(news 12 Brooklyn)
A local artist is honoring NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant with a large mural, across the street from the Barclays Center. Efren Andaluz created the work of art at Pacific and Flatbush Avenues. The mural features both Kobe and Gianna Bryant, who both loved basketball. Kobe, his daughter Gianna, and seven […]
Washington, DC / USA – June 13 2019: Nancy Pelosi conducts her weekly press conference (Shutterstock) By Michelle Ruiz, VOGUE Sure, Real Housewives is fine, but are you familiar with the ongoing rivalry between President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi? The friction between the notorious misogynist and the woman leading his impeachment peaked […]
Washington DC / USA – October 22 2019: Senator Mitt Romney before a Senate hearing (Shutterstock) By Dan Balz and Robert Costa, Washington Post Sen. Mitt Romney sealed a place in history Wednesday by voting to convict President Trump of abuse of power, becoming a lone voice of dissent in a Republican Party that otherwise […]
By Chris Sommerfeldt, NY Daily News After the shortest and only witness-free impeachment trial in history, the Senate acquitted President Trump on Wednesday of charges that he pressured Ukraine for political favors and then sought to cover up his efforts as part of a dubious scheme to get himself reelected. But despite the widely expected […]
By Trone Dowd, THE CITY With the 2020 Census stakes high for the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson have awarded $16 million grants to scores of nonprofits to help ensure every New Yorker is counted. Meanwhile, the city’s Department of Buildings is cracking down on unregistered apartments carved out of basements […]
Former Pan American International High School teacher, Lisa-Erika James holds a press conference at City Hall about a lawsuit against the Department of Education, Jan. 20, 2020 Photo: Vitaliy Piltser By Christine Chung, THE CITY A federal case alleging repeated discrimination at a Queens high school heads to trial Wednesday — with the one teacher remaining in […]
By Mary Hanbury (businessinsider.com)
Victoria’s Secret the largest American retailer of women’s lingerie. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in the US who hasn’t come into contact with Victoria’s Secret in one way or another. Since the late 1990s, Victoria’s Secret has been one of the best-known and most talked-about brands in the country — increasingly, not in ways […]
(USCIS.GOV)
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security obtained a pivotal judicial victory today after the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a nationwide injunction that prevented the agency from enforcing its regulatory interpretation of section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a long-standing law that makes an alien inadmissible if the alien is likely at any time to […]
New York, NY – January 21, 2019: US Congresswoman Yvette Diane Clarke speaks during 33rd Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (Shutterstock) By Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Clifford Michel, THE CITY Adem Bunkeddeko came within 2,000 votes of unseating longtime Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke two years ago, on the […]
By Michelle Ruiz, Vogue A new decade is upon us and, and based on the tumultuous early days of the 2020s—tense relations with Iran, a highly controversial president being impeached—it’s off to a rocky start. The world is practically begging for the roaring prosperity and jazz hands of the 1920s. But if the 2010s were the […]