This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. The impacts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ sweeping cuts to public health funding in New York state and New York City have started to come into focus, with wide-ranging consequences for disease surveillance and outbreak response, addiction recovery […]

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Mayor Eric Adams will not run in the June Democratic primary for mayor, launching a long-shot independent run in the general election instead, he announced in a video released early Thursday. “I’m not a quitter, I’m a New Yorker,” he said in the six-minute clip posted to X. “Although I am still a Democrat, I’m […]

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Alex Rotar was one step away from ending it all.  He stood on a ledge on top of a six-floor apartment building in Dyker Heights as officers from the NYPD and the U.S. Marshall’s Fugitive Task Force yelled at him to come down on March 14, 2024, according to court records.  “I’m standing there with […]

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With his federal corruption case behind him, Mayor Eric Adams stood on the back steps of Gracie Mansion on Wednesday to defiantly declare he is  going to run — and prevail — in the upcoming mayoral race.  “I’m running for re-election and you know what? I’m gonna win,” he said.  It was a striking scene […]

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A federal judge dismissed Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case Wednesday, eliminating the possibility that the Trump Department of Justice could reopen the case but also squarely taking aim at the administration’s rationale for killing the case. In dismissing the charges “with prejudice,” Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho rejected the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the […]

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