By Rachel Janfaza Nicolette Carrion did a little dance when she cast her first ballot ever in last year’s election. “Now that I’m 18, I’m able to invest in my future in being able to vote, in a way I wasn’t able to before,” she said. Carrion’s right to vote at age 18 comes because
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By Phil Mattingly As Democrats enter a critical stage in the negotiations over the shape of a sweeping, multi-trillion dollar social safety net expansion, President Joe BidenĀ plans to lean on a key group to sell the proposal, according to an internal White House memo: his Cabinet secretaries. For theĀ Biden administration, deputizing and deploying Cabinet officials
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By Erica Orden On Thursday, New York prosecutors charged the Trump OrganizationĀ and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with running a 15-year alleged tax scheme designed “to compensate Weisselberg and other Trump Organization executives in a manner that was ‘off the books.” It is the first criminal case against former President Donald Trump’s company, one
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Ā by Ariane de Vogue All term long theĀ Supreme CourtĀ has been the target of political players as members of Congress called for a “legislative solution,” the Biden administration launched a commission to study court reform and progressive groups claimed thatĀ court packing measuresĀ were necessary to “save” the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, conservatives relished the possibility of a swift
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after facing backlash from Black students and faculty who said the board’s initial failure to do so reflected a history of systemic racism at the school. The board’s 9-4 vote
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By George Ramsay A turf war is brewing at WimbledonĀ as organizers have defended the conditions of the grass following injuries toĀ Serena WilliamsĀ andĀ Adrian MannarinoĀ in back-to-back matches. World No. 60 Nick Kyrgios, meanwhile, complained that the courts are “too slow.” Mannarino was forced to retire against Roger Federer after slipping in the fourth set and injuring his
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By Rachel Metz As George Floyd’s deathĀ sparkedĀ protests in citiesĀ across the country, six federal agencies turned to facial-recognition software in an effort to identify people in images of the civil unrest, according to a new report from a government agency. The agenciesĀ used facial recognition software from May to August of last year “to support criminal investigations
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By Jason Hanna Dan Gannon wouldn’t mind a full summer break. The Bronx high school history teacher is as drained as anyone by teaching remotely during the pandemic. He sympathizes with any educator taking the summer off. Many worked more hours than usual to adapt lessons andĀ relearn how to instructĀ — and carried the weight of
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By Anneken Tappe What labor shortage? America’s private sector employers added 692,000 jobs in June, according to Wednesday’s ADP Employment Report. That exceeded Wall Street analysts’ expectations. While employers complain thatĀ they can’t find enough workers, the battered leisure and hospitality industry still registered by far the most job growth at 332,000 new positions — accounting
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By Joan Biskupic The Covid pandemic deprived theĀ Supreme CourtĀ of its courtroom for oral arguments, its intimate conference room for deliberations and, as is evident these days, the bench where dissenting justices can vent. At the end of each Supreme Court session, individual justices on the losing side of a case often find that a written
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