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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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State Scraps $300M in Victim-Services Grants, Throwing Programs Into Crisis
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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Adams Vetoes Anti Rent-Hike Law, Widening Council Battle Over Vouchers
Mayor Eric Adams on Friday vetoed a bill the City Council passed to prevent rental voucher-holders from contributing more than 30% of their income for rent. The Council’s bill aimed to prevent the Department of Social Services from requiring participants in the CityFHEPS program starting in their sixth year to contribute 40% of their income […]
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