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Tesla Surprises With 3Q Profit DETROIT (AP) – Electric car maker Tesla Motors has posted its first quarterly profit in three years. Tesla reported net income of $22 million, or…
U.S. stocks dodged bigger losses and finished barely lower on Wednesday. Health care companies fell and Apple pulled technology companies down, but banks rose. Earlier in the day, stocks had…
Groups Sue to Overturn NJ’s New Graduation Mandate TRENTON – New Jersey’s new mandate requring students to pass standardized tests in algebra and the English language to graduate high school…
We are emerging from the most spiritually intense period of the year. Elul is behind us, as are Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos and Simchas Torah. We have renewed acceptance…
For all but the most starry-eyed devotees, or family members, of an aspirant to public service, voting essentially boils down to deciding which evil is lesser. Well, that’s a bit…
CO2. As a species, we humans seem to love filling our world with it — which may call into question our collective sanity, seeing that it can displace O2 and…
For the first time in a quarter-century, the United States abstained Wednesday in the annual United Nations vote condemning the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador…
Airstrikes by Syrian or Russian warplanes on Wednesday killed at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, in a village in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, rescue workers and a monitoring…
The defense rested Wednesday in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case, with a former aide to Gov. Chris Christie implying that others who have testified in the trial may have…
A revised unemployment rate shows that more New York City workers lost their jobs in September than in any single month in seven years. The state’s Labor Department figures show…
Ten protesters were arrested for chaining themselves together and lying down on the George Washington Bridge on Wednesday morning. The New York Daily News reports that witnesses said the protesters…
Two strong earthquakes rocked a wide area of central Italy on Wednesday, striking fear among residents rattled by a deadly tremor in August, but there were no reports of casualties.…
On her 69th birthday Wednesday, Hillary Clinton didn’t stop campaigning, telling a crowd of supporters in Lake Worth that “We can’t afford to take our foot off the gas for…
President Barack Obama is prepared to veto the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill if it includes a provision that the White House believes would allow some forms of discrimination in…
New Jersey Transit’s board has voted to secure the final piece of radio frequency spectrum it needs to install an automatic train braking system. The board voted Wednesday to lease…
Proposals by the Federal Railroad Administration to upgrade the high-speed rail corridor through the Northeast have raised concerns and some enthusiasm from residents in the eight states containing the route…
In the hours before the St. Louis County grand jury investigating the Michael Brown shooting death reported its decision not to indict policeman Darren Wilson on Nov. 24, 2014, top…
If Donald Trump were to defy the polls and snatch a victory in the U.S. presidential election next month, plenty of campaign promises would be tricky to keep, such as…
An Israeli soldier suffered an injury to his eyes during violent disorders near Kever Rachel, south of Yerushalayim, on Wednesday. The incident occurred as Palestinians hurled firebombs, rocks and pieces…
A Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli soldier at the central bus station in Yerushalayim last year was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Wednesday, according to local media…