Campaigning in Har Homa to appeal to pro-settlement voters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he had authorized construction at the site to disrupt Palestinian development between Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Israeli Arabs have experienced a political awakening as potent alliances have formed that could prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from cobbling together a ruling coalition.
The push to secure the first Republican budget plan in nearly a decade is revealing a chasm between lawmakers who want to maintain strict spending caps and those who are threatening to derail any budget that does not ensure an increase for the military.
David Lane, a onetime Bible salesman and self-described former “wild man,” sees his mission as making evangelical Christians a decisive power in the Republican Party.
For generations, scavengers have prowled Detroit with impunity. But recently, the city has been serious about fighting back, sounding a death knell for part of the underground economy.
The director Andrew Jarecki and his co-writer and cinematographer, Marc Smerling, discuss the Robert Durst case, “The Jinx” and its aftermath.
For this bracket, the more unusual that your picks are, the more points you’ll receive — so long as those picks are correct.
After a bad batch of the drug Molly sent 12 people to the hospital last month, Wesleyan University has been trying to balance open-mindedness with student safety.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia reappeared in public on Monday after more than 10 days, appearing healthy.
A growing number of law enforcement agencies have acquired sophisticated technology to track cellphones but have done so with an unusual restriction: They must not talk about it.
In May, 150 properties on Long Island and Staten Island will be up for auction at prices between 20 and 30 percent of their values before Hurricane Sandy.
The online marketplace and its customers say that imitation handmade goods, and rules restricting how hit vendors can grow to meet demand, are complicating the site’s drive for authenticity.
Laws being challenged in Florida and Alabama are only more proof of the moral disgrace of capital punishment in this country.
Should Congress save the Export-Import Bank, or let it expire?
Isn’t philosophizing for yourself like keeping your own score in tennis, according to your own judgments of what was in or out?
Room for Debate asks whether Congress should save the Export-Import Bank, or let it expire.
Daniele Petroni is a project manager with a specialty in the curtain walls used in many of New York’s luxurious residences.
Steffanie Peterson and her daughter, Hannah, left West Virginia to start a new life in New York.
