Governor Kathy Hochul signed a package of legislation to protect consumers from exploitative credit and gift card practices in New York. The legislation protects credit card holders by creating a grace period for the use of reward points after the closing of an account, and prohibiting fees and expiration dates.
An anonymous 16-year-old is forcing the city of San Diego to defend its COVID-19 vaccine mandate before the US Supreme Court — after she filed an emergency petition Friday claiming religious discrimination.
Pennsylvania kids may not have to mask up in class anymore, after a top court killed a statewide requirement for students to do so.
At least 70 people were killed when tornadoes swept across fivestates overnight, causing a train to derail and destroying a candle factory in Western Kentucky, tearing the roof off an Amazon warehouse in Illinois and obliterating a nursing home in Arkansas.
Americans are facing the highest jump in consumer prices in 39 years as inflation continues to soar.
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced masks will be required to be worn in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement.
In the three months since Hurricane Ida struck New York, FEMA, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Flood Insurance Program have approved nearly half a billion dollars to help New Yorkers recover and rebuild.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday she was dropping out of the race for governor, saying she will instead run for re-election to her current position.
Iraq’s national security adviser said on Thursday that US-led forces had ended their combat mission in Iraq, a move that transfers all remaining troops into a training and advising role.
Senate Republicans successfully forced a vote on a resolution aimed at nullifying the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for large employers in a 52-48 vote.
New Jersey will pull its $182 million in Unilever stocks and bonds after a three-month preliminary investigation found that the company’s subsidiary, Ben & Jerry’s, engaged in a boycott of “Israeli-controlled” territories against state law.
The head of India’s armed forces, General Bipin Rawat, was among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash in southern India on Wednesday, air force officials said.
More than half of the population of Afghanistan is facing extreme hunger, a frightening development that will only intensify as winter gets set to grip the war-devastated country now under Taliban control.
A federal judge Tuesday blocked a national COVID-19 vaccine mandate that would have required private government contractors to get their shots, dealing yet another blow to the Biden administration’s jab push.
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that New York State is the first state in the nation to receive U.S. Department of the Treasury’s approval to launch its Homeowner Assistance Fund, a program that will provide up to $539 million to help eligible homeowners.
Today, the FBI released detailed data on nearly 8.9 million criminal offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2020.
Most young people under the age of 21 who developed suspected COVID-19 vaccine-related heart muscle inflammation known as myocarditis had mild symptoms that improved quickly, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation.
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