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(NEW YORK) — Officials representing some New York suburbs have rebuked New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to send migrants to their towns for shelter. Rockland County’s top official declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to Adams’ plan to send 340 adult male migrants to live at an Armoni Inn and […]
(NEW YORK) — Ten months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, two-thirds of Americans continue to oppose its decision — and 51% now think its justices base their rulings mainly on their personal political opinions, not on the law. Early in 2022, before the abortion ruling, the public divided […]
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — Kansas City suffered a violent weekend as three separate shootings impacted the city’s downtown over 30 minutes late Sunday. The shootings come as Kansas City, Missouri, has already faced a violent year, with 59 homicides having already been recorded since the start of the year — the most since 2019. The […]
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday afternoon with congressional leaders at the White House — as a fast-approaching deadline looms to either increase the nation’s borrowing limit or risk an unprecedented and potentially devastating debt default that would ripple across the global economy. Tuesday’s meeting will be the first time since February that […]
(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Since the May 14, 2022, mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, those who narrowly escaped with their lives and the loved ones of the 10 Black people gunned down by a white supremacist teenager say healing remains elusive. Even the guilty plea from the killer, Payton Gendron, and his apology […]
(WASHINGTON) — The Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is threatening to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt if he doesn’t turn over subpoenaed documents tied to the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, marking a significant escalation in the months-long standoff between the Biden administration and Republicans investigating the chaotic withdrawal. “Should […]
(ALLEN, Texas) — Eight people were killed and seven others were injured when a gunman opened fire at an outdoor mall north of Dallas, Texas, on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The alleged gunman died after a confrontation with police at the Allen Premium Outlets, police said. Here’s how the news developed. All times Eastern: May […]
(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — In the wake of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store a year ago this week, there was an outpouring of sympathy and support. Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the funeral for Ruth Whitfield, at 86 the oldest of the 10 Black victims, decrying the “epidemic of hate” in […]
(AUSTIN, Texas) — The rotunda of the Texas state Capitol echoed Monday morning with pleas from more than 160 activists who gathered in Austin to demand the legislature take action on gun reform. Monday marked the last day the Texas legislature could vote on House Bill 2744 — which would raise the age to buy […]
(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — While testifying in front of a federal commission last summer, Professor Henry Louis Taylor issued a startling summation of the evidence he said he’s drawn from the racially motivated May 14, 2022, mass shooting at a supermarket on Buffalo’s predominantly Black east side. Taylor, director of the Department of Urban and Regional […]
