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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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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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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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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Bea Hanson’s voice cracked as she delivered the bad news. On a Zoom call the previous Friday morning with roughly 200 nonprofit and community organization leaders — many of them longtime partners who help victims of shootings, domestic violence, sexual assault and other trauma — the director of the state Office of Victim Services, or […]

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