Just past midnight on May 1, a young rabbinical student was walking home on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn when he thought he was being followed. A moment after that intuition struck, two men grabbed him, threw him against a car and started punching him. The victim had dropped a box containing $200, meant for charity, […]
The United States economy is the strongest it has been in ages. Growth has been robust, and the unemployment rate is at generational lows, as new data Friday affirmed. Yet the Republican Party, which controls the White House and Congress, trails Democrats substantially in polling on which party is preferred. It helps to look beyond […]
If you haven’t noticed New York City’s $1 million-plus ad campaign to “Flip Your Ballot” — or if you want to know more about the ballot proposals in Tuesday’s election — you’ve come to the right place. New Yorkers will be asked to approve or reject three revisions to the City Charter. The questions will […]
A get-out-the-vote event at a Brooklyn synagogue featuring the comedian Ilana Glazer was canceled on Thursday night after anti-Semitic graffiti, including the words “Die Jew Rats,” was discovered scrawled on the temple’s walls, the police and officials at the synagogue said. The vandalism, which is being investigated as a hate crime by the Police Department, […]
Good morning on this drizzly Friday. The first New York City Marathon, in 1970, had 55 finishers. The race on Sunday will have about 50,000. Though Marathon Sunday (as it’s often called) is not a holiday, it unifies the city as much as — if not more than — many of our official ones. When […]
In the final months of the Obama administration, Walmart was under pressure from federal officials to pay nearly $1 billion and accept a guilty plea to resolve a foreign bribery investigation. Barclays faced demands that it pay nearly $7 billion to settle civil claims that it had sold toxic mortgage investments that helped fuel the […]
WASHINTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday (Nov 4) he will meet this week in New York with North Korea’s number two, Kim Yong Chol, to resume denuclearisation talks. Pompeo’s announcement comes just a day after North Korea’s foreign ministry said the North will “seriously” consider reviving its nuclear weapons programme […]
Edmund Zagorski, 63, is set to be executed by electrocution on Thursday night after opting against lethal injection. Tennessee plans to execute 63-year-old Edmund Zagorski by electrocution on Thursday night after the condemned man requested not to be put to death by lethal injection. Zagorski, who killed two men in 1983 who were carrying a […]
Two workers were injured after a Newfoundland distillery exploded Friday morning in Clarke’s Beach. In a Facebook post, The Newfoundland Distillery Company says an employee suffered burns and smoke inhalation and is in stable condition at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s. It says another was held for observation overnight at the Carbonear General […]
State representative Matt Shea, who is seeking re-election, distributes document outlining the guidelines for religious In the northwestern US state of Washington, a Republican state politician is facing backlash for distributing a document outlining the guidelines for a “holy army” and advocating killing people who violate “Biblical law”. With criticism mounting, some donors have asked […]