The state of New York has upped the incentive to get a coronavirus vaccine – by offering a chance to win up to $5million. New Yorkers who get vaccinated at one of 10 state-run sites will get a free New York State Lottery scratch off ticket with the hefty grand prize of $5million. ‘Today we […]
Slowly but surely, Lake Charles had been staggering back. In the city in southwest Louisiana, shingles had begun to take the place of blue tarps on more roofs. Signs and lampposts that were once twisted like paper clips had been replaced. After two hurricanes pulverized the city last year, Lake Charles has been on a […]
REYKJAVIK (REUTERS) – Top diplomats from the Biden administration and Russia in their first in-person meeting on Wednesday (May 19) stressed that the former Cold War foes have serious differences in how they view world affairs but struck an optimistic tone for the talks, saying the two sides can still find ways to work together. […]
For three and a half years, the murder of a Chinese-American teenager who was set on fire and burned alive in her family’s Colorado home has confounded investigators. But now, as the federal government focuses on a spate of attacks targeting Asians, the 2017 killing of the teenager, Maggie Long, is being investigated as a […]
BOSTON — Dana Depelteau, a hotel manager, had just gone public with a long-shot candidacy for mayor in Boston when he noticed that someone in city politics was going after him online. The effect of this attack, he said, was lightning-fast and pervasive. The morning after he announced his candidacy on Twitter, he showed up […]
A man has admitted to racially abusing two teenage Muslim girls before viciously attacking their father with a knife. Christopher Beckham, 35, faces spending ten years behind bars after calling the two hijab-wearing girls ‘n*****s’ and telling them to ‘go back to your country’. He also swung a knife at their father and punched him […]
Ms. Wiley has unveiled an array of policies to fight inequality as she seeks to become the first woman elected mayor of New York. Can she break out of the pack? The New York City mayoral race is one of the most consequential political contests in a generation, with immense challenges awaiting the winner. This […]
Donald J. Trump and his family came under increasing pressure from New York investigators after the attorney general’s office said Tuesday it was working alongside the Manhattan district attorney in an ongoing criminal fraud investigation. The two offices have been conducting parallel investigations for more than a year, though the inquiry by the office of […]
A Virginia obstetrician and gynecologist was sentenced Tuesday to 59 years in prison after being convicted on federal charges of performing medically unnecessary surgeries including hysterectomies and improper sterilizations on scores of patients over nearly a decade, prosecutors said. In November 2020, a federal jury also convicted the doctor, Javaid Perwaiz, of Chesapeake, of 52 […]
A political firestorm erupted in Arizona this week after Republican-backed reviewers of the November election in Maricopa County, the state’s largest, suggested that someone had deleted a crucial data file from election equipment that had been subpoenaed as part of the inquiry. The county’s chief official, himself a Republican, called the charge outrageous. Former President […]