NEW YORK – New York state Governor Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday she had accepted Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin’s resignation, hours after Benjamin was arrested on federal bribery charges. (Reporting…
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation…
NEW YORK – New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin pleaded not guilty to bribery and related criminal charges on Tuesday, after prosecutors said he directed state funds to a group…
TRENTON, NJ – After Governor Phil Murphy’s Department of Education were caught with their hands in the progressive cookie jar of gender education and indoctrination in the public school system,…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU -Nepal is tightening imports of cars, gold and cosmetics as its foreign exchange reserves have fallen, a central bank official said on Monday, after the government…
(Reuters) – Alabama’s Republican governor on Friday signed into law a bill passed by the legislature just a day earlier that would criminalize gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth. The measure…
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey State Senator Joe Pennacchio this week criticized the administration of Governor Phil Murphy’s transgender studies in the public education curriculum for children as young as…
Democratic Kentucky Governor Refuses To Ban Males From Women’s Sports Laurel Duggan on April 7, 2022 Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have barred males from…
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday asked the state’s top court to recognize the right to abortion under the state constitution ahead of a U.S.…
(Reuters) – Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Wednesday vetoed a bill passed by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature that would have banned transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports from sixth…
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – Former Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) official P. Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Monday he had accepted an offer from the country’s president to become…
(Reuters) – A jury will begin deliberations on Monday in the trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, in a case that pits domestic…
TRENTON, NJ – From deep within his COVID-19 quarantine, Governor Phil Murphy made an April Fool’s Day appearance to announce an executive order to change the state bird. Let us…
TRENTON, NJ – After spending Thursday morning at a public event in Holmdel in support of humanitarian aid for Ukraine, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy tested positive later in the…
SYDNEY -The Australian government on Friday appointed a woman as second in command at the country’s central bank, the first female to hold the position in the bank’s 62-year history…
TRENTON, NJ – With a federal investigation underway into the deaths of seniors at state-run nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic under the leadership of Governor Phil Murphy, Republicans in…
By Anthony Esposito ACAPULCO, Mexico – The Bank of Mexico does not need to strictly track the U.S. Federal Reserve’s expected interest rates hike path and can tighten monetary policy…
SEOUL – South Korea’s nominee for its new central bank chief said on Thursday worries about inflationary and economic risks are mounting and that he would thoroughly review how to…
– Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a proclamation on Tuesday acknowledging Emma Weyant as the winner of a women’s college swimming event after her recent loss to a transgender athlete…
TRENTON, NJ – As COVID-19 cases statewide drop to lows not seen since last spring, Governor Phil Murphy this week warned of a new strain of omicron that appears to…
TRENTON, NJ – Things aren’t adding up for Governor Phil Murphy as he continues pushing New Jersey in a direction the majority of residents don’t want it to go. Although…
ANNAPOLIS, MD— The state of Maryland has become the first state in America to temporarily suspend its state gasoline tax in order to provide residents with relief at the pump.…
TRENTON, NJ – As a new omicron variant spreads throughout the world and is now being seen in the New York and New Jersey Tri-State area, many in New Jersey…
LVIV, Ukraine – Some residents of Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol have resorted to escaping the blockade on foot as official evacuation efforts have mostly failed due to ongoing shelling…
By Kentaro Sugiyama and Daniel Leussink TOKYO – The Bank of Japan’s next governor must be someone who can steer the central bank toward an exit from ultra-easy monetary policy,…