Rescue crews have pulled 35 people from a collapsed condo tower in Miami and search efforts continue, a fire official said mid-morning on Thursday. Among those found alive in the rubble from the 12-story beachside building that fell around 1.30am was a young boy. The collapse of Champlain Towers South in the middle of the […]
Pride celebrations in June — with their marches, parades and parties — can trace their histories back to a fiery street demonstration in 1970, the year after a violent uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan galvanized the modern gay rights movement. For years, attendees have sported bright clothing and carried the rainbow flag, an […]
SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) – Google’s Chrome web browser will not fully block tracking cookies until late 2023, the Alphabet Inc company said on Thursday (June 24), delaying by nearly two years a move that has drawn antitrust concerns from competitors and regulators. Google had wanted to bar reams of ad-personalisation companies from gathering users’ browsing […]
Progressives cheered the results in down-ballot races and in Buffalo, even as the outcome of the mayoral primary appeared less rosy. By Lisa Lerer They may not win Gracie Mansion, but there’s always Buffalo. And Rochester, too. For progressives in New York State, primary elections on Tuesday night brought a number of victories, even as […]
A huge rescue operation is underway after an 11-storey tower block in Miami partially collapsed this morning. Piles of debris can be seen lying at the corner of Collins Avenue in Florida. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video This is a breaking news story, more to […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Members of the US Congress said on Wednesday (June 23) they would press ahead with efforts to overhaul how the military prosecutes sexual assault and related crimes, while welcoming Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin’s unprecedented support for the shift. Democratic and Republican members of Congress announced the introduction in the House of […]
In a victory for the city’s powerful police unions, a state Supreme Court judge struck down a city law banning police officers’ use of chokeholds and other physical restraints on Tuesday, saying the wording of the law was “unconstitutionally vague.” The law, passed last summer, had been met with fierce resistance from police unions, who […]
Leonard Crow Dog, a Native American spiritual leader who played a key role in the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota and who fought to preserve the ancient traditions of his tribe, the Sicangu Lakota, died on June 5 in Rapid City, S.D. He was 78. The cause was liver cancer, a family […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a California regulation allowing union organizers to recruit agricultural workers at their workplaces violated the constitutional rights of their employers. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, wrote that […]
A campaign that began behind the pandemic-imposed safety measure of Zoom screens ended on Tuesday in a five-borough, bare-knuckled brawl as Eric Adams, a former police captain, took a sizable lead over a splintered field of Democrats in the primary race to become New York City’s next mayor. Here are five takeaways from the mayoral […]