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The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? In early February, President Joe Biden announced that he would end US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, where six years of continuous conflict have made it the worst humanitarian crisis in the world...

10 Weeks to the Finish Line: New York’s Mayoral Race Heats Up With the primary weeks away, candidates are sharpening their attacks, ramping up in-person events and preparing to spend the millions of dollars that they have stockpiled. Andrew Yang, who has been leading in polls, wants to be the chief cheerleader for the city’s comeback.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times April 11, 2021 It was opening day for Coney Island’s famed amusement parks, long shuttered during the pande...

• Updated: March 12, 2021 6:10 p.m. arrow Governor Andrew Cuomo with Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer—plus Lieutenant Kathy Hochul (far left) and Attorney General Letitia James John Lamparski/SOPA Images/Shutterstock U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have joined Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, calling for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation, citing the growing number of sexual misconduct allegati...

In a bipartisan letter, 170 House lawmakers asked State Department to make 'the gross violation of human rights' in Turkey a foreign policy priority

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New law bars convicted ex-pols from running — Cuomo besieged as crises grow — County parties hold off on mayoral endorsements Presented by Opportunities for NY Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation on Thursday designed to prevent individuals convicted of felony public corruption from holding city office again. If that sounds like the kind of implausible scenario that wouldn’t take a law to prevent, you haven’t met Hiram Monserrate. The former state senator from Queens was expelled fro...

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Print Continue to article content Rep. Gregory Meeks gestures while speaking during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. | AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais In ongoing retreat, NYC’s county parties sit out mayor’s race Brooklyn’s Eric Adams stared into the camera on a recent weeknight and declared, borough pride be damned, that he is in fact the “Queens candidate” in the upcoming mayor’s race. “We have heard reported over and over again that there is not a Queens candidate ...

So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye: Fritz Berger landed at Frankfurt Airport Saturday, having been expelled back to Germany from his long-time Tennessee home by the U.S. Department of Justice, which proved that Herr Berger been an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp.

U.S. lawmakers set resolution condemning China over Hong Kong rights