In accordance with this vision, the Democratic Mayor announced its plan to have the city's largest buildings have their boilers, heaters, roofs, and windows upgraded such that their energy efficiencies will improve and hit the new fossil fuel caps by 2030. [Full Article...]
He says additional actions are possible. President Donald Trump arrived in Manhattan early Sunday evening ahead of a gathering of worldwide diplomats after spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf club. But the new course the president has charted for America has unnerved numerous roughly 120 world leaders who will gather in NY, many of whom were far more comfortable with President Obama. [Full Article...]
Or were you misquoted? After smiling and occasionally trying to speak through much of the protest, an aggravated Pelosi told the protesters to "just stop it, now". Pelosi then tried to bring the press conference back to regular order, telling the protesters that it is "beautiful to our ears" to hear their opinion. [Full Article...]
Two Deputy Chief Ministers KP Maurya and Dinesh Sharma along with ministerial colleagues Swatantra Dev Singh and Mohsin Raza also took oath besides Adityanath. "We will release report card of our six months rule in a day or two before the people to judge between our good governance and bad governance of the previous regimes", he said. [Full Article...]
More importantly, the two-time world champion dropped a hint that he would stay with McLaren next year. The race under the floodlights of the Marina Bay circuit had been billed as a must-win for Vettel given that the twisty, slow-speed track suited his Ferrari auto. [Full Article...]
A male torso believed to be Coleman's was discovered August 22 at a Baytown landfill, the station reports. The torso hasn't yet been positively identified as Coleman's, but authorities noted that it matched his description. Coleman's vehicle was still parked at the complex, and family and friends told police they hadn't heard from him. They also say she told others that she dismembered him becau... [Full Article...]
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have had hurricane watches issued. Before Jose impacts Long Island's weather, patchy drizzle should give way to partly cloudy skies on Monday with isolated showers, forecasters said . ET. Maria is located about 85 miles east of Martinique and about 120 miles east-southeast of Dominica . The threat of wind , rain and deadly rip currents prompted th... [Full Article...]
The charging documents don't say how the infant was killed. He was charged earlier in the day with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 11-year-old Kelvin Hodges, 9-year-old Julie Hodges and Lucas Hodges, almost eight months. [Full Article...]
The air defense base, which has been planned for the past two years, will be located in the heart of the Negev, within the Israel Air Force Mashabim Air Base, located west of Dimona and Yerucham. Several dozen U.S. service-members will be stationed at Bislach, Haimovich said, adding that the process of setting up the American station went smoothly thanks to the close, cordial relations between the... [Full Article...]
Verstappen said Vettel's move to cut him off at the start was an unnecessary risk by the German, who held a 20-point lead in July but may now have seen his season go up in smoke. What if Alonso was a second early or late while angling into Turn 1? He published a screengrab of the incident, accompanied with an arrow indicating that Vettel had deliberately veered into the path of Raikkonen and Verst... [Full Article...]
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was secretly wiretapped by the Federal Bureau of Investigation before and after the presidential election, CNN reported late Monday. A spokesperson for Manafort didn't comment for this story. The July raid at Manafort's home involved FBI agents using lock-picking tools to open his door instead of knocking - which means, as the Times reported, ... [Full Article...]
Al-Manar TV, the media arm of Lebanon's Hezbollah, quoted an unnamed general who said the airport is "90 percent secured". Syrian rebel groups which have fought against Assad since 2011 hold pockets of territory in western Syria. It is not yet known if Russian Federation used the deconfliction line to warn about the incoming airstrike this morning, but Secretary of Defense James Mattis said la... [Full Article...]
On September 18, only four students from Pradyuman's class showed up and two of them had come with their parents to quit the school, a report claimed. This means that the school which was reopened after 10 days of the incident on Monday will remain closed for another week. "From now we'll have fear in our minds till our kids would reach home". [Full Article...]
Current tensions with North Korea are expected to be a huge point of discussion during Trump's United Nations visit as the administration is increasingly showing signs that it wants to take military action against the Hermit Kingdom. Not far behind will be the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, victims of what Guterres calls a campaign of ethnic cleansing that has driven almost 4,00,000 to fl... [Full Article...]
Trump said he has discussed the parade idea with his chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired Marine general. Macron chuckled as Trump recalled the "beautiful thing" he witnessed in Paris, saying one of his "early calls" when he returned to the White House was for creating a US-version. [Full Article...]
Kurdish Regional Government ( KRG ) President Masoud Barzani earlier said a Yes vote would not mean a declaration of independence but would lead to negotiations with Baghdad . The volumes that Rosneft wants to help Kurdistan supply to export markets represent 6 percent of total European gas demand and one-sixth of current gas export volumes by Russian Federation, by far the largest supplier of ga... [Full Article...]
The two-time losing presidential candidate spoke with NPR's Terry Gross on the network's misnomered flagship program Fresh Air earlier today. He said he's paid close attention to Clinton since November, "and I have never heard her broach the possibility of a formal challenge of the results". [Full Article...]
But he also complimented steps the United Nations had taken in the early stages of reform efforts and made no threats to withdraw USA support. On Sunday night, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. [Full Article...]
With Europeans not on the same page as the Trump administration, Iranian officials say they have an opportunity to divide the P5+1 grouping that negotiated the deal with Iran. The US, the UK, Israel and Saudi Arabia are opposed to the JCPOA, because "they can not capture Syria or Lebanon without Iran being out of the way and can not block further Euro-Asian integration with China; Russia and the... [Full Article...]
What's more, the majority of those refugees are children , many traveling alone. While the extent of damage could not be verified, due to access restrictions by the government, "they are likely to have burned down whole villages". Below, see the Rohingya's harrowing plight and desperate search for a safe refuge. Wild elephants trampled two elderly Rohingya refugees to death Monday as they slept... [Full Article...]