Garden State Parkway’s Driscoll Bridge Reopens

Work is finished in time for the Memorial Day holiday on a bridge that once was a major bottleneck to traffic headed to and...

Toledo Mayor Forced to Cut Grass in Parks Himself

A cash-strapped American mayor has been forced to cut the grass in city parks himself - and he's asking residents to grab a lawnmower...

Felder: Stop City Fees on Online Credit Card Transactions

New York City Councilman Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn) has introduced legislation that would eliminate fees on those who use a credit card to...

Corzine Looking to Suspends NJ Property Tax Rebates

New Jersey property tax rebates will be suspended this year for homeowners except senior citizens under Governor Jon Corzine's revised budget proposal, state Treasurer...

Obama’s New Rules Will Transform US Auto Fleet

Some soccer moms will have to give up hulking SUVs. Carpenters will still haul materials around in pickup trucks, but they will cost more....

New York Driving Course Goes Online

New York drivers now have the option of taking defensive-driving courses over the Internet to qualify for auto insurance discounts and point reductions on...

Obama to Announce Mileage, Pollution Plan

President Barack Obama's new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks will save billions of barrels of oil but are expected to cost...

Text of Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, listen, I first of all want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for making this visit. I think we had a extraordinarily...

NY Lawmakers Call for Statewide Ban on Texting While Driving

Lawmakers in Albany are calling for a statewide ban on text messaging while driving. Assemblymen Felix Ortiz and Mark Schroeder, and Sen. Carl Marcellino,...

Israeli Intelligence Issues Facebook Warning

Israel's domestic intelligence agency has issued a rare public warning that terror groups were using popular sites like Facebook to recruit, and possibly kidnap,...

Obama Gives Iran Until End of Year On Nuclear Talks

President Barack Obama set a rough timetable for his diplomatic outreach to arch-foe Iran for the first time yesterday, saying he wanted to see...

Man Accused of Biting Out Son’s Eye

A Bakersfield, California, father is accused of biting out one of the eyes of his small child and similarly mutilating the other eye, leaving...

Huckabee Writes Poem Attacking Pelosi

Mike Huckabee has penned a poem about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has come under fire from the GOP for accusing the CIA of...

NYC Gets New Health Chief Amid Swine Flu Outbreak

As New York City grieved its first swine flu death and looked ahead to more likely school closings related to the virus, Mayor Michael...

Study: Child Brains Organized Differently Than Adult Brains

It's hard to say what's going on in the heads of children, but a new study shows how it's going on. Kids' brains are...

Google Challenged by New Rival With All the Answers – WolframAlpha

A revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites will be launched officially today amid heated talk that it could...

Obama Hosts Netanyahu Today

President Barack Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for their first meeting on Monday as discord over Mideast peace and Iran's nuclear...

40% of Israeli Arabs: Holocaust Never Happened

Only 41% of local Arabs recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish democratic state, while 40.5% of Arab Israelis believe the Holocaust never...

NY Times: Israel’s Fears, Amalek’s Arsenal

By Jeffrey Goldberg, The NY Times When the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visits the White House on Monday for his first stage-setting visit, he...

Mayor, Chancellor Mourn NYC Swine Flu Death

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he mourns the loss of a school assistant principal who died of swine flu. Mitchell Wiener, a...

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