With help from Shawn Ness New from New York Happening now: Mayor Eric Adams talked about the reasons why it was time to break up the protests on college campuses. New York has a new secretary of state that will need state Senate approval. New York City’s budget is getting bigger and bigger. Why Attorney […]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. UP NEXT Schumer: Reclassifying marijuana is ‘long overdue’ 02:01 Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will go forward with motion to oust Speaker Johnson 01:52 ‘We want to turn the page’: Democrats plan to table motion to oust Speaker Johnson 01:38 […]
A proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products that was scheduled to take place in April has not been released by the Food and Drug Administration, disregarding the agency’s own deadline. The proposal had come after wide-ranging studies found an association between some of the ingredients in hair-smoothing and hair-straightening products, which are used mostly […]
WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for a parade of foreign dignitaries in recent weeks, some aides to President Joe Biden took notice — and umbrage — at what they saw as the former president playing pretender-in-chief. In less than two months, Trump has hosted Polish President Andrzej Duda, Hungarian Prime […]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Protesters set up camp in Fordham University’s Lincoln Center 01:23 UP NEXT Police crack down on campus protests across the nation 05:15 ‘We are going to protect our city’: NYC mayor discusses raid on Columbia protesters 07:20 Police […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at an annual ceremony commemorating the Holocaust on May 7, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Wednesday. Biden’s remarks will take place during a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ceremony marking the Days of Remembrance on Capitol Hill next Tuesday. Jean-Pierre told reporters that […]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Schumer: Reclassifying marijuana is ‘long overdue’ 02:01 UP NEXT Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will go forward with motion to oust Speaker Johnson 01:52 ‘We want to turn the page’: Democrats plan to table motion to oust Speaker […]
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a spending bill Tuesday that will enforce a time limit on stays in the state’s emergency shelter system, reversing a 40-year-old “right to shelter” for families and pregnant women. The legislation — which includes $251 million for shelters starting this fiscal year — will enforce a nine-month limit on stays […]
A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in South Dakota’s constitution is one step closer to appearing on the November 2024 ballot, after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates submitted the required number of signatures on Wednesday. Dakotans for Health, the group leading the ballot effort, announced it had collected the signatures of more than […]
The House is set to vote Wednesday on an antisemitism bill as pro-Palestinian protests roil colleges throughout the country. The bill, titled the Antisemitism Awareness Act, would mandate that the Education Department adopt the broad definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, an intergovernmental group, to enforce anti-discrimination laws. Rep. Mike Lawler, […]
