Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images It’s time to consider the remote possibility that Donald Trump will attempt to violate the Constitution and seek a third term. In a recent interview with NBC News, he appeared distinctly open to the prospect of running again, and The Wall Street Journal reported his attorney had studied the idea in […]
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Two years ago, newly pregnant and fleeing a violent partner, Briana Drummer left her life behind and checked into a family shelter. There, feeling overwhelmed, she spotted “a big, bright poster” advertising CUNY Reconnect, a program that allows adults with partial college credit to finish their degrees at the City University of New York. “I
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COUNCIL HEARING: The City Council’s committee on general welfare will hold an oversight hearing at 10 a.m. today to evaluate how city programs tackle hunger and food insecurity. Tune into the hearing here. NEW INSURANCE RULES: The state’s Department of Financial Services finalized a rule on Wednesday requiring private health insurance companies to ask patients
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The City Council is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars more for health services in the next city budget under the shadow of sweeping federal cuts to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The Council released its response to Mayor Eric Adams’ $114.5 billion preliminary budget proposal on Wednesday, calling for $378.9 million in
As turbulent U.S. equity markets cloud the picture for initial public offerings, some on Wall Street are urging companies to temper their valuations for a better chance of pulling off a successful deal. Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group filed publicly for a listing on Tuesday, joining a hopper of companies including Klarna Group Plc and
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The real estate market in Manhattan is on its way back to normal — or at least something close to it. The number of condo and co-op sales in the borough surged to 2,560 in the first quarter of 2025, up 28.8% from the same period last year, according to the latest report from Douglas
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The state has delayed a contentious payment reform for school-based health centers until next month, offering clinics a glimmer of hope that lawmakers will abandon the overhaul entirely. The Department of Health is spearheading a plan to reimburse the state’s roughly 250 school-based health centers through the Medicaid managed care program, which will require the
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Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In 1959, a teenage Kitty Cone was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. The daughter of a well-off military family, she discovered that her disability often worked against her family’s wealth and political connections. She attended five different high schools, including the posh Holton-Arms School where her cousins had to carry her up
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Alex Rotar was one step away from ending it all. He stood on a ledge on top of a six-floor apartment building in Dyker Heights as officers from the NYPD and the U.S. Marshall’s Fugitive Task Force yelled at him to come down on March 14, 2024, according to court records. “I’m standing there with
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Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images My initial reaction to the news that Cory Booker was going to hold the Senate floor for many hours to dramatize his opposition to Trump 2.0 was a bit despairing: Having demonstrated that they no longer have any leverage over the administration and its supine congressional allies, Senate Democrats would now
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