Stakeholders and lawmakers are cheering after the Trump administration ended a pause on $6 billion in federal after-school and summer school funding following rare bipartisan pushback. Advocates and states have been on the edge of their seats since President Trump declined to release the money, which also funds adult education and English language efforts, on…
New York Democrats cool to their party’s Big Apple mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani are weighing their options as the 33-year-old progressive makes his own pitch to centrists that they should back him. The Democratic establishment has been looking for alternatives, but none really satisfy. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced an independent…
The controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files is poised to dominate the conversation on Capitol Hill this week, as Congress sprints to its August recess — and prepares to dive into government funding conversations. The House returns to Washington on Monday for its final week before breaking for the long summer…
The “big, beautiful bill” is expected to make a major dent in the U.S.’s climate progress, adding significantly more planet-warming emissions to the atmosphere. Models of the legislation that have emerged since its passage earlier this month show that U.S. emissions will rise as a result of its implementation. One from climate think tank C2ES…
No nation is healthy when floods are sweeping children away, fires are burning families alive in their homes, and tornadoes are leveling entire towns as its people do nothing of consequence to keep those tragedies from becoming normal.
Authorities searched Sunday for a second suspect in the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer in an apparent botched robbery on Saturday. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 42-year-old officer was injured after he was approached by two men on a moped while sitting with a woman in…
Much has been written about America’s largest city edging closer to electing a socialist mayor. Zohran Mamdani recently won the Democratic primary, which is likely enough to secure the mayoralty of New York City. He still has to get through a general election that includes incumbent Eric Adams, now running as an independent. But Mamdani…
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) slammed congressional Republicans in a Saturday MSNBC interview over efforts in the House to force a vote on releasing investigative records related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Crockett accused Republicans of not wanting to pursue a measure that would force the Department of Justice to release all of its files on…
A former federal prosecutor based in Manhattan says she doesn’t expect grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case to produce much new information involving the disgraced financier and sex offender. “It’s not going to be much,” Sarah Krissoff, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, told The Associated Press…
