NEW YORK (AFP) – Several subway stations were flooded and major roads were cut in New York on Thursday (July 8) ahead of the expected arrival of Storm Elsa, which has moved up the United States East Coast after lashing Florida with wind and rain. Around 100mm of water fell in a series of thunderstorms […]
Despite the interim prime minister’s claim that he is in charge after the president’s assassination, a volatile political situation poses yet another challenge to democracies in the Western Hemisphere. By Constant Méheut, Michael Crowley, Natalie Kitroeff, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Catherine Porter The political storm in Haiti intensified on Thursday as two competing prime ministers claimed the right to […]
It was a constant refrain for the two leading female candidates running for mayor of New York City: The city has had 109 mayors, and all of them were men. It was finally time for a woman. The two candidates, Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley, had experience in government. They had major endorsements from unions, […]
A US citizen was reportedly among suspects arrested in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. James Solages, who is of Haitian descent, was one of six people taken into custody in the early Wednesday raid and killing, Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections and inter-party relations, told the Washington Post on Thursday. […]
A 12-foot-long python that escaped her enclosure at a zoo has been found two days after she was reported missing – inside the wall of a shopping mall. Cara the Burmese python disappeared from Blue Zoo Baton Rouge, which is located inside the Mall of Louisiana, and was found around 3.30am Thursday, authorities said. Video […]
The words asked in the national spelling bee weren’t always so difficult. By Alan Yuhas The words weren’t always this hard. When students first battled the dictionary in a National Spelling Bee in 1925, the winning speller knew the winning word because it was a plant in his family’s Kentucky garden. Two years ago, the […]
The words asked in the national spelling bee weren’t always so difficult. By Alan Yuhas The words weren’t always this hard. When students first battled the dictionary in a National Spelling Bee in 1925, the winning speller knew the winning word because it was a plant in his family’s Kentucky garden. Two years ago, the […]
Former President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Rudy Giuliani been suspended from practicing law in Washington DC. Giuliani, who also had his law practice in New York suspended last month, was dealt a fresh blow by a US appeals court on Wednesday which ordered him to stop working in the capital. The two rulings come after Giuliani […]
New York City, a global immigration hub, has never had a person of South Asian descent on the City Council. No openly gay Black woman has ever sat among its 51 lawmakers, even as the city has become a beacon for L.G.B.T.Q. people of color. And though women made gains in politics nationwide in the […]
Everyone has a Sept. 11 story. The pages of Stanley Allan Sherman’s, a one-man show called “September,” sat propped on a music stand in his apartment the other day, amid a room full of leather masks. Something about the text was vexing him. “I’ve got to find a way to make it funny,” he said. […]