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Wall Street profits drive average bonuses to a record $258K
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York state comptroller says soaring profits on Wall Street helped drive up the average bonus paid to employees in New York City’s securities industry to a record $257,500 last year. The estimates released by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said the average securities industry bonus was 20% higher than 2020 and…
Newtown families: Alex Jones fails to show up for deposition
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones has failed to show up for a deposition in a lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones missed the deposition in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, with his lawyers citing an appointment for undisclosed medical conditions. Families of some of the…
Ex-prosecutor: Trump ‘guilty of numerous felony violations’
NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor who had led a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last month said in his resignation letter that he believes the former president is “guilty of numerous felony violations.” In the letter published Wednesday by The New York Times, Mark Pomerantz said he disagreed with the Manhattan district…
New York City to let unvaccinated athletes play home games
NEW YORK (AP) — New York city’s mayor will announce Thursday that he’s exempting athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate for private workers. The move will allow Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving to play home games, and let unvaccinated baseball players take the field when their season begins. According to a person familiar…
Pandemic relief money spent on hotel, ballpark, ski slopes
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press review finds that state and local governments have spent nearly $1 billion worth of federal coronavirus aid on projects that have little to do with combating the pandemic. The spending runs the gamut. In Broward County, Florida, $140 million will help to build an upscale hotel. In Dutchess County,…
Defending her record, Jackson back for 3rd day of hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is returning to the Senate for a third day of hearings. She is facing senators again Wednesday morning as Republicans try to paint her as soft on crime and Democrats herald the historic nature of her nomination to become the first Black woman on the high…
Hillary Clinton tests positive for COVID; Bill quarantining
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she has tested positive for COVID-19 with “mild” symptoms. The former Democratic presidential candidate said Tuesday on social media she was “feeling fine” and that former President Bill Clinton had tested negative and is quarantining until their household was fully cleared. A spokesman for…
Don’t blame bail reform for higher crime, NYC watchdog says
NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into New York’s bold quest to eliminate pretrial incarceration for most crimes, state officials are considering abandoning some reforms amid public pressure to curb rising violence. But New York City’s fiscal watchdog is urging state lawmakers to “follow facts rather than fear” and think twice about adopting stricter measures,…
Abandoned lobster traps in Long Island Sound to be removed
Federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left behind on the floor of the Long Island Sound, a “ghost fishery” that continues to trap and kill marine life to this day. It comes about two decades after Connecticut’s lobster industry collapsed. The $569,000 included…
NYPD accused of collecting DNA for ‘rogue’ database
NEW YORK (AP) – The Legal Aid Society has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of surreptitiously collecting genetic material from thousands of New Yorkers and storing it indefinitely in a “rogue” DNA database. According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, the police routinely seize DNA…
General Motors recalls 740K SUVs
DETROIT (AP) – General Motors is recalling more than 740,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because the headlight beams can be too bright and cause glare for oncoming drivers. The recall announced Tuesday comes after U.S. safety regulators turned down a request from the Detroit automaker to avoid the recall. The company is recalling GMC…
Airline offers 17-hour flights from New York to New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s flagship airline says it has started selling tickets for direct flights to and from New York. The new route will take more than 17 hours southbound and be among the longest nonstop flights in the world. Air New Zealand had intended to start the route from Auckland to…