By ZION DECOTEAU Three prominent Senate Republicans on Thursday blasted congressional progressive Democrats' plans to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 members as "a radical plan" to remake…
Jewish Sect Leaders Face Child Exploitation Charges
By MAYA SCHUBERT Leaders of an extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala were charged on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court with child exploitation offenses against a teenage girl illicitly married…
City Announces Flood Protections for East River Park
By SUSAN NUNEZ Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday the launch of a $ billion facelift to East River Park to add flood protection measures to the tract stretching…
R. Kelly Faces Brooklyn Trial on Sex Charges
By JENNA MORALES The way was cleared on Thursday for accused sex offender R. Kelly to stand trial in Brooklyn on Aug. 9 as a federal judge declared courthouse virus…
NYPD Brass Hat Defends No-Knock Warrants
By MAYA SCHUBERT New York Police Department Chief Rodney Harrison defended the use of no-knock search warrants at a press briefing Thursday amid growing concerns over no-knock raids spurred by…
Democratic Lawmakers Push Expanding Supreme Court
By ZION DECOTEAU Four progressive leaning congressional Democrats announced their tendentious plans for expanding the Supreme Court in a press conference on Thursday, a move that drew rebuke from both…
Westchester Exec Sees Light at End of Virus Tunnel
By JUANA NORALES County Executive George Latimer painted a rosy picture of the progress made against the pandemic in Westchester on Thursday, citing the plunge in the number of cases…
Biden Declares War on Gun Violence
By ZION DECOTEAU President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled his plans to stem the tide of gun violence in America, bypassing a recalcitrant Congress by issuing executive orders aimed at…
Mayor Doubles Number of Covid Cases Requiring Schools to Close
By MAYA SCHUBERT Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter announced on Thursday that New York City’s public schools would double the closure threshold…
Biden Stuns Press Corps Saying He ‘Expects’ to Run Again
By ZION DECOTEAU President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he expects to run again in 2024, stunning reporters at the first press conference of his presidency in the East…