One week after being shot through the head, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is off the ventilator and breathing on her own through a tracheotomy tube, the University Medical Center of
Reince Priebus, the new low-key chairman of the Republican National Committee, helped lead Michael Steele’s successful 2009 campaign for RNC chairman. He ran Steele’s transition and became general counsel of the RNC. Then the two had a falling out. On Friday night, in a move few could have foreseen two years ago, the 38-year-old diminutive […]
The FDNY needs to put the brakes on a proposal to slap drivers with hefty fees for emergency response to accidents, motorists and insurance carriers said yesterday after the first
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele dropped his bid for reelection Friday and endorsed Maria Cino to replace him. “At this time I must step aside for others to lead,” Steele said. “In so doing I hope you appreciate the legacy we leave.” “Despite the noise, despite the difficulties, we won,” the departing chairman declared. […]
The NY Post reports: Gov. Cuomo is canceling the huge and highly controversial pay raises secretly given 28 top State Police officials last month amid the state’s worsening fiscal crisis, The Post has learned. Top State Police officials were to be notified of the decision later this afternoon, sources said. “The decision has been made […]
The Obama administration says U.S. banks should disclose to the IRS bank accounts owned by foreigners, resurrecting a Clinton-era proposal that was opposed by banking groups and Republicans. The Internal
A radio station in Tucson has taken down a billboard for the Rush Limbaugh show that called Limbaugh a “straight shooter” and was riddled with images of bullet holes. Clear
Queens, NY – Today at the Kew Forest Jewish War Veterans Post, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) announced that he will introduce legislation to establish a memorial
The Central Arava Regional Council has agreed to allocate hundreds of dunams of land toward the establishment of a “spiritual university” that is based on Buddhist principles. Yad L’Achim has
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday that she has canceled the troubled virtual fence project along the southwest border, proposing a new plan which she claims will better address
Hatzolah of Los Angeles has put it’s 3rd ambulance into service. This ambulance was donated by Mr. Alex and Eva Friedman in memory of their friends and neighbors in Kiskufelgyhaza , Hungary that were killed in Auschwitz in 1944. In August of 2009 Hatzolah of Los Angeles began transporting patients in the Hancock Park neighborhood […]
A public hearing is being held today on the New York City Fire Department’s proposal to charge drivers when the city responds to auto accidents. City Council Speak Christine Quinn
Mayor Bloomberg, who often rails against partisan bickering, said the heated rhetoric of Republicans like Sarah Palin are not to blame for the deadly shooting in Arizona. “I don’t think I blame Sarah Palin or any other individual,” Bloomberg said Thursday. “[The] president’s right about we should be talking to each other more and have […]
MTA officials will feel the heat Friday as the City Council opens another hearing into the transit mess during the holiday blizzard. The City Council held a meeting earlier this week in which the Bloomberg administration came under fire. This time, it’s the MTA’s turn. Union leaders will be at the meeting to tell holiday […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of the famed Mechanech and noted Mechaber Seforim, HaRav Zecharia Fendel ZATZAL, who was Niftar last night after an illness at the age of 82. He was one of the pioneers in kiruv, beginning over 60 years ago. In fact it is told over, that the Chazon Ish […]
The NYPD is trying to teach cops to tell the truth – and nothing but the truth – when they’re in court. After a spate of cases in which cops were prosecuted for lying, the Police Department has created a handbook with tips for testifying. At least one of them seems elementary: “Do not concoct […]
Some 1,000 security officials and members of Israel’s political echelon gathered at Tel Aviv University on Thursday evening to bid farewell to outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan. But the most
Law-enforcement agencies, including the NYPD, should boycott gun manufacturers who produce high-capacity magazines like the one used to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, a top city official said
A man who pleaded guilty to helping support a plot to attack New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday. Abdel Nur pleaded
Riga, Latvia – Latvian police said Thursday they had detained three extreme-right teenagers suspected of involvement in the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in the Baltic state’s capital Riga a month ago. “Together, they formed a skinhead group which may have planned additional racial crimes,” Ints Kuzis, the head of the Riga regional state police […]
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