April 2025

Nearly Decade After Brutal Beating by Prison Guards, Man Gets $1.2 Million Settlement

New York Today

Matthew Raymond has waited nine years for some semblance of justice.  When he first accused upstate prison guards of waterboarding him and delivering a beating so vicious he now uses a catheter to pee, an internal investigation concluded there was no wrongdoing.  Even after he insisted that one of the officers who attacked him at […]

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World Financial Turmoil Continues Over Trump Tariffs: Live Updates

Discussions

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images World markets may not get any respite after President Donald Trump’s widely criticized tariff policies prompted a $6.6 trillion stock market rout at the end of last week. Stock futures, oil prices, and bitcoin all fell dramatically on Sunday night, and much more chaos may follow when markets reopen on Monday.

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Democrats’ Two Hidden Weapons in the 2026 Midterms

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Photo: Anna Watts/The Washington Post/Getty Images Two of the reasons Republicans were feeling their oats after the 2024 elections involved underlying trends. The first was that they performed better among marginal voters than the opposition, which meant that a boost in turnout would improve their percentage of the vote, reversing a longtime Democratic advantage. The

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Scenes From the Nationwide Hands Off Protests Against Trump and Musk

Discussions

Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images On Saturday in towns and cities in all 50 states, protesters took to the streets to express their opposition to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the never-ending transgressions of second Trump administration — as well as show their support for federal workers, immigrants, trans people, and numerous other groups

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Cannabis operators facing unfair tax practices that put the legal industry at risk

Politic

The Cannabis Industry in New York is at a crossroads. Over the past 18 months, the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) has increased the pace of license issuance, helping to create a thriving legal, regulated market for cannabis products for adults in New York. Issuing these licenses puts pressure on the unregulated market, and keeps

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Art’s Icons Hit the Whitney for a First Look at Amy Sherald’s ‘American Sublime’

Arts & Entertainment

A full-blown army of art world elites stormed the Whitney this past Tuesday and Wednesday to toast “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which opens in New York on April 9 and, as Observer noted when we covered the exhibition at SFMOMA, is the most comprehensive showing of her work to date. There’s no arguing that Sherald

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NY Religious Leaders Support Dinowitz/Skoufis Masked Harassment bill

Politic

April 3, 2025   Dear Speaker Heastie and Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins,   We write to you today as religious leaders in our communities to express our support for the Dinowitz/Skoufis Masked Harassment bill. Our faith communities have witnessed firsthand the harmful effects of masked intimidation, and we stand united in the belief that it is

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