Headlines & Breaking News

Drivers across the the Tri-State Area are wincing Monday at prices at the gas pump. The statewide average in New York, according to AAA, was...

A New York lawmaker expelled from the state Senate after a domestic incident is now serving up pizza in his former district. Hiram Monserrate is...

 Hundreds of cars, and thousands of people lined up for Passover food at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Williamsburg on Sunday.  The crowds of people,...

President Obama wishes he could go to the supermarket like a regular guy and longs to people-watch in Central Park. The President told Hearst magazine publishers...

The U.S. government has prevented more than 350 people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups from boarding U.S.-bound commercial flights...

Verizon customers interested in signing a one-year contract (as opposed to the standard two) should lock in their selections now; the company has confirmed...

There are more surprising revelations coming from Ponzi schemer, Bernard Madoff. During yet another prison interview, Bernard Madoff told 'The Financial Times' he wants to...

The successful search for a missing child in North West London has highlighted the quick response of Shomrim NW London. Last week a child was...

The budget deal reached Friday would affect two initiatives contained in last year's health-care law that were bitterly opposed by businesses, killing one outright...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards website, Sepah News, reports: In his first press conference of the new year 1390 which took place on Monday evening,...

The budget for Fiscal Year 2011 will finally pass Congress. After a “historic deal” between the Republicans and Democrats, it is expected that Congress will pass the FY...

Police in Paris arrested dozens of people for trying to hold an unauthorized demonstration to protest a ban on the wearing of Islamic veils...

New Yorkers may be short tens of millions of dollars in unclaimed tax refunds. The Internal Revenue Service estimates the federal government owes 26,000 city...

A grand jury in the Bronx has launched an investigation into accusations that as many as 40 police officers are up to their necks...

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...