Protesters, residents and other DNC observers would be prohibited from bringing laptops, large bags, scooters and other items into certain areas closest to convention attendees under a proposed ordinance. The restrictions are expected to be implemented in roughly a two-block radius of both the main convention sites, though the Secret Service likely won’t publicly map out the high-security bubble until early July, police department counterterrorism Chief Duane DeVries told Council members. While the restrictions will apply across that radius, DeVries suggested they would be enforced only in a “buffer zone” around barbed-wire fencing closest to the venues, where protests are expected to be most active. “So if something goes bad, and those protests are pushing up against the fence, we don’t want anybody to get hurt and get crushed against the fence,” DeVries said.

Faith Ringgold, an award-winning author and artist who broke down barriers for Black female artists and became famous for her richly colored and detailed quilts combining painting, textiles and storytelling, has died.

Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel highlight an America-led regional war spanning Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others.

A day out at a popular shopping centre ended in tragedy when a knife-wielding man killed six people.

Air raid sirens sounded across Israel and the occupied West Bank and Israeli officials urged people to seek shelter after Iran launched dozens of drones and missiles toward Israel late Saturday night in an attack that marked a major escalation of conflict in the Middle East. More than 200 projectiles in total were launched by Iran, the "vast majority" of which were intercepted or shot down outside of Israel's borders, said Israeli military spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. Officials reported minor damage to a military base in southern Israel and one injury to a 10-year-old child, who was reported to be in critical condition.

Proposed budget cuts would slash Market Match, a program that gives low-income households extra cash for produce at the farmer's market.

This wasn’t Stults’s first attempt at entrepreneurship; his past efforts included a made-in-America clothing brand in Colorado (“That went under,” he said) and a coffee shop in the back of an ill-attended Hollywood comedy club (“A doomed enterprise,” Krigbaum said).

An investigation of public records shows the Law Department’s mandated reporting has not provided full transparency. When 20-year-old Ronald Herrera was killed in 2012 by a police cruiser driven by New York City police officer Sabrina Alicea, his family sued and settled in 2017. The public, however, never learned of the disposition despite extensive media coverage after a contradictory video surfaced disproving Alicea’s official statements. According to the Herrera family’s attorney Philip Newman, his clients were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The $750,000 settlement to Herreira’s family and $3.5 million payout to his friend, Leonel Cueves, who was maimed in the same incident, was never mentioned in the Law Department’s statutory reporting of litigation outcomes. A years-long investigation of public records obtained under Freedom of Information laws by City & State found that the lawsuit and 12,748 other cases filed against the New York Police Department that were settled or awarded monetary verdicts from January 2013 through December 2023 were never mentioned in litigation outcome summaries required bi-annually from the Law Department under legislation passed into law by the City Council. The same analysis found that settlements and awards that took more than five years, from filing to conclusion, were not reported. Nor have settlements been shared stemming from court actions filed prior to January 1, 2013. The Law Department also omitted cases that were closed within five years, but whose plaintiffs may still have had pending Surrogate's Court proceedings pegged to them. The department also left out cases settled under non-disclosure agreements.

It was a Tax Court of Canada case last year that went mostly under the radar by all except for the legal community who were taken aback by its implications for renters. A Montreal tenant was audited and ordered to pay the tax he had failed to withhold on the monthly rent to his non-resident landlord, as required by law. As a result, he was ordered to pay six years’ worth of tax as well as the compounded interest and penalties. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) could not collect against his overseas landlord, so the Canadian tenant was on the hook. Last year, the tenant took the Minister of National Revenue to court, arguing that he did not know his landlord was a non-resident. The tenant, whose Italy-based landlord owned a single unit in a Montreal building, lost the Tax Court appeal on the grounds that they were a Canadian resident paying rent to a non-resident landlord, and were therefore required to withhold and remit 25 per cent of the rent to the CRA. The judge acknowledged “the harsh consequences,” in her decision, but still held the “resident payer,” or renter, liable.

A new congressional resolution aligns Republicans with the financial industry’s fight to preserve sky-high credit card late fees.

Rest of World spoke with 40 riders for Swiggy in India. Many described losing coverage when they needed help the most.

For months World Central Kitchen leadership censored material coming out of its Gaza operation and refused to honor staff concerns about our work there. They are finally taking a stand after personnel were killed, but it is much too late.

New federal rules require public systems to measure and mitigate certain harmful man-made chemicals. Maine is already learning how hard that can be. The Saunderses’ home, in Fairfield, Maine, is in a quiet, secluded spot, 50 minutes from the drama of the rocky coast and an hour and 15 minutes from the best skiing around. It’s also sitting atop a plume of poison. For decades, sewage sludge was spread on the corn fields surrounding their house, and on hundreds of other fields across the state. That sludge is suspected to have been tainted with PFAS, a group of man-made compounds that cause a litany of ailments, including kidney and prostate cancers, fertility loss, and developmental disorders. The Saunderses’ property is on one of the most contaminated roads in a state just waking up to the extent of an invisible crisis. Onur Apul, an environmental engineer at the University of Maine and the head of its initiative to study PFAS solutions, told me that in his opinion, the United States has seen “nothing as overwhelming, and nothing as universal” as the PFAS crisis. Even the DDT crisis of the 1960s doesn’t compare, he said: DDT was used only as an insecticide and could be banned by banning that single use. PFAS are used in hundreds of products across industries and consumer sectors. Their nearly 15,000 variations can help make pans nonstick, hiking clothes and plumber’s tape waterproof, and dental floss slippery. They’re in performance fabrics on couches, waterproof mascara, tennis rackets, ski wax.

During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.

The 67-year-old chairwoman of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country's 2022 GDP.

What happens when a smart TV becomes too smart for its own good? The answer, it seems, is more intrusive advertisements. Last week, Janko Roettgers, a technology and entertainment reporter, uncovered a dystopian patent filed last August by Roku, the television- and streaming-device manufacturer whose platform is used by tens of millions of people worldwide. The filing details plans for an “HDMI customized ad insertion,” which would allow TVs made by Roku to monitor video signals through the HDMI port—where users might connect a game console, a Blu-ray player, a cable box, or even another streaming device—and then inject targeted advertisements when content is paused. This would be a drastic extension of Roku’s surveillance potential: The company currently has no ability to see what users might be doing when they switch away from its proprietary streaming platform. This is apparently a problem, in that Roku is missing monetization opportunities! Although the patent may never come to fruition (a spokesperson for Roku told me that the company had no plans to put HDMI ad insertion into any products at this time), it speaks to a dispiriting recent trend in consumer hardware. Internet-connected products can transform after the point of purchase in ways that can feel intrusive or even hostile to users. Another example from Roku: Just last month, the company presented users with an update to its terms of service, asking them to enter a pre-arbitration process that would make it harder to sue the company. On one hand, this isn’t so unusual—apps frequently force users to accept terms-of-service updates before proceeding. But on the other, it feels galling to be locked out of using your television altogether over a legal agreement: “Until I press ‘Agree’ my tv is essentially being held hostage and rendered useless,” one Roku customer posted on Reddit. “I can’t even change the HDMI input.” A Roku spokesperson confirmed that a user does have to agree to the latest terms in order to use the company’s services but said that customers have the option to opt out, by sending a letter, in the actual mail, to the company’s general counsel (though the window to do so closed on March 21).

When a new owner took control of a mobile home park in Mercer County, West Virginia, its residents noticed immediate changes.Rents went up, and it seemed like the new owner was doing less to take care of problems like broken windows, or even a sewage leak. So one resident started looking into exactly who this new owner was.

The new report debunks widespread misinformation that the mRNA shots were connected to sudden cardiac death in young athletes.

The enormous Hawaiian-born wrestler helped raise the international profile of Japanese sumo in the 1990s.

For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There’s only one problem: it just doesn’t work.