DOJ sues New York over Green Light law and immigration enforcement DOJ sues New York over Green Light law and immigration enforcement 02:47 U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday the U.S. Department of Justice is suing New York over immigration enforcement, specifically the state’s Green Light Law. The law allows undocumented immigrants to apply…
NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to two New York governors and her husband are facing additional charges in a case accusing her of acting as an agent of the Chinese government. Linda Sun and Chris Hu pleaded not guilty to the charges at a hearing Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court, according to prosecutors….
ELLENBURG CENTER, N.Y. (WCAX) – Cell phones at schools in New York could be a thing of the past as Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed a school cell phone ban to state lawmakers. Northern Adirondack Central School is no stranger to a cell phone ban. An eighth grade history teacher at the school, Craig Dumas…
New York City’s schools chancellor complained that $13.5 million earmarked in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal to help ban cellphones is “inadequate” — even though roughly half of Big Apple schools already have bans in place. Hochul’s proposal in her $252 billion spending plan leaves it up to individual school districts to come up with…
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed phone ban in New York schools would launch at the start of the next school year and require most devices be stored away until dismissal. Hochul began Wednesday unveiling specifics of the ban that was part of her massive $252 billion budget proposal, saying it would require all public and charter…
New York students may no longer have cell phones with them from “bell to bell” under Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed ban, but public schools will still need to find a way to get messages from parents to kids as the governor released more details about her plan Wednesday. Hochul has been advocating for some version…
A new advocacy group armed with a hefty funding pot has launched a push to ban smart-phone use in New York’s schools. The group — Phone Free New York — has already raised six figures for its campaign to persuade Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature to approve a law to bar mobile-phone usage during the school day,…
After weeks of fear and bewilderment about the drones buzzing over parts of New York and New Jersey, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to deploy better drone-tracking technology to identify and ultimately stop the airborne pests. The New York Democrat is calling on the Department of Homeland Security to immediately deploy…
“‘This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency. As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure. He…
Gov. Kathy Hochul doubled down on banning phones in classrooms Thursday — saying kids shouldn’t be distracted by screens during emergencies — after a lockdown at an Upper West Side school left parents railing against her proposal. “They need to be laser-focused on the adult in the front of the classroom to lead them to…