The Guardian is reporting that in the US-Israel's war of choice on Iran, the US has dispatched a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, as President Trump once again threatens that country with annihilation just weeks ahead of the US midterm elections.
And here in New York, Gov. Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James to investigate an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity going back to 2024 which the local county prosecutor opted not to prosecute based only on the campus police department's investigation.
Last month, the victim, who alleges she was assaulted sued seven men, the university and the fraternity. In turn, the local DA scrambled to re-open the case.
For years now, here on WBAI we have been leading the way on reporting on the steep rise in FDNY's EMS response times as the city struggled to retain a sufficient number of EMTS, paramedics and EMS officers. At the heart of this unconscionable deterioration in the city's continued refusal, no matter who was Mayor, to pay this workforce, which is overwhelmingly composed of women and people of color, a living wage.
As a consequence, as many as 100 ambulances, almost a quarter of the city's rolling stock, can sit idle as New Yorkers die waiting for one.
This week at the City Council's Fire and Emergency Services hearing, chaired by Council Member Joann Ariola, we heard the chilling details of how this collapse of a vital service played out for a 14 year-old who had a stroke at school.
After multiple calls to EMS for well over a half hour, the parents had to drive their seriously ill son from school to the hospital.
Chair Ariola told FDNY officials at the hearing the tragic anecdote was emblematic of a troubling citywide problem.
We spoke with Jihye Song, with the Ain’t I a Woman Campaign, who is organizing for passage of a municipal ban on LIVE-IN home health aides she says only get paid for 13 hours despite being present overnight in the home.
Critics of the ban say the vulnerable elderly and disabled would lose access to essential care and believe the real fight is in Albany to properly fully fund around the clock care.
Folk singer Judy Gorman joined Song to talk about her plans to play at a noon rally at City Hall this Saturday to support the push to end the 24/7 practice for live-in home healthcare workers.
In our second hour, we spoke to Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora
about the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation program that’s tearing Trenton families apart and terrorizing the entire immigrant community.
He was joined by Constitutional law professor Dr. Jamie Rowen, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst who discussed a landmark federal court decision that strikes down the Trump administration’s policy allowing ICE agents to arrest people for showing up in immigration court.
