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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks at a news conference with other U.S. State Attorney's General to announce a state-based effort to combat climate change in the Manhattan borough of New York City, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who positioned himself as a combatant of sexual harassment and abuse in the #MeToo era and a major opponent of President Donald Trump, abruptly announced his resignation Monday after four women accused him of physical violence and illicit drug and alcohol use. Schneiderman, a Democrat, stepped down hours after a New Yorker article was published Monday evening detailing allegations that he repeatedly slapped, choked and degraded women with whom he had been romantic.
Met Gala co-host Amal Clooney wears the trousers as she and George lead a star-studded red carpet at the Catholic-themed event in New York - rumored to be the last for Vogue chief Anna Wintour Is Hillary Clinton wearing a back brace? Eagle-eyed Twitter users spot 'weird protrusion' coming from her back after she stepped out in New York's warm weather bundled up in a coat and long scarf 'Lines got blurred': Jeffrey Tambor strongly DENIES sexual harassment claims in first interview since the scandal broke, but admits he was difficult on set and members of the cast and crew were scared of him Retired US Marine Colonel Oliver North who was a central figure in Iran-Contra deal in 1980s is the NRA's new president Killer boyfriend who stabbed Morgan Freeman's granddaughter to death is found NOT GUILTY of murder but convicted of manslaughter JetBlue flight from Puerto Rico to Tampa is forced to ... (more)
Black Cube, which dug up dirt on accusers of alleged sex abuser, also worked to discredit Iran nuclear deal, The New Yorker reports; intelligence agency denies any ties to Trump The Israeli private intelligence agency allegedly hired to dig up dirt on Obama officials in order to discredit the Iran nuclear deal negotiated during his tenure is the same firm hired by disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine.
The following is the fourth item from my "Albany Insider" column that was cut for space from Monday's print editions: With Democrats performing well in special elections last week and predicting an anti-Trump blue wave in New York in November, Republicans are seeing a silver lining from a state Assembly special election in Buffalo last Tuesday. Erik Bohen, a Democrat who ran on the Republican line, won in an area where the governor has spent much time in recent years with a decidedly anti-Cuomo message.
'She burns facts and uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye': Sarah Huckabee Sanders is left on the verge of tears after Michelle Wolf attacks press secretary during vicious Correspondents' Dinner speech that Trump skipped He's behind you! Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti can't hide his delight as he photobombs Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway on Correspondents' Dinner red carpet 'It turns out that the president is the one p***y you're not allowed to grab': Michelle Wolf's funniest jokes and most biting barbs on President Trump, Congress and the media at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Kim Jong-un says North Korea will shut down its nuclear test site NEXT MONTH and insists he will not fire missiles at the US in huge victory for Trump and the peace talks Crowd chants 'Nobel, Nobel' during Michigan rally as Trump boasts he had 'everything' to do with the North ... (more)
In 1789, there was a mutiny on the HMS Bounty as rebelling crew members of the British ship, led by Fletcher Christian, set the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. In 1918, Gavrilo Princip, 23, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke's wife, Sophie, died in prison of tuberculosis.
In 1789, there was a mutiny on the HMS Bounty as rebelling crew members of the British ship, led by Fletcher Christian, set the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.
Democrats vying to reclaim a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years are targeting districts around the country where well-educated voters hold disproportionate sway, right as those voters are expressing profound displeasure with Donald John Trump Republicans hold on to Arizona House seat Dems win majority in New York Senate, but won't control it Mulvaney to bankers: Campaign donations will help limit consumer bureau's power MORE An analysis of the seats both Democrats and Republicans see as key battlegrounds this year shows the path to a Democratic majority runs through two types of districts: Suburban areas near large metropolitan centers where voters are more likely to have attained college degrees, and more rural areas where the share of nonwhite voters is higher than average.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that victims of overseas atrocities can't use a centuries-old law to sue foreign corporations for complicity, blunting what once was a favorite legal tool for human-rights advocates. ruling on Tuesday, which divided the court along ideological lines, marks the second time in five years the high court has cut the reach of the 1789 Alien Tort Statute.
Florida judge, 59, resigns after she was recorded furiously berating asthmatic, wheelchair-bound defendant in court who DIED three days later after struggling to get her medication while in custody 'You are delicious': The Sixth Sense actress reveals how Smallville star Allison Mack 'tried to recruit her into cult which forced women to have sex with its leader and branded them with his initials' 'I'm worried the baby's not mine': Men whose pregnant wives have cheated reveal their heartbreak in VERY candid confessions Salute to hatred: Black-clad neo-Nazis hold a shocking swastika burning ritual in Georgia after earlier clashing with antifa protesters 40 miles away during rally celebrating Hitler's birthday World's oldest person dies in Japan at age of 117 years, 260 days, making her the third-oldest person ever to have lived Flying solo! Melania poses with Texas law enforcement and ... (more)
President Donald Trump on Sunday got key support for his punitive trade tactics with China from fellow New Yorker and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. In an interview with radio host and businessman John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y., the New York Democrat said "I'm closer to his view of trade."
COMEY: I can't answer that. That's something- that hypothetical is too hard for me to go back in time to try and answer- TAPPER: You paint a pretty dire picture of President Trump.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo sued for not declaring special election to replace Louise Slaughter Voters in the district represented by the late Louise Slaughter filed suit in federal court this week. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: https://on.rocne.ws/2vqwgFz New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his state of the state address at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. Seven voters in Monroe County filed Tuesday in federal court saying they are being denied their rights to vote for a representative because Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not declare a special election in the 25th Congressional District to replace the late U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter.
He's denouncing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a hoax, saying Democrats are unhappy after blowing a win in an Electoral College system in which they have a "tremendous advantage." It's not true as to the Electoral College - some Democrats in fact would prefer to get rid of it.
In this Tuesday, April 17, 2018 photo, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator examines damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of "metal fatigue," according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Philadelphia: An engine on a Southwest Airlines flight with 149 people aboard exploded and broke apart in mid-air on Tuesday, killing one passenger and nearly sucking another out of a shattered window, according to airline and federal authorities and witness and media accounts. The plane, a Boeing 737-700 which was bound to Dallas from New York, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
Born in 1819 in Manhattan, Herman Melvill was born into the middle class, as his father was a merchant specializing in goods from France. But when his father died in 1832, the family plunged into near-poverty, which had actually already started because of his father's massive debts.
The New York Working Families Party, an influential coalition of labor unions and progressive activist groups, voted on Saturday to endorse actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon in her primary challenge to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. After hours of discussion, and in defiance of pleas from state committee members pushing to delay the decision, the party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two-term governor leading Nixon in one early poll by a 3-to-1 margin.
Ex-doorman Dino Sajudin sold rights to a salacious tale about President Trump to the parent company of National Enquirer, which did not publish it. Tabloid paid Trump doorman Dino Sajudin $30K for salacious story it never wrote Ex-doorman Dino Sajudin sold rights to a salacious tale about President Trump to the parent company of National Enquirer, which did not publish it.