San Francisco mayor declares state of emergency to combat overdose deaths, crime

SAN FRANCISCO — The mayor of San Francisco on Friday declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin in an effort to bring down overdose deaths and violent crime in one of the city’s poorest and most drug-infested neighborhoods.

Mayor

Why Republicans, moderates see ranked choice voting as an opportunity in a post-Trump era

Eric Adams and Glenn Youngkin have little in common, other than how they won their new jobs.

Adams, the Democratic mayor-elect of New York City, and Youngkin, the soon-to-be Republican governor of Virginia, earned their party nominations through ranked choice

‘Betrayed’: House progressives erupt over Manchin Build Back Better opposition

WASHINGTON — Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., led the progressive charge in denouncing Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V.a., on Sunday after he said he would not support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act.

“Today, Senator Manchin has betrayed his commitment not

Last doctor to provide abortions in Wyoming may leave the state

People throughout Wyoming and Idaho drive hundreds of miles, sometimes through snow and rain, to get to a clinic at the base of the Teton Mountains in Jackson, Wyoming, to see Brent Blue.

Blue is the only doctor in the

Voters punish scandal-hit Boris Johnson’s party with crushing loss in ‘safe’ seat

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party on Friday lost control of a parliamentary seat they have dominated for nearly 200 years, in a shock election result seen as a voter backlash against a British leader beset by crises

Trevor Noah sues NYC hospital and orthopedic surgeon for negligence and failures

“The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah has sued the New York-based Hospital for Special Surgery, claiming orthopedic surgeon Riley Williams III botched an undisclosed surgery last year.

The suit was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, where the hospital is located,

Johnny Isakson, former Georgia Republican U.S. senator, dies at 76

ATLANTA — Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state Legislature to become a U.S. senator, has died. He was 76.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office confirmed the death in a news release

‘Saturday Night Live’ announces no live audience for final 2021 show due to omicron

“Saturday Night Live” announced that it will not have a live audience for tonight’s show due to the recent spike in the omicron variant.

There will also be limited cast and crew on set, according to a series of tweets

McKinsey worked with “Chinese government” despite assurances to Rubio

The management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has acknowledged a commercial connection to “the Chinese government,” according to a court document, even though the firm told a U.S. senator it had no business ties to the Beijing regime.

According to

Hi-tech heists: Crypto hackers make a killing robbing trading platforms

It’s not just lucky investors getting rich from crypto.

Hackers have made off with billions of dollars in virtual assets in the past year by compromising some of the cryptocurrency exchanges that have emerged during the bitcoin boom.

There have