Tag: New York

The project would have built an Amtrak tunnel connecting New Jersey to Penn Station in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trump administration shuts down $13 billion Obama-era Amtrak plan

Kelly Cohen · December 31, 2017 8:50 pm

"The president has been briefed on security measures that are being taken by federal, state and local authorities to help ensure a safe and festive New Year's Eve," a White House spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

National Security

Trump receives New Year’s Eve security briefing on celebratory events around the country

Kelly Cohen · December 31, 2017 7:14 pm

An investigation revealing how New York City's "East Side Access" project became the most expensive mile of subway track on the planet shows why the city needs free-market reforms. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Beltway Confidential

New York’s subway: bureaucracy, cronyism, and unions run amok

Akash Chougule · December 30, 2017 8:03 pm

On Friday, the State Department released emails sent to and from Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's top aides, while Abedin worked at the agency. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

State Department releases Huma Abedin emails

Sarah Bedford · December 29, 2017 10:56 pm

Firefighters respond to a building fire Thursday in the Bronx borough of New York. The Fire Department of New York says a blaze raging in the Bronx apartment building has seriously injured more than a dozen of people. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NYC mayor: Deadly Bronx apartment fire apparently caused by child playing with stove

Associated Press · December 29, 2017 3:37 pm

Energy and Environment

Northeast states sue EPA for denying smog petition

Josh Siegel · December 26, 2017 8:24 pm

If the government is paying Centene to provide insurance, it's not exactly a market-economy corporation. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: How times — and the Times — change

Michael Barone · December 18, 2017 8:55 pm

Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone believes special counsel Robert Mueller is working to indict President Trump with a process crime regarding his dismissal of ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn or former FBI Director James Comey. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Roger Stone wins lawsuit and is cleared of defamation charges

Diana Stancy Correll · December 16, 2017 3:02 am

Murray Kempton at 100

Barton Swaim · December 15, 2017 9:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took to Twitter Thursday to poke fun at supporters of so-called "net neutrality" regulations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Ted Cruz lays out how a ‘snowflake’ learns about net neutrality ‘propaganda’

Daniel Chaitin · December 15, 2017 4:14 am

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson (pictured above) and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have announced their intent to challenge the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality decision in court. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

State AGs vow to sue FCC over net neutrality repeal

Melissa Quinn · December 14, 2017 8:42 pm

From left, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, and other tax conferees gather to work on the sweeping overhaul of the nation's tax laws, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Final tax bill allows deduction for state, local income, and sales taxes, Kevin Brady says

Joseph Lawler · December 14, 2017 5:25 pm