Newt Gingrich has stormed to an upset victory over Mitt Romney in the South Carolina GOP primary with a pair of strong debate performances that most voters said was important to their choice.
Wikipedia, the world’s free online encyclopedia, went dark on Wednesday and other Internet players including Google put black censorship bars on portions of their websites in protest of pending U.S. legislation designed to curb online piracy.
One of New York City’s most recognizable buildings has been sold by Chabad magnate Levi Leviev’s Africa Israel Investments for $165 million.
Maybe you’ll want to start salting away money for 2012 fuel costs now. Get ready to see $4-a-gallon gasoline in various parts of the U.S. sometime this spring, according to one prediction. Another prediction says that some of the nation’s biggest cities — such as Chicago, Los Angeles and New York — will see record Memorial Day averages of $4.55 to $4.95 for a gallon of regular gasoline.
Seven Israelis were on board the Italian cruise ship, Costa Concordia, that ran aground Friday night and sank into the sea like a scene from the Titanic.
Ford announced a recall Wednesday of 450,000 older model minivans and SUVs for risks from fire and loss of power.
A federal appeals court struck down as unconstitutional an Oklahoma anti-Sharia law, which was authored by David Yerushalmi, a Lubavitcher from Phoenix, Arizona. [Update: correction issued in extended article].
Target is raking in praise over a recent ad featuring a 6-year-old boy with Down syndrome.
The Republican presidential candidates propelled out of the Iowa caucuses Wednesday with the race looking dramatically different than it did just one week ago. Mitt Romney won the night, but only by one of the slimmest margins in Iowa election history.
Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, said young people’s reading and conversational skills were being put at risk by overexposure to modern technology.
Just when rebuilding efforts were starting to show encouraging progress in Christchurch, New Zealand, city dwellers got a rude awakening Friday afternoon when the ground starting shaking yet again.
Almost one in three teenagers and young adults have been arrested by the age of 23 for anything from underage drinking to violent crime.
Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69.
Yakov Jacobson was doing pre-Chanukah mivzoim in Laguna Beach, CA, when he happened upon a familiar character who – he was surprised to find out – is a Jew! The man had never put on tefilin before, a ‘Karkafta,’ and Yakov helped him do the mitzvah for the first time in his life.
Almost nine years after the first American tanks began massing on the Iraq border, the Pentagon declared an official end to its mission here, closing a troubled conflict that helped reshape American politics and left a bitter legacy of anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world.
New York City Comptroller, John C. Liu awarded Rabbi Moshe Wiener of Crown Heights at the Jewish Heritage & Culture celebration, Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
Richmond, VA [CHI] – Reports are emerging from Virginia Tech University that a police officer has been shot; a possible second victim has been reported at a parking lot near the campus. The entire university is in Lock down mode, with security officials warning everyone to remain behind securely locked doors until the gunman is apprehended.
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