NEW YORK — Veteran correspondent Christiane Amanpour became the first CNN journalist to publicly criticize her network for airing last week's town hall with former President Donald Trump. Amanpour's Comments to Journalism Graduates Amanpour told a group of graduating students at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism on Wednesday that she...
San Francisco Appoints ‘Drag Laureate’ in Push Back Against Attacks
Anti-trans legislation is roiling the nation. Bills prohibiting drag performances are cropping up in statehouses. Violence and vitriol are turning children’s drag story hour events into headline-news protests. San Francisco is fighting back Thursday by naming the nation’s first drag laureate, an ambassador-style position designed to represent the city’s famous LGBTQ+ community...
Doctor Purposely Drove Family off a California Cliff, Wife Tells Rescuers
The wife of a California radiologist accused of trying to kill his family when he drove his Tesla off a cliff along the Northern California coast told rescuers her husband was depressed and needed a psychological evaluation, according to a newly unsealed search warrant affidavit. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that Neha Patel...
California Congresswoman’s Husband Sentenced to Prison for Fraud
The estranged husband of a California congresswoman was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison for using public funds to pay for lavish trips to the Kentucky Derby and a luxury golf resort. James Sullivan, 56, a one-time Democratic congressional candidate in Connecticut, was convicted of helping plan trips in...
After Mass Pandemic Exodus, Big Cities are Growing Again, Data Shows
The flight from urban areas that took place during the first year of the pandemic either reversed or slowed in its second year, as last year metropolitan areas in Texas and Florida boomed and declines in New York and Los Angeles were halved, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau....
California Topless Dancers to Become Only Unionized Strippers in US
Dancers at a topless bar in California could soon become the only unionized group of strippers in the U.S. The Actors’ Equity Association labor union says owners of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have withdrawn their opposition and agreed to recognize the strippers' union. For 15...
US Patriots Help Ukraine Shoot Down Almost All Russian Missiles Fired at Kyiv
Russia fired 30 cruise missiles against different parts of Ukraine early Thursday in the latest nighttime test of Ukrainian air defenses, which shot down 29 of them, officials said. One person died and two were wounded by a Russian missile that got through and struck an industrial building in the...
Biden’s Reelection Campaign Sees ‘Viable Pathways’ to 2024 Election Win
President Joe Biden 's reelection campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020 but also compete in places it lost like North Carolina and increasingly Republican-dominated Florida, providing what it says are “a number of viable pathways to the 270 electoral votes” needed to clinch...
Trust in Supreme Court Fell to Lowest Point in 50 Years After Abortion Decision, Poll Shows
Confidence in the Supreme Court sank to its lowest point in at least 50 years in 2022 in the wake of the Dobbs decision that led to state bans and other restrictions on abortion, a major trends survey shows. The divide between Democrats and Republicans over support for abortion rights also was the largest ever in...
Twitter Purges Accounts of Users Who Have Died, Angering Those Still Grieving
Emily Reed lost her younger sister Jessica more than 10 years ago. For much of the last decade, she’s visited Jessica’s Twitter page to help “keep her memory alive.” Twitter became one of the places where Emily processed her grief and reconnected with a sister she describes as almost like...