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Thursday, May 7, 2026 · 71 stories
Rather than making city buses free for all riders, elected officials and transit advocates are pushing to expand a transit program for low-income New Yorkers.
The spending plan, which comes more than five weeks after the April 1 deadline, will also include a raft of measures intended to push back against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown , including banning Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks. New York State leaders have reached a handshake agreement on a $268 billion budget that will include funding to expand child care and a new tax on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City, Gov. Hochul still has not released details of how many second homes will be subject to the new tax, or what the new rates.
The panel that regulates rents for nearly one million apartments cast its first vote since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office, approving ranges that included no increases.
This budget already includes $28 billion in total aid for the city, a $9 billion increase since I came into office." Hochul also announced major investments such as a universal path to child care. The state will increase funding by $1.7 billion bringing the total FY27 investment to $4.5 billion for child care and pre-kindergarten services statewide. For New York City, we are finalizing the details of the pied-a-terre tax to help close the city's budget gap without eroding its tax base or burdening hard working New Yorkers," Hochul said.
The Court of International Trade has struck down a second round of global tariffs ordered by President Trump, after his earlier import taxes were outlawed by the U.S.
Meanwhile, an investigation launched into Wei in 2023 is reported to have similarly found that he had accepted "a large amount of money and valuables" in bribes and "helped others gain improper benefits in personnel arrangements". Reuters news agency quoted past reports in Xinhua which said that Li had been suspected of receiving "large sums of money" in bribes as well as bribing others, adding that an investigation found he "did not fulfil political responsibilities" and "sought personal benefits for himself and others". In February, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a rare public reference to.
Ther World Health Organization says it is not in the same situation as with Covid-19 because hantavirus spreads differently.
Man, 69, is in intensive care in Johannesburg, while expedition guide Martin Anstee, 56, receiving care in Netherlands Two Britons who were medically evacuated from the hantavirus -hit cruise ship are improving, global health officials have said. He said: “While this is a serious incident, WHO assesses the public health risk as low.” He thanked the ship’s operator for its cooperation, and the passengers and crew, “who are going through a very difficult and frightening situation”. Prof Robin May, the chief scientific officer at the UKHSA, said: “For the broader public, not directly involved in.
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi has said he may consider seeking a third term in office when his mandate expires in 2028. If we cannot end this war, unfortunately, we will not be able to hold the elections in 2028," Tshisekedi said at a press conference, just his second in the capital, Kinshasa, since being re-elected to office in 2023. I have not asked for a third term, but I'm telling you - if the people want me to have a third term, I will accept," he said on Wednesday.
But as this case progresses on, they see how Ohio State's treating athletes from the university and I think they want people to know it's OK, even if it is male to male (sexual abuse), to come forward." Ohio State has fought lawsuits in federal court since 2018 brought by former student athletes against the university over its failure to stop abuse. Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some former NFL players, have agreed to join a federal lawsuit against the university over the sexual abuse of student athletes decades ago by a team doctor, a lawyer in the case said Thursday.
Fans took to the streets to celebrate the Paris team's qualification for the final, but celebrations were marred by disturbances.