Dear Councilwoman Julie Menin, Congratulations on securing enough votes to become the next New York City Council speaker. It’s a significant achievement, one many New Yorkers welcomed with a...
Sen. Tom Cotton pushed back Sunday against Democrats questioning the Trump administration's strategy of attacking suspected drug boats in international waters.
State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and demonstrations against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public "sentiment" surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press.
As we witness President Trump’s daily attacks on the rule of law, constitutional rights and democracy, I recall an incident from 1964, the year I graduated high school. In the early morning hours of Mar. 13, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment building in Queens. The New York Times reported later that nearly 40 people saw or heard the attack but did nothing...
A federal appeals court late Sunday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments during the government shutdown. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruled a judge did not abuse his discretion in finding the government’s plan for partial...
President Trump pardoned his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and a slate of other key figures charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a U.S. pardon attorney. Ed Martin, the government’s pardon attorney, posted a proclamation late Sunday night that listed dozens of individuals granted pardons “for certain offenses...
After nearly seven weeks of impasse, the Senate voted Sunday night to advance a proposal that could reopen the government. Monday is Day 41 of the shutdown. Eight centrist and retiring Democrats joined Republicans in approving a plan to fund the government through January because it included a promise from Senate Majority Leader John Thune...
In August 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned after the Supreme Court decided that tapes of presidential conversations were not protected by executive privilege. The tapes thus needed to be provided to the special prosecutor. Once released, a pivotal tape confirmed his participation in obstructing justice to cover up serious abuses of power in the Watergate...
Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Trump to commute her sentence as prison employees suggest she has received “concierge-style treatment” at a new facility where she is being given custom meals and access to staff facilities. The request, revealed to House Judiciary Democrats, comes after Maxwell was transferred to a...
Eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted Sunday evening to proceed to a House-passed continuing resolution, taking a major step toward ending the 40-day shutdown. The Senate voted 60-40 to advance the House bill, which will serve as the legislative vehicle for a bipartisan deal to fund military construction, veterans’ affairs, the Department of...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday he’s confident Democrats will take back the House in the 2026 midterm elections and is optimistic about his party’s chances to win back control of the Senate, as well. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker asked Jeffries about the Democrats’...
A group of shutdown-weary Democratic senators voted with Republicans Sunday night to advance a legislative vehicle to reopen the federal government and end the 40-day shutdown that has left tens of thousands of workers furloughed and caused chaos at the nation’s airports. The Senate voted 60-40 to proceed to a House-passed continuing resolution to reopen the government,...
Two top officials at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stepped down Sunday following criticism of the way the British public broadcaster edited a speech delivered by President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, in a documentary last year. BBC Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness both left the organization, according to the BBC,...
Senate Democrats emerged from a two-and-a-half-hour caucus meeting Sunday night signaling there will be enough votes in the Senate to reopen the federal government after a grueling 40-day shutdown. A group of centrist Democrats led by Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), negotiated the deal to reopen the...
Senate Democrats emerged from a two-and-a-half-hour caucus meeting Sunday night announcing there will be enough votes in the Senate to reopen the federal government after a grueling 40-day shutdown. A group of centrist Democrats led by Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.),...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday vowed to oppose a new Senate deal in the works to end the nearly six-week government shutdown. In a statement, the Democratic leader dug his heels in on his party’s position that any legislation to reopen the government must include an extension of the enhanced Affordable Care...
