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Federal Judge Presses Trump Justice Official and Adams’ Defense Lawyer on Alleged Quid Pro Quo

Judge Dale Ho speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing.

The judge overseeing Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday scrutinized the controversial motion by the Trump Justice Department to toss the case, a request that many have described as a quid-pro-quo deal to secure Adams’ cooperation with Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts in New York City. During an 80-minute hearing, Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho […]

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Hochul Activates the National Guard as Prison Strike Escalates

Gov. Kathy Hochul walks out of Marcy Correctional Facility with barbed wire behind her. She walks with a man in a grey suit on the right and a woman in a beige suit on the left.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon activating more than 3,500 members of the New York National Guard in response to a wildcat strike by hundreds of state correction officers.  Hochul’s order also greenlights additional overtime pay for corrections officers being deployed to the state’s 42 penitentiaries. Approximately 33 facilities are currently on […]

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NYC Schools Restore LGBTQ Videos Yanked by PBS Following Trump Executive Order

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In response to a blizzard of executive orders from President Donald Trump, the Public Broadcasting Service recently erased a series of videos made in partnership with New York City Public Schools focused on LGBTQ history. This week, the city’s Education Department found a new home for […]

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Federal Workers Rally In New York to Protest Musk Jobs Purge

Hundreds of federal employees rallied across downtown Manhattan on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to the public sector workforce at the hands of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is led by billionaire mogul Elon Musk. Current and former federal employees, some of whom had received termination letters in recent days, and […]

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Trump Admin Claws Back Approval for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan

Barely six weeks after the launch of congestion pricing, the tolls on motorists driving into the core of Manhattan are facing yet another existential threat — but aren’t being turned off no matter what President Donald Trump says. Trump followed through Wednesday on his August campaign pledge to “TERMINATE Congestion Pricing,” setting the stage for […]

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