $29.4 billion budget on Tuesday, calling for sharp cuts in benefits for public-sector workers
The radiation emitted after just 50 minutes on a mobile phone increases the activity in brain cells, according to a new government-funded study. The effects of that brain activity are
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