Updated: 2017-09-28 For a week after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the Trump administration declined to waive a set of shipping regulations in order to help speed food, gasoline, and other supplies to the island.Just weeks earlier, the U.S. Department of Homeland Securi … | Continue reading
School is now in session at Cornell Tech, the Ivy League university’s highly anticipated engineering campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City.The project was conceived through a economic development initiative in 2008 under then-mayor Michael Bloomberg, in which the city would … | Continue reading
President Donald Trump declared the week of September 18 through 22 “National Gang Violence Prevention Week.” He also declared that week “Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week,” (President Obama made this same declaration last year). While the issues of gang viol … | Continue reading
Crime trends: Chicago homicide rates remain stubbornly high after a historic spike in 2016, a 60 percent increase from the previous year. Though Chicago stands out as the only major U.S. city to have seen such a spike past the year 2000, the lingering trend this year fits in line … | Continue reading
In the San Francisco Bay Area, high-speed, high-volume traffic and seasonal migrations have created a maelstrom of animal-driver carnage. A motorcyclist was recently killed when he struck a large deer. A cyclist flying down a hill smacked into a deer and suffered a concussion and … | Continue reading