Tag: New York

Julie Powell, Food Writer of ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49

NEW YORK—Food writer Julie Powell, who became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” leading to a book deal and a film adaptation, has died. She was 49. Powell died of cardiac arrest on Oct. 26 at her home in upstate…


Appeals Court Upholds New York Absentee Ballot Law, Reversing Earlier Ruling

An appeals court in New York on Nov. 1 upheld a state absentee ballot law, reversing an earlier ruling that found the law unconstitutional. The law, enacted in 2022, says that “In no event may a court order a ballot that has been counted to be uncounted.” New York Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone ruled in October…


Democrat Strategists Express Alarm Over GOP Gains in New York Ahead of Midterms

Some Democrat strategists have expressed alarm by recent Republican gains and warned incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul could be defeated next week. New York has not elected a Republican candidate for governor in decades. An aggregate of polls from RealClearPolitics shows that Hochul’s alleged lead over Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) has shrunk in recent weeks,…


Lee Zeldin Holds Rally in Staten Island

The Epoch Times will livestream New York Governor Republican candidate Lee Zeldin’s Get Out Vote bus tour at Richmond County at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2022. Zeldin will be accompanied by his running mate Alison Esposito and the Richmond County Republican Committee. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later…


LIVE NOW: Lee Zeldin Holds Rally in Staten Island

The Epoch Times will livestream New York Governor Republican candidate Lee Zeldin’s Get Out Vote bus tour at Richmond County at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2022. Zeldin will be accompanied by his running mate Alison Esposito and the Richmond County Republican Committee. As a nonpartisan public charity, The Epoch Times does not endorse these…


Against Communism and Liberalism, Christian Farmer Seeks to Glorify God Through Care of Land

It’s late October in Sharon, New York. The hills are painted red, orange, and yellow. Mist hangs in the earth-scented air, far below the migrating birds. “The retreat of bugs and peepers creates a pensive silence this time of year,” said traditionalist farmer and cidermaker Michael Thomas in an Oct. 27 text message–one of a…


‘Momentum Is Building’: Youngkin Predicts Shockwave for Democrats in New York on Nov. 8

WESTCHESTER, N.Y.—Democrats should prepare to see a shockwave in New York on Nov. 8 when the polls come out, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said at a rally for Lee Zeldin in the state’s Westchester county. The 54-year-old Youngkin, who avoided any major upset in his state by beating Democrat opponent Terry McAuliffe last November, said…


Youngkin Predicts Shockwave for Democrats in New York on Nov. 8

WESTCHESTER, N.Y.—Democrats should prepare to see a shockwave in New York on Nov. 8 when the polls come out, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said at a rally for Lee Zeldin in the state’s Westchester county. The 54-year-old Youngkin, who last year flipped red a state where President Joe Biden won in 2020, said he was…


Youngkin Predicts Republican ‘Shockwave’ in New York on Election Day

WESTCHESTER, N.Y.—Democrats should prepare to see a “shockwave” in New York on Nov. 8 when the polls come out, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said at a rally for Lee Zeldin in the state’s Westchester county. The 54-year-old Youngkin, who last year flipped red a state where President Joe Biden won in 2020, said he was…


Men Wrongly Convicted in Malcolm X Slaying Reach Settlement With New York City, State

A man exonerated last year in the 1965 slaying of black activist Malcolm X and the estate of a second man cleared posthumously reached a settlement totaling $36 million with New York City and state, their attorney said on Sunday. Muhammad Aziz, 84, had sought $40 million after serving about two decades in prison and…