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President Donald Trump asserts that he is the nation’s top cop, a title more typically accorded the attorney general. Even the Trump-cheerleading White House website...

Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify about the Libya terror attack before the House and Senate intelligence committees, Fox News has...

Wholesale prices slid a record 1.3% in April led by a 19% plunge in the cost of energy, further signaling the potential threat of...

Vote tallying in Israel resumed Thursday in the deadlocked parliamentary elections held earlier this week, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor those determined...

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline fell 2 cents over past two weeks, to $3.46 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg...

Police say a man who claimed to be a U.S. senator tried to get inside Trump Tower to see Ivanka Trump and has been...

Eight Democratic candidates running to be New York City’s next mayor sparred in a debate Wednesday night, each trying to position themselves as the...

With the wide access we all have today to the media, there is no shortage of information about health issues. We all know that...

NJ Governor Phil Murphy convened an emergency meeting to deal with the recent alarming rise in anti-Semitic attacks and incidents plaguing the tri-State area. The...

Iran says that the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is arriving in the country for talks with Iranian officials. Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s envoy...

The head of U.S. Central Command has provided some more information about the military working dog that was injured in the raid on the...

To our loyal readers, supporters, and dear friends: With the world in its most uncertain and unstable times, we would like to wish all of you a...

Two top NYPD officials visited the site of a vicious attack on a chasidic man in Williamsburg on Friday night. NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Edward...

For the second time in two weeks, a Shul in the Catskills collapsed. The latest incident happened at around 10:00AM Monday morning, at the Chernovitz...

Lawmakers stood before the House late Thursday to tell their personal, often stunning accounts of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump...

Anger and frustration mounted as President Joe Biden showed no signs of reversing plans to allow a nationwide eviction moratorium to expire at midnight...

Allied missiles struck at the heart of Syrian chemical weapons arsenal in a show of force and resolve aimed at punishing the Assad government...

Jews in Ukraine waging a “war between darkness and light” lit a giant menorah on Sunday night to start the eight-day Hanukkah holiday as...

An Indiana lottery official says the sole winning ticket for an estimated $435 million Powerball jackpot was sold in an Indiana city. Hoosier Lottery spokesman...

Following are the remarks made by Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman in his address to supporters in party headquarters.    I would like to thank all...

Israel Police officials are rejecting the theory put forward by the family of the tractor terrorist, which insists the terror attack at Golomb Junction...

(VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Westbound traffic is switching to the new Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge linking suburban Westchester and Rockland counties along...

(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) What’s clad in orange and wearing a big smile? If you were at Dorney Park during Sukkos, it had to be...

For Massachusetts retailers and their customers, the summer sales tax holiday has become an annual tradition. But for Jews observing Tisha B’av, the opportunity...

A key GOP senator weighing the pros and cons of U.S. foreign surveillance had the same question Tuesday as many Americans: Does the U.S....

Primorye Chief Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein (a US citizen) was attacked on a central street of Vladivostok, a source in the FJC told the Interfax...

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump’s pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major confrontation...

Iran’s president accused the U.S. on Thursday of conducting a “failed policy of destabilization” targeting his nation after Iranians in cities nationwide protested the...

Russia’s advance seems to have stalled in Moscow’s campaign to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a leading think tank said in an...

Republican Greg Gianforte has won Montana's special House election, holding a longtime GOP seat a day after he was charged with assaulting a reporter...

(NEW VIDEO & PHOTO LINKS BELOW) Today is the yahrzeit of Shmuel HaNavi, and police made arrangements to accommodate the thousands of visitors to the...

A petition to remove the late Gov. Mario Cuomo's name from the new Tappan Zee Bridge has garnered more than 45,000 signatures. The Governor Mario...

By the end of 2007, a new NIS 2 coin will be introduced into circulation. The Bank of Israel announces that the issue of the...

Iran's Foreign Minister transmitted a message earlier this week to the Islamic country's rivals that they won't be able to count on the US...

Many thousands of YWN readers visit the "Daily Halacha" section each day, and read the beautiful, practical Halachos written by Rabbi Moshe Dovid Lebowitz....