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A 21-year-old man was seriously wounded in an anti-Semitic attack by two youths, after returning home from a Torah course in a synagogue in...

Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, says that he will cooperate with the country's general prosecutor during a corruption investigation, and defended himself against...

The five-day New York City police-led ``dirty bomb'' training drill has come to an end. More than 100 police and other first responder agencies in...

First it was believed to be a bomb, then it was dismissed as a freak industrial accident, and now authorities are again saying that...

The New York City Council officially responded Friday to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s preliminary budget proposal, telling the mayor it would be imprudent to slash...

An intrepid Japanese journalist has driven into the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone to film these extraordinary pictures. He made it right up to the...

A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators. "Among...

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petirah of R’ Dovid Levin Z’L, a veteran member of Lakewood Hatzolah, who was Niftar this morning...

With a last-minute budget deal, Congress averted a federal government shutdown Friday night. But the epic clash between Democrats and Republicans was just the...

A Manhattan hearing on homeland security exploded yesterday after an Arab-American activist testified that she was taught as a youngster to "hate Jews" and...

Over the past 48 hours, in response to the incident in which a children’s bus was hit with an anti-tank missile near Sa’ad on...

The FBI said evidence found near the scene of an explosion Thursday next to a Santa Monica synagogue was linked to an "extremely dangerous"...

When the GOP-led House voted in January to repeal President Obama's health care law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wouldn't even take...

A brief video clip released Saturday captures the massive tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, showing the wall of water that slammed...

Despite protests from Jewish groups and an appeal to Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Holland is set to ban shechita, following the Socialist party’s...

At least 27 people are dead after Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters across several cities Friday, according to...

Washington, DC - After Judge Richard Goldstone’s retracted key conclusions of his flawed anti-Israel report, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and James Risch (R-ID)...

The NYPD's multi-agency training exercise that simulates a dirty bomb attack on New York City is entering its fourth day Friday. On Thursday, police, FDNY...

Imprisoned US Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernard Madoff alleged that some senior executives at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. "knew what was going on" and...

An NYPD Detective was arrested for drunk driving late Thursday night after he flipped his car on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, cops said. Det. Thomas Handley...

Four additional rockets were fired at Ashkelon Friday and three were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, the IDF announced, adding that it...

Israel’s Yad Vashem museum on Friday said it had uploaded footage of the entire trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann YM"S to YouTube to...

In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring...

What happens when you apply an 1884 law to BlackBerries? Mass confusion. The Antideficiency Act, passed by Congress during Chester Arthur's administration, prevents non-essential federal...

New York, NY - The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate, which will continue...

The Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the IDF arrested members of a terrorist cell in Ramallah in the first weeks of January, 2011. The...

Mohammed Tantawi, the head of Egypt's ruling generals, was an obstacle to Israeli efforts to stop arms smuggling within the Gaza strip, according to...

The condition of the 16-year-old critically injured in the anti-tank missile attack on a school bus in the Negev on Thursday remains unchanged, Dr....

New York State troopers will once again be on the lookout for cell phone users behind the wheel. The crackdown starts on Monday and runs...

In Texas, it seems 80 mph just isn't fast enough. A bill passed in the state House of Representatives would raise the speed limit to...

A partial shutdown of the federal government could begin Saturday morning and would affect some people, programs and services more than others. Here's a...

Brooklyn Civil Court is a crowded place, but one judge handles the litigation backlog by forging compromise between debtors and banks. At a recent Tuesday...

The Obama administration is replacing the five-color terror-alert system with two warning levels and plans to sometimes use Facebook and Twitter, the Associated Press...

An ex-con accused of shoving a New York City police officer to his death during a domestic violence call in Boerum Hill  last month...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office Thursday announced it is revamping how state-issued parking placards are handed out. The state Inspector General’s Office launched its own investigation. As...