Following discontinuation, New York City MetroCards are being sold for thousands on eBay MetroCards, which New York City subway and bus system riders used for decades to pay for trips before their discontinuation, are now selling for thousands online. View Article →

District bill would require city health officials to act against rat population A recent D.C. Council bill would give DC Health more leeway to recoup the costs of dealing with rats and require them to create a centralized dashboard for rat data. View Article →

Colorado AG accuses Trump of 'revenge campaign' for state refusal to free convicted elections clerk Colorado's attorney general accused the Trump administration on Thursday of waging a "revenge campaign" by choking off funds and ending federal programs over the state's refusal to accede to the Republican president's demands to free an imprisoned elections clerk. View Article →

After delays, the missing Jan. 6 plaque will be displayed at the Capitol The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, rebuffing House Speaker Mike Johnson who has said the commemorative memorial does not comply with the law. View Article →

Venezuela releases some journalists and activists from prison as a gesture to 'seek peace' Venezuela released citizens and foreigners from its prisons on Thursday in what a top government official described as a gesture to "seek peace" less than a week after former President Nicolas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face federal drug-trafficking charges in New York. View Article →

House rebukes GOP leaders with passage of Obamacare subsidies extension House Democrats on Thursday secured an unlikely win with the passage of a bill to re-up their COVID-era expansion of Obamacare subsidies for three years. View Article →

Vice President Vance calls killing of Minneapolis woman by ICE officer 'a tragedy of her own making' Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a federal immigration officer's fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on "a left-wing network," Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed as protests related to her death expanded to cities across the country. View Article →