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Police are stepping up synagogue patrols in certain areas of New Jersey after someone in a ski mask threw a lit Molotov cocktail at one in Essex County overnight in an apparent attempt to burn it down, authorities say. No one was hurt in the 3:20 a.m. Sunday incident at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield. According to police, security footage…...

Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “War,” has died.

Bills safety Damar Hamlin released a lengthy video expressing gratitude for the support he’s received during his recovery.

The last time Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band toured in United States was in Sept. of 2016, as part of the The River tour. At that time, Chicago’s United Center was the second stop on his list.

Shaquille O’Neal clapped back at Kevin Durant on social media Saturday, commenting on the Brooklyn Nets star’s hair.

Tom Verlaine, a guitarist and co-founder of the seminal proto-punk band Television, has died. He was 73.

A new report from small business lending platform OnDeck looks at the large U.S. companies with the highest rates of former employees launching businesses.

No arrests had been reported in connection with New York City protests over Tyre Nichols‘ deadly Memphis beating as of early Sunday, marking another night of what by accounts thus far suggest to be a peaceful series of demonstrations by a nation still trying to come to process the events they watched unfold on police bodycam footage. Proteste...

The NYPD says it is increasing security in the city out of an “abundance of caution” after a series of deadly shootings in Jerusalem. While the department said there is no specific threat, the response has become standard after any significant synagogue attack around the world. It follows a shooting near a synagogue in Jerusalem Friday night that l...

A body charred beyond recognition was discovered in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in Queens after firefighters were called overnight to douse the flames, authorities say. Cops responding to a 911 call about a fire near Mott Avenue and Bay 25 Street in Far Rockaway around 2:40 a.m. Saturday says FDNY firefighters saw the body once they exting...

It was Jan. 7, 2023. Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old father and FedEx worker, was on his way home from a park where he went to take sunset photos. Memphis police pulled him over for alleged reckless driving. Three days later, Nichols was dead. He was Black — so were the five fired officers now accused of second-degree murder and other…...

Of the six million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust, there are many whose names are still unknown. But one survivor living in New York City was able to help fill in some of the blanks — thanks to a stranger who works for Google.

Julian Khater, a New Jersey man who joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers — including Brian Sicknick, who died a day after the siege