Tag: New York

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to members of the media after a pipe bomb strapped to a man went off in a New York City subway near Times Square on Monday in New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio stands fourth from left. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

National Security

NYPD identifies bombing suspect as Akayed Ullah

Gabby Morrongiello · December 11, 2017 3:22 pm

Police respond to a report of an explosion near Times Square on Monday in New York. Several reports said police had a suspect in custody who appeared to be wearing an explosive device. (AP Photo/Charles Zoeller)

National Security

Terrorism suspected in explosion near Manhattan’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, one suspect in custody

Pete Kasperowicz · December 11, 2017 1:00 pm

New Jersey Gov.-elect Phil Murphy and other blue-state governors want to raise taxes on millionaires in order to boost state spending. The tax reform bill, however, would make such state tax hikes much more painful. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Republican tax bill would tie the hands of blue-state governments

Joseph Lawler · December 11, 2017 5:01 am

Many of today's young people are floundering. They are uncertain about what they want to do with their lives. They need a structured opportunity that will allow them to feel needed and capable.

Asking what you can do for your country should be required

Washington Examiner Staff · December 11, 2017 5:01 am

While many posters were simply torn down, others were vandalized and left with expletives and defamatory statements directed toward the club (via the New Guard)

Memorial posters for ‘Victims of Socialism’ vandalized at SUNY Buffalo

Peter Van Voorhis · December 8, 2017 7:52 pm

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is part of a group of Democrats who asked the Government Accountability Office to look into the prevalence of outside groups stealing Americans' identities and using them to file fake net neutrality comments with the Federal Communications Commission. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House Democrats ask GAO to investigate fake net neutrality comments

Melissa Quinn · December 5, 2017 8:16 pm

The group Save My Care is trying to strike at a divide among Republicans that opposed Obamacare repeal back in May but backed tax reform in November. New radio ads are targeting New York Reps. Claudia Tenney and John Katko. (AP Images)

Pro-Obamacare group targets New York lawmakers on tax reform

Robert King · December 4, 2017 9:34 pm

The FCC voted last month to take down the Obama-era net neutrality rule, which was aimed at preventing companies from interfering with the flow of information online from their competitors. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Democrats: Robots influenced FCC’s move to kill net neutrality

Pete Kasperowicz · December 4, 2017 5:46 pm

Wealthy Republican donors in the Northeast --like businessman, investor, and philanthropist Kenneth Langone -- have already had a difficult time funding a Trump-led party. The GOP's tax plan, which penalizes lavish lifestyles, has closed the checkbook for many. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

GOP donors in New York sour on party’s tax plan

David M. Drucker · December 1, 2017 5:01 am

Rep. John Conyers settled a wrongful dismissal complaint with a former female staffer in 2015, according to a report. The woman had accused Conyers of terminating her after she rejected his sexual advances and received a severance payment of $27,000. (Jay Mallin / Bloomberg)

Kathleen Rice wants Paul Ryan to release John Conyers accuser from confidentiality agreement

Melissa Quinn · November 29, 2017 3:54 pm

Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the federal appeals court's decision as meaning, "Congress could reduce a State to near nonexistence by taking all land within its borders and declaring it sovereign Indian territory." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Clarence Thomas fires away at justices for ‘giving Congress the power to destroy the states’ territorial integrity’

Ryan Lovelace · November 27, 2017 3:54 pm

Undoing an Epic Act of Civic Vandalism

The Scrapbook · November 24, 2017 9:00 am