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Three Nurses Disciplined After Speaking Out on Mount Sinai Shooting Scare

Mt. Sinai nurse Gueldye Beaubrun speaks at a rally outside the hospital after management disciplined her when she spoke to the media following an armed man threatening to shoot up the emergency room,

Mount Sinai Hospital disciplined three nurses who spoke to the media and to fellow staff about safety concerns following an attempted shooting in the hospital’s emergency department last month — a consequence their union calls unlawful. The New York State Nurses Association alleges that Mount Sinai’s decision to write up two nurses and suspend another […]

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Homeland Security Busts Into Jackson Heights Apartment Building in Pre-Dawn Raid

Department of Homeland Security agents hold rifles while wearing tactical gear during an early-morning immigration raid in Jackson Heights

Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY. The agents, including Homeland Security Investigations officers along with others wearing jackets emblazoned only with “POLICE,” were there with a “search and seizure […]

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City Investigators Haven’t Given Up on Probing Eric Adams’ Conduct, Judge’s Order Reveals

Mayor Eric Adams takes part in the Veterans Day Parade in Manhattan

A court order issued Wednesday revealed that the city Department of Investigation (DOI) has an ongoing investigation of whether Mayor Eric Adams violated ethics laws — a probe that is proceeding even after the mayor got his corruption case tossed after the Trump Justice Department abandoned it. Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho revealed the existence […]

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Mamdani’s Schools Chancellor Pick: Some Parent Groups Are Pushing for Him to Keep Aviles-Ramos

(R-L) New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Melissa Aviles-Ramos, and Schools Chancellor David A. Banks at Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. A growing chorus of New York City families are pushing Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to keep schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos in place when he takes office in January to avoid a leadership shakeup in the middle of the school year. “Families across this city deserve […]

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Trump’s USDA Prepares to Pause State Food Stamp Funding in Data Standoff

Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will pause federal funding to blue states that refuse to provide the information it requested on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aid recipients. Rollins said during a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump the pause would be in effect as of next week. The […]

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