WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat George Latimer defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman in New York’s 16th Congressional District on the strength of his showing in vote-rich Westchester County, according to an Associated Press analysis of initial vote results. The result marks the first primary defeat this year of a Democratic U.S. House incumbent. Here’s a look […]
— This story first appeared in New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating New York state politics. Sign up for their stories at nysfocus.com/newsletter. Five years after New York lawmakers passed a landmark bill to slash greenhouse gas emissions, the state has missed several of the law’s major deadlines — and it’s about to […]
Finally, after two years, a new real estate record has been set in New York City. A penthouse atop Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world, has officially closed for $115 million, according to Douglas Elliman’s Kent Wu, John Gomes, and Fredrik Eklund of the Eklund | Gomes Team, who represented the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions within the Democratic Party about President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war are playing out in a key New York primary race on Tuesday. Rep. Jamaal Bowman faces Westchester County Executive George Latimer in Tuesday’s highly contentious Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District. This is a safe Democratic […]
Going back to work after having a baby is hard enough, but without legal protection and support for new moms, it can feel impossible. President Biden signed the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act in 2022 to extend to more nursing employees the right to reasonable break time and a private place to pump breast milk […]
NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Tuesday dismissed Donald Trump’s appeal of the gag order imposed in his Manhattan criminal trial, dealing a setback to the former president’s efforts to strip the restrictions in the wake of his conviction. In a decision list, the Court of Appeals wrote that Trump’s appeal was dismissed […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s top court declined Tuesday to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional issues that would warrant an immediate intervention. The decision is the latest legal setback […]
Bark Air, the charter airline for pampered pooches, could be locked in the kennel just days after its first flight. New York’s Westchester County has sued the company behind the charter service, alleging it violated airport-use restrictions. Officials are hoping to prohibit the carrier from operating in the private jet area and require it to […]
A jury on Thursday convicted Donald Trump of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Here is an explanation of the charges Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought against Trump, the Republican candidate challenging Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5th US election. What […]
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams announced on Tuesday night plans to create a Charter Revision Commission — an otherwise mundane move that an increasingly restless City Council views as an attack on its independence. Some in the 51-member legislative body saw the mayor’s surprise announcement as a way to block them from getting more […]
Thailand’s National Museum has hosted a welcome home ceremony for two ancient statues that were allegedly illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The objects – a tall bronze figure called the Standing Shiva or the Golden Boy and […]
A 900-year-old statue that spent three decades at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after being smuggled out of Thailand was welcomed back to the kingdom in an official repatriation ceremony in Bangkok on Tuesday. The 129-centimetre (51-inch) statue of the Hindu god Shiva, dubbed “Golden Boy”, was repatriated after being linked to […]