A policy advocacy group founded by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) is investing $500,000 into efforts to enshrine abortion rights in the Florida Constitution as a strict six-week ban takes effect in the Sunshine State. "Today, women in Florida will be stripped of nearly all their reproductive rights. An extreme, six-week abortion ban is dangerous,...
The Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates at a 23-year high as inflation has edged up and the labor market remains strong, likely pushing potential rate cuts even later into the year. Interest rates will remain at a range of 5.25 percent to 5.5 percent, where they have been since last July, the Federal...
Climate change is pushing some New York City neighborhoods into dozens of nearly daylong blackouts per year, a new study has found. Large swaths of the state’s principal towns and cities faced repeated, protracted and dangerous weather-driven power outages between 2017 and 2020, according to findings published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science. The risk...
President Biden will speak next week on Capitol Hill about the rise of antisemitism, tackling an issue that has been intertwined with ongoing protests on college campuses over Israel's war in Gaza. Biden will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters....
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, plans to crack down on anti-Israel protesters with a bill that would withhold federal financial aid from students convicted of rioting or attacking police.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams noted a global " a movement to radicalize young people" and train anti-Israel and other protesters after about 300 were arrested at Columbia and CUNY.