Federal health officials have greenlit New York’s plan to enact a tax on health insurers, securing what could amount to billions for the state’s Medicaid budget. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved a state proposal to tax managed care organizations – a type of health insurer – and boost New York’s federal […]
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Tayden Townsley, 47, hopes this is the final holiday season he spends behind bars. Townsley was 19 years old when he fatally shot a 16-year-old member of a rival drug gang and wounded another in a Sullivan County apartment on July 1, 1994. He was sentenced to 37 and a half years to life for
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The mayor’s right-hand woman was in cuffs, while Adams was taking part in a ridiculous perp walk that played out more like a glamor shot for a murderer. Hizzoner’s friend and ally in the NYPD, who Adams has gone to bat for again and again over charges of abusing his authority, resigned after being accused
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Migrant parents and children on a recent morning lugged suitcases across the wind-swept tarmac to the Q35 bus stop outside the remote Floyd Bennett Field tent complex, beginning a two-hour trek to the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where families can seek a new shelter placement. Some of the families who have already moved out
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The water of Flushing Bay was placid on an unseasonably warm mid-December weekday, rippling just softly with the gentle breeze. “On a typical weekend practice, unless we’re expecting a storm, the waters are pretty much calm like this,” said Winston Liao, 39, as he looked out from Pier 1 of the World’s Fair Marina, where
Make 2025 a year of new opportunities, and most important of all, new travel experiences! If you’ve been gazing wistfully at the stars wondering where on Earth you’ll set foot this year, you’re in luck! We’ve compiled a list of must-see trips can’t-miss events to add to your calendar for 2025. So what are you
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One doctor accidentally chopped off part of a newborn’s left index finger during a delivery. He also attacked two nurses who vividly described how he choked them while in a rage. Another doctor drained the wrong side of a patient’s chest while attempting to remove a mass of fluid and altered a medical record to
Despite some December jitters, the stock market has jumped more than 24% this year and Wall Street profits are likely to climb by almost 70%. The result will be big bonuses early next year, which will fuel consumer spending and income tax collections. Merger and acquisition activity, Wall Street’s most lucrative business, is expected to
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Mayor Eric Adams characterized as “alarming” the allegations against NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, who resigned late Friday after a subordinate filed a complaint alleging Maddrey had pushed her into sexual favors for overtime pay on the job. “The allegations are extremely concerning,” the mayor said hours after the New York Post broke the
Author and veteran columnist Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about her book, The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, and explains why the “zombie” Comstock Law still on the federal books kept coming up during 2024’s presidential election. https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?comstockdouche Sohn details how the lives of two “sex
