I’d rather Hurricane Gustav was NOT the focus of the news this week. I’d not have watched the RNC, but it would be better than a potentially devastating Hurricane. Along that line: Stuart Shepard of Focus on the Family encouraged people to pray for “rain of biblical proportions” to ruin Sen. Obama’s speech. It goes to show you: You should be careful what you wish for.
Gothamist Feed
- SNAP 'food stamp' payments are about to get smaller. NJ lawmakers want to fund the difference.
- NYC meteorologists miss the snow as much as we do
- 'It keeps on happening': Protesters rally in NYC over Memphis killing of Tyre Nichols
- Adams to New Yorkers: Memphis police video will be ‘graphic and disturbing’ as he urges calm
- NYC, other cities prepare for protests when video of a fatal beating by Memphis police is released tonight
- What you need to know to safely protest in NYC
- Subway crime down, arrests up after NYPD surge: Adams
NY Times Feed
- Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73
- Netherlands and Japan Said to Join U.S. in Curbing China’s Access to Chip Tech
- Trump Tries a New Campaign Tack: Small-Scale
- Fighting Rages in Eastern Ukraine Over Critical Supply Routes
- To Fix Its Problems in Ukraine, Russia Turns to the Architect of the War
- Big Risks and Big Rewards for Aryna Sabalenka at the Australian Open
- Handling of Tyre Nichols Case in Memphis Reflects a National Shift