“We are learning that even though children are by and large mildly affected when it comes to COVID-19 that there can be situations that they are more severely affected.” New York State issued a health ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of withholding coronavirus aid from sanctuary cities. After several rounds of emergency relief from Congress, states and local governments are still waiting on Capitol Hill to support ...
“No one should ever use our nation’s security as a political weapon, let alone the commander in chief” – New York Attorney General Letitia James The Department of Homeland Security recently stopped accepting enrollments by ...
With New York City’s adoption of ranked choice voting, will ranking candidates by preference become the new norm in elections across the country? When polls closed Tuesday night, perhaps the biggest victory for democracy reform ...
Could ranked choice voting finally be mounting a real challenge to the U.S.’ longstanding, but much-maligned, two-party political system? New York City is poised to join a number of other states and municipalities across the ...
Global Citizen Festival aims to engage citizens to end extreme poverty by 2030, with a little help from some celebrity friends. The eighth annual Global Citizen Festival in New York City, which aims to eradicate ...
“If Tiffany Cabán wins, things are going to change. Instead of criminalizing poverty, we’re going to dedicate resources towards prosecuting abusive landlords.” Tiffany Cabán, a 31-year old public defender running for Queens District Attorney, won ...
“If Neal requests the NY state tax returns, he’s undermining his own lawsuit.” Although New York’s state legislature passed a new law to grant access to President Trump’s tax returns upon request by the House ...
“Some people leave precisely because they have been deprived of an education, and they feel betrayed.” As public school education has become increasingly secular over the years, private religious schools have pushed back by focusing ...
New York extended abortion rights and Iowa’s controversial fetal heartbeat law was struck down and ruled unconstitutional. On Tuesday a District Court judge overturned Iowa’s “fetal heartbeat” law which banned abortions once heartbeat activity was ...
Once making it into a home, pesticides will take much longer to degrade than in the outdoor environment in water or soil. (Beyond Pesticides) Pesticide residue doesn’t announce itself –it isn’t colored, it doesn’t glow ...
Debuting this week on Hulu and in theaters is Crime + Punishment, an award-winning documentary that goes behind the scenes and undercover to expose discriminatory policing practices, intimidation and corruption within the New York Police ...
New York and Connecticut won a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency and its director, Scott Pruitt, on violations of federal requirements that have led to smog pollution in the two states. The joint lawsuit ...
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“We are taking the largest action by any city to confront the growing climate crisis and demonstrate the leadership necessary to win this fight against fossil fuels and the damages they’ve caused.” (Common Dreams, by ...