NY Mayor Adams says he had productive meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
By Nathan Layne WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) – Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams said he had a “productive” meeting with Republican President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on Friday, including a discussion about how the federal
US ends former New York lieutenant governor’s bribery case after witness dies
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped their corruption case against former New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin, following the death of a key witness. Benjamin, 48, had been expected to face
Arkansas governor traveling to Switzerland next week for World Economic Forum
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is traveling to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland next week, where she will be speaking on two panels, her office announced Friday. Sanders’ office said the
Battling LA’s wildfires, priorities shift for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s once Trump-focused special session
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top political adversaries, has shifted his focus in recent days from gearing up for legal battles against the incoming Republican administration to prioritizing the
Retired Georgia minister is found not guilty in the 1975 killing of a girl in Pennsylvania
MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — A retired minister from Georgia was found not guilty Friday in the killing of an 8-year-old girl whose remains were found in a southeastern Pennsylvania park almost a half-century ago. A jury acquitted
United Airlines donates $1 million to Trump inaugural fund
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United Airlines said on Friday it is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and said CEO Scott Kirby plans to attend various events over the long holiday weekend. Kirby will attend
Timeline: Key dates in the century-long battle over the Equal Rights Amendment
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. The
Yellen says Treasury will use ‘extraordinary measures’ on Jan. 21 to prevent hitting debt ceiling
WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, on
Federal sentencings for 5 former officers delayed until after state trial in death of Tyre Nichols
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Sentencings for five former Memphis police officers convicted of federal charges in the beating death of Tyre Nichols will take place after an April state court trial on second-degree murder in the Black
Jury convicts man in bold scheme to steal $700,000 from Michigan casino
DETROIT (AP) — A Chicago man has been convicted in the theft of $700,000 from a Michigan casino, a brazen scheme in which an employee was tricked over the phone into stuffing the cash in a designer
