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Waymo, a company that has its biggest focus on autonomous, self-driving vehicles, just received a permit from the New York Department of Transportation to begin testing of its vehicles within New York City as of recently. According to CNBC, “Waymo will start testing up to eight vehicles in Manhattan and...

Eric Adams and his team have been campaigning extensively for weeks in the mayoral race in New York. During this time, many of Eric’s associates have been hit with corruption charges and many other accusations, which have greatly harmed his reputation. One recent event turned into a scandal when Winnie...

A recent outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has been seeing a rise in New York City in recent weeks, with a slowly rising death toll. According to New York Daily News, “A fifth person has been killed by the legionnaires’ disease outbreak ripping through Harlem, which has also sickened more than...

The state of New York once again saw its share of horrific violence a few days ago, when a mass shooting took place at a nightclub in Brooklyn. There were supposedly multiple gunmen who caused the bloodshed that resulted in three deaths and left many others wounded.   The crime took...

It appears that another hurricane is picking up momentum near the East Coast. Hurricane Erin is unfortunately beginning to become a massive scare for many coastal residents who are now preparing for life-threatening waves and currents to be unleashed.  As it stands right now, Hurricane Erin is expected to be...

The recent announcement naming Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Chief Terry Cole as the “emergency police commissioner” for the District of Columbia’s (DC) Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has ignited a fierce constitutional debate, thrusting the long-simmering tensions over the District of Columbia’s (DC) autonomy into an urgent legal and political showdown....

Many disputes often occur at sea between neighboring nations, as it can be difficult to fully map out territories. A similar kind of dispute at the South China Sea ended poorly for China, as two of its military ships collided with each other as they tried to pursue a Philippine...

Tropical Storm Erin continues to progress, and is set to become the first major hurricane of the 2025 season. As the storm moves westward over the warm waters of the Atlantic toward the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center predicts that Erin will reach hurricane strength by Thursday, Aug. 14. The...

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will be deploying the National Guard to Washington D.C. in an effort to fight back on crime, despite Mayor Muriel Bowser rejecting his claim of a crime spike.  “This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back,”...

The people of New York all had quite a scare last Saturday, when shots were fired in the early morning in Times Square. This shooting ended with three people getting shot and the suspect fleeing from the scene of the crime. Fortunately, all three victims are still alive and are...

Federal prosecutors are investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office over a civil fraud case against President Donald Trump. The investigation is focused on whether James and her office violated Trump’s legal rights during their civil lawsuit.  The original lawsuit, which James was successful in, sued Trump and his...

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will instruct the United States Department of Commerce to create a new census that will exclude undocumented immigrants from the population count.  He wrote in a post on Truth Social that the department will “immediately begin work on a new and highly...

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