Dear Moneyist, My sister gave up her apartment in New York City and moved back home in April, shortly after COVID-19 erupted there, and has now been living rent-free with my mother for the past seven months. My sister is 42 years old and holds a full-time job with a …
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks to the press on Capitol Hill on Oct. 9. AFP/Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparred with CNN host Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday evening, calling him a “Republican apologist” during a heated exchange over the holdup of coronavirus stimulus. Pelosi, D-Calif., slammed Blitzer …
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The percentage of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in New York City has surged above 3% for the first time since early June, driven by a cluster of cases in a handful of Brooklyn and Queens ZIP Codes, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday. “We’re dealing with specific …
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Will the city that never sleeps ever wake up? Not according to James Altucher, a best-selling author and former hedge-fund manager, who says that New York City is “dead forever” as its residents come to grips with the reality of the coronavirus pandemic and what it means for the fate …
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Protesters gathered at the home of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Saturday to demand his resignation — a significant escalation of public pressure amid a pitched battle over mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election. About 100 demonstrators gathered outside DeJoy’s home in the wealthy Washington D.C. enclave of Kalorama. …
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As one of the most notable cities in the world, the metropolitan area of New York City consists of an 18,804,000 population as of 2019. With this amount of people living within a 302.6 square mile radius, the number of carbon emissions from buildings, air pollutants from cars, and trash …
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a scathing critique of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, saying he has denied the reality of the situation from Day 1: “ ‘He said it doesn’t exist, it’s going to go away, by Easter we’ll be reopened, it’s going …
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The top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn is leaving his post for a job at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington. Richard Donoghue, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told his staff Thursday that he will become the top deputy to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen. …
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A Silicon Valley startup founder was caught on camera unleashing a racist tirade on an Asian-American family seated opposite him at a California restaurant, according to report. Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of San Francisco-based IT company Solid8, launched the unprovoked attack on other diners as they celebrated a birthday Saturday …
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