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Mamdani: NYC leaders ‘lied’ about post-9/11 air quality

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Tuesday released records related to the city government’s response to worsened air quality after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying city leaders “lied” about how safe it was to breathe. Mamdani’s office released 170,000 pages of records, with the mayor’s fiscal 2027 budget including $34 million…

Federal court to hear arguments on abortion pill access

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Federal court to hear arguments on abortion pill access A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could eventually restrict the nationwide distribution of the abortion…

Kavanaugh won’t revive Missouri’s GOP-friendly congressional map for midterms

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday refused to lift a block on Missouri’s new congressional map, which was poised to give Republicans a pickup opportunity in November. Missouri Republicans hoped to return to the new 7-1 House map favoring them after the Show Me State’s top court ruled officials must revert to their its existing GOP-leaning 6-2 House map for…

Trump leans into trolling critics as GOP midterm anxiety grows

President Trump is leaning into online trolling, off-color attacks and picking fights over geographical names as his approval rating sinks just weeks out from November’s midterm elections. Over the weekend, Trump raised eyebrows when he floated changing the name of New Mexico to “New America” weeks after he swapped the name of Lake Ontario to…

Gas prices hit Labor Day high

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Gasoline prices were highest ever for Labor Day The average price of gas going into this Labor Day weekend reached a record holiday high compared with past years at $4.14 a gallon, according to a national tracking average from AAA. The previous record for…

Prediction markets arrive at Supreme Court’s doorstep

{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Prediction markets’ regulation draws closer to Supreme Court Prediction markets have arrived at the Supreme Court’s doorstep. Erin Hooley, Associated Press file New Jersey this past week urged the justices to settle how prediction markets should be regulated, and a split among the nation’s appeals courts is increasing expectations that they may…

The problem with "wars of choice"

In 2003, the US led an invasion of Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction as part of the post-9/11 global War on Terror. No WMDs were found, but the U...

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