A federal judge Wednesday extended limits on the number of immigrants ICE can hold at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and requirements that it provide detainees with basic humanitarian needs and access to legal representation. In an opinion published Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan sided with immigrants represented by the NYCLU, the ACLU and Make […]

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Deaths in NYPD custody have surged to levels not seen in at least a decade, with 43 people dying in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year period since at least 2016, according to police data and officials.  At least nine people have died in NYPD custody so far this […]

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In February federal prosecutors unsealed a scathing indictment charging that the founder of a nonprofit that ran a government-funded pandemic program placing released inmates in hotels had received a wide variety of bribes, including envelopes stuffed with cash and a $1.3 million townhouse in Washington Heights. And then there was the shiny black $107,000 Mercedes. […]

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This article first appeared in our Tuesday, Sept. 16 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. In the spring, polls by and large showed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo winning in the primary. That didn’t come to pass, and as the general election approaches, more mayoral polls continue to […]

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Living in President Vladimir Putin’s regime as journalists and activists, the Russian couple had every reason to believe that seeking political asylum in the United States would lead them to safety, a reprieve from long prison sentences or being sent to fight in Ukraine. Their journey since has delivered them to months locked in jail, […]

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