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If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama's approach to Israel, he might have found his man to deliver that message in David Friedman, his pick for U.S. ambassador. The bankruptcy lawyer and son of an Orthodox rabbi is everything Obama is not: a fervent supporter of Israeli settlements, opponent of Palestinian statehood and unrelenting defender of Israel's government.
In this photo provided by Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, David Friedman, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice for ambassador to Israel. NEW YORK - If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama's approach to Israel, he may have found his man to deliver that message in David Friedman, his pick for ambassador.
President-elect Donald Trump has made big promises when it comes to building new highways, tunnels, bridges and airports in America - and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hoping he makes good on his word. Cuomo has embarked on projects to rebuild Penn Station and LaGuardia and Kennedy airports, and to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge.
Nearly 1,000 people marched from Long Island City across the Queensboro Bridge to Manhattan to protest the election of president-elect Donald Trump on Saturday. Led by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, the march was an opportunity for residents to voice concerns about Trump's views and to make a statement about the borough's values.
When Queens, N.Y.-born journalist and PBS' "NewsHour" co-anchor Gwen Ifill died last week, not many media reports spoke about her Barbadian roots. Ifill's death from endometrial cancer brought a multitude of condolences for her family and loads of praise and platitudes from media colleagues, TV viewers and left, right and moderate politicians.
Blue jean babe! Jennifer Lopez accentuates her booty in VERY tight pants as she films Shades of Blue in New York After enjoying some Halloween fun with her two children, Jennifer Lopez was back on the set of her cop show on Tuesday. The 47-year-old star donned some oh-so-tight blue jeans as she filmed a scene in Queens, New York.
Bruce Feinstein, Esq., an experienced bankruptcy attorney in Queens, New York, speaks about recent news from agencies like Politifact that have shed light on Donald Trump's various bankruptcies. With the first 2016 presidential debate over and the U.S. presidential campaign coverage reaching a fever pitch, various personal topics about both major party candidates have been covered.
The Latest on an explosion hitting a crowded Manhattan neighborhood : 11:30 p.m. Authorities say FBI agents pulled over a car on a highway in Brooklyn and are questioning the vehicle's occupants in connection with the investigation of the bombing in Manhattan. FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser says agents stopped "a vehicle of interest in the investigation" at 8:45 p.m. Sunday.
A team of five FBI agents have searched an Uber driver's vehicle that had been damaged in the Manhattan blast, ripping off the door panels inside as they examined it for evidence. The driver, MD Alam, had just picked up three passengers and was driving along 23rd Street when the explosion occurred, shattering the car's windows and leaving gaping holes in the rear passenger-side door.
LIFE IS A BEACH: A beach goer plays with his dogs off of Hobie Island Beach Park on Virginia Key, Wednesday, Aug. 17, in Miami. Sandals mark the crime scene, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, not far from the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid Mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, where the leader of a New York City mosque has been fatally shot and an associate has been wounded in a brazen daylight attack.
The men who gathered on the steps of the small, brown-painted Al-Furqan Jame mosque Sunday had a message for the authorities. "We want justice," Badrul Khan, the mosque's founder, said as a dozen men crowded beside him repeated the chant before a line of TV cameras, reporters and police.
Vigils, rallies and marches are being held around the country Monday and later this week for the victims of the deadly attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Police in many areas have promised heightened security for the events, which come during Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.
Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II. On a likely freezing January 20, 2017 either the adopted daughter who served twice as state senator or the Queens-born, Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.