Facing an acute and growing drought, California will reduce the amount of water that farmers in the state’s agricultural heartland are allowed to draw from its largest rivers, officials announced this week. It is the most severe measure taken by the state since a drought emergency was declared for most of California in May. The […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday (Aug 4) faced a growing number of inquiries by local prosecutors and calls for his resignation a day after an investigation overseen by the state’s attorney-general concluded he had sexually harassed 11 women. The investigation, detailed in a 168-page report, found that Cuomo groped, […]
Three Walt Disney World employees and a registered nurse were among more than a dozen people who have been arrested for allegedly preying on children. In a six-day police sting in Central Florida under the name Operation Child Protector, authorities arrested 17 arrested people, nine of whom had criminal records. Together, they face 49 felonies […]
A photo has been released which shows smiling New York governor Andrew Cuomo allegedly groping one of his assistants during a selfie – as a damning report claims he sexually harassed 11 women. The picture, released on Tuesday as part of the 165-page report into the disgraced governor’s sexual harassment allegations, shows him posing in a […]
A photo has been released which shows smiling New York governor Andrew Cuomo allegedly groping one of his assistants during a selfie – as a damning report claims he sexually harassed 11 women. The picture, released on Tuesday as part of the 165-page report into the disgraced governor’s sexual harassment allegations, shows him posing in a […]
Covid cases are more than doubling every 14 days in America as the highly infectious and transmissible Delta variant begins to spread uncontrollably in almost every state. Exactly a month ago the US was recording an average of 12,434 new cases a day per week, helped by The White House’s largely successful vaccine rollout and […]
At the height of the pandemic, when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo appeared on television daily and confidently outlined New York’s path through the public health crisis, Lee Fitzgerald watched with admiration. But on Tuesday, after the state attorney general’s office released a report that found Mr. Cuomo had sexually harassed several women, Ms. Fitzgerald, who […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The mastermind behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti is most likely still at large, said the country’s caretaker leader. He said he remained baffled by the ultimate motive a month after the crime shattered the nation and left a political void. “I think there were a lot of people […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The bipartisan infrastructure deal struck this week provides new money for climate resilience unmatched in United States history: Tens of billions of dollars to protect against floods, reduce damage from wildfires, develop new sources of drinking water in areas plagued by drought and even relocate entire communities away from vulnerable places. But […]
Lawyers for the women whom Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed called on him to resign on Tuesday, saying that a report released by investigators was “damning” and “devastating.” Debra Katz, a lawyer for Charlotte Bennett, who accused the governor of sexual harassment in February, said in an interview that the […]