When much of Venezuela was plunged into darkness after a massive blackout this week, President Nicolás Maduro blamed the power outage on an “electromagnetic attack” carried out by the U.S. The claim was met with skepticism. Blackouts are a regrettably frequent part of life in Venezuela, where the electric grid has fallen into serious disrepair. […]

Three Indian nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. have been forced to receive IV drips at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas as they approach their third

Two South Koreans and 15 Russians returned to South Korea on Sunday, following 10 days of detention in North Korea after their fishing boat drifted into North Korean waters, officials said. The crew members were aboard a Russia-flagged fishing boat when it was detained by North Korea on July 17 after leaving South Korea’s eastern […]

A 40-year-old male was critically wounded after being shot by a 74-year-old man during an argument over a parking spot in the Azrieli Mall in Ramle on Sunday afternoon. Police

Facing growing accusations of racism over his incendiary tweets, President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to deflect the criticism by labeling a prominent minority congressman as himself racist and accusing

A person was shot outside the Young Israel of North Miami Beach, Sunday afternoon. It happened at around 7:00PM, when a man was shot while walking outside the Shul located

A community festival was coming to a close when gunfire erupted in a Brooklyn neighborhood, leaving one man dead, another person in critical condition and 10 others wounded, authorities said Sunday as they searched for two shooters they believe were involved. NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said the shooting late Saturday in the borough’s Brownsville section […]

Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month, President Trump announced Sunday, after a turbulent two years in which Coats and the president were often at

A shul serving the Ethiopian community in Ashkelon received a threatening letter warning them against carrying out any harm against a police officer or his family. The letter said that

Three people were injured, including two children, in a rock-throwing terror attack in Shomron on motzei Shabbos on Route 55. An 11-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl sustained injuries in a

At first, the co-owner of the quirky alien-themed motel down a Nevada highway from the mysterious Area 51 site didn’t take a posting for a prank Facebook event too seriously. Then, her phone started ringing. “It doesn’t stop, our phone won’t stop ringing,” Connie West, of the Little A’le’Inn, told the Las Vegas Sun. The […]

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 […]

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