By CORA LEWIS NEW YORK (AP) — Online betting is more accessible than ever, with 14% of U.S. adults saying they bet on professional or college sports online either frequently or occasionally, according to a February poll by The Associated … Continued
Lawmakers approved a plan Wednesday to rezone a 54-block swath of the Queens waterfront neighborhood, including industrial lots where new housing was previously restricted. Anable Basin in Long Island City—once eyed by retail giant Amazon for its Queens headquarters before … Continued
By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — After years of living on the street and crashing on friends’ couches, Quantavia Smith was given the keys to a studio apartment in Los Angeles that came with an important perk — … Continued
By AREF TUFAHA and JULIA FRANKEL, Associated Press DEIR ISTIYA, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight, scribbling hateful messages in a show of defiance a … Continued
By JESSE BEDAYN and SAFIYAH RIDDLE, Associated Press A House committee released 23,000 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, many of them emails the convicted sex offender sent to his rich or influential friends, or to reporters, over many … Continued