WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday (Sept 18) kicked off a monumental battle in Congress as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invited President Donald Trump to promptly nominate a replacement, ignoring pleas by Democrats to await the results of the Nov 3 presidential election. “President Trump’s nominee will […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump, who counts his two Supreme Court appointments as among his greatest successes, last week issued a new list of 20 potential nominees to the court. There was no vacancy at the time, and the exercise seemed aimed at focusing attention on an issue that had helped secure his election in 2016. […]
Four Louisiana police officers were indicted Friday on charges of negligent homicide and malfeasance after they used excessive force and a Taser to arrest a mentally ill Black man and then failed to give him medical attention, prosecutors said. The officers with the Shreveport Police Department — Treona McCarter, Brian Ross, D’Marea Johnson and James […]
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. Justice Ginsburg died at her home in Washington DC surrounded by her family, the US Supreme Court said. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and was a champion of women’s rights […]
Fleeing segregated Albama, she found revolution in Costa Rica and married its future president. She then pushed him to grant women and minorities the right to vote. By Katharine Q. Seelye This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Henrietta Boggs, a young […]
VANCOUVER (AFP) – Smoke from California and Oregon wildfires has cloaked Canada’s third-largest city of Vancouver – known for its majestic mountain views and fresh ocean breezes – in the dirtiest air in the world this week. Days have been spent smarting under a thick haze that has irritated eyes and throats, and sent asthmatics […]
A Donald Trump superfan has put up an electric fence around his yard after neighbors kept taking down signs that supported the president. Navy veteran John Oliviera said that this high-voltage fence is a deterrent to protect the political signs on his New Bedford, Massachusetts property. ‘It will certainly send a message,’ Oliviera said. ‘I […]
More than 170 New York City transit workers have been harassed or assaulted for asking passengers to wear masks. By Christina Goldbaum Anthony Reid barely remembers the blow that knocked him out. A 62-year-old public bus driver in New York, Mr. Reid was on his last run in East New York, Brooklyn, when passengers complained […]
Every child in N.Y.C. public schools was given a $420 benefits card. The well-off should use theirs to support food banks. By Ginia Bellafante A few weeks ago, I received a text from an 855 area code telling me that I might be eligible for food stamps and to call the number provided to find […]
Last year on Rosh Hashana, Molly Tolsky threw the largest dinner party she had ever hosted, cramming 15 friends into the small Brooklyn apartment she shares with her boyfriend. In past years, she has attended religious services around the city, or flown to Chicago to observe with her family. The 10-day period of the High […]