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Mike Pompeo’s planned speech to the Republican National Convention this week has sparked a fury of criticism for breaking decades of precedent for sitting...

We all remember Moishe Holtzberg, the survivor of the Mumbai Chabad House terror attack, the little boy seen carried to safety by his caretaker,...

The Treasury Department on Monday launched its $350 billion program to distribute aid to state and local governments, giving the U.S. economy an added...

Judging by social media metrics, it was a big week for U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The trouble for Democrats is that attention takes away from...

Click HERE to watch Rabbi Yehuda Levin speak with YWN in an exclusive interview. The topic: Election 2008! Rabbi Levin calls on Jews to unite...

Some of the nation’s biggest political donors, including some who spent $60 million supporting Republican Donald Trump last year, are among those who took...

Supporters may want Mayor Bloomberg to stick around, but don't expect him to still be at City Hall when his current term expires, WABC...

Iran's Channel 1 aired a special report last week on the death of Queen Elizabeth. But unlike other countries, where reports focused on the Queen's...

Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday claimed without evidence that recent protests across the Islamic Republic over government-set gasoline prices rising were part of a...

Sharply divided leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies clashed Tuesday over U.S. President Joe Biden’s insistence on withdrawing from Afghanistan by August...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Motzei Shabbos that Israel will maintain security control of the Gaza Strip after the war. Speaking at a press...

A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether...

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s...

Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief and one-time ambassador to the U.S., Prince Turki al-Faisal, delivered a scathing critique of both Hamas and Israel during...

An “unidentified object” was shot down Sunday for the third time in as many days, this time over Lake Huron, after earlier ones in...

AAA estimates that just under 38 million Americans will travel more than 50 miles from home this Memorial Holiday weekend. While that's only a...

China denied all accusations of an overseas police presence, saying Tuesday that the United States was making “groundless accusations” after U.S. law enforcement arrested...

A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for nearly 20,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced...

Emergency warming shelters were open throughout western Washington and Oregon as temperatures plunged into the teens and forecasters said an arctic blast would last...

Brooklyn, NY - An emergency meeting was held this morning between the leaders of the Jewish and Haitian communities to address the emerging...

According to a report by the the Echorouk, Sephardic Jews have started asking a number of Arab countries including Algeria to compensate them for...

A caricature published in Haaretz on Tuesday, drawn by its in-house caricaturist Amos Biderman, shows an image of a Chareidi man in Ben-Gurion Airport...

Ivanka Trump funded and arranged for one million meals to be delivered to Ukrainian refugees on the Poland-Ukraine border, Fox News reported on Wednesday. A...

The IDF announced on Thursday that it has vaccinated the majority of its soldiers. "After ten weeks, I can say that the IDF is the...

One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are...

The former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Sunday that withdrawing up to half the 14,000 American troops serving there would reduce the incentive...

According to Arab media reports, including al-Hayat and Hezbollah-affiliated al Mayadeen News, a one-year ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas may be signed on...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. was "wrong" to describe migrant detention centers as "concentration camps." "They...

Following are excerpts from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today: "We will begin this morning with a...

Iran likely suffered another failed launch of a satellite-carrying rocket while attempting to reinvigorate a program criticized by the West, even as Tehran faces...

A senior U.S. Navy officer told a congressional oversight panel Thursday that the hectic pace of military operations and a constrained military budget don't...

The calm before the storm is the best way to describe Friday's weather. A major Nor'easter will be impacting the NYC region starting late...

A child in New Jersey has died after coming down with the flu, possibly making it the third pediatric flu-related death in the state. Elizabeth...

Amazon workers in Spain and Germany called for strikes Tuesday over salary and working conditions to coincide with the online retailer's global sales event,...

Thousands of converts to Judaism may now face a major dilemma after the nation’s Supreme Rabbinical Court ruled conversions performed by Rabbi Chaim Druckman...