Month: July 2024

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has unveiled new restrictions on the state’s homeless family shelter programs. Healey said Tuesday that starting Aug. 1, families who aren’t prioritized for placement in emergency assistance shelters will be eligible to stay at overflow sites for just five days. Healey pointed to what she called

Associated Press While conservative strategist Steve Bannon is serving a four-month federal prison term, he’s got another trial coming up. A New York state judge on Tuesday set a December trial date for the conservative strategist. He is charged in New York with scheming to con donors who gave money to build a border wall,

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — About a thousand people are expected at a gala event this weekend as Wisconsin finally honors a person of color with a statue at its state Capitol. Workers lowered the shrouded statue of Wisconsin Secretary of State Vel Phillips into position Tuesday, and then encased it in a crate

Associated Press After weeks of intraparty division over President Joe Biden’s candidacy, delegates to the upcoming Democratic National Convention on Tuesday rallied rapidly and enthusiastically behind Vice President Kamala Harris as their party’s new presidential candidate. Suddenly, some delegates said, they have a lot more to look forward to at their national meeting in Chicago.

Associated Press Rail unions say that inspections continue to be rushed and a new federal study reinforces that concern with railroads routinely allowing less than two minutes per car for inspections. There are nearly 200 things to check on every railcar and the Transportation Communications Union that represents workers say there’s no way to do

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Darren Walker, the outgoing president of the Ford Foundation, has had a far-reaching and profound impact on the philanthropic sector. It’s a rare feat, especially for someone who is not themselves among the wealthiest donors like Bill Gates or MacKenzie Scott. Walker will step down from the foundation by

Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian factions and bitter foes Hamas and Fatah have signed a declaration in China vowing to form a unity government that would rule over the occupied West Bank and Gaza when the Israel-Hamas war ends. The agreement reached Tuesday in Beijing could mark the beginning of a reconciliation

Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Firefighters in the West are scrambling as wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington, with at least one Oregon fire so large that it is creating its own weather. Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon was closed in both directions Tuesday between Ontario and Baker City as flames from