Amazon jilted New York City on Valentine's Day, scrapping plans to build a massive headquarters campus in Queens amid fierce opposition from politicians angry about nearly $3 billion in tax breaks and the company's anti-union stance.
The online retailer has faced opposition from some New York politicians, who were unhappy with the tax incentives Amazon was promised.
In our news wrap Monday, Democratic leaders criticized freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for a tweet accusing a powerful pro-Israel lobbying group of paying members of Congress to support Israel. Also, a Democratic delegate from Virginia backed down on his…
Historians say Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam wrongly used the term "indentured servants" when referring to the first Africans to arrive in what is now Virginia. Scholars say they were enslaved.
Calls were mounting for Virginia’s lieutenant governor to resign Saturday, at the tail end of an astonishing week that saw the state’s top three elected officials — all Democrats — embroiled in potentially career-ending scandals fraught with questions of race,…
Black voters who factored prominently in the 2017 election and helped Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam win are feeling betrayed over scandals that have engulfed the state this past week: a governor and attorney general who wore blackface and a lieutenant…
In our Friday news wrap, the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would have required abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, which abortion rights advocates say is an effort to shut down clinics. Meanwhile,…
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks analyze the week in politics, including chaos at the highest levels of Virginia government, the effectiveness of congressional investigations, the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling and the legacy of Rep.
The decision comes as another sexual assault accusation was leveled at Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who would succeed Northam if he stepped down.
He promised to start an honest conversation about race and how to heal the lingering wounds of Virginia's painful past. Then he disappeared.
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