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The United Automobile Workers union reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Jeep and Ram, on Saturday, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday.The agreement comes three days after the union and Ford Motor announced a tentative agreement on a new contract. The two deals…

RWE and National Grid Ventures' joint venture in the New York Bight, Community Offshore Wind, successful in NYSERDA's third offshore wind solicitation with a provisional offtake award of 1.3 GW for new offshore wind capacity to power at least 500,000 U.S. households. The first phase of Community Offshore Wind will generate $3.3 billion USD in…

STAN CHOE, Associated Press 12 mins ago FILE - Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Friday, July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is climbing in a whipsaw Friday after looking deeper into the nuances of a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. job…

Ticket machines advertise the “Barbie” movie in Moscow last month.Credit...Maxim Shipenkov/EPA, via ShutterstockAs people in much of the world flocked to see Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film “Barbie” this summer, viewers in Russia were left out. At least officially.Along with other studios, Warner Bros., the producer of “Barbie,” stopped…

October 3, 2023 Agencies Working to Complete Training of 6,500 Local Social Services Employees by End of November The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance and Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence today announced that hundreds of workers at local social services departments…

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to New York's 2020 election reform laws that raised the threshold for third political parties to appear on the ballot. In the past, to achieve statewide ballot status, minor political parties needed to earn 50,000 votes for their candidates in the previous election. In other words, they needed…

Representative Matt Gaetz, the far-right Republican from Florida, said on Sunday that he would move this week to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his leadership post, promising to follow through on weeks of threats to oust him for working with Democrats to keep the government funded.Mr. Gaetz’s announcement came the day after Mr. McCarthy, in…

Washington braced for a government shutdown over the weekend as Congress remained mired in dysfunction on Friday. Federal agencies planned to send home hundreds of thousands of workers, who would not be paid until the shutdown ended. Hundreds of thousands of others deemed essential, like air traffic controllers, would be ordered to work. They,…

NEW YORK — (AP) — A potent rush-hour rainstorm swamped the New York metropolitan area on Friday, shutting down parts of the city's subway system, flooding streets and highways, and delaying flights into LaGuardia Airport.Up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain fell in some areas overnight, and as much as 7 inches (18 centimeters) more was…

State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos is confident Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature will prioritize funding for the environment and fighting invasive species across New York amid an upcoming bleak fiscal picture, he said Monday. The state departments of Environmental Conservation and Agriculture and…