‘Shareholder activist’ investor gets seat on public utility board despite reservations about mixing profit and public services. Federal regulators have approved activist investor Carl Icahn’s bid to seat a corporate officer on one of the nation’s biggest public utility boards despite concerns about balancing profit motives with public interest. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),
Criminal justice reformers and administration officials are sharply at odds over the sequestration of inmates on Rikers Island and at other city jails. New York’s City Council is girding for a legal showdown against Mayor Eric Adams if a ban on solitary confinement that the council pushed through over the mayor’s veto fails to go
Criminal justice reformers and administration officials are sharply at odds over the sequestration of inmates on Rikers Island and at other city jails. New York’s City Council is girding for a legal showdown against Mayor Eric Adams if a ban on solitary confinement that the council voted to override a mayoral veto fails to take
Republican and Democrat House candidates in key New York districts received millions in donations between April and the end of June. As the balance of congressional power sits at a near-even split, House candidates campaigning in key New York districts received millions in donations between April and the end of June. The GOP’s slim majority
If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, former President Donald Trump said he will debate her. Former President Donald Trump says he is willing to debate Vice President Kamala Harris more than once. On July 23, the former president told reporters on a press call he would “absolutely” agree to
The coalition argues that producers must choose between attempting to survive under a harsh new regulatory regime or exiting the industry altogether. A 25-state coalition led by West Virginia has filed an emergency petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that allowed a federal regulation on carbon emissions from coal-fired
WASHINGTON—Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has announced that he will resign from the Senate on Aug. 20 after he was recently convicted on all counts in a corruption trial. Mr. Menendez, a former chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was on July 16 found guilty on 16 charges, including bribery and acting as a