Hamas man: Jordanian, Egyptian agents tracked terror chief before murder.

New York City – The City Law Department today announced the publication of proposed new rules for issuing press passes to members of the media in New York City. The rules proposed to be adopted by the Police Department modernize the City’s credentialing system to reflect changes to the media industry and, for the first [...]

Newark, NJ – A racy billboard showing a black woman in a racy pose will be removed from one of Newark’s busiest intersections, a company spokeswoman said today. The ad for AKOO, a clothing company owned by the rapper T.I., has been turning heads at the corner of Market and Washington streets. Tonight, CBS Outdoor, the [...]

Washington – Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He’s the town’s resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime target for the failings of the Obama administration. But a contrarian narrative is emerging: Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the [...]

Gazan Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar has released a statement denying reports (http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=49780) that he has resigned as the head of the Hamas team negotiating a prisoner release deal with Israel towards obtaining the release of Gilad Shalit. According to a Yisrael HaYom report, the senior Hamas official states that he has not pulled out of the [...]

New York City – The long-speculated day of departure of Mayor Bloomberg’s political brain, Deputy Mayor for Government Afffairs Kevin Sheekey, has finally arrived, except he’s not going very far. The ever-eulsive and (usually) tieless Sheekey is returning to Bloomberg LP, where he worked from 1997 to 2001. From this perch, he will advise Bloomberg on [...]

Washington – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it has designated Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal one of the country’s most hazardous waste sites, a Superfund site. The decision was widely anticipated despite the opposition of local developers and New York City, which had its own plan to clean up the site. “The goal is to [...]

Jerusalem – A senior Hamas leader publicly disowned his son Monday, days after the young man announced he had secretly spied for Israel and helped authorities hunt down members of the Islamic militant group. Hamas Web sites published a letter late Monday by Sheik Hassan Yousef that the militant group said was smuggled out of the [...]

Santiago – The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according [...]

Coin by precious coin, grade school students in western Massachusetts raised more than $1,000 for the victims of last month’s earthquake in Haiti.