Three dozen Catholics from “Lebo,” as the Mt. Lebanon area of Pittsburgh is called, packed into Colleen Oxenreiter’s living room on a recent Friday evening. Lebo is a heavily Catholic neighborhood, and her home was the one with a giant Trump sign in the yard, by her pumpkins. She explained …
Read More »The 25-Year-Old Georgia Senate Candidate Looking to Unseat a Fake Trump Elector
Ashwin Ramaswami, a Democrat running for a Georgia State Senate seat, grew up in a wealthy stretch of Atlanta suburbs transformed by the tech industry and waves of Indian American immigrants, like his parents, who have settled there. It is a part of the American South where the percentage of …
Read More »Fire in Oakland Hills Prompts Evacuations Under Gusty Conditions
A brush fire erupted in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, forcing the evacuation of hillside neighborhoods and the brief closure of a major highway as high winds threatened to spread the blaze. The five-alarm fire, which officials have named the Keller fire, had burned about 15 acres and damaged two homes …
Read More »California Man Is Charged With Drugging and Sexually Assaulting 9 Women
A 50-year-old California man has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting nine women at his homes in the oceanfront cities of Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach, and of murdering one of them who died after being drugged, prosecutors announced Friday. The man, Michael DiGiorgio, faces 18 criminal counts in …
Read More »Columbia Bars Vocal Pro-Israel Professor From Campus
Columbia University has temporarily barred a vocal pro-Israel professor from campus, saying he repeatedly harassed and intimidated the school’s employees. Shai Davidai, an assistant professor in the business school, has been a polarizing presence on campus since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas led an attack on Israel that has turned …
Read More »Supreme Court Allows E.P.A. to Limit Power Plant Emissions
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to move ahead with its plans to limit carbon emissions by power plants, handing a victory to the Biden administration. The decision, which was temporary, centered on a major regulation the administration enacted in April that seeks to eliminate pollution …
Read More »Ka, Lone Soldier of New York’s Underground Rap Scene, Dies at 52
Kaseem Ryan, who built a small but fervent following as an underground Brooklyn rapper known as Ka while maintaining a career as a New York City firefighter, died in the city on Saturday. He was 52. His death was announced by his wife, Mimi Valdés, on Instagram, as well as …
Read More »How Door Knocking Is Going in a Wisconsin Swing County
Nancy Kidd, a coordinator with the Democratic Party of Door County in northeast Wisconsin, was willing to brave a door-to-door canvass for Democratic votes during a soaking rain in October. “I don’t melt,” she said, gathering her things at the party’s office in downtown Sturgeon Bay. But knocking on the …
Read More »N.J. Transit Train Hits Tree on Track, Killing 1 and Injuring 23
One person was killed and nearly two dozen others were injured in South Jersey on Monday morning when a New Jersey Transit light rail train struck a tree on the tracks, the commuter rail said. Just after 6 a.m., a River Line train traveling south from Trenton collided with a …
Read More »Ethel Kennedy, Matriarch of Family Dynasty, Honored at Cape Cod Funeral
About 200 people, along with prominent members of the Kennedy family, crowded into a Catholic church on Cape Cod on Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a powerful figure in the family’s political dynasty. Mrs. Kennedy, whose husband was assassinated in …
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