Category: Breaking News

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 voting, an increasingly popular format for U.S. elections.

Their victories bolstered a core argument that ranked choice voting advocates have been making for years: Allowing voters to cast ballots identifying their second and third choices (and so on) rewards candidates who work to broaden their appeal while weeding out polarizing figures.

The moderate Adams, for example, prevailed over rivals who

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 only to the President and Democrats in Congress but most importantly, to the American people,” Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in a statement. “He routinely touts that he is a man of his word, but he can no longer say that. West Virginians, and the country, see clearly who he is.”

Jayapal noted last week that Biden

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 state who openly provides surgical and medication abortions, but soon his services may no longer be available there.

Abortion-rights activists say his absence would create a large gap in Wyoming’s health care options and leave them more exposed to anti-abortion protesters who picket outside clinics and doctors’ homes, sometimes damaging property or sending death threats.

While some doctors in Wyoming

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 and scandal.

The centrist Liberal Democrats won the North Shropshire seat by nearly 6,000 votes, overturning a 23,000 vote Conservative majority from 2019 with a huge swing.

The defeat was described as ‘a kicking’ for the Conservatives. It will ratchet up the pressure on Johnson from his lawmakers, who are in mutinous mood as they fear the party’s reputation and

“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, and states that it is in regards to care Noah received at various times during “Aug. 25, 2020 through approximately Dec. 17, 2020.”

In the suit, Noah alleges that Dr. Williams cared “for various medical conditions and other related treatment, including surgery which was performed on November 23, 2020,” court documents show.

Noah alleges in the suit that all care

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 Sunday.

Isakson, whose real estate business made him a millionaire, spent more than three decades in Georgia political life.

In the Senate, he was known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder. His own views on flashpoint issues such as abortion became more conservative over the years as Georgia’s own politics shifted from blue to red.

In 2015, Isakson disclosed that

“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.

“The show continues to follow all government safety guidelines in addition to a rigorous testing protocol,” the tweet read. “If you have won tickets to this show, you will be receiving more information soon. Thank you for your patience and understanding.”

This is the last show for the year. Actor Paul Rudd will host and Charli XCX will be

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 Sen. Marco Rubio, R.-Fla., McKinsey told the lawmaker in July 2020 that it did not work with the Chinese government or the ruling Chinese Communst Party. Company executives repeated that assertion in a Zoom conference call in March this year with Sen. Rubio’s advisers, according to the senator.

But in a bankruptcy case involving the offshore drilling firm Valaris, in

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 been more than 20 hacks this year where a digital robber stole at least $10 million in digital currencies from a crypto exchange or project. In at least six cases, hackers stole more than $100 million, according to data compiled by NBC News. By comparison, bank robberies netted perpetrators an average of less than $5,000 per heist last year, according

Relaxing on my bed in suburban Detroit, I was absorbed in yet another escapist novel from the library when my mother suddenly barged into my room. Her face was filled with a familiar madness as she grabbed my arm and dragged me toward the full-length mirror in the master bedroom. She had shears in one hand as she screamed hysterically and began hacking away at my waist-long hair.

It was the 1970s, I was 13 years old, and like most teenage girls of that time, I had faithfully grown my hair long to look like celebrity idols of the day.