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A man purporting to be Osama Bin Laden warned France to get its troops out of Afghanistan and not to oppress Muslims at home in a tape broadcast by the
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The following letter was sent by Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) to US Attorney General Eric Holder in regards to the Rubashkin case: October 22, 2010 The Honorable Eric Holder Attorney
The Montreal Gazette reports: The Satmar Hasidic community has begun a court battle to stop the Quebec government from closing down its school. The school in question, Academie Yeshiva Toras
A vote on Wednesday by the MTA Board is expected to raise tolls across the bridges and tunnels the agency controls. It’s an an effort to raise more money to
Ynet News reports: A day after attending a memorial service for Rabbi Meir Kahane, dozens of his supporters traveled from Jerusalem to the northern Arab town of Umm al-Fahm on
The following is a NY1 Exclusive Report: Over 80 days last year, Eric Schneiderman joined fellow lawmakers in Albany for sessions of the State Senate. But according to his tax
When Kalman Katz was told by Sears that they wouldn’t hire him as a repair technician because he wouldn’t work on Shabbos, he turned to the New York Attorney General’s
The Hudson River train tunnel, a dream of many New Jersey commuters, politicians and planners for decades, will die a second death today. And this time, there will be no
[The following story has been posted in the YWN Shomrim Blotter as well.] Members of Williamsburg Shomrim (WSPU) successfully apprehended a suspect on Tuesday who was wanted for numerous residential
With his sharp cop’s eyes on crime but glancing curiously sideways at the political scene, retired NYPD Sgt. Brian Doherty of Bay Ridge watched, as most New Yorkers, the topsy-turvy
Noise in 98 percent of Manhattan’s public space exceeds healthy levels, says a study co-authored by Columbia University researchers to be released today. Honking cars or quarreling neighbors raise our
The chairman of British Airways has launched an attack on “completely redundant” airport checks and said the UK should stop “kowtowing” to US demands for increased security. The comments by
With just six days to go to Election Day, yet another new poll shows Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo crushing Republican challenger Carl Paladino in the race for governor. A
With 62 in favor and 34 against, the Knesset approved the state budget for 2011 after midnight Monday. The Arrangements Law, which complements the budget, passed by a similar vote,
The FBI has linked two recent shootings at military buildings in the Washington D.C. area and is investigating a possible connection to a third shooting that happened within the last
The death toll from a tsunami that slammed the Mantawai islands off Indonesia’s Sumatra two days ago may rise as rescue agencies struggle with disrupted telecommunications and difficult search conditions.
The Air Force lost partial communications with 50 nuclear missiles for almost an hour last weekend, an Air Force spokesman said Tuesday. The problem, characterized as a “single hardware issue,”
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