NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and US Sen. Bernie Sanders rally with nurses

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders are rallying with nurses in Manhattan during the ninth day of their strike. The democratic socialists on Tuesday called on hospital executives to return to the negotiating table to resolve the contract impasse that prompted some 15,000 nurses to walk off the job last week. The union says it has held one bargaining session with each of the three hospital systems impacted since the strike began on Jan. 12. Both sides say those meetings ended with little progress. There are so far no plans this week to resume talks.

Supreme Court takes up case with independence of the Federal Reserve at stake

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the Federal Reserve board is putting the Supreme Court in a familiar position, weighing an emergency appeal from the president’s lawyers in a politically charged case. The court hears arguments Wednesday over Trump’s effort to oust Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook based on allegations she committed mortgage fraud, which she denies. No president has fired a Fed governor in the agency’s 112-year history. Trump’s critics say he wants to take control of U.S. interest rate policy. The Republican president wants interest rates to fall so Americans pay lower borrowing costs for homes and cars. Worries about high costs have soured some voters on Trump’s economic management.

Prosecutors seek to drop child abuse charges against Atlantic City schools superintendent

MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors say they won’t proceed with a child abuse trial against Atlantic City’s superintendent of schools. That comes just weeks after her husband — the mayor of the seaside gambling resort city — was acquitted in the case. Marty Small Sr. and La’Quetta Small had been accused endangering and physically abusing their teenage daughter. Prosecutors say that after a jury found her father not guilty last month, Smalls’ daughter decided she no longer wanted the case to proceed. Prosecutors say they have also asked a judge to drop charges against a high school principal who had been accused of failing to report the teen’s abuse claim to state child welfare officials.

US forces in Caribbean seize seventh sanctioned oil tanker linked to Venezuela

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues its efforts to take control of the oil in the South American country. U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post that U.S. forces apprehended the Motor Vessel Sagitta “without incident” and that the tanker was “operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.” The military command did not say whether the U.S. Coast Guard took control of the tanker as has been the case in prior seizures.