Working at The Daily News has given me a front-row seat to the many things that make our community special. And lately, with school starting back up, I’ve been thinking about how much a local newspaper can mean to the families we serve. Children’s lives seem to get busier every year. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice is defending its prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, saying “there is no serious dispute” that a social media post of seashells he made last year could be understood as a threat against President Donald Trump. Prosecutors also ...
Today is Thursday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2026. There are 133 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization movement. Also on this date: In 1858, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was first published in the “Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.” In 1862, the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Horace Greeley calling on President Abraham Lincoln to take more aggressive measures to free enslaved people and end the South’s ...
It’s hard to believe that Kim Jong Un is really this charming. President Trump touted his fond relationship with the North Korean dictator in a Truth Social post calling for scaling back a long-running annual military exercise with the South Koreans. “Based on my very good relationship ...
Driving in and around the region is about to become more challenging, courtesy of children of all ages returning to the classroom School buses will soon be picking up passengers, kids on bikes are hurrying to get to school before the bell rings and harried parents are trying to drop their kids off before work. It’s never more important for drivers to slow down and pay attention than when kids are present — especially before and after school. Here are a handful of common sense rules and practices suggested by law enforcement that motorists should consider: If dropping off Schools ...
