“Plasmic Echo” is the latest in the bizarre code names used by the FBI in its surveillance of President Trump. The federal government is trying to prosecute Trump under the Presidential Records Act and is charging him with having a file folder of 100 or so classified documents at his home in Mar-a-Lago. The code name came to light when presiding Federal Judge Aileen Cannon released a trove of redacted documents in the case.
As the first day of testimony wrapped up in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial, new polling showed that a majority of New Yorkers consider the prosecution warranted. A Siena College Research Institute poll released Monday, April 22, showed that 54 percent of respondents said the trial is “legitimate,” while 30 percent saw the prosecution as a meritless “witch hunt.” Broken down by party, 77 percent of Democrats and 44 percent of independents called the proceedings a “legitimate...
With a modernized version of their 1978-97 logo -- and a new set of uniforms -- the Jets are returning to their roots as part of a rebranding for 2024.
Donald Trump on Saturday asked Judge Cannon to delay certain deadlines in his classified documents case, citing the criminal hush money trial he is facing.Trump has received numerous delays in the classified documents case, in which the former president stands accused of stashing away documents from the White House at his Mar-a-Lago golf club. In this instance, he's using his upcoming criminal case in New York to seek a delay on disclosure deadlines to reveal information to Special Counsel Jack...
Lawsuits under New York's new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states
BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement. The lawsuits help dispel a longstanding narrative that racial voting discrimination happens only in the South or in
BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement. The lawsuits help dispel a longstanding narrative that racial voting discrimination happens only in the South or in
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature? […]
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature? Last year, he decided to do something about it and ran for one of the seats. Continue reading at The Republic News.
The Booker Prize-winning author, who was stabbed in New York in 2022, has given his first TV interview about the assault, describing how his attacker came in 'hard and low - a squat missile'.
Stephen Lawrence, 18, an aspiring architect, was murdered on his way home in an unprovoked attack by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993.
The red-brick family home just four miles outside the historic market town of Bury St Edmunds has been razed to the ground by its owners leaving locals shocked.