Hurricane Maria a reminder of ‘second-class’ status for some

Xavier Totti moved to the mainland United States from his native Puerto Rico 43 years ago. He is still asked routinely if he is "legal," and when he mails packages to relatives back home, he has to fill out an international form.

Giving the gift of green in the ‘District of Cannabis’

11, 2017, photo, jars of marijuana buds are displayed in Washington at a closed Ethiopian restaurant at a "gifted" marijuana event. In the so-called "District of Cannabis" it's legal to grow and consume mariju... .

Bookstore News: September 22, 2017

New bookstores planned for Ohio and New York; a California couple launch a mobile bookstore; visiting three of Washington state's indies; a bookstore's Hillary Clinton video goes viral; and more. New York Bookstore Approved for Historic Building: Rough Draft Bar & Books has been approved to open in a historic building in the town of Kingston.

Clinton book has sold more than 300,000 copies new

Clinton's book about her stunning loss in 2016 to Donald Trump sold more than 300,000 copies in the combined formats of hardcover, e-book and audio, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The book's hardcover sales of 168,000 was the highest opening for any nonfiction release in five years, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks around 85 percent of retail print sales.

Bus driver in deadly New York crash was fired by MTA after DUI was discovered

NU went 7-3 in non conference play but were upset by Northern Iowa on Saturday afternoon. Head coac... -- The Washington Redskins have placed safety Su'a Cravens on the reserve/left squad list, meaning he will not return to the team this season.

NYT Furious GOP Doing Exactly What NYT Wanted Dems To Do In 2013

The New York Times editorial board ripped into the GOP Friday for trying to prevent Democrats from obstructing the appointments of federal judges after supporting Democrats' efforts to do the same in the past. "Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, are itching to eliminate the last remaining tool the minority party has to influence a president's picks for the federal courts - the so-called blue slip."

The Latest: Weiner seeks leniency at his sexting sentencing

Former congressman Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, have appeared before a New York City judge to ask for privacy in their divorce case. Lawyers for disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner say a 15-year-old North Carolina girl he sexted had hoped to influence the presidential election.

COMMENTARY The Democrats are responsible for Trump and economic crisis

Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, published a series of op-eds in Salon and Newsweek recently condemning President Trump, arguing that Trump should be impeached, perhaps not least of all for suspected collusion with Russia to influence our presidential election.

Blue-red political divide influencing Trump’s bottom line

Club members and guests lunch in a lounge at Trump National Golf Club last month in Mooresville, N.C. The red-blue political divide is not only informing the president's policies, it is influencing the bottom line of the family-run Trump Organization. Jacob Biba/The New York Times Club members and guests lunch in a lounge at Trump National Golf Club last month in Mooresville, N.C. The red-blue political divide is not only informing the president's policies, it is influencing the bottom line of the family-run Trump Organization.

Catholic bishops strike back at Bannon

There's a common saying in Catholic charity circles: We don't help people because they're Catholic, we help them because we are. To understand that sentiment is to understand why so many Catholics were incensed by accusations from a former Trump administration official on Thursday that the church has an ulterior motive in advocating on behalf of undocumented immigrants to the United States.

This Sinclair-Tribune merger is a rotten deal for America

Approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 1949, this rule insisted that because the airwaves belong to all of us, every TV and radio broadcast licensee must "devote a reasonable portion of broadcast time to the discussion and consideration of controversial issues of public importance," and allow "the expression of contrasting viewpoints." Translation: When you present points of view from the right on your station, it behooves you to also present views from the left - and others - so that everyone's opinion gets a fair shake.

Trump’s son says met with Russian lawyer for damaging information on Clinton: NYT

U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son told Senate investigators on Thursday that he had set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because she might have had damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported. Donald Trump Jr., in a prepared statement to Senate Judiciary Committee investigators in a meeting behind closed doors, said it was important to learn about Clinton's "fitness" to be president, the paper said.

Obama, Trump elections provide backdrop for Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Golden House’

Salman Rushdie says the idea of setting his latest novel between two historic U.S. elections came to him late, but the contrast between Barack Obama and Donald Trump's presidencies provided the perfect backdrop for his modern American fable. "I knew I was going to try to write a fairly contemporary social novel about this particular moment; but to actually have that structure going across those eight years was not there at the beginning," the celebrated author said in a phone interview from New York.

Obama, Trump elections provide backdrop for Salman Rushdiea s a The Golden Housea

Author Salman Rushdie is seen in this undated handout photo. Salman Rushdie says the idea of setting his latest novel between two historic U.S. elections came to him late, but the contrast between Barack Obama and Donald Trump's presidencies provided the perfect backdrop for his modern American fable.