For this year and next, the stimulus bill boosts subsidies for nearly all those buying their own coverage, making insurance free for more people and giving higher-income people discounts for the first time. By Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz Under the stimulus bill passed by Congress this week and set to be signed by President […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Senate confirmed Merrick Garland on Wednesday (March 10) to be President Joe Biden’s attorney-general, five years after the veteran judge was controversially denied a seat on the Supreme Court. The Senate voted 70 to 30 to confirm the appeals court judge to the top Justice Department post. Among the 20 […]
By Tracey Tully Restaurants in New York City and New Jersey will be able to increase indoor dining to 50 percent of capacity starting March 19, the governors of New York and New Jersey said on Wednesday. The change brings both places into line with current dining limits in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The new half-capacity […]
Two Republicans who rose to prominence by defending President Trump have seized on a new issue — the battle over the legal guardianship of Britney Spears, the former teen pop star who has suffered a succession of personal, professional and financial crises. Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio and Matt Gaetz of Florida sent a request […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Wednesday. Weather: Sunny, with a high in the mid- to upper 50s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until March 28 (Passover). When Manuel Perez-Saucedo, a food delivery worker, was threatened with a gun and robbed of his electric bicycle in Brooklyn, he was not […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to Japan and South Korea next week, the State Department and Pentagon said on Wednesday (March 10), in the first overseas and in-person trip by top cabinet members of the Biden administration. The visits reflect growing concerns about the […]
Ron DeLord, a fiery former Texas cop turned labor organizer, has long taught union leaders how to gain power and not let go. He has likened a police union going after an elected official to a cheetah devouring a wildebeest, and suggested that taking down just one would make others fall in line. He helped […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A senior Biden administration official said on Tuesday (March 9) that the United States was in talks with China about a possible “near-term” senior-level meeting between the two countries, after the White House said it had no “finalised” details to announce. The South China Morning Post cited a source earlier on Tuesday […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A first ever leaders’ meeting of the Quad group of countries on Friday (March 12) plans to announce financing agreements to support an increase in manufacturing capacity for coronavirus vaccines in India, a senior US administration official told Reuters. The financing agreements will be between the United States, Japan and others and […]
President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras promised to protect drug traffickers using the nation’s security forces and law enforcement agencies, and to help them flood the United States with cocaine, an American prosecutor said on Tuesday. “They would — as the president put it — ‘shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,’” […]