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This Tuesday, August 10th, thousands of Religious Jews will gather outside the offices of RFR Realty to express outrage at the company’s refusal to...

The Honda Motor Company announced today a recall on three models. The 2003 Accord and Civic model years and the 2003-2004 Element are being recalled...

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) today denounced Mayor Bloomberg for his recent sanctimonious remarks regarding the proposed site of the Islamic community center and mosque...

New York - The final installation phase for the new Willis Avenue bridge was scheduled for Monday. A new 350-foot long span was built to replace...

Petach Tikva - Dozens of Charedim protested outside Petach Tivka’s cultural center in demonstration against singer Tzion Golan’s plans to perform in front of...

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio yesterday called on the Public Service Commission to zap the Ground Zero mosque because of the revelation that Con...

A Hamburg mosque once frequented by some of the Sept. 11 attackers was shut down Monday because German authorities believed the prayer house was...

Three days after the horrific crash in Kiryat Gat, when a train collided with a minibus, one of the survivors, Dovid Tzvi Gutstein, has...

An American yeshiva bochur was struck by an Egged bus yesterday in Yerushalayim. The accident occurred on Admor MiLubavitch Street in the Ramat Shlomo...

The 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai heightened concerns in India over the government’s inability to eavesdrop on encrypted communications. In the United Arab Emirates,...

Police say two officers and two civilians were wounded and another person was killed in an exchange of gunfire in upper Manhattan. NYPD spokesman Sgt....

A Queens man accused of having al Qaeda ties and playing a role in a 2009 suicide bomb plot on the New York subway...

French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux expressed “horror and sadness” after the discovery Wednesday of anti-Jewish and negationnist inscriptions at a memorial to the deportation...

Catching a flight in the New York region will soon include the prospect of taking a trip through a full-body scanner first. The Port Authority...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were exaggerated in a fresh broadside at the United States just days...

Firefighters extinguished a small dorm fire in Lakewood this morning, township police reported. At about 9:15 a.m., police received reports of a dorm fire at...

Mayor Bloomberg won’t stop talking about the mosque near Ground Zero, harshly attacking opponents yesterday who “ought to be ashamed of themselves.” Sounding more supportive...

Cuba's Fidel Castro took part in his first government function since he nearly died in 2006, repeating his apocalyptic warnings of a nuclear war...

5:25AM EST: Thousands of people are currently attending the Levayos of the 7 Niftarim of one family who were tragically killed in yesterdays crash,...

A state appeals court has determined that a New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them. Heath and...

The following is a report by WPIX: Jewish leaders put on a love fest in front of the site of the proposed 'Ground Zero mosque.' "We...

A Bosnian immigrant from Flushing, accused in a subway bombing plot, is due to be arraigned Friday morning. Adis Medunjanin, 25, graduated from Queens College...

Rep. Peter King yesterday accused House Democrats of "sabotaging" a 9/11 health bill, and said the deaths of heroic police and firefighters are "on...

James Clapper was confirmed unanimously by the Senate Thursday night to be the nation's next intelligence chief. Clapper, tapped by President Obama for the Director...

Congressman Charles Rangel is talking tough in the face of ethics charges. While speaking at an event Thursday in Morningside Heights, the embattled Harlem lawmaker...

New York City has its first confirmed case of West Nile Virus. CBS 2′s Dave Carlin reports there’s a growing number of mosquitoes testing positive...

A 66-year-old woman was R"L killed Thursday afternoon in a supermarket parking lot when a car pulling out of a parking space hit her...

(Click on all images to enlarge them) 8:55PM EST: The Fallsburg Fire Department is on the scene of a car which struck a propane...

Despite some setbacks, al Qaeda's core leadership in Pakistan remains the biggest threat to the United States, and the group continues to expand and...

Solicitor General Elena Kagan was easily confirmed Thursday as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, completing the 50-year-old native New Yorker's...

New York State's legislative leaders were congratulating themselves for finally passing a budget on Monday, despite the fact that the budget was a historic...

12:28PM EST: New documents produced in response to a Freedom of Information Act request show that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda Reade met...

12:50PM EST: According to initial reports, at least 7 people - some of them Charedim - have R"L been killed, and more than a...

As reported earlier by YWN Israel, SuperBus drivers staged a partial strike this morning, which affected mainly their Modi'in Illit-Yerushalayim-Bnei Brak routes. The strike was...

Once again Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade has been involved in an MVA, sources tell YWN. This latest accident involved two motorcycles from the NYPD...