Advocates cautiously optimistic over report of Juul ban
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Read MoreNYC panel approves 5 percent rent hike for stabilized apartments
Story at a glance New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board voted to increase rents by 3.25 percent for one-year leases and 5 percent for two-year leases during a rowdy meeting earlier this week. The rent hike will impact millions of New Yorkers still reeling from the financial costs of the pandemic and squeezed by 40-year-high inflation.
Read MoreHaaland lays out next steps on Native American boarding schools investigation, legislation
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Wednesday outlined the next steps her department has planned to address the legacy of abuses at government-run schools for indigenous children and legislation to examine the matter. Haaland, the first indigenous Cabinet secretary in U.S. history, testified Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs about the first volume of Interior's investigative report into the schools. At these institutions, indigenous children had their hair cut and were forbidden from speaking their native languages, among other efforts to extinguish
Read MoreCensus: 1 in 5 people who had COVID-19 report having long COVID
New data collected by the U.S. government found that nearly one out of five adults who previously had COVID-19 now report having symptoms of long COVID. The information was sourced through the "Household Pulse Survey" conducted by the Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The NCHS began asking about the presence of long COVID at the start of June. Out of the more than 62,000 adults surveyed, 40 percent said they had had a previous COVID-19 infection. From thi
Read MoreUN ambassador tests positive for COVID-19
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms. U.S. mission to the U.N. acting spokesperson Melissa Quartell said in a release that Thomas-Greenfield tested positive Wednesday after taking a PCR test and tested negative as recently as Tuesday. Quartell said Thomas-Greenfield has not recently seen President Biden, who is not considered a close contact, and she is isolating in her home in accordance with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Quartell said Thomas-Gre
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