A growing number of young Americans are putting travel plans on hold, and it’s not because of the cost. It’s because they don’t want to leave their pets behind. A new national survey commissioned by TrustedHousesitters found that 56 percent of pet owners say they travel less since getting a pet. For many, the emotional […]

A Southern California deputy was recognized with a prestigious hero award on Thursday for saving a child from a car before it was struck by a train in San Bernardino County. The dramatic rescue in Redlands, which was caught on film on Sept. 20, 2024, earned San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy and Perris resident Michael […]

Make America Healthy Again? More like “Make America Hungry Again.” In their stubborn pursuit of lowering taxes, especially for the rich, congressional Republicans are looking to cut spending on a vital resource for low-income children and families: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — colloquially referred to as “SNAP.” The program, also known as “food stamps,” has been one of the most important anti-poverty programs in country since its expansion over the 1960s and 1970s.

In 2021, the folks running the city’s Gay Pride March celebrating people’s right to be as they are, issued a blatantly unfair ban against gay police officers marching while wearing their uniforms, in a fit of anti-cop discrimination. That noxious ban is still in effect and was reaffirmed by the parade’s organizers, Heritage of Pride.

Research and data of independent housing policy experts is all drawing the same conclusion: residential buildings in the five boroughs with high numbers of rent-stabilized apartments are in severe economic distress.

Thursday was a big day eagerly awaited by kids and their parents, the last day of public schools in New York City, which meant that Friday was also a big day eagerly awaited by kids and their parents, the first day of outdoor public pools in New York City. Both are entirely funded by taxpayers and are free to all to attend.

Now that the bird’s-eye view has passed from metaphor into reality it is a little disappointing, cooking over the literature of flight, to find that so little of the mental freedom and expansion implied in the phrase has been realized in practice. Our records of the air, vigorous and various as they are, seem to […]

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A mother walking with her children in Pasadena was taken into custody by immigration agents over the weekend in an incident that was partially captured on video and has drawn sharp criticism from witnesses. Rosalina Luna Vargas, a mother of two and the primary breadwinner for her family, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs […]