The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. This celebratory day occurs on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; this year, the holiday falls on September 25th. It is believed that the moon is at...
On Friday, September 18th, 2026, Donald Trump banned CNN, Politico, and MS now from the White House. Trump accused the organizations of writing “fiction” or “lies” about his administration. Reporters were denied access to the White House from Saturday, September 19th onwards The three outlets have since claimed they will...
The New York City Marathon is among the city’s largest events. New York Road Runners is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the five-borough course this year. It debuted on Oct. 24, 1976. This year’s race is set for Sunday, Nov. 1, kicking off on Staten Island at 8 a.m. The...
The Californian app-based food delivery company DoorDash recently settled $131.5 million with New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) following an investigation into the company underpaying its New York City workers. This follows lengthy claims by the city and the Mamdani administration against delivery companies like DoorDash...
On Monday morning, the FFA issued a ground stop for New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport due to an equipment outage. The order means that all flights arriving to and departing from Newark are currently delayed. The current restriction is scheduled to remain in effect until 1:45 p.m. It was...
This week Assemblywoman Annette Quijano introduced a bill in Trenton, New Jersey, that would delay the approvals, construction, expansion, subsidies, and tax incentives for oversized AI data centers. The bill would create a 12-person commission to study the potential impact of AI data centers on New Jersey, reporting its findings...
With the start of the school year in NYC, a new program is in place to help students and future generations of college-bound individuals. Caregivers of New York City elementary public school students looking ahead for their children’s future can invest in their children’s futures right now, but this time...
The conversation around artificial intelligence has surged in New York City as the Mamdani administration pushes to ban AI in the city’s public schools through middle school for the 2026-2027 school year. “Children need teachers and human connection to learn and grow. They need to develop skills alongside their peers,...
Robert Schenell remembers being the first member of the New York Police Department’s K-9 Unit on the scene when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001. Seventeen minutes later, Schenelle watched a second plane crash into the WTC’s South Tower. Schenelle...
25 years after the historical 9/11 terrorist attack, Harry Ong, the brother of the flight attendant who made the first reported call of the hijacking, still gets anxious as the anniversary approaches. “As September 11th approaches each and every year, the tension just builds up and the stress, sometimes debilitation,...
This Wednesday, the MTA revealed and showcased the plans for a new transit line in the city. This would be the city’s first new transit line since 1937. This would be the first new transit line in NYC in almost a whole century. The MTA revealed the pre-renderings of what...
On Tuesday thousands of Newark students returned to the classroom but not without a statewide cellphone ban that requires schools to strictly limit the use of phones, smartwatches and other internet connected devices during the school day. The law, which was signed by the former New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy,...
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