A federal judge ordered Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration to postpone its overhaul of a popular Medicaid-funded home care program until Friday, pushing the state past its April 1 deadline. Hochul has pushed to consolidate the consumer directed personal assistance program – which allows elderly New Yorkers and people with disabilities to hire family members as […]
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What’s the difference between a parking lot, a park and a casino? Just a few words scribbled on some paper if Mets owner Steve Cohen gets his way, and it looks like he might now with a well compensated assist from State Senator John Liu that’s also a kick in the shins of his legislative
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A losing candidate in the heated competition to develop the Kingsbridge Armory in the Northwest Bronx says the process was tainted by corruption, favoritism and theft of intellectual property, according to a new lawsuit filed by that developer. Agallas Equities LLC, filed the suit on Friday evening seeking an annulment of the contract awarded to
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Midtown health system NYU Langone has named physician and cancer researcher Dr. Alec Kimmelman as its next CEO, the organization said Monday. Kimmelman will step into the new roles of CEO and dean of NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine on September 1, according to the health system. The physician researcher, confirmed in a unanimous vote
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“One concrete action—NY State Assembly Bill 2025-A767—would establish a Youth Justice Innovation Fund to make funds available to community-based organizations for services and programs with the purpose of preventing youth arrest and incarceration and promoting positive youth development.” The Bronx Criminal Courthouse. Photo by Jarrett Murphy. The vile, brutal beating death of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi
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“Las agencias tendrán flexibilidad para decidir cómo y cuándo ofrecer servicios en idiomas distintos al inglés para servir mejor al pueblo estadounidense y cumplir su misión”, dice la orden ejecutiva. El presidente Donald Trump. El presidente Donald Trump designó el inglés como idioma oficial de los Estados Unidos el 1 de marzo, como parte de
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Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Donald Trump has made tariffs a staple of his second term, levying a flurry of taxes on foes and neighbors alike as an extension of his “America First” mantra. The president has signaled that there are even more tariffs on the horizon, promising to institute reciprocal taxes against most of the
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While New York-based organizations have not stopped representing the unaccompanied minors they already work with, they’re not sure how long they’ll be able to do so without funding. A U.S. Border Patrol processing facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children in Texas in 2021. (Jaime Rodriguez Sr./Customs and Border Patrol) Recently, a 5-year-old migrant crossed
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images For all his success in imposing his will on the federal government, Donald Trump may be deliberately engineering his own political downfall by mishandling the very job he was most certainly elected to perform: stewardship of the economy. The risks he’s running were impressively summarized by Washington Post economics columnist Heather
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Last week’s revelations about a group chat among top Trump officials accidentally leaking sensitive U.S. attack details in Yemen to a journalist did more than expose security lapses. They also introduced Signal, the encrypted messaging app at the center of the leak, to a broader audience across the U.S. and the world. Interest in Signal
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