(Adds Trump launching a sneaker brand at Philadelphia event in paragraphs 11, 12)
Saturday, February 17, 2024
ONE OF THE MORE interesting aspects of Mayor Jay Ruais’s first ‘State of the City’ speech on Wednesday — other than the big reveal that he was once in a high school choir called the “Testostertones” — was his speaking openly about his own recovery from alcoholism, as he did many times while …
THE INK WAS barely dry on the latest proposal to legalize recreational use of marijuana when some insiders declared it dead on arrival in the state Senate.
One Senate leader exited the long negotiations on border and global security with a bitterly divided caucus, as some rank-and-file clamored for his resignation. The other Senate leader ended those talks with an almost perfectly unified caucus, believing he had scored both a policy and politi…
Donald Trump’s once-transactional relationship with the conservative legal establishment has splintered in recent years, and his frustration toward the court system has grown - potentially heralding more volatility in how he would navigate judicial issues in a second term.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has held his position for barely four months, not long by anyone’s standards, but long enough to ask this question: Does he have any major priority other than survival?
Measuring setback distances or sidewalk widths are some of the more tedious tasks city planning officials dread. They are also the tasks ripe for automation.
Friday, February 16, 2024
NEW YORK — Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled on Friday, handing the former president another legal setback in a civil case that imperils his real estate empire.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu’s plan to use state dollars to send a 15-member, New Hampshire National Guard unit to the Texas border won approval along partisan lines.
CAIRO — Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege on Friday in Israel’s war with Islamist group Hamas, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes struck Rafah, the last refuge for Palestinians in the enclave, officials said.
Alexei Navalny, the Russian lawyer and anti-corruption activist who became the most potent voice in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, a calling that landed him in a maximum-security prison camp, has died, according to the prison service. He was 47.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he does not expect the Republican-led chamber will consider President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars more aid for Ukraine before mid-March, after it debates broader spending bills.
Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat from West Virginia, announced on Friday that he will not run for president after months of flirting with a campaign that threatened to complicate the 2024 presidential race.
The acting deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol was suspended on misconduct allegations Thursday and departed U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in downtown Washington, three CBP officials said.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Senate rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have asked voters if they support abortion rights for a woman throughout pregnancy.
CONCORD — A $130 million-a-year package to increase state aid to public education won the bipartisan support of a key House committee Wednesday.
WASHINGTON -- The special counsel leading a criminal probe into Joe Biden's son said a former FBI informant was charged with lying about the president and Hunter Biden's involvement in business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
CONCORD — During a lengthy debate, the state Senate turned aside bills to close the state’s background check loophole, make it easier for a judge to confiscate the guns of someone considered to be dangerous and to create a waiting period to buy a firearm.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu devoted more of his final State of the State address Thursday to what he has done in the past seven years than what he intends to do in his last year in office.
LONDON - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that he preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump but was willing to work with any U.S. president.
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden wants an 18% cut in the number of F-35 jets the Pentagon buys next year after Congress' cap on the size of the upcoming defense budget compelled the administration to find savings, two sources familiar with the situation said.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Joe Manchin didn’t say he is running for president as a third-party candidate during an appearance in Cleveland on Thursday.
WASHINGTON — U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan plans to meet with a group of senior members of Congress after one top Republican warned publicly of an unspecified “serious national security threat.”
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Keeping politics personal is the focus of a free exhibit, "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Presidential Primaries -- 1920 to 2020,” which opens Friday, Feb. 16, at the Portsmouth Athenaeum.
CONCORD — A bill to permit up to 15 retail stores to sell recreational marijuana to adults in New Hampshire cleared a key House committee Wednesday.
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Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais zeroed in on homelessness in his first State of the City address Wednesday, laying out plans to address the burgeoning crisis.
CONCORD — State and local law enforcement officials backed legislation to provide a $100,000 death benefit to the family of Bradley Haas, the New Hampshire Hospital security officer shot to death by a former patient three months ago.
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MERRIMACK — Representatives of the state Department of Transportation and the firm with which the state is partnering for the upcoming F.E. Everett Turnpike widening project brought about 50 residents and town officials up to date on the plan this week.
Now that Democrat Tom Suozzi has officially been crowned the winner of this week’s closely watched Long Island congressional special election, analysts are sparring over what the results say about the political climate — and the race for control of Congress in the fall.
KARACHI - A senior Pakistani politician who won provincial elections in the commercial hub of Karachi last week has given up his seat saying the vote was rigged in his favor.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
CONCORD — Nonpartisan election advocates said allowing no-excuse absentee ballot voting would increase voter turnout and help citizens who fail to fit into the legal reasons one can vote this way under existing law.
Manchester school board members have voted to send a tax-cap compliant, $232 million Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal to the mayor and aldermen for consideration.
A key House panel endorsed separate proposals sought by both gun owner rights and gun control groups Monday.
CONCORD — Wendy Fisher of Nashua said she was shocked to learn that when her 10-year-old, emotionally troubled son tried to take his life in a seclusion room at Broad Street Elementary School in Nashua in March 2023, there was no audio or video footage of the incident.
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CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu wants to send a 15-member New Hampshire National Guard unit to support Texas’s efforts to shore up security at the southern border.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly voted to impeach Democratic President Joe Biden’s top border official, accusing him of lax policies that encouraged illegal immigration.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump endorsed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to help lead the Republican National Committee, a move that would tighten his hold on the party even as the 2024 nominating contest continues.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from a military hospital on Tuesday and will attend a Ukraine-related virtual meeting Wednesday, the Pentagon said, as the Pentagon chief struggles in the wake of prostate cancer surgery.
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Friday, February 16, 2024
NEW YORK — Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled on Friday, handing the former president another legal setback in a civil case that imperils his real estate empire.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu’s plan to use state dollars to send a 15-member, New Hampshire National Guard unit to the Texas border won approval along partisan lines.
CAIRO — Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege on Friday in Israel’s war with Islamist group Hamas, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes struck Rafah, the last refuge for Palestinians in the enclave, officials said.
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Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat from West Virginia, announced on Friday that he will not run for president after months of flirting with a campaign that threatened to complicate the 2024 presidential race.
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