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Suit Argues for Free Speech in Privately Owned Public Spaces
Do First Amendment rights exist in privately owned public spaces? David O’Keefe, a retired prosecutor, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to establish those rights, after a clash during an anti-Trump protest. Privately owned public spaces — or POPS — are areas like plazas, parklets and atriums open to the public, but built […]
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Rep. Elise Stefanik Drops Out of the New York Governor’s Race
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik is dropping out of the state’s gubernatorial race, she announced in a post on X on Friday. Stefanik also announced that she will not seek reelection to Congress in 2026. “While we would have overwhelmingly won this primary, it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to […]
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LISTEN: Kishkes, Knishes and a Lost New York City
“In my quest to be more American than Americans, I wanted to know more than American music [and in 1972] I was staying with a great fiddle player and banjo player in North Carolina named Tommy Jarrell and he was puzzled, because a lot of the people who had come from up north to study […]
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Council Approves Gig Worker and Vendor Reforms, Building Rules and More in Marathon Year-End Session
The City Council on Thursday voted to approve a torrent of bills related to criminal justice, housing construction, labor and even a resolution honoring the New York Knicks in an end-of-year push before the turnover of power at City Hall and the Council itself. Lawmakers weighed more than 50 bills and over a dozen resolutions […]
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Trump Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
The Department of Homeland Security’s attorneys inside New York’s immigration courts are moving to close asylum claims en masse, arguing that people in deportation proceedings have no right to seek asylum in the United States because they’re eligible to do so in three other countries with which the U.S. has recent agreements: Honduras, Ecuador and […]
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