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Federal Monitor Says It’s Done Overseeing Bronx Youth Jail
After years of oversight, the court-appointed federal monitor for Horizon Juvenile Center said its work at the Bronx youth jail is “complete” in a report issued Friday. The monitoring, required as part of a major civil rights lawsuit settlement known as Nunez in 2015, had initially applied to the Department of Correction to address abuses […]
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Immigrant Affairs Assistant Commissioner Posted Anti-Muslim Mamdani Meme
On the eve of Zohran Mamdani’s election, an assistant commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs joined a wave of commenters smearing the young Muslim candidate as a terror sympathizer. “Never forget,” read a meme Erick Salgado posted on his personal Facebook page, the words superimposed over a photo of the Twin Towers exploding […]
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New Yorkers Fill Gun Classes as Concealed Carry Applications Surge
This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. In New York City, once proudly unwelcoming to guns, residents are arming up. Since June 2022, when a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision forced state lawmakers to relax longstanding restrictions, tens of […]
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Anti-Mamdani PAC Made End Run Around Campaign Spending Rules
In the final days of the mayoral campaign, a secretive political action committee called Put NYC First steered more than $8 million from deep pocket donors into independent spending committees attacking Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and, in some cases, supporting ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. At one point, one of the independent spenders Put NYC First funded put […]
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Senate Deal Brings Record Shutdown Toward an End
The Senate passed a funding deal Monday night in a 60-40 vote,sending the bill across the Capitol in hopes that the House will quickly take up the legislation and end the longest-ever government shutdown. Eight moderate senators — Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen, Jeanne Shaheen, John Fetterman and Independent […]
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