Was Billionaire Ira Rennert’s $240 Million Estate Paid for with Company Funds?
Billionaire Ira Rennert has one of the most expensive estates in the world. With an estimated value of more than $240 million, it is audacious even for the Hamptons where the home is located. The problem for More...
Knicks Might Get Stoudemire Back by Teusday
Amar’e Stoudemire might be returning to the New York Knicks sometime this coming week. The basketball player has been suffering from wrist, ankle and knee problems. While not actually Jewish, Stoudemire More...
Obama Fires First Salvo in Latest Budget Fracas
Heralding a new budget battle with congressional Republicans, U.S. President Obama called Thursday for an end to the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration and proposed a 7% hike in spending above those More...
Greece Signals Left Turn by Opposing Increased Sanctions on Russia
Greece’s new radical left wing-dominated government signaled on Tuesday that friction with its European partners might extend from economic to foreign policy when it distanced itself from an EU call to consider More...
Chutzpah Today: Jeffrey Epstein Denounces ‘Media Frenzy’ over Court Case
Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender accused of forcing a 17-year-old girl to have sex with his friend Prince Andrew, has struck out at the press in his first formal statement since the reigniting More...
Russia’s Drop to Junk Rating Likely to Spiral Further Down
For the first time in a decade, Standard & Poor’s gave Russia a junk rating, and two other ratings agencies removed the country from investment grade status, according to Bloomberg. Russia’s More...
Israel’s President Rivlin Meets Parents of IDF Lone Soldiers Who Fell During Operation Protective Edge
President and First Lady of Israel, Reuven and Nechama Rivlin, met Monday evening in New York, with parents of IDF Lone Soldiers from the United States, who fell in battle during Operation Protective More...
Standard & Poor Rates Russia’s Credit as ‘Junk’
Ratings agency S&P cut Russia’s sovereign credit rating to junk status on Monday, bringing it below investment grade for the first time in a decade, Reuters said. Warning of difficult times ahead More...
Melissa Rivers Suing Clinic that Allegedly Killed her Mother Joan
Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa filed a malpractice lawsuit on Monday against the New York clinic that treated her mother just days before her death. Among other things, the suit says clinic doctors were More...
Fearsome Snowstorm Poses First Test of Uber’s Commitment to Cap Prices
App-based ride-hailing service Uber has vowed to keep its promise to limit prices during the massive blizzard now slamming into the northeastern U.S., in the first test of its new emergency pricing policy More...