The active winter continues as a high pressure system brings another arctic chill into the Tri-State after a slow snow melt on Sunday morning. That blast will arrive over the next 24 to 36 hours as Sunday’s high reaches 36 degrees. The low will be 29 and will continue to drop into the work week. […]
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today: “We are anxiously monitoring what is happening in Egypt and [elsewhere] in our region. Last night, I spoke with US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. I also held consultations with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, […]
As the dangerous situation continues to unfold in Egypt, YWN will be loading the latest videos available from Egypt in this post. As new videos are added, the time will be changed in the headline. WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
New York City could lose $1 billion in education aid from the state, forcing the nation’s largest school system to cut more than 21,000 teachers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday.
Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi issued a strong statement of support Saturday for the Tunisian revolution that ousted longtime strongman Zine el Abidine ben Ali and the ongoing uprising against
Video shot on Saturday morning in Cairo by Egypt’s Daily News, an English-language newspaper, gives a sense of the confusion there about which side the military is on. The newspaper’s
“The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising,” British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday. According to the report, the US-backed figures have been planning a regime
[ALL UPDATES ARE FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON – UPDATES FROM MOTZEI SHABBOS IN STORIES ABOVE] As darkness fell Friday, thousands of angry Egyptians defied a government curfew and stinging police tear
Stocks tumbled, putting the market’s eight-week win streak at risk, as fears over unrest in Egypt sent oil prices surging and investors scurrying to safer assets. The Dow Jones Industrial
For just $100, you too might be able to own a copy of President Obama’s birth records. Democratic lawmakers in Hawaii introduced a bill this week that would allow anybody to obtain Obama’s personal documents, an effort aimed to silence so-called “birthers” and close a projected $800 million budget deficit over the next two years. […]
[Videos below of President Regan’s speech, and footage of explosion] Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion. Seven people, one of them a school teacher, died in a
On the same day that Egypt has suspended online activity, Syria has also blocked internet service. Syria is known for a tight control of the internet, which was tightened further
FBI agents have executed 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks targeting major companies, the agency said. The United Kingdom’s
Charedi leaders have voiced concern about the government’s plans to raise the school leaving age from 16 to 18 in a meeting with Schools Minister Nick Gibb. A delegation from the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations discussed the potential impact on Charedi youth, who generally leave school by their mid-teens to go to yeshivah or […]
A CNN crew working to cover the clashes between security forces and protesters in Cairo felt the wrath of Egypt’s police on Friday. CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman said
Think you had a bad snow day yesterday? Just be happy you don’t live in NYC Councilman Lew Fidler’s district. His streets are some of the worst in Brooklyn when it comes to snow removal. We received more complaints from the “30?s” and “Marine Park” than any other neighborhood in New York City during last […]
Fox News reports: The revolution may have started in Tunisia where ongoing protests forced the country’s foreign minister to step down Thursday. It then spread to Egypt on Tuesday, taking
As is the custom of a snowy Baltimore morning, there was a plethora of closings that spanned the educational and business sectors. However, the business of chesed was fully operational,
6:48M EST: [UPDATES BELOW] The social site Twitter is abuzz at this moment with reports that Egypt has shut down the Internet in the country. Reports claim that it was
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled today that Rahm Emanuel can stay on the ballot for mayor of Chicago. The decision comes without a moment to spare; early voting for the
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