City & Region

‘Clusters’ drive a widespread surge in New York’s COVID infection rates

BY BILL HAMMOND New York’s coronavirus infection rates have surged to their highest levels since May, pushing 10 counties – including Brooklyn, Rockland and Orange – above a threshold that the Cuomo administration uses to justify travel restrictions on other

Commerce

After Chinese steal billions in research, we finally ban them

BY TOM FITTON China has for years sought to steal U.S. research, and the cost has been staggering. The Trump Administration has now taken action against this wholesale espionage, as our Corruption Chronicles blog reports. The U.S. government has finally issued an official

Department of Justice

New findings about the Clinton-funded dossier

BY TOM FITTON We have now received 48 pages of emails among top Obama State Department officials and a U.S. Ambassador expressing skepticism about Christopher Steele‘s reports by Steele’s London-based private intelligence firm Orbis Business Intelligence. Steele was the author of the

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Trump plans to expand the NFL by eight teams

Sources close to President Donald J. Trump tell The Chronicle that he has been preparing a sweeping plan to expand the National Football League by eight teams, and has been doing so from the presidential suite of offices at the

Commerce

September unemployment rate falls to half of recent projections

BY MATT WEIDINGER According to today’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor, the US unemployment rate in September was 7.9 percent, down from 8.4 percent in August. As the following chart shows, that’s significantly better than the projections issued by the Congressional

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Pagels narrowly wins caucus nomination for Seneca presidency

Seneca Nation Treasurer Matthew Pagels narrowly won the Seneca Party caucus nomination for President. Pagels was nearly defeated by John “Joonie” Williams, in a vote of 733 to 700. The offices of President and Treasurer rotate between the Nation’s Cattaraugus

Department of Justice

Mueller team repeatedly wiped phones

WASHINGTON, DC — Judicial Watch announced today it received 87 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that show senior members of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (SCO) repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them.   The records were produced in