11+ mon, 3+ week ago (281+ words) Drivers are now being charged tolls for entering Manhattan below 60th Street. Spend less and visit these Manhattan rooftop bars after New Year's Eve offering stunning views of the city." When is my retirement age for full benefits?"Can I receive them earlier? Test your knowledge with Stan Newman's crossword. Play Mahjongg, everyone's favorite classic tile-matching game. Match tiles, clear the board and exercise your mind with Newsday. Cartoons by Matt Davies Large-scale energy systems are safer than e-bike lithium-ion batteries. Santos' lawyers requested the delay on the grounds that Santos needs more time to "generate sufficient funds" in order to pay the judgment and cited a delay in the launch of his podcast." Jimmy Carter's long public goodbye began in Georgia, where the 39th U.S. president's life started more than 100 years ago. Enter Newsday contests and sweepstakes to win cash prizes, VIP…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (46+ words) Council member, Town of East Hampton The Newsday app makes it easier to access content without having to log in. Unlimited Digital AccessOnly 25for 6 months The Newsday app makes it easier to access content without having to log in. Unlimited Digital AccessOnly 25for 6 months...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (166+ words) Nassau County Legislator, 9th District - Strauss, 62 of Mineola, a registered Republican, is a retired NYPD detective from the Emergency Service Unit. He is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines. - He was awarded the NYPD's Medal of Honor for his heroism at Ground Zero as a 9/11 first responder. He is a member of the Mineola Volunteer Fire Department since 1981 and has served as chief. He is a life member of Mineola's Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and is active in multiple professional and community organizations. - Strauss said his plans for protecting public safety include hiring more police officers, increasing police presence in the community, supporting first responders, and ensuring law enforcement has the resources to fight crime. - He said he supports tax-freeze budgets and would work to ensure fiscal responsibility so Nassau residents can keep more of their hard-earned money. - Protecting the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (45+ words) Nassau County Court Judge - Sturim, 66, of Great Neck, is a registered Republican and is running on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election. - Since 2016, he has been an acting State Supreme Court justice and a Nassau County Court judge....

10+ mon, 4+ day ago (403+ words) ATHENS, Greece " Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets in 110 cities Sunday, including 13 locations abroad, to demand justice for the 57 victims of the country's deadliest rail disaster in 2023. The largest marches, with about 30,000 taking part in each, took place in Greece's two largest cities, Athens and Thessaloniki. They were mostly peaceful, although in each city, small groups of people attacked police forces with rocks and flares. Police responded with tear gas and flash-bang grenades. The clashes only lasted a few minutes. In London, about 500 people demonstrated outside the Greek Embassy in the Holland Park neighborhood. More protests were staged in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Helsinki, London, Nicosia, Reykjavik and Valetta, Malta. The protesters, called to demonstrate by victims' relatives, held placards and chanted "I have no oxygen," a phrase reportedly uttered by a victim, still alive, who called…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago (406+ words) British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left, and Dr. F.D. Cockroft, right, stand with Lord Rutherford outside the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, May 2, 1932. Credit: AP/Len Puttnam WELLINGTON, New Zealand " Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans "split the atom" prompted vexed social media posts by New Zealanders, who said the achievement belonged to a pioneering scientist revered in his homeland. Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed by Rutherford. It is not…...

10+ mon, 3+ day ago (405+ words) Workers pack dumplings at a production line at a food factory in Suqian city in east China's Jiangsu province on Jan. 21, 2025. Credit: AP HONG KONG " Manufacturing slowed in China in January for the first time in four months as workers began leaving assembly lines to travel to their hometowns for Lunar New Year holidays. The National Bureau of Statistics said its purchasing managers index, based on a survey of factory managers, slipped to 49.1 in January from 50.1 the month before. A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion. Under 50 signals a contraction in activity. New orders and production also contracted. A parallel purchasing managers" index for the non-manufacturing sector, which covers construction and services, fell to 50.2 points from 52.2 in December. The slide in factory activity was partly due to the approach of the holidays, said Zhao Qinghe, a bureau senior statistician. China's most…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago (409+ words) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrives with former President Donald Trump at Manhattan criminal court before Trump's trial in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Credit: AP/Justin Lane AUSTIN, Texas " The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct. The decision, revealed Wednesday in court filings, ends a yearslong attempt to potentially sanction Paxton over making false claims of fraud when he filed a lawsuit that questioned Democrat Joe Biden's victory over Republican President Donald Trump. The move comes a month after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Paxton's top deputy could not be sanctioned over similar accusations. A disciplinary commission for the state bar cited that December ruling in moving to drop its lawsuit against Paxton....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago (54+ words) Town Justice, Town of Southold Credit: Michael A. Rupolo Sr. - Powers, 58, of Southold, is a registered Democrat and is running unopposed on the Democratic and Working Families party lines in the general election. The Newsday app makes it easier to access content without having to log in. Unlimited Digital AccessOnly 25for 6 months...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (214+ words) Council member, Town of Riverhead - Rothwell, 54, of Wading River, is a registered Republican seeking a second full term as town councilman. He was previously appointed to a one-year term to fill a board vacancy and won a full term in 2021. He is running on the Republican and Conservative lines. - He has an associate's degree in architecture from SUNY Farmingdale and an associate's degree in mortuary science from Nassau Community College. Rothwell owns four funeral homes across the East End. - Rothwell spent 20 years as a volunteer firefighter in Southampton and is a current member of the Wading River Fire Department. - Rothwell said he would prioritize construction of a new, larger ambulance headquarters to meet growing department needs and support fundraising initiatives to offset costs to taxpayers. The project is estimated at $9 million. - He said he would continue funding public safety upgrades,…...