Last month Mayor Mamdani conveyed his condolences, and that of the city, to the family of Clarence Woodward, an inmate who passed away on Rikers Island while awaiting trial...
Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, he returned to a union hall to tell workers they need to go to the polls this fall - to raise the minimum wage, expand family medical leave and show support for one another.
The American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned deputy Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson over social media posts they described as antisemitic. “Anyone who posts antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook should not be in public office,” the American Jewish Committee wrote in a Wednesday post on the social platform X. ...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried talked to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson about life in prison in an interview posted Thursday to the social platform X. “It's sort of dystopian,” Bankman-Fried told Carlson on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” “You know, the fortunate thing, the place I'm in, I'm not in … I'm not in physical...
Several Republicans vowed to strip Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) and the Democrats who sang in the chamber from their committee assignments. “Today, a group of House Democrats broke decorum during the censure of Rep. Al Green and, after multiple attempts, refused to heed @SpeakerJohnson’s order,” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said online. “I am drafting privileged...
Tensions flared in the House on Thursday as lawmakers voted to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for his disruptive protest during President Trump’s address to Congress, prompting a dramatic scene on the House floor — and demands from Republicans for further retribution. The vote on the resolution to censure Green — which was adopted in...
Butterflies are disappearing from the United States at an alarming rate, with their total population declining by more than a fifth over two decades, a new study has found. Total butterfly abundance — the total individuals of a species within a given area — plummeted by 22 percent between 2000 and 2020, according to the...
President Trump on Thursday said that Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) should be forced to take an IQ test after the congressman was removed from his joint address and later censured by the House. “[He] should be forced to pass an IQ test because he is a low IQ individual, and we don’t need low IQ...
Americans are becoming less sympathetic toward Israel in its war against Hamas, the results of a recent survey suggest. A Gallup poll released Thursday shows 46 percent of respondents said they back Israel over the Palestinians when it comes to the "Middle East situation." Another 33 percent said the opposite. A similar survey conducted in...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday notified approximately 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago that they can return to work, according to The Associated Press. Two federal health officials briefed on the tally, but not authorized to speak publicly, told the AP that roughly 180 people received emails...
President Trump is likely to announce more exemptions from his new tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday. In an interview with CNBC, Lutnick said Trump is likely to exempt Canadian and Mexican goods and services from tariffs that comply with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the North American Free Trade...
A federal judge on Thursday declined to immediately spare U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors from mass firings, letting move forward a core part of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the agency. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said that USAID’s personal services contractors failed to prove they face irreparable harm and a likelihood...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who ran to be vice president on the Democratic ticket alongside former Vice President Kamala Harris, said he believes the next leader of the party is going to be “the voting public.” Walz appeared on CNN on Wednesday to discuss President Trump’s joint address to Congress and the future of...
