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A field hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., built to deal with the coronavirus has been closed without treating a single patient. The $21 million facility was part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s response to the growing number of coronavirus patients at New York City hospitals. That response included smaller facilities at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center and Stony Point (Long Island), and a huge, 1,100-bed medical center at the Javits Center. All told, the state spent upwards of $350 million on facilities that were built but never used.

SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Disturbing new video shows what appears to be a racially-motivated crime sparked by fear over the coronavirus. The video shows a man on a New York City subway train arguing with a fellow passenger who is Asian, then spraying Febreeze air freshener at that passenger. Much of the incident was recorded on a cellphone by another passenger and posted on social media. The NYPD is now investigating the case as a possible hate crime. RELATED: How to protect yourself from coronavirus It happened Wednesday morning on the N train in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. "I am...

Jill Biden opened an old wound with Kamala Harris as the California senator's name circulates as a possible running mate for Joe Biden. Harris's standout moment during the 2020 Democratic primary was her takedown of Joe Biden during last summer's opening debate in Miami. The political grenade caught the two-term vice president's campaign off-guard because of her friendship with his son Beau Biden. The pair were the attorneys general of California and Delaware, respectively, at the same time. Jill Biden, during a breakfast fundraiser in upscale Glencoe, Illinois, recalled her husband's shock when Harris took him to task for opposing...

The House of Representatives is currently debating articles of impeachment against the President of the United States. As we knew would be the case from the moment Speaker Pelosi made this move, the Democratic majority has the votes. It's a fait accompli. But as we discussed recently, something that has changed since Pelosi and friends' announcement of the impeachment inquiry is the state of public opinion. Support for the inquiry -- and, indeed, for impeachment and removal -- spiked "into the black" for awhile, having been deep in the red at the conclusion of the Mueller investigation. The Ukraine matter...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has been driving impeachment against President Trump for months, went out for steak last night ahead of today's full House vote. Apparently, they're celebrating.

House Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff said Wednesday that he believes President Trump attempted to threaten him by suggesting he be subjected to Guatemala’s justice system. Mr. Schiff, California Democrat, was responding to a remark Mr. Trump made about him the previous day during a press conference held in the Oval Office alongside Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales. Complaining about the congressman’s interpretation of his now-infamous July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president, Mr. Trump said Tuesday: “In Guatemala, they handle things much tougher than that.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he will not support calling any witnesses in the upcoming impeachment trial against President Trump, including witnesses Trump wants to summon. “I’m going to tell the president, ‘no,’ to his witnesses request because I think what is best for the country is to get this behind us as soon as possible,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said Wednesday. The House is set to impeach Trump Wednesday night on two articles charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Senate will hold a trial in January, and Democrats and Republicans are...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi came prepared with props for her address before the House vote on President Trump’s impeachment. Pelosi carried in a poster with clip art of the American flag that was captioned “to the republic, for which it stands.” The speaker has argued that Trump threatened the republic with his actions in his July 25 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. She has referenced Benjamin Franklin’s quote, “A republic, if you can keep it,” throughout the impeachment process. Pelosi told the House that she sees Trump’s impeachment as a “national civics lessons” for the American people.

Legal and illegal migrants sent $53.4 billion in remittances back to Mexico and Central America in 2018, or more than double the cost of building a border barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a World Bank report. Remittances to Mexico reached $33.7 billion in 2018, up 21 percent from roughly $27.8 billion in 2016, the bank reported. Remittances from the three Central Americans countries are being spiked by the growing inflow of asylum-seeking migrants into blue-collar jobs throughout the U.S. economy, via the border’s catch-and-release laws. The outflow to Central America rose to $19.7 billion in 2018, up from...

President Donald Trump tried to stoke fears of socialism Friday as he bashed Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat pushing to upset Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in red Texas. Ahead of his Monday visit to Houston, Trump called the 46-year-old representative a "total lightweight compared to Ted Cruz" who "comes nowhere near representing the values and desires" of Texans. He suggested O'Rourke wants to "turn Texas into Venezuela" — deploying rhetoric he has used in an attempt to portray Democrats as dangerous leftists as the GOP tries to defend its congressional majorities on Nov. 6.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has rebuked Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., after Coons submitted new allegations to Grassley involving Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said the allegations had "all the makings of a tabloid headline" and deserved "unqualified condemnation." The accuser claims to have hosted a party in the late 1980s, during a time when Kavanaugh would've been in his first year at Yale, and claims that the party had "salacious behavior." The accuser claims that the party, which he hosted, had a local prostitute come and perform a public sex act to a "semi-circle...

As the political environment continues to favor Democrats and likely to rob Republicans of their majority in the U.S. House and a handful of gubernatorial seats, the conventional wisdom is that the fate of the GOP’s Senate majority will rest more on political geography than the way the partisan winds are blowing. Maybe. The map continues to favor Republicans as Democrats are defending 10 seats in states that President Trump carried, four of which are in the Toss Up column, while two others are in Lean Democratic. In keeping with the notion that geography is destiny this cycle, the one...

The nightmare scenario Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) laid out last year when asked in private about whether Democrats should obstruct Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation is coming true with Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement. McCaskill warned in leaked audio released last March by the Kansas City Star that Democrat opposition to Gorsuch could end up biting them in the future should more seats open up while President Donald Trump was still in office and Republicans controlled the Senate. Democrats, however, made clear they planned to filibuster his nomination, pushing Republicans to employ the nuclear option, lowering the confirmation threshold to...

Catcalling at women and sexist abuse in public should be made hate crimes, a Labour MP has said, calling for a pilot scheme in Nottinghamshire to be made law across the country. Melanie Onn said wolf-whistling, harassment on public transport and taking photographs up women’s skirts were low-level crimes that often went unreported, and it was important for police to be able to record any increase. She said she would argue in a parliamentary debate on Wednesday that a change in the law would give women the confidence to report misogynistic behaviour. “Laws are instrumental in changing attitudes, setting the...

Former President George W. Bush often jokes that President Trump's administration makes his own former White House team look "pretty good," according to a Republican source. The former Republican president regularly knocks the current administration, a source close to the Trump administration told National Journal, unable to understand why the White House often seems to be in chaos. "Bush is often heard to remark, unable to stifle his trademark smirk: 'Sorta makes me look pretty good, doesn't it?' " National Journal reported. "He's shaking his head like everyone else wondering why they can't get their act together," the source added....

“I am really hurt by this,” Kasky told PEOPLE days after the mass shooting. “The reason I think this time is different is because it’s Parkland and it’s Douglas. … Parkland and Stoneman Douglas were able to stay strong together. That’s the thing that’s keeping us going. Together. Everybody is together.” 2. He Challenged Sen. Marco Rubio at Town Hall On Feb. 21, Kasky participated in a CNN-produced Town Hall held in Sunrise, Florida. Kasky drew the most applause during the event with his tough questions to Sen. Marco Rubio. The student asked the politician if he’d reject future donations...

Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he would be the party's best choice to "take on" President Donald Trump in 2020. "Who better to take on Trump than me?" McAuliffe said when asked by the Washington Free Beacon about a potential 2020 run for president, strongly indicating he will indeed throw his hat in the ring. The former Virginia governor, Democratic National Committee chairman, and longtime party fundraiser's name is regularly included amongst the crowded field of Democrats thinking of running for president. McAuliffe has been said to be "seriously considering" a presidential run but recently dodged a question from CNN's Jake...

Georgia's lieutenant governor on Monday attacked Delta Air Lines for dropping a partnership with the National Rifle Association. Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, ended a discount program for NRA members on Saturday after public backlash following the shooting earlier this month at a high school in Parkland, Florida. "Delta is reaching out to the National Rifle Association to let it know we will be ending its contract for discounted rates through our group travel program," Delta said in a statement. "We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from its website." In response, Casey Cagle, who is...

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald paid a visit Saturday to one of his team’s biggest cheerleaders: Sen. John McCain. McCain’s wife, Cindy, posted a photo of the trio on Instagram at the McCains’ Arizona cabin. Fitzgerald and the 81-year-old Arizona Republican lawmaker — who has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for months — have been friendly for years. In December, the football player penned a touching tribute to McCain for Sports Illustrated. “When I think about Christmas, and I think about Senator McCain, I think of giving,” Fitzgerald wrote. In a nod to McCain’s military service,...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The Florida school shooting that killed 17 people has created a “window” for reforming gun laws in the U.S., according to a Republican governor. “Everything kind of has its time,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl in an interview that aired Sunday on This Week. “If we can move this thing significantly forward, our country will be safer. Our children will be safer. But we’ve got a moment now, a window.” President Donald Trump responded to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, by promoting the...