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Redfin began a decade ago as a new kind of residential real-estate brokerage: It would use the internet to streamline home buying, slash the commissions paid by buyers and upend…
Airbnb has grown rapidly in Cuba because it took advantage of two well-established patterns: the tradition of renting out rooms to travelers to earn extra money and the kindness of…
Lifting Bans on Fracking, Exports Will Add Many Jobs, Save Consumers Billions By Kyle Isakower (Tribune News Service/TNS) – If Texas were a nation, it would be the No. 3…
President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq on Wednesday in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State, an…
Congress and the states will need to find an answer if the Supreme Court strikes down the federal subsidies that are a foundation of President Barack Obama’s health care law,…
The engineer in last month’s fatal Amtrak crash wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download anything just before the train sped off the tracks, investigators said Wednesday, addressing…
More than seventy years after Luxembourg was officially declared “Judenrein,” free of Jews, the nation’s government has issued an admission and apology for its complicit role in the Holocaust. In…
A Chicago activist is appealing the 18-month prison sentence she was given for lying about her convictions for bombings when she sought U.S. citizenship. A federal judge in Detroit in…
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday gave final approval to an ordinance raising the minimum wage in America’s second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020 from the current…
Seeking to burnish his credentials as a plausible commander-in-chief, Jeb Bush stepped up his criticism Wednesday of Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian president “a bully” who should be restrained. On…
Medical examiners don’t have to return to families all organs from autopsied bodies or even tell them parts are missing, in the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. “This is an…
A New Jersey Transit bus rear-ended a private bus carrying Canadian schoolchildren inside the Lincoln Tunnel on Wednesday, injuring more than 30 people and slowing traffic on one of the…
The manhunt for two escaped killers expanded to campsites and boat slips in Vermont on Wednesday, and State Police said a female prison staff member being questioned may have had…
The chairman of Rockland County’s legislature on Wednesday condemned as “divisive” a video produced by the county Republican party which appeared to blame Orthodox Jews for local housing issues. Alden…
A bill that would impose a veto-empowered monitor on an Orthodox-led school board has generated “considerable ill will and anti-Semitism” in Rockland County, declared the executive vice president of Agudath…
Three months after the de Blasio administration reached an agreement with community representatives that would end the highly controversial regulation of bris Milah enacted by the Bloomberg administration, the New York…
A rural village and town can face a $25 million lawsuit alleging Orthodox Jews were blocked from building housing and opening a mikveh, a judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge…
Boy, 4, Hits Toddler With Van, Critically Injures Him STATEN ISLAND – A 4-year-old boy who got behind the wheel of a van ran over a 2-year-old on Tuesday, critically…
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would like a three-year state budget, which he argues will bolster stability, but he probably won’t get it. The leaders of the coalition parties, including…
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin expressed his concern to the United States on Wednesday about the fate of the Druze minority in Syria, saying around 500,000 of them were under threat…