Russell Vought announced via a post on X that the Trump administration was “immediately” pausing infrastructure projects in several blue states across the country. That was two weeks ago. Several of those states say they still don’t know which projects Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, was referring to, and Democrats on Capitol […]

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As the federal government shutdown neared the one-month mark, Republicans in Congress got a boost from an unlikely source: the head of the nation’s top federal workers’ union, who on Monday pleaded with Democrats to sign a GOP-backed spending bill that would immediately end the government shutdown — without maintaining billions of dollars in health […]

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With three more days of early voting to go and less than a week before Election Day, top Democrats united behind Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani — as his rival, Andrew Cuomo, sang a tune of a party never more divided. At a Brooklyn Democratic Party gala Thursday night in Red Hook, party leaders from […]

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Two people died in flooded New York City buildings on Thursday after sudden and intense rain brought a deluge of water to the city in a major afternoon squall. A fire department scuba team responded to a 39-year-old man who was removed from a flooded basement on Kingston Avenue near Rutland Road in Flatbush, Brooklyn […]

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At about 7:50 p.m. on the spring-like evening of August 29, Musa Cetin was pulled over while driving his pedicab and arrested in Times Square, then taken to the Midtown South precinct house on West 35th Street.  Forty-three minutes later, police officers found him hanging in a holding cell from a noose fashioned out of […]

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