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Will Corey break the speaker curse? One might say that Corey Johnson already fell victim to the City Council speaker curse. After all, his run for mayor ended before it began, when he closed his fledgling campaign in September and became the latest speaker to unsuccessfully seek higher office after leading the city’s legislative body. Three of the four speakers before him ran for mayor and lost in the Democratic primary. The other, Melissa Mark-Viverito, ran for both public advocate, then Con...

There’s two-fold purpose to this year’s Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival — providing a free, virtual high quality virtual concert with Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Secada and top Jamaican performers, that will benefit “industry professionals impacted by the pandemic

By Bobby Cuza New York City PUBLISHED 8:48 PM ET Jan. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:48 PM EST Jan. 27, 2021 SHARE Borough president is a job that can attract the politically ambitious. Case in point: Brooklyns Eric Adams. Adams has unapologetically used the borough presidents office as a springboard to a run for mayor. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz...

Great to see and welcome back, said Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne, thanking the new U.S.President Biden for rejoining the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, immediately after his inauguration last week.

SHARE: It took six months of Zoom parties, texts and phone calls to exes, but now that the latest filing deadline passed on Jan. 15, New York City candidates can finally show off the money they’ve been raising and spending. After a quick dig through the massive trove of hundreds of financial disclosures, here are some of the winners and losers. Winners Eric Adams & Scott Stringer: The Brooklyn borough president and the city comptroller are exactly where they need to be, at the top of the mayo...

January 14, 2021 Political leaders in the Caribbean Diaspora have urged tourism officials in Barbados and the rest of the region to come up with a viable plan for post-COVID Caribbean tourism and development and approach them for assistance. While insisting that this must be done in a collective way, political leaders of Caribbean heritage told an online Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) forum on Wednesday that it was also imperative that the region explore other areas for developm...

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the senate keeps a the way it is. the senate has basically a caps amendment. abortion is a benefit, paid for at $1 per month. you can use federal subsidies to pay for it. that is in a nutshell on health care. i know it sounds like a long presentation. . . a nutshell and those are the differences. this is the one that affects everyone of us now and in the future. i thought it was worthwhile to do this presentation and take the time to get this through. we have about an hour for question...

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening. im jim lehrer. unimaginable death and destruction in haiti. >> woodruff: and im judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, the death toll could be as high as 50,000 with a further three million people injured or homeless. >> lehrer: well talk with former president clinton-- the u.n. special envoy to haiti-- about the catastrophe that came just as haiti seemed to have turned an economic corner. >> woodruff: plus,...