As the April 1 deadline drew near for New York State’s massive $220-billion-plus budget, a curious personnel announcement was made: Sandra Beattie, the acting budget director who assembled the proposal, was being replaced. The move could not have come at a more critical time for Gov. Kathy Hochul or the budget, which is now two […]
The N.B.A. playoffs are upon us, and all four of California’s teams have made it in the same season for the first time. Two of them — the Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors — are playing each other, starting Saturday at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. The Kings have the best story of […]
While talking with friends online, Jack Teixeira, the air national guardsman who was arrested by federal investigators on Thursday for his role in the leak of a cache of classified U.S. intelligence documents, assumed the role of a leader. He guided a group of 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, as they […]
MIAMI — Florida lawmakers voted to prohibit abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on Thursday, culminating a rapid effort by elected Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis to transform the state to one of the most restrictive in the country. Mr. DeSantis, a likely 2024 Republican presidential contender, has indicated he will sign the new ban, […]
WASHINGTON — Among the many questions regarding how a junior enlisted airman may have been behind one of the largest leaks of top-secret information since Edward Snowden is how a person in his position could have access to those reports. The F.B.I. has arrested 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who is an Airman First Class in the […]
Despite our very wet winter, California’s water scarcity woes aren’t finished. Gov. Gavin Newsom has resisted declaring the drought to be over. Just this week, a proposal from President Biden raised the possibility of new, painful water cuts for California. And the state seems increasingly trapped in a pattern of severe storms followed by extreme […]
Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday that they did not have enough evidence to bring charges in connection with the death of an American woman last year near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in a case that prompted outrage after a video online appeared to show her being beaten by another woman. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for […]
Liam Squires, like many students, usually answers the question “How was school today?” with an evasive answer along the lines of “I don’t know.” This is why weeks passed before his mother, Megan Squires, learned that he had spotted an error in a science textbook that the publisher, dozens of students and his own teacher […]
A quick-moving wildfire in central New Jersey prompted a wave of evacuations and road closures on Tuesday night, as crews scrambled to get the flames under control, the authorities said. The blaze, called the Jimmy’s Waterhole fire, had burned 2,500 acres of federal, state and private property in Manchester Township, in Ocean County, about 50 […]
A retired firefighter who threw a fire extinguisher at a group of police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been sentenced to more than four years in prison, federal officials said Tuesday. Prosecutors said the former firefighter, Robert Sanford, 57, of Boothwyn, Pa., had struck three police officers in the head with the […]