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The following was written by a Jewish crew member on a volunteer ambulace. Minor edits were made by YWN: So we just arrived at Columbia...

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner “inadvertently omitted” more than 70 assets worth at least $10.6 million from his personal financial...

SpaceX launched the Air Force's super-secret space shuttle on Thursday, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbit. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off...

Public defender Tiffany Caban has conceded the Queens District Attorney race, more than a week after Queens Borough President Melinda Katz was declared the...

U.S. employers went on a hiring binge in February, adding 313,000 jobs, the most in any month since July 2016, and drawing hundreds of...

China plans to build the first permanent structure on a South China Sea shoal at the heart of a territorial dispute with the Philippines,...

Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, was...

A House intelligence committee staffer says the panel recently issued a subpoena to President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of its...

The following is via CNN: An online textbook, which blames Holocaust victims for failing to tap into their strength, is required reading for nearly 19,000...

The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter are being summoned before Congress to defend their handling of disinformation in the 2020 presidential election, even as...

A key House panel plans to scale back a bill that would allow Holocaust survivors to sue European insurers for unpaid claims and force...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pressed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on whether or not there is a political bias at the social media giant.

A retired high-ranking official with the Drug Enforcement Administration has testified that three large opioid distributors had a “systematic failure” in monitoring suspicious pill...

Sales of new U.S. homes slumped 6.9 percent in January, a possible sign that buyers paused during the government shutdown. The Commerce Department said Thursday...

An Indiana University employee accused in at least one incident in a rash of anti-Semitic vandalism on and around campus turned himself in Friday...

As is usually the case, Israeli officials feel the compulsion to respond to Arab rhetoric and propaganda, this time Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rav...

(Photo Link Below) A quiet Queens street looked like a war-zone this evening, when a madman stabbed a Frum person with a machete, and then proceeded...

Only three months after the start of Israel's vaccination campaign, when Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv had six full coronavirus wards, including two intensive...

Federal prosecutors won’t bring civil rights charges against a New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a person...

Dozens of New Jersey Law Enforcement officials from various agencies and leaders of faith based groups gathered on Wednesday in the New Jersey State...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is locking all its 146,000 inmates in their cells for the next two weeks in an unparalleled effort to...

For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry . House committees are trying to...

Thousands of Shluchim posed for a “class picture” outside Chabad World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. 6,500 rabbis...

Trying to quell accusations that he is ousting activists from the party's left flank, Democratic Chairman Tom Perez told fellow Democrats on Saturday that...

America’s winter wonderland is starting out this season as anything but traditional. The calendar says December but for much of the country temperatures beckon for...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is putting pressure on congressional leaders to accept a split-the-difference solution to the protracted impasse over COVID-19 relief in...

A longtime adviser to President Donald Trump says he will appear before the House intelligence committee on Sept. 26. The adviser is Roger Stone, a...

An expert group drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says further research is needed to...

President Donald Trump is planning lunch with GOP senators after sparring with several of them, as congressional Republicans turn to overhauling the tax code. It...

Facebook says hackers accessed data from 29 million accounts as part of the security breach disclosed two weeks ago, fewer than the 50 million...

Lakewood, NJ - With the staggering economy wreaking havoc on ba’alei mishpocha across the board, unfortunately the various communal institutions and distributions dedicated to...

President Donald Trump is trumpeting the rolling back of federal rules and regulations in his administration's first year even as critics say he has...

Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey took over as the leader of the nation’s nonpartisan governors’ association on Friday in a time of...

The cousin of a college student who authorities say mistakenly got into the wrong car and was kidnapped and killed in South Carolina said...

With under a day to go before polls open in New Jersey and Virginia, a new poll released by Trafalgar found the gubernatorial races...