President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign stop at Sherman Middle School in Madison on Friday, July 5, 2024. Max Correa / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK The Issue: Calls from top Democrats for President Biden to step down as the party nominee for 2024. President Biden has a long history of making … Read more
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The USS Yankee has spent the past three weeks taking on water, but Brian Cashman is trying to steady the ship. Cashman was already planning to be at the team’s complex in Tampa this week ahead of the MLB draft starting Sunday, but he made the trip to Tropicana Field on … Read more
A beloved Brooklyn hardware store that became a neighborhood staple — featuring a pet pig and hosting weddings and art shows while peddling hammers — is closing, likely to make room for condos. Crest Hardware & Urban Garden Center will become Williamsburg’s latest victim of gentrification in August — 62 years after opening its doors … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden read carefully from teleprompters Tuesday in a speech kicking off NATO’s annual summit — before presenting the alliance’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his service. The 81-year-old president spoke with only a few minor verbal stumbles — at one point grasping for the … Read more
The City Council has ponied up $2 million for small mental-health “clubhouses” at risk of closing when their contracts expire Sept. 30, but the funds aren’t enough to keep all of them open indefinitely, advocates warn. During budget negotiations, Mayor Eric Adams’ office said it would only agree to give $30 million to the larger … Read more
Sen. Bob Menendez’s brazen plot to blame his wife for his sprawling bribery scheme is merely a “desperate” plea to dodge responsibility himself, federal prosecutors argued Tuesday. “There is no way that she could pull the wool over his eyes so that he didn’t know what she was doing,” prosecutor Paul Monteleoni told jurors Tuesday … Read more
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre affirmed that President Biden plans to serve out a full second term if he wins on Nov. 5 and shrugged off concerns about him handling a hypothetical nuclear attack on the country after 8 p.m. Last week during a private meeting with Democratic governors, Biden, 81, informed them that he’s … Read more
The heavily tattooed leader of a Long Island Bloods gang affiliate will spend the rest of his days in prison for a laundry list of racketeering-related crimes — including shootings, assaults and home invasions that were part of a “campaign of violence” directed at his rivals. Howard “Mousey” Davis, 36, of Bellport, New York, was … Read more
There’ll be no get out of jail free card for the city’s troubles with Rikers Island. Mayor Eric Adams tried to slam the door shut Tuesday on two prospects for the infamous lockup: its closure by 2027 and a takeover by the feds. Adams insisted he was “not concerned at all” ahead of a Manhattan … Read more
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos admitted Tuesday that he does not believe President Biden can serve out a second term — days after conducting a closely watched interview with the commander-in-chief following his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump last month. Stephanopoulos, 63, was recorded by TMZ answering a question from a passer-by in midtown Manhattan about Biden’s … Read more
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