North Korea leader Kim Jong Un was on a train Sunday to Vietnam for his second summit with President Donald Trump, state media confirmed. Kim was accompanied by Kim Yong Chol, who has been a key negotiator in talks with the U.S., and Kim Yo Jong, the leader’s sister, the North’s official Korean Central News […]
Some 8,000 Gazans participated in this week’s violent protests along the Gaza border fence with Israel on Friday. Among the other violent act undertaken during the protest there were rows
In town halls, television interviews and social media posts, Democratic presidential candidates are touting their support for “Medicare-for-all,” higher taxes on the wealthy and a war on climate change. But foreign policy, one of the chief responsibilities of a president, is largely taking a back seat on the campaign trail. Former Vice President Joe Biden […]
Now there is one more place where cameras could start watching you – from 30,000 feet. Newer seat-back entertainment systems on some airplanes operated by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and Singapore Airlines have cameras, and it’s likely they are also on planes used by other carriers. All four airlines said that they […]
The NYPD is investigating anti-Semitic graffiti that was scrawled all over an elementary school playground in Queens. The disturbing discovery was made Friday afternoon at PS 139 in Rego Park.
In a courageous demonstration of true leadership, the Ocean County Board of Freeholders unanimously passed a strong Resolution specifically denouncing the hate group Rise Up Ocean County. This group, hiding
Democrats controlling the House have teed up a vote next week to block President Donald Trump from using a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, accelerating a showdown in Congress that could divide Republicans and lead to Trump’s first veto. The Democrats introduced a resolution Friday to block Trump’s declaration, […]
Israel’s acting foreign minister has doubled down on his divisive claim that Poles collaborated with the Nazis and “suckled anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk.” Israel Katz said in a live TV interview late Thursday that he did not regret his comment, insisting that “I, as a son of Holocaust survivors … have to tell the […]
More than two dozen airports statewide are splitting $23.6 million in infrastructure funding provided by New York state. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the state funding has been awarded
Avreichim in the Medrash Eliyahu Kollel in Elad receive a bit over NIS 2,000 monthly from Rosh Kollel Rav Avraham Pechter, learning in both a morning and afternoon seder daily
Another defendant has pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs by a process known as “skimming.” Bogdan Rusu of Queens, New York, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The 39-year-old faces up to 30 years in prison when he’s sentenced on July […]
Some New York lawmakers are proposing a ban on subsidies for particular companies in the wake of Amazon’s decision not to build a new campus in Queens. State Assemblyman Ron Kim and Sen. Julia Salazar on Wednesday proposed legislation that would stop the state from awarding company-specific subsidies and instead treat all companies the same […]
This Sunday: The Start-up Nation Visits NYC Don’t Miss Out on This Opportunity to Meet Israel’s Top Start-ups New York, February 21, 2019 Bseed, an investment company based in Israel, is hosting a series of events for prospective investors in New York. The events, which are being produced in collaboration with Roth & Co., one […]
Two sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have been indicted on drug conspiracy charges, the Justice Department said Thursday. Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 34, and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 28, are charged in a single-count indictment that was unsealed last week in Washington. Prosecutors allege the two brothers conspired to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and […]
The father of an Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State in Syria filed suit against the Trump administration Thursday in an effort to allow her return to the United
William Barr has been attorney general for just one week but is on the cusp of staring down what will almost certainly be the most consequential decision of his long career: how much of the special counsel’s findings to make public. The position catapults him from Justice Department outsider free to theorize and speculate on […]
University of California, Berkeley police say they’re investigating an attack on a conservative activist who was punched in the face while recruiting on campus. Police say the man was at a table for the conservative group Turning Point USA Tuesday when two men approached him and a verbal altercation started. They say victim Hayden Williams […]
Police tapped into Chicago’s vast network of surveillance cameras — and even some homeowners’ doorbell cameras — to track down two brothers who later claimed they were paid by “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett to stage an attack on him, the latest example of the city’s high-tech approach to public safety. Officers said they reviewed video […]
A man in Queens is lucky to be alive after a piece of wood fell from an elevated subway platform and pierced his windshield Thursday afternoon. Investigators say a wooden
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