Board Backs Rent Increases for a Million N.Y.C. Apartments
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Board Backs Rent Increases for a Million N.Y.C. Apartments

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The New York City panel that decides annually if and how much rents can go up for almost one million rent-stabilized apartments voted on Wednesday in favor of increases, after landlords said they needed more money to pay for rising expenses. The nine-member…

Ukraine and U.S. Sign Deal on Proceeds From Rare Earth Minerals
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Ukraine and U.S. Sign Deal on Proceeds From Rare Earth Minerals

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The United States and Ukraine announced on Wednesday the creation of a new reconstruction and investment fund, formalizing an economic agreement between the two countries that is intended to give the U.S. access to proceeds from Ukraine’s reserves of rare earth minerals. The…

Storm Leaves Thousands Without Power in Northeast, U.S. and Canada
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Storm Leaves Thousands Without Power in Northeast, U.S. and Canada

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At least four people were killed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and hundreds of thousands of customers were without power after severe weather that had torn across the High Plains and Upper Midwest earlier this week pushed into the Northeast and Canada. David Lepinsky,…

Wildfires in Israel Force Towns Near Jerusalem to Evacuate
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Wildfires in Israel Force Towns Near Jerusalem to Evacuate

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Raging wildfires forced the Israeli government to close major roads, evacuate several towns near Jerusalem and call for international assistance on Wednesday as firefighters battled some of the fiercest blazes the country has seen in years. The fires interrupted Israel’s annual memorial day…

Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
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Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Supreme Court appeared open on Wednesday to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school, which would teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine. Excluding the school from the state’s charter-school system would amount to “rank…

Elise Stefanik, Cabinet Hopes Dashed, Considers Her Next Move
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Elise Stefanik, Cabinet Hopes Dashed, Considers Her Next Move

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Styrofoam packing peanuts littered an empty office in the Rayburn House Office Building across from the Capitol on Monday morning as two moving men unpacked a plush couch, an upholstered armchair, lamps and a lucite side table. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York…

Vietnam Veterans Worry That a War’s Hard Lessons Are Being Forgotten
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Vietnam Veterans Worry That a War’s Hard Lessons Are Being Forgotten

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A scratchy prerecorded message crackled over American Armed Forces radio in Saigon 50 years ago, repeating that the temperature was “105 degrees and rising,” and then playing a 30-second excerpt from the song “White Christmas.” It was a secret signal to begin emergency…

Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen Facing Uncertainty With Tariffs
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Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen Facing Uncertainty With Tariffs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines European carmakers, including Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Volkswagen, said Wednesday that the chaos and upheaval caused by the tariffs introduced by President Trump had left them struggling to assess the impact and unable to plan for the future. After years of sluggish demand and…

On California’s State Bar Exam, More Questions Than Answers
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On California’s State Bar Exam, More Questions Than Answers

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Thousands of people took the new California bar exam in February, ready to the join the ranks of the state’s 195,000 lawyers. But a series of missteps by the institution responsible for licensing lawyers has thrown thousands of nascent legal careers into a…