Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he will not enact the federal health care overhaul after a judge in Florida struck down the law as unconstitutional. Parnell considers that ruling the
In a drama drawing national attention, law enforcement officers are searching for Democratic senators boycotting a Senate vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair plan Thursday in an attempt to bring
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is due to announce within days his decision to indict, subject to a hearing, Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman, on charges of fraud, breach of
House Republicans on Thursday continued on their mission to cut billions of dollars from the current year’s budget. “When we say we are going to cut spending, read my lips:
A former cargo handler, who authorities said was the mastermind in a foiled terror plot against John F. Kennedy International Airport, has been sentenced to life in prison in New
A health-care crime sweep Thursday morning netted 111 defendants on charges related to Medicare fraud, in what Attorney General Eric Holder called the largest such takedown in U.S. history. The defendants—charged in nine metropolitan areas including Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Chicago and Miami—were allegedly involved in more than 40 schemes, almost all of which were unrelated […]
Jerusalem – “It’s a real wonder,” one of the students at the Kamenitz Yeshiva says about his new classmate – a white dove. “This holy bird just listens to full lessons.” Several weeks ago, during a Torah lesson in the Jerusalem yeshiva, a white dove entered the house of study, sat on the window sill […]
A cabbie learned on Thursday that his taxi isn’t a vehicle for freedom of expression and religion. Arieh Perecowicz lost his court challenge against Montreal taxi authorities who fined him for filling his cab with an assortment of personal and religious objects. Mr. Perecowicz, who’s driven a cab for over four decades, had decorated his […]
A powerful solar eruption that triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days, NASA said.
Orthodox Jewish Community leader’s gathered this week with officials and dignitaries to express their gratitude to the NYPD’s Douglas Zeigler, a three-star chief tapped by NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to take over the Community Affairs Bureau in 2006, who retired after nearly four decades of exemplary service and work. Chief Zeigler dealt throughout his tenure with a […]
A fourth historic building in Miami Beach’s Collins Park went up in flames Wednesday – heightening alarm that the blazes are the work of arsonist. Just a few hours after Miami Beach officials called a press conference to address fires that charred three historic buildings in less than a week, fire trucks rushed to the […]
Democrats in the New York state Assembly appear to have lost their veto-proof majority, now that a state court has resolved the only undecided race in the state. A division of the Appellate Department upheld a lower-court ruling on Feb. 16 that awarded Republican Tom Kirwan victory in the race for the Assembly’s 100th district. […]
Monticello, NY – Federal authorities plan this week to reject outright a proposed Indian casino in Bridgeville, the Times Herald-Record is reporting . The Bureau of Indian Affairs earlier this week informed the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indian tribe that the compact — a revenue sharing and land title agreement signed in the dying days […]
Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square here early Thursday, firing shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the nation’s absolute monarchy. At least five people died, some of them reportedly killed in their […]
Iran has not requested to move any of its warships through the Suez Canal, an Egyptian official said Thursday. “No Iranian warships sailed through the canal in the last two
The down payments demanded by banks to buy homes have ballooned since the housing bust, forcing many people to rethink what they can afford and potentially shrinking the pool of
The National Council of Young Israel today denounced remarks made by Jordanian Justice Minister Hussein Mujalli after he heaped lavish praise on a former Jordanian soldier who brutally murdered seven
The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,”
Two federal officers assigned to work in security jobs at Kennedy International Airport have been arrested and charged with stealing $40,000 in cash from a piece of checked luggage, the authorities said. According to the office of the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, the officers took the cash from a passenger’s piece of luggage […]
Call it over-the-shoulder data theft. It happened to Donald Malloy on a recent business trip to Las Vegas. Malloy, business development manager for NagraID Security, used his American Express card
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