Los Angeles, CA - American Apparel whose founder Dov Charney has been a vocal advocate of immigration reform, has been told by the United States government that 1,800 of its employees are working illegally in the U.S. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent notice to the Counselor Top 40 supplier that 1,600 of its employees submitted suspect documentation. The eligibility of another 200...

New York City - A Brooklyn woman who was injured when she stepped into a pothole while exiting a bus may pursue a negligence action against the owners of two cars that allegedly parked in the bus stop, thereby forcing the driver to drop passengers in the street. "It is well settled that 'owners of improperly parked cars may be held liable to plaintiffs injured by negligent drivers of other...

New York - The British Channel Four has published segments of the first interrogation of Mumbai terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole terrorist who remained alive and revealed the kidnappers conversation. "We were all going to die," he admitted The Channel Four program showed footage of Kasab's interrogation combined with new video footage of the terrorist attack in November. Here Kasab...

New York - More than a year after the announcement of his appointment, and three months following his arrival in his new office in New York, Rabbi Steven Weil, today, July 1, 2009, officially assumes the position of Executive Vice President, the chief professional officer of the Orthodox Union. In that capacity, he will have day-to-day responsibility for running the largest Orthodox synagogue...

Israel - The Nahari law, intended to increase funding for Haredi education, passed an initial vote in the Knesset today. The law was introduced by United Torah Judaism, and has the support of the coalition. MK Moshe Gafni and opposition MKs had a strongly worded debate before the law was voted on. MK Ophir Pines warned that the law will help turn Israel into a religious state within 20...

Albany, NY - Gov. Bumble rolled into the circus to squirt cold water on the bad senators who were ru ining his day and keeping him up here in the state capital well past happy hour. David Paterson, the zhlub who accidentally fell into the governor's chair after Eliot Spitzer succumbed to a paid bimbo, looked like a bimbo himself. He huffed. He puffed. He threatened. He tried to raise his...

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition plans to pass a law that would rehabilitate all the people branded as traitors by the Nazis in World War Two, a leading conservative said on Tuesday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel's conservatives, who had previously backed only a non-binding motion, would work with their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners and draw up a law...

New York - Ruth Madoff is in the clear -- for now. Ruth will not be prosecuted for the massive Ponzi scheme that won her husband Bernard Madoff a 150-year prison sentence, sources told The Post yesterday. Federal prosecutors decided not to criminally charge Ruth because they lack evidence that she was either aware of or involved in Bernard Madoff's scam -- which swindled thousands of people...

Brooklyn, NY - Sobs and unspeakable sadness enveloped a Brooklyn family Tuesday as they bid farewell to a father and son killed in a freak cesspool accident at a Queens sewage plant. "What can you say to a family that in one moment lost a patriarch and a son?" wondered Rabbi Yirmiyahu Levy in a moving eulogy before black-draped coffins and an overflow crowd. "Who can believe...

Williamsburg, NY - No wonder they call it Williams-BURG! Burglars ransacked the Southside, East Williamsburg, and Bushwick this week, raiding at least 16 residences between June 22 and June 28, police said. The number of break-ins skyrocketed compared to the previous week — when crooks broke into five homes — and the same seven-day period last year — when thieves only raided two...

Moroni, Comoros - The "miracle" child survivor of the Yemenia Air crash off the Comoros Islands who was "ejected" from the plane into the Indian Ocean could not swim and did not have a life jacket, her father and rescuers said. They said the "fragile and timid" Bahia Bakari, 14, [not a five-year-old boy as initially reported] had to hang on to a lump of cabin debris from flight IY626 before...

New York, NY - The New York Police Department has published a new report advising managers and developers of high-profile buildings to take more steps to guard against terrorist attacks. Police officials plan to distribute the report today at a seminar for private security officials. The recommendations include putting tighter restrictions on blueprints and floor plans that could fall into...

Kiryat Malachi, Israel - Four firefighting companies have worked throughout Tuesday night to extinguish a fire at a shopping center in Kiryat Malachi, located in southern Israel. The firefighters rescued Torah scrolls and holy books from an adjacent synagogue. The firefighting has continued Wednesday morning. There are no reports of casualties...

London - An explosion has ripped through a building's flat in north London. Firefighters rushed to the blast this morning and rescued a man who was taken to hospital suffering from burns. Residents from surrounding properties were evacuated. The force of the explosion tore the front off the property in Bell Lane, Hendon, this morning. The explosion also caused damage to a shop underneath the...

Brooklyn, NY - The city's first Hasidic cop was excoriated in a anti-Semitic rant by a dog-loving subway passenger who allegedly refused to place her sick pet in an animal carrier, sources and a witness said yesterday. [Last night VIN News reported] that a Brooklyn blogger Chrissie Brodigan claimed Officer Joel Witriol went ballistic when he saw her take her pug, Dempsey, out of her purse in...