With help from Shawn Ness. New from New York Happening now: Columbia University is now a gathering place for protesters and political leaders. A new push for wage parity between upstate and New York City. The sanitation union is calling for better health care for their workers. A new leader for the Alliance for Clean […]
WASHINGTON — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff will represent the Biden administration at a memorial Thursday for the seven humanitarian aid workers with World Central Kitchen who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza this month. The American charity, run by celebrity chef José Andrés, is set to host an interfaith service at Washington National […]
The race between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump has been incredibly stable, but a quarter of all voters are still open to changing their minds on the candidate they plan to support, according to newly released results from the latest national NBC News poll. With more than six months until Election Day, 26% of registered voters say there is a chance […]
Former President Donald Trump has been called a lot of names in the first six days of his New York hush-money trial. “We will call him ‘President Trump’ out of respect for the office that he held from 2017 to 2021,” Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the jury during his opening statement Monday. “And as […]
WASHINGTON — A former Republican candidate who lost his race for mayor in Connecticut last year was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days of incarceration for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Gino DiGiovanni Jr. admitted he entered the Capitol after he was confronted by NBC Connecticut in October 2022 after […]
WASHINGTON — Pro-Palestinian protesters are looking to puncture the festive bubble this weekend surrounding the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner — one of the capital’s biggest parties of the year, with attendees including President Joe Biden, top government officials and leading journalists. Activists are expecting several hundred people at a rally in Kalorama Park, just […]
Tapping from the Flint River was meant to be an interim source until Flint could join a new system accessing water from Lake Huron. “It’s a historic moment for the city of Flint to return to its roots and use our own river as our drinking water supply,” Walling said at the ceremony, marking the […]
rawpixel.com By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) More than 1.7 million foreign nationals have illegally entered the U.S. in the first six months of fiscal 2024, the greatest number for this time period in U.S. history. The 1,733,496 who illegally entered in the first six months of the fiscal year outnumber the 1,547,866 who illegally […]
Rep. Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J., has died at age 65 after several weeks of being hospitalized following a “cardiac episode” in early April. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy confirmed Payne’s death in a statement Wednesday, saying that he and his wife are “deeply saddened by the tragic passing of our friend” and “steadfast champion for […]
For the third time in three weeks, Democrats in the Arizona Legislature will attempt on Wednesday to pass a bill that would repeal the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court earlier this month. Following that ruling, Republicans across the U.S. — including former President Donald Trump […]
