NEW YORK (REUTERS) – More than half of Americans approve of President Joe Biden after nearly 100 days on the job, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, a level of support that his Republican predecessor Donald Trump never achieved and one that should help Democrats push for infrastructure spending and other big-ticket items on Mr Biden’s agenda. […]
The pandemic showed the flaws in the American approach to help the unemployed. Alternatives exist. By Neil Irwin For years, people who study unemployment benefits have warned that the American system of jobless insurance was too antiquated and clunky to meet the needs of workers in a time of economic crisis. To understand what they […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Tuesday. Weather: An early sprinkle, followed by mixed sun and clouds. High in the mid-60s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Thursday (Holy Thursday, Orthodox). The Census Bureau announced yesterday that New York’s congressional delegation will shrink by one seat starting with the 2022 […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Monday (April 26) met virtually with top executives of drugmakers Pfizer and AstraZeneca to discuss a proposed waiver of certain intellectual property rights in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Members of the World Trade Organisation are due to discuss a proposal by India and South Africa […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Scientists said on Monday (April 26) they have detected a large gap, equal to about what the United States emits annually, between the amount of climate-warming emissions that countries report and the amount that independent models say reaches the atmosphere. The gap of about 5.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – ExxonMobil’s proxy battle with an activist fund manager intensified after it accused the oil giant of obscuring the trajectory of its greenhouse gas emissions through disingenuous reduction targets. Exxon’s chief carbon goal of cutting upstream emissions intensity – a measure of pollution per barrel of oil produced – by as much […]
Hacked data from the Washington, D.C., Police Department started leaking onto the internet on Monday, making it the third police department in the United States to be hit by cybercriminals in six weeks. A group that emerged this year called Babuk claimed responsibility for the leak. Babuk is known for ransomware attacks, which hold victims’ […]
An application has been made to pardon George Floyd for a 2004 drugs conviction. Mr Floyd was arrested in Houston in February 2004 by Gerald Goines for selling $10-worth of crack in a police sting. After pleading guilty, Mr Floyd was jailed for 10 months. But Goines faces a series of criminal charges, including two […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The Supreme Court agreed on Monday (April 26) to decide whether the government can block a detainee at Guantánamo Bay from obtaining information from two former CIA contractors involved in torturing him on the grounds that it would expose state secrets. The detainee, known as Abu Zubaydah, sought to subpoena the contractors, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Department of Homeland Security will investigate the potential threat of domestic violent extremism within its own ranks, the department said on Monday (April 26). DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas did not say what prompted the internal review at DHS, but referred to the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol by […]