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President Joe Biden talks debt ceiling negotiations

What’s in the debt ceiling deal that President Biden and Speaker McCarthy hammered out?

Posted on May 28, 2023

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Mayor kicks-off ‘Jamaica Neighborhood Plan’ for new jobs, housing, streetscape improvements

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Trial date set for Steve Bannon in his fundraising fraud case during appearance in Manhattan court

Posted on May 25, 2023

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Op-ed | How Lupus has taught me to Lead

Posted on May 25, 2023

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Adams presses judge to exempt city from right-to-shelter when it ‘lacks the resources’

Posted on May 23, 2023

Q&A with Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine: MSG, Congestion Pricing, Migrant Crisis

Posted on May 23, 2023

At Lower Manhattan rally, youth and family services providers, pols say they won’t accept ‘one penny of cuts’ to education

Posted on May 23, 2023

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Councilmembers from New York’s ‘gay district’ bare all at The Center

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MTA proposes raising subway, bus fare to $2.90 by Labor Day

Posted on May 22, 2023

Daniel Penny arrested for manslaughter of Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny claims he’s not a white supremacist, wouldn’t change his actions in first interview

Posted on May 21, 2023

Homeless encampment in Queens

Will NYC’s new ‘Homeless Bill of Rights’ permit people the right to sleep outside?

Posted on May 21, 2023

President Joe Biden speaks in Hiroshima, Japan

Debt ceiling crisis | Biden and McCarthy to meet in person Monday after ‘productive’ call

Posted on May 21, 2023

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Debt limit talks start, stop as Republicans, White House face ‘serious differences’

Posted on May 20, 2023

‘In the name of Jordan we are going to turn this city around’: Jordan Neely laid to rest in Harlem funeral

Posted on May 19, 2023

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Historic Roosevelt Hotel opens to house asylum seekers

Posted on May 19, 2023

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Adams slams some council members for not having migrant shelters in their districts on private call

Posted on May 18, 2023

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Bronx, Westchester officials say they received little notice, details to accommodate migrants

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War on Rats | NYC moves to require restaurants, grocery stores to containerize their trash

Posted on May 18, 2023

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Mayor claims migrants are taking up nearly half of city hotel rooms amid surge, but quickly revised that figure

Posted on May 17, 2023

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Fare evasion cost MTA nearly $700M last year, panel says, recommending new turnstile design

Posted on May 17, 2023

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Fiscal watchdog finds Adams’ exec plan lowballs NYPD budget by $1.6B, likely underestimating OT costs

Posted on May 17, 2023

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Triangle Fire Memorial coming to Greenwich Village this fall

Posted on May 17, 2023

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‘We want to hire our own nurses’: NYC hospitals chief seeks funding boost after city spends $500M on temp nurses to fill vacancies

Posted on May 17, 2023

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Protecting New Yorkers’ safety in cannabis use and sales

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Republican doctor who stepped aside for Santos in ‘22 will run against him in ‘24

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Kristin Richardson Jordan drops re-election bid in crowded Harlem council race

Posted on May 16, 2023

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Southeast Queens residents voice concerns regarding illegal smoke shops during Rosedale town hall

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Hudson Valley Dem rips Adams after report homeless vets were booted from Newburgh hotel to make way for migrants

Posted on May 15, 2023

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Great Neck Democrat enters stacked NY-03 race in quest to unseat Santos

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Congestion pricing | Rideshare companies, drivers, cabbies still uneasy about MTA’s Manhattan toll plan

Posted on May 14, 2023

Daniel Penny arrested for manslaughter of Jordan Neely

Jordan Neely homicide | Defense fund for Daniel Penny swells to 10 times the funeral costs raised for man he choked

Posted on May 14, 2023

MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber

Op-ed | What federal approval of congestion pricing means for the MTA, and you

Posted on May 14, 2023

Migrant at a New York relief center

Migrant crisis | New York again turns to hotels to help house influx of asylum seekers

Posted on May 14, 2023

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Meet Scabby the Rat, the inflatable icon of New York City’s labor disputes

Posted on May 13, 2023

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Seniors, city officials call on Mayor to stop budget cuts to senior programs

Posted on May 12, 2023

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CNN under fire following chaotic Trump town hall event

Posted on May 12, 2023

City Council Speaker Adams speaks about the right-to-shelter law

Speaker Adams says Mayor’s right-to-shelter revocation ‘capricious and arbitrary’

Posted on May 11, 2023

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Mayor Adams faces backlash after signing executive order halting parts of right-to-shelter law before expected migrant surge

Posted on May 11, 2023

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President Biden touches down in NYC for first campaign fundraiser

Posted on May 10, 2023

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BREAKING: City BOE wins appeal knocking Andy King off this year’s City Council ballot

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Court ruling clears path for ex-con Hiram Monserrate to challenge Moya in next month’s Democratic primary

George Santos at his arraignment

The many lies, cheats, and frauds of George Santos — a laundry list of deception

Posted on May 10, 2023

George Santos

Editorial | By George, the feds got Santos right where he belongs: In court

Posted on May 10, 2023

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and City Comptroller Brad Lander speak about the Jordan Neely homicide.

Jordan Neely homicide: Public Advocate Williams, Comptroller Lander call for charges in deadly subway chokehold

Posted on May 10, 2023

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Upstate judge hits brakes on Mayor’s plan to ship migrants to Rockland County

Posted on May 10, 2023

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Queens leaders, political opponents react to George Santos indictment

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SANTOS INDICTED | Congress Member hit with 13-count federal fraud indictment, pleads not guilty

Posted on May 10, 2023

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George Santos set to face criminal charges in federal court as early as Wednesday, report says

Posted on May 9, 2023

More from around NYC

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Week in Rewind | Yankees fans face streaming struggles, Bronx BP appoints new borough historian, and first Bronx cannabis dispensary planned for Allerton

Flushing native John Favreau to receive honorary doctorate at Queens College commencement ceremony

Three local electeds have helped secure $3 million to renovate the emergency department at Interfaith Medical Center

Interfaith Medical Center gets $3M in federal funding to renovate aging emergency department

Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, speaks during the 60th Independence Anniversary Celebrations in Kampala, Uganda on Oct. 9, 2022.

Uganda’s president signs into law anti-gay legislation with death penalty in some cases