Miller Sanford In a potentially precedent-setting confrontation, a college football player is transferring even though his former school declined to enter his name into the portal. Xavier Lucas, a cornerback who played this season for Wisconsin, is transferring to Miami, according to his attorney, after Wisconsin refused to enter his name into the portal because he had … Read more
A group gathers at Washington’s Franklin Park before the People’s March on Saturday. (Julio Cortez / Associated Press) Eight years since its historic first march, the Women’s March is returning Saturday to the nation’s capital just before President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration. Rebranded and reorganized, the rally has a new name — the People’s March — … Read more
Officials inspect the construction of a stand in the Capitol Rotunda, where President-elect Donald Trump is due to take the oath of office on Monday. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press) Donald Trump will return to Washington on Saturday to kick off days of pageantry around his second inauguration as president, four years after he departed … Read more
Nearly two dozen people who faced criminal charges for their roles in the January 6 riots will be back in the Capitol this weekend after federal judges approved their request to attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration festivities . At least 20 defendants who have been charged or convicted of crimes stemming from the capitol riots have … Read more
Parks and wrecked. Vandals scrawled antisemitic graffiti on at least four public memorial benches this week in Prospect Park. 5The benches have been targeted off and on for two years. Obtained by The New York Post 5The commemorative benches run between $5,000 and $10,000. Obtained by The New York Post The hate-filled messages appeared on … Read more
Maia Kobabe with her book “Gender Queer: A Memoir” at North Sonoma Regional Park in Santa Rosa. (Josh Edelson / For the Times) The recent surge in book bans in U.S. school districts and libraries is the latest front in a long-running battle that has swept up even literary masterpieces of John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger … Read more
This week in West Village Whining: The owner of Carrie Bradshaw’s “Sex and the City” apartment on posh Perry Street got permission to build a steel-and-cast-iron gate in front of her building, so unfathomably rowdy the tourists have become. Call it “Sex” and the NIMBY. In an application to the Landmark Preservation Committee, outraged landlord … Read more
Few surprises emerged in the Supreme Court arguments over the Protecting Americans Act, which demands that ByteDance, the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated owner of TikTok, either divest from the social media platform or face a ban. The case hinges on whether TikTok can convince Justices that such a mandate violates the First Amendment by forcing a … Read more
America stands hours away from the second Trumpian era. But around the world, it feels like it has already begun. Almost since election day, jihadis, autocrats, and NATO allies alike have been watching their backs in what has felt like a global game of Whac-a-Mole in which the moles finally believe that they might get … Read more
Activists rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington in 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three … Read more
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