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The U.S. Coast Guard has reversed itself at least for now and withdrawn a ruling that would have allowed barges containing hazardous substances to be moored along the Hudson River. Environmentalists as well as elected officials protested the move that would have opened up the river above the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge to being used […]

A new NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist Poll indicates that the 2024 presidential election is extremely close, with President Biden scoring 48% to Donald Trump’s 47% among registered voters nationwide. Participants in the poll responded to the question of for whom they would vote if the election were held today. The Marist Poll originates from the Institute […]

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted Donald Trump for his role in the various aspects of the conspiracy to overthrow the results of the 2020 election and by implication American democracy itself, and remain in power. There are a half dozen co-conspirators, who were not named. Trump is due to be arraigned […]

The settlement in which Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to end Dominion’s defamation lawsuit underscores just how serious matters of defamation, which includes libel and slander, can be. Other recent high-profile defamation cases include: a $2.7 billion case against Fox News filed by Smartmatic, a voting technology company; a […]

These were the Top 5 stories of the past week, according to Herald News readers

Big Bob – arguably a Fall River icon – died peacefully, at home, in his recliner, last Monday. He was 70.

As was widely anticipated, Donald Trump has been indicted in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. A Manhattan grand jury handed up the indictment. The indictment remains under seal so specific charges remain unknown at the present time. It is anticipated that the indictment will be read and, therefore, become public when Trump is arraigned before […]

With recreational use of marijuana now legal for adults in New York state, employers can expect at least some of their employees to be cannabis users on a regular and legal basis. New York state by the end of January had issued conditional licenses for 66 cannabis dispensaries to open, on top of the estimated […]