This spring, in the weeks after U.S. bombs hit Iran, Maryland Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen found his party’s stance on the war “confused.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded the Trump administration “be straig… More »
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Subway upgrades that stalled for nearly a year and a half at five stops in The Bronx and Upper Manhattan are finally advancing after the federal government agreed to release more than $150 million that had been secured for the MTA in 2024. The 16-month delay in turning loose $156.5 million from the federal All
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Over the last few months, THE CITY built a comprehensive database of ICE arrests from five months of emergency lawsuits filed by immigrant detainees in federal courts — offering a first-of-its-kind view into ICE’s tactics in the region since street arrests began to unfold in immigrant neighborhoods last year. These lawsuits, known as habeas corpus
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Subway upgrades that stalled for nearly a year and a half at five stops in The Bronx and Upper Manhattan are finally advancing after the federal government agreed to release more than $150 million that had been secured for the MTA in 2024. The 16-month delay in turning loose $156.5 million from the federal All
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If there were ever a film destined to be mistaken for centrist apologia (if not outright conservative propaganda), it’s Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, the searing social drama that won him his second Palme d’Or. However, its emotional impetus is contradiction, so any conflicted feelings when viewing it through a political prism are not unwarranted.
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As a candidate, Zohran Mamdani promised to fund the city’s three library systems with half of 1% of the city’s budget, vowing to end the usual budget dance and financial uncertainty that put libraries at the middle of tense negotiations with the City Council. But as mayor, Mamdani’s executive budget proposal coughs up just .42%
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Had he lived to this day, Miles Davis, the St. Louis-born horn player who forecasted and hugged every bend in jazz development over the course of his 65 years of material existence, would have turned 100. From pre-bop to bebop to the “cool” years to post-bop to the “blue” years to whatever “fusion” means to
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My long and varied media career includes a stint at LIFE magazine. Time Inc. had been trying to revive the property as a slideshow-oriented web 2.0 venture that paired new pictures with deep dives into the rich archives. Often we would present old photos alongside new interviews with the photographers or subjects of the photos.
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Frida Kahlo with green doors and window bars, a red border, and visitors walking outside.” width=”970″ height=”639″ data-caption=’Casa Azul, where Frida Kahlo lived for more than 40 years, draws art lovers from around the world. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Photo: Jordan Riefe for Observer</span>’> For three generations, art lovers have been drawn to a residential corner in
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Pope Leo XIV went viral on Monday with his warning about the threats AI poses to humanity and the More »
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