New York – Mayor de Blasio and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Lorelei Salas today announced a lawsuit in the New York County Supreme Court against T-Mobile USA, Inc. (T-Mobile), the nation’s third largest wireless carrier, for violating the City’s Consumer Protection Law. The City alleges that T-Mobile has engaged in multiple […]

Grand Rapids, MI – A western Michigan woman who authored a book chronicling her efforts that helped save hundreds of Jews in the Netherlands during the Nazi Occupation of World War II has died. Diet (DEET) Eman died Tuesday in Grand Rapids at age 99, according to Seymour Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. A […]

Washington – The Education Department said Thursday it was fining Michigan State University a record $4.5 million for failing to respond appropriately to sexual assault complaints against Larry Nassar, a former sports doctor at the school who also worked at USA Gymnastics. “Too many people in power knew about the behaviors and the complaints and […]

Washington – The Trump administration official tasked with developing a plan to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians is preparing to leave the White House. An administration official says Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, will depart the administration in the coming weeks. “It has been the honor of a lifetime to […]

Abaco, Bahamas – When Hurricane Dorian hit Sylvia Cottis’ home at a beach club in the Bahamas, the fearsome Category 5 storm blew out the supposedly hurricane-proof windows, turning the glass into razor-sharp shrapnel that opened a wide gash on her knee. Then the 89-year-old woman and her caretaker settled in to wait for help, […]

The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who had challenged the watchlist with the help […]

Santa Barbara, CA – Only one person remained missing Wednesday after searchers recovered 33 bodies from the charred underwater wreckage of a dive boat that caught fire off the Southern California coast and sank on Labor Day. Among the victims were an engineer for Apple who went on the trip with his wife and daughter […]

Freeport, Bahamas – The ground crunched under Greg Alem’s feet on Wednesday as he walked over the ruins of his home, laid waste by Hurricane Dorian. He touched a splintered beam of wood and pointed to the fallen trees, overcome by memories. “We planted those trees ourselves. Everything has a memory, you know,” he said. […]

Washington – Climate change moved squarely to the center of the Democratic presidential race Wednesday in a marathon series of televised town halls that gave candidates a chance to carve out some distance from one another on an issue of heightened importance to their party’s liberal base. All 10 of the candidates participating in the […]

San Francisco – Eighty Jewish and pro-Israel groups signed a letter sent on Tuesday to the chancellor and general counsel of California State University that demands answers about a professor’s continued use of the school’s name to spread anti-Semitism and false propaganda against the State of Israel. The AMCHA-coordinated letter drew attention to a post […]