California women have shattered some significant glass ceilings: Nancy Pelosi, the first female House speaker; Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, the first all-female delegation to the U.S. Senate; Kamala Harris, the nation’s first female vice president. But alongside all those famous firsts are some lingering imbalances in the state’s power structure. Men still hold about two-thirds […]
On a hot summer day, a woman walked into a gas station in the Bronx and spent $1.99 on a bag of TGI Fridays Sour Cream & Onion Potato Skins chips. She tore into the snack, looking forward to the “potato skins,” as they were marketed on the packaging in 2018, according to court documents. […]
Furious that North Carolina approved legislation to ban transgender people from using public bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity, Democratic leaders in San Francisco and the California State Capitol quickly moved in 2016 to ban their employees from traveling to states deemed hostile to L.G.B.T.Q. communities. Seven years later, Republican-led states have moved well […]
In 2019, Brian Kolfage, an Air Force veteran injured in Iraq, formed a nonprofit group to construct the border barrier that then-President Donald J. Trump had promised. It was called simply We Build the Wall. Mr. Kolfage had three co-founders: a Colorado entrepreneur named Timothy Shea; a Florida financier, Andrew Badolato; and Stephen K. Bannon, […]
When Ellison Chang, 7, recently recorded a public service message asking New York City subway riders not to hold open train doors, he added his own personal greeting at the beginning. “What’s up, chicken wing!” The reason for the poultry-themed salutation? “That past week, we may or may not have had chicken wings,” he explained […]
Four years ago, Amazon pulled the plug on its plans to build a headquarters in New York City, amid left-wing outrage over a $3 billion public subsidy package. But New York has hardly cut the company off: Amazon’s film and TV arm has received more than $108 million in state tax credits since then, and the left has […]
Ken Potts, the oldest known survivor of the Japanese sneak attack that sunk the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor in 1941, taking the most lives ever lost on an American warship, died on Friday at his home in Provo, Utah, less than a week after celebrating his 102 birthday. His death was announced by the […]
A month after New York City banned teenagers and young adults from sleeping through the night at drop-in centers for homeless and runaway youth, a high-ranking official in Gov. Kathy Hochul administration was getting frustrated. In a Feb. 8 email, Nina Aledort, a deputy commissioner at the New York State Office of Children and Family […]
PHOENIX — Milagros Cruz was down to her last $75, and sleeping in a car, when she heard her mother’s voice guiding her in a dream: My girl, make tamales. Arizona did not make it easy. Though the state promotes itself as a low-tax, low-regulation haven for private enterprise, it does not allow the sale […]
Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, said late Monday that he had been forced out of Colombia, hours after crossing the border into the country after receiving threats from the Venezuelan government. Speaking in a video posted on Twitter, Mr. Guaidó said he had entered Colombia with plans to meet with political representatives who […]