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It’s never a good idea to bet against Manhattan. In recent months, pundits have questioned whether the borough can rebound from COVID-19, which has shuttered countless businesses and emptied office buildings. But bouncing back is what Manhattan does best. Similar doubts arose following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy.
Nearly 50 Queens residents across generations and genders gathered on the steps of Borough Hall Saturday to join the millions across the country rallying in support of reproductive rights.
Isaac Perlmutter, Marvel's former CEO, is name as part of the "Mar-A-Lago trio" accused by House Democrats of illegally attempting to influence government policies under Trump.
Lawmakers, activists, doctors and others appeared before the House Oversight Committee Thursday at a hearing aimed at examining abortion access in the United States, a right which Democrats argue is facing an existential threat under a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, and newly emboldened GOP state legislatures which have passed a spate of restrictive abortion legislation.
After she was raped on a church trip in Jackson, Mississippi, and became pregnant in the summer of 1994, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., got an abortion at the age of 18.
Rep. Cori Bush was raped at a church camp as a teenager. A month later, she realized she was pregnant and sought out an abortion, she said at a hearing Thursday.
Three Democratic members of Congress on Thursday offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a congressional committee examined how to respond to conservative states that are passing laws limiting abortion access.
The leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday demanded a briefing from the FBI on its decision to withhold for three weeks the decryption key necessary for companies impacted by the ransomware attack on IT company Kaseya to recover.
Leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee are questioning the FBI's handling of a July ransomware attack on a Florida-based IT firm that compromised up to 1,500 businesses.
Congressional Democrats are wading into the battle over climate misinformation claims against oil companies, a move that parallels a sea of litigation from states, counties, and cities looking to put those companies on the hook for the local impacts of global warming.