Thursday, January 15, 2026

Tag: New York

The rage of billionaires and the frenzy to stop Zohran Mamdani...

That strategy is now striking fear into the hard hearts of insatiably greedy billionaires.

Governor Hochul to make New York center of nuclear revival in...

Governor Kathy Hochul has also become involved in promoting nuclear power nationally.

Trump DOJ sues states to shield fossil fuel companies from climate...

In a sweeping defense of oil and gas corporations, the Trump administration has filed federal lawsuits against four states to block efforts aimed at holding fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change damages—an aggressive action legal experts warn undermines state authority and sets a dangerous precedent.

How Eric Adams has backed a secretive NYPD unit ridden with...

The mayor has repeatedly championed the CRT and his allies who run it, even as NYPD officials have warned its policing has been too aggressive.

22 Republican Attorneys General sue New York over climate change Superfund...

Legal challenge seeks to block state’s effort to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages.

14 guards beat Robert Brooks to death at New York prison...

Outrage and investigations follow the death of Robert Brooks in a violent incident at a New York prison.

It was the rage of the age

Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?

21 bodycam videos caught the NYPD wrongly arresting Black kids on...

Police have frequently used that power to withhold footage, not only from the public, but also from civilian investigators.

New York calls PepsiCo’s plastic pollution a ‘public nuisance’ in first-of-its-kind...

The company's packaging was found to be the most significant contributor to plastic waste clogging the Buffalo River.

Stand for Indigenous land justice: Stop STAMP

If the state and federal governments truly stand behind their commitments to environmental justice, then we should stand with the Tonawanda—for the Big Woods, and for Indigenous land justice.

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Noem revives ICE secrecy playbook after Renee Good killing, blocking congressional oversight

A new DHS order demands seven days’ notice for detention site visits, defying a recent court ruling as Minnesota Democrats are turned away from a Minneapolis facility.

EPA moves to value human lives at zero in air pollution rules while prioritizing...

Internal documents show the Trump administration’s EPA is abandoning decades of public health accounting in favor of business compliance costs.

We found more than 40 cases of immigration agents using banned chokeholds and other...

DHS policy bars using chokeholds and carotid restraints just because someone is resisting arrest. Agents are doing it anyway.

Hugo Chávez predicted this

This war on Venezuela has been two decades in the making.

Could Trump’s diversion of Venezuelan oil to US save the Iranian regime?

This substantial gain for the Islamic Republic, however, will only help it weather the current political crisis if it manages to survive until April or May.