A 17-year-old boy is fighting for his life, after he was struck by a vehicle on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident occurred on 17 Ave and 53 Street just before 6:00PM.
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Alabama lawmakers’ vote to outlaw almost all abortions in the state has ignited legal and political battles as conservatives aim to challenge the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
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Sudden White House moves in the Mideast sparked alarm in Congress on Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned President Donald Trump away from war with Iran and lawmakers in both parties demanded more information on his thinking.

A helicopter landing on the West Side of Manhattan came up short of the landing pad and ended up in the Hudson River Wednesday afternoon.
It happened in the vicinity of West 30th Street and the West Side Highway.
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An earthquake was felt in many parts of Israel, Wednesday evening.
YWN readers felt the quake in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Be’er Sheva, Modiil, Kfar Saba and many other locations.
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The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force arrested the suspect wanted in Williamsburg for punching a Hasidic man in the face.
The suspect is 16 years old and is being processed by the NYPD 90 Precinct.
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Two children of the Ginzberg family of Betar Illit R”L perished in a fire in the family apartment in October 2018. The fire that broke out resulted in the deaths of siblings Tzvi (2) and his sister Efrat (4) Ginzberg.

Ben Shapiro explains why Palestinian Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) recent comments on a “calming feeling” about the Holocaust  are anti-Semitic: “She perfectly well understands the actual history here, but the revisionist history serves an anti-Semitic goal, which is that Israel is illegitimate and ought to be abolished”.

International worries that the Trump administration is sliding toward war with Iran flared into the open amid skepticism about its claims that the Islamic Republic poses a growing threat to the U.S.

After Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s remarks on how she felt “comforted” about her Palestinian ancestors’ role during and after the Holocaust set off a firestorm (as expected), Dov Hikind put out a video to correct her distortions.