Not content with shutting down popular stores, bedbugs have checked into a city hospital. A triage room at the Kings County Hospital in the East Flatbush area of Brooklyn was shut down Monday morning because of a bedbug outbreak. A spokeswoman at the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation said that, “last night a patient was brought to [...]

Providing yet another headwind for economic recovery, FICO, a leading provider of credit scores, said more Americans are seeing their average credit scores fall to new lows. The shift is significant not just because of its magnitude, but also because the repurcussions of these lower credit scores will be with us for a long time to [...]

The Israel Defense Force committee investigating the navy’s deadly raid on a Turkish-flagged aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip found the incident to be the consequence of failed intelligence and a lack of proper preparation for the operation, according to its report released on Monday. Nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists were killed in the May 31 [...]

Gov. Chris Christie said today he will try this fall to scale back pensions and health benefits for current employees, which would go a step further than changes put in place earlier this year. Christie, in a radio interview, said “real pension reform” is needed to put the state “back on track” and improve the economy. “I [...]

Bronx State Senator Pedro Espada held a news conference today to say that he will not back down despite calls from other Democratic Party leaders for him to leave office. The State Senate president said that he will run again this fall as a Democrat and that he has at least 10,000 signatures from Democrats in [...]

Voting in Chase Bank's Community Giving campaign will end tonight. There are many Chabad Moisdos competing for Bank's cash prizes, which ranges from $20,000 to $250,000. In an added incentives, Shluchim will be raffling off prizes to those who vote for them.

IDF chief willing to adopt conclusions of military probe.

More than thirty rabbonim from eight cities across the nation’s Midwest converged on Detroit on July 4 for what turned out to be an intensive two-day airing and discussion of important issues pertinent to the rabbinate. The conference, which was sponsored by the Midwest regional office of Agudas Yisroel of America’s Council of Synagogue Rabbonim grew [...]

"He nearly died. He wasn’t breathing."

Washington – The United States has threatened to cut financial aid to Jordan, if the Hashemite Kingdom continues to develop its nuclear program without coordinating with Israel, the Arab media reported on Monday. The American threat comes after Amman rejected Israeli demands to participate in extraction and enrichment of uranium, and Jordan’s failure to obtain US [...]