Tehran - The moderate Iranian leader who says that he was robbed of victory in last week’s presidential election faces a fateful choice today: support the regime or be cast out. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has told Mir Hossein Mousavi to stand beside him as he uses Friday prayers at Tehran University to call for national unity. An army of Basiji — Islamic volunteer...

New York, NY - Thousands of new police recruits attended a special multi-cultural training session in Harlem today designed to help them navigate the city's ethnic mix. With graduation just two weeks away, more than 250 of New York's soon-to-be Finest headed to the Apollo Theater for training on cross-cultural understanding. "Just before they hit the streets, they have this immersion...

Jerusalem - Israeli Hebrew magazine Sha’ah Tovah revealed that Migdal HaEmek rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Gruzman spoke this week with Minister of Justice Yaakov Neeman and Internal Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitz about the Japan saga, against the backdrop of an agreement made that the Haredi teens currently incarcerated in Japan awaiting trial will be to serve their sentences in Israel. The...

Postville, IA - A federal judge has again denied a request to move the trial of former kosher slaughterhouse executive Sholom Rubashkin out of Iowa. U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade rejected today the motion by defense attorneys, but suggested that she could change her mind as the Sept. 8 trial date nears. Reade issued a similar ruling in March, but allowed defense lawyers to renew their...

Israel - At a conference this week, rabbis employed by the state's Chief Rabbinate hurled insults at immigrants seeking to convert, calling them "cheaters" motivated solely by self-interest. Now the political system is responding furiously, with MKs demanding public apologies and/or dismissals and even threatening legal action. "The Chief Rabbinate is marred by racism and deep hatred for the...

New Jersey - State-regulated insurance companies would be required to cover screenings and any medically necessary therapies for children with autism and other developmental disabilities, under a bill the Senate passed unanimously today. Insurance companies historically have argued against covering services for children with autism because these therapies were educational, not medical. They...

New York, NY - Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you -- as long as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated by service to your country rather than your wallet. The Central Intelligence Agency has been advertising for recruits and will be holding interviews on June 22 at a secret location in New York. "Economics, finance and business professionals, if the quest for...

New York City - Mayor Bloomberg today enthusiastically defended the controversial Correction Department head chaplain who signed off on a bar mitzvah bash in a Manhattan jail - even as he said the recent resignations of a rabbi and an agency chief because of the scandal "was the right thing for them to do." Bloomberg had nothing but praise for Umar Abdul-Jalil, even though the Muslim imam has...

Washington - In a speech perceived by some as a subtle rebuke to President Barack Obama’s May 31 address to the Muslim world, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) defended Israel as “a stalwart democratic ally in such a critical part of the world.” Menendez delivered his remarks to the Senate on June 16, discussing at length Israel’s claims to legitimacy and scoring its...

Haifa, Israel - The head of the radical Islamic Movement's northern branch told some 200 Arab students at Haifa University that Israel is tunneling underneath the Temple Mount in order to build the Third Temple. The claim is not new, but Haifa University officials said Thursday they could not prevent Sheikh Ra'ad Salah from repeating the charges. Salah added, “We welcome death” rather...

Washington - The U.S. military is tracking a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned. The ship, Kang Nam, left a port in North Korea Wednesday and could be carrying weaponry, missile parts or nuclear materials. The U.S. military has been tracking it since its departure...

Honolulu - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he has ordered the U.S. military to take defensive measures should North Korea attempt to fire a ballistic missile toward Hawaii. “I think we are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect American territory,” Gates told reporters at the Pentagon today. Gates said he has directed the deployment of missile interceptors to...

Duesseldorf, Germany - Lawyers say four men accused of belonging to a radical Islamic terror cell that plotted to attack U.S. targets in Germany have begun confessing to some of the charges against them. The suspects were being questioned Thursday by members of Germany's domestic intelligence service, their lawyers confirmed. "My client has given a wide-reaching testimony," said Dirk Uden...

New York - After touring the former Nazi death camp Buchenwald with President Barack Obama last week, Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel told Haaretz he had no doubt that the U.S. leader bore no anti-Israel sentiments. "I can say with complete certainty that Obama does not hate Israel," said Wiesel, in response to rising criticism among U.S. Jews regarding the president's policies on Israel and...

Israel - A senior Israeli doctor claims towns in northern Israel have one of the largest concentrations of people in the world suffering from a rare form of cancer. Speaking at a conference, Dr. Micha Bar-Hana, director of the Ministry of Health's cancer registry, said the number of people suffering from mesothelioma, caused by asbestos, is expected to rise in the coming years as residents of...