The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.
Mark Levine, who took office as New York City comptroller in January, warned that absent significant financial growth, city programs would need to be scaled back.
Officials denounced the Trump crackdown at an unofficial congressional hearing in Minneapolis. Administration officials have accused local leaders of promoting violence against ICE agents.
Three congressional representatives from Minnesota tried to inspect immigration facilities at a federal building in Minneapolis last week. From left, Kelly Morrison, Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig were turned away after briefly being allowed inside.
Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.
“There are a lot of reasons people drink alcohol,” said one epidemiologist who led an advisory panel on alcohol. “What we’re saying is health shouldn’t be one of them.”
Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in past winters, but this year intensified its attacks as temperatures in Ukraine plunged well below freezing.
“There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.
The blowback set off by the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, has shaken up the race to replace him.
Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.
The overwhelming defense of Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is the product of something President Trump may have underestimated: Mr. Powell’s popularity.
Prosecutors in the case of Nicolás Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, have been asked to focus on reviewing the vast amount of files connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
Michael Saylor’s financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, Strategy, into the center of the crypto frenzy. It all worked spectacularly, until now.
Our reporter Jeffrey Gettleman is on the ground in Greenland, seeing how people have reacted to Trump’s desire to take it over. He and our senior writer Katrin Bennhold discuss what Greenland means to the United States, Denmark and Greenlanders.
With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is the first test of whether the “Thrones” formula works on a human scale.
Abnormally blustery temperatures this weekend could usher in snowy weather across the East. Exactly where remains uncertain, but even the Deep South is on alert.
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