New Yorkers in the Financial District of Manhattan spoke to SNC's Dianté Marigny ahead of Election Day.
Voters are deciding between democrat Zohran Mamdani, republican Curtis Sliwa, and independent former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Early voting began on October 25, Election Day is November 4.
The Trump administration is warning that federal food aid will not be distributed on November 1 if the government shutdown continues.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture posted a notice late Thursday saying SNAP benefits could be delayed unless Congress reaches a funding deal in the next few days.
The White House blames Democrats for the impasse, saying they are refusing to negotiate unless Republicans agree to extend certain health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — a demand the administration calls unrelated to reopening the government.
Officials also confirmed the administration will not use $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits flowing, saying that money is reserved for “true national emergencies.”
If no deal is reached soon, millions of Americans could see their food assistance interrupted starting next month.
Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 5 storm as it heads toward Jamaica, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
Melissa is expected to make landfall Tuesday, bringing destructive winds and up to 30 inches of rain. The storm is now the strongest to threaten Jamaica in recent history, and it has already caused fatalities and widespread damage in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Officials are warning of catastrophic flash flooding, landslides, and dangerous storm surges as the hurricane moves toward Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday.
Residents in the path of Melissa are being urged to take emergency precautions and follow evacuation orders where issued.
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A 21-year-old semitruck driver accused of being under the influence of drugs and causing a fiery crash that killed three people on a southern California freeway is in the country illegally, U.S. Homeland Security officials said Thursday.
Jashanpreet Singh was arrested and jailed after Tuesday’s eight-vehicle crash in Ontario, California, that also left four people injured.
He faces three counts of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence causing injury, the San Bernardino District Attorney's office said.
Singh is scheduled for arraignment Friday. The district attorney's office said he does not yet have a lawyer.
Singh, of Yuba City, California, is from India and entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 across the southern border, Homeland Security said Thursday in a post on X.
That revelation prompted Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to restate earlier concerns about who should be able to obtain commercial driver’s licenses. Duffy and President Donald Trump have been pressing the issue and criticizing California ever since a deadly Florida crash in August was caused by an immigrant truck driver the federal government says was in the country illegally.
The Transportation Department significantly restricted when noncitizens can get commercial driver’s licenses last month.
Duffy said this week's crash wouldn't have happened if Newsom had followed these new rules.
"These people deserve justice. There will be consequences,” he said in a statement.
Newsom's office responded that the federal government approved Singh's federal employment authorization multiple times and this allowed him to obtain a commercial driver's license in accordance with federal law.
California's Highway Patrol said in a release that traffic westbound on Interstate 10, about 26 miles (42 kilometers) west of San Bernardino, had slowed about 1 p.m. Tuesday when a tractor-trailer failed to stop, struck other vehicles and caused a chain-reaction crash.
Dashcam video from the tractor-trailer obtained by KABC-TV shows the truck slamming into what appears to be a small, white SUV in the freeway’s center lane. It continued forward, plowing into several other vehicles, including another truck. It then crossed over two lanes before crashing into an already-disabled truck on the freeway’s right shoulder.
Flames can be seen erupting alongside the tractor-trailer as it crosses the two right lanes.
California Highway Patrol Officer Rodrigo Jimenez says the agency has seen the KABC video and believes it is dashcam video from the truck that caused the crash.
“This tragedy follows a disturbing pattern of criminal illegal aliens driving commercial vehicles on American roads, directly threatening public safety,” Homeland Security said Thursday in its X post.
The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family and a member of his government over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade, sharply escalating tensions with the leftist leader of one of the closest U.S. allies in South America.
The Treasury Department leveled the penalties against Petro; his wife, Veronica del Socorro Alcocer Garcia; his son, Nicolas Fernando Petro Burgos; and Colombian Interior Minister Armando Alberto Benedetti.
Petro “has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. “President Trump is taking strong action to protect our nation and make clear that we will not tolerate the trafficking of drugs into our nation.”
The move ramps up a growing clash between the Republican U.S. president and Colombia's first leftist leader, notably over deadly American strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats off South America.
This week, the Trump administration expanded its crackdown to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where much of the cocaine from the world’s largest producers, including Colombia, is smuggled. And in an escalation of military firepower in the region, the U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Petro responds ‘never on our knees’
After the sanctions were announced, Petro named an attorney he said will represent him in the U.S.
“Combating drug trafficking effectively for decades brings me this measure from the government of the society we helped so much to stop its use of cocaine,” Petro wrote on X. “Quite a paradox, but not one step back and never on our knees.”
The penalties were expected after Trump recently said he would slash assistance to Colombia and impose tariffs on its exports, referring to Petro on social media in recent days as “an illegal drug leader.”
“He’s a guy that is making a lot of drugs,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “He better watch it, or we'll take very serious action against him and his country.”
The U.S. last month added Colombia, the top recipient of American assistance in the region, to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in almost 30 years.
After Trump accused him of having ties to drug trafficking, Petro on Wednesday said he would resort to the U.S. court system to defend himself.
“Against the calumnies that high-ranking officials have hurled at me on U.S. soil, I will defend myself judicially with American lawyers in the U.S. courts,” Petro wrote on X without naming Trump but citing a news report about his comments.
A day earlier, Petro’s anti-drug policy was the subject of a meeting between him and the U.S. chargé d’affaires in Colombia, John T. McNamara. McNamara also met with Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio Mapy on Thursday.
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