ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The campaign of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been fined $1,500 for not having the required workers' compensation for a month last year.
A spokeswoman for the New York state Workers' Compensation Board, Melissa Stewart, said Friday that Ocasio-Cortez's Democratic campaign lacked coverage from March 31 to April 30.
She says the fine, first reported by the New York Daily News, has been paid.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Few members of Congress are more entrenched than William Lacy Clay of St. Louis, but a once-homeless woman spurred to activism in Ferguson believes she could be the next Democrat to pull off a big primary upset.
Cori Bush watched in June as her friend, democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shocked the political establishment by beating 10-term Rep. Joseph Crowley in the New York Democratic primary. That has fueled Bush's optimism heading into Missouri's Aug. 7 primary.
NEW YORK (AP) — Newly-minted Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday endorsed Zephyr Teachout for New York State Attorney General in front of Wall Street's Charging Bull statue.
Both candidates spoke of the need to clean up politics in the state to benefit the working class.
"I am extremely proud to endorse the only candidate for Attorney General that is rejecting money, corporate money in the state of New York," Ocasio-Cortez said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the insurgent Democrat who beat 10-term congressman Joseph Crowley in a primary last month, is now criticizing him for not getting his name off the ballot in the general election.
Despite his loss in New York's Democratic primary, Crowley's name will still be on the ballot as the candidate of the lesser-known Working Families Party in November.
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter Thursday to accuse Crowley of purposely staying in the race.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old political novice running on a low budget and an unabashedly liberal platform, upset longtime U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley on Tuesday in the Democratic congressional primary in New York.
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U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke has narrowly survived a Democratic primary challenge from the 30-year-old son of Ugandan war refugees.
Clarke tallied about 1,000 votes more than Adem Bunkeddeko in Tuesday's race in New York's 9th Congressional District.
Another Democratic stalwart, Joseph Crowley, lost to 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the 14th District.
CHICAGO (AP) — The American Dental Association wants dentists to drastically cut back on prescribing opioid painkillers.
The association announced a new policy Monday that "essentially says eliminate opioids from your arsenal if at all possible," said Dr. Joseph Crowley, the group's president. The Chicago-based group represents around 161,000 dentists.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Joseph Crowley, the longest-serving president in the history of the University of Nevada, Reno, has died. He was 84.
His daughter Theresa Crowley said he died in Reno after being hospitalized earlier this month with pneumonia.