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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley emphasized her ability to compete with President Joe Biden in a general election as she hit hard at both the incumbent Democrat and former Republican President Donald Trump during a rally in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Speaking at Indian Land High School Friday night as part of a campaign swing through the Palmetto State ahead of its primary on Feb. 24, Haley said she’s the only Republican left standing with a chance to win in the general election. “We can go with the same old thing or we can move forward. The same old thing is not just Joe Biden, t......

NEW YORK — City Hall has taken steps to help migrants leave New York City by offering them free fare to anywhere in the country or world and made life tougher by limiting shelter stays. Wait times to get a bed can stretch as long as a week. Some migrants have had enough. Their city of dreams has become a nightmare. With winter coming, many have reached new lows and levels of desperation and have decided that a one-way ticket out of the Big Apple is their best shot at a brighter future. Disillusioned migrants, preparing to leave the city, told the Daily News outside the St. Brigid reticketing s......

Canada’s new ambassador in Port-au-Prince is no stranger to Haiti’s vexing challenges. But a lot has changed —and much hasn’t — since André François Giroux help to coordinate his country’s efforts at the United Nations to help train the Haitian police back in the late 1990s. Today, the job goes beyond reading files or U.N. reports from a remote location, and involves making the rounds through Port-au-Princes’s gang-ridden streets while trying to decipher fact from fiction in a country where things are not always as they seem. Giroux, who recently arrived in Port-au-Prince after being appointed......

An ex-US diplomat and adviser to former President Barack Obama was arrested Wednesday for hurling anti-Islamic remarks at halal vendors in Manhattan, cops said. Police cuffed 30-year State Department employee Stuart Seldowitz, 66, on charges of harassment and stalking as a hate crime for spewing Islamophobic remarks to vendors on E. 83rd St. near Second Ave. on Nov. 7, cops said. Videos posted to social media allegedly depicted the former diplomat laughing as he asked food vendors, “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?” and “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what? It wasn’......

For any Washington farmer, 2020 was a desperate year. That spring, with a COVID-19 vaccine still distant, disruptions to the economy and supply chains sent unemployment, poverty and food insecurity rates soaring, magnifying inequities. Food systems broke and farmers' key customers — restaurants, hotels and schools — shut down. Farmworkers became scarce. But that first devastating pandemic year also brought a windfall as federal food assistance funding surged to keep Americans from going hungry. And, unusually for the subsidy-soaked agricultural sector, that federal aid cleared a path for farme......

MIAMI — Citing Cuba’s support of Russia and reports about Chinese espionage activities based near Havana, members of Congress called for tougher sanctions against the island’s government Monday during a bipartisan roundtable held in Miami to mark the second anniversary of the July 11 anti-government protests. The anniversary of the islandwide uprising in 2021 comes during a significant deterioration in the human rights situation in Cuba, with hundreds of people still in prison for joining the demonstrations and a renewed alliance between the Cuban regime and the authoritarian regimes in Russia......