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Case 1:24-cr-00556-DEH Document 175-1 Filed 03/25/25 Page 10 of 15 the motion is uncontested, the court should ordinarily presume that the prosecutor is acting in good faith and dismiss the indictment without prejudice”). But Adams’s consent-which was negotiated without my Office’s awareness or participation-would not guarantee a successful motion, given the basic flaws … Read more

Vape makers are especially vulnerable to the tariffs. Nicolas Guarino, co-founder and chief executive of Jaunty, which makes the state’s top-selling brand of cannabis vapes, said that the cost of hardware for a single vape had climbed 22 percent, to $5. The company’s next quarterly hardware order totaled about $240,000, compared with $200,000 without the … Read more

On an early summer day in 1876 near Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, a middle-aged woman carrying three large, putrid mushrooms repulsed fellow travelers riding a horse-drawn trolley car. Even wrapped in paper, the stench of the aptly named stinkhorn mushrooms was overpowering, but the woman stifled a laugh upon overhearing two other passengers gripe … Read more

Road salt is leaching into the reservoirs that hold New York City’s tap water and could make some of it unhealthy to drink by the turn of the century, according to a new study commissioned by city environmental officials. The study, released last week by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, found that while salt … Read more

The sun glistened across the turquoise water. The palm trees shimmered in the warm breeze. For a certain set of high school seniors from New York, spring break on Paradise Island in the Bahamas was underway. Last week, hundreds of teenagers from about a dozen private high schools engaged in what has become an unsanctioned … Read more

The Trump administration on Monday welcomed concessions by Columbia University to tighten disciplinary procedures and assert more control over academic departments in response to charges of antisemitism, saying the actions represent a “positive first step in the university maintaining a financial relationship with the United States government.” Facing the loss of about $400 million in … Read more

Case 1:25-cv-02412 Document 1 Filed 03/24/25 Page 3 of 48 5. Mere days later, however, the federal government began a series of unlawful efforts to arrest, detain, and remove Ms. Chung from the country because of her protected speech. It now appears that an ICE official signed an administrative arrest warrant for Ms. … Read more

For tens of thousands of New York City families, vouchers for free or discounted child care from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services have offered a lifeline as the cost of day care for infants and toddlers has skyrocketed. Those vouchers could start disappearing in a matter of weeks unless lawmakers in Albany act quickly … Read more

Fred Eversley, a sculptor who used a technique dating back to Isaac Newton to make otherworldly discs of tinted resin, died on March 14 in Manhattan. He was 83. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Maria Larsson, who said that he died after a brief illness. Mr. Eversley was a Brooklyn … Read more

Nadine Menendez, the wife of New Jersey’s disgraced former senator, Robert Menendez, played a central role in a yearslong plot to trade her husband’s political influence for bribes of cash, gold and a luxury car, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday at the start of Ms. Menendez’s federal bribery trial. “They were partners in crime,” … Read more