ROME — An American teenager was “illegally blindfolded” before his interrogation as a suspect in a newlywed police officer’s slaying in Rome, a Carabinieri commander said Sunday after a photo circulated of the young tourist with his head bowed and handcuffed behind his back. Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, was blindfolded “for a very few minutes, […]

(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) As YWN reported this past Wednesday, a male dressed in chareidi garb began violently  assaulting chareidi protesters at Kikar Shabbos in Jerusalem with brass knuckles. On motzei Shabbos, he appeared again during a protest and he was arrested. Three days after he was captured on video assaulting chareidi protesters at Jerusalem’s […]

Flatbush Shomrim has launched a search for a missing person, and are asking if anyone has any information about him to please contact them immediately. Missing is a 46-year-old male,

According to Israel Defense Ministry officials, Israel on Sunday successfully carried out a series of test of the Arrow3 missile system in cooperation with America’s Missile Defense Agency (AMDA). The

The following is via WABC: The New York State education department is considering whether to eliminate Regents exams as a requirement to graduate high school. The state-wide standardized tests designed

Sheva District Court on Sunday against Ashraf Karga, 38, a Palestinian from Halhul, a PA (Palestinian Authority) village north of Hebron, who is alleged to have brutally attacked a 13.5-year-old

YWN regrets to inform you of the passing of Mrs. Maita Rosenblum A”H (husband of Rav Moshe), the daughter of HaRav Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz Zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva in the Mirrer

The following is via WSVN: Police are searching for the person or people responsible for scrawling swastikas on two signs in front of a hotel in the heart of South Beach’s Art Deco district. 7News cameras captured Miami Beach Police officers cutting down the defaced signs on fencing located on Collins Avenue across from the […]

Gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man and injured at least 11 others late Saturday night, police said. Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted early Sunday that the shooting in east Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood “shattered a peaceful neighborhood event.” Twelve people were shot, including a 38-year-old man who was dead on arrival […]

Iran test-launched a medium-range ballistic missile inside its borders, U.S. officials said Friday, defying Trump administration demands that it curtail the weapon program and demonstrating its intent to further push

The Trump administration no longer needs to detain migrant children at an Oklahoma Army base and preparations to house them there have stopped, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. “Over the last several weeks HHS has experienced a decrease in Department of Homeland Security referrals of unaccompanied alien children […]

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for […]

(By Margie Pensak) Samy Weill, who has been in the kashrus field for 26 years, traveled the farthest – 3808 miles from Amsterdam – to attend the 16th Annual STAR-K Training Program held July 22-25 in the kashrus agency’s Baltimore offices. As an administrator for the Chief Rabbinate of Holland, he oversees the initial inspections […]

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The Trump administration signed an agreement with Guatemala that will restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America. The “safe third country” agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on their way to the U.S. to apply for protections in Guatemala instead of at the U.S. border. It could […]

President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran is at a crossroads. His administration is trying to decide whether to risk stoking international tensions even more by ending one of the last remaining components of the 2015 nuclear deal. The U.S. faces a Thursday deadline to decide whether to extend or cancel sanctions waivers to […]

A 5-year-old boy is being credited with saving 13 people from a Chicago house fire. Residents say Jayden Espinosa awoke to smoke and flames just before 4 a.m. Saturday and

A New York Police Department officer was found dead Saturday in a possible suicide on Staten Island, police said. The officer’s death marks the fifth apparent suicide of a member

President Donald Trump on Saturday denigrated a majority-black district represented by a congressional nemesis as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” broadening a campaign against prominent critics of his

President Donald Trump promised on Friday to retaliate against France for adopting a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. He also managed to get in a shot at French wine. Trump, who doesn’t drink, tweeted: “I’ve always said American wine is better than French wine!” The digital tax primarily targets companies […]

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