In February, House Republicans passed a budget resolution that President Donald Trump described as “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.” It lays out Trump’s plan for federal money: tax cuts for the wealthy and increased military spending paid for by cuts to social services.  Both houses of Congress will now have to hammer out an agreement on […]

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The Trump Organization’s bid to again operate Central Park’s iconic Wollman Rink after its removal in the wake of the 2021 Capitol riots will, if selected, have to skate past the company’s criminal record to win a city board’s approval. Getting clearance will require a city committee to overlook the company’s 2022 conviction on criminal […]

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The population on Rikers Island has risen to 7,067 people this week, the highest total since 2019 — and almost twice as high as the target number needed for the longstanding plan to transfer incarceration operations to four borough-based jails.  Department of Correction officials blame a host of factors: the state prison strike jamming so-called […]

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The Trump administration’s new demand that the MTA fork over publicly available data on transit crime amounts to little more than “shadowboxing and bluster” in its latest battle against the transit agency, critics said Wednesday. In a Tuesday night letter to the head of the MTA, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy set a […]

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