By MAYSOON KHAN – Associated Press / Reportage for America ALBANY, NY (AP) — Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo improperly used state resources for a book he was given $5.1 million to write, according to a report by a law firm. New York’s soon-to-be-disbanded ethics commission, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, voted on … Read more
By MAYSOON KHAN – Associated Press / Report for America ALBANY, NY (AP) — Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo improperly used state resources for a book he was given $5.1 million to write, according to a report by a law firm. New York’s soon-to-be-disbanded ethics commission, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, voted on … Read more
CNN — Chief Justice John Roberts has been laying the groundwork for years for Tuesday’s sweeping ruling requiring states to fund religious education. But he always tried to signal some caution. Five years ago, in a financial dispute involving a faith-based school in Missouri, he even added a footnote saying the Supreme Court ruling only … Read more
By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ADELLE BANKS of Religion News Service – Associated Press About two years ago, when coronavirus cases began to peak in her impoverished neighborhood of San Antonio, Reverend Norma Fuentes-Quintero found herself taking on an additional task: helping worshipers cope with anxiety. . The pastor, who leads the … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus” has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The work is a comically rigorous campus novel based on the true story of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s father looking for a job in academia. The late artist Winfred Rembert won in biography for “Chasing Me to My … Read more