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New Bedford is, perhaps, best known for its rich maritime history. An important fishing hub since Colonial days, it’s renowned for its flourishing whaling industry of the 19th century. The city remains a major commercial fishing port. Prospective residents are increasingly drawn to New Bedford, where a price for a home is less expensive, on … Read more
The New York University chapter president of the College Republicans resigned this week, yielding to pressure from the national organization after she was prominently quoted in a Vanity Fair profile saying that Barron Trump, President Trump’s youngest son, was “sort of like an oddity on campus.” In the profile, published on Feb. 12, Kaya Walker, … Read more
New Bedford is, perhaps, best known for its rich maritime history. An important fishing hub since Colonial days, it’s renowned for its flourishing whaling industry of the 19th century. The city remains a major commercial fishing port. Prospective residents are increasingly drawn to New Bedford, where a price for a home is less expensive, on … Read more
That these characters are, as Hunter puts it, “versions of me had I not found offramps” does not make them less dramatically valid. In a way, as he has been discovering ever since, it makes them more so. If “A Case for the Existence of God,” from 2022, is about the struggle to have children, … Read more
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at a new effort by state regulators to stop people who manipulate the cannabis market using tactics such as trafficking illegal products into licensed stores. We’ll also get details on today’s court hearing about dropping the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. New York State regulators are beginning … Read more
Dale E. Ho ran the American Civil Liberties Union’s voting rights litigation department when President Trump’s first administration tried to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The question, he said at the time, would “wreck the once-in-a-decade count of the nation’s population” by intimidating immigrants legal and not. In his first appearance before … Read more
A federal judge on Wednesday is expected to scrutinize the Trump administration’s extraordinary attempt to abandon corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, a decision that shook the legal community and led to calls for the mayor’s resignation. The judge, Dale E. Ho, ordered the Washington prosecutors who sought a dismissal of the case last … Read more
As Gov. Kathy Hochul weighs removing Mayor Eric Adams from office, Mr. Adams not only appears to be running out of allies, options and, perhaps, time. Dozens of interviews around New York City this week suggest that he is also rapidly losing support among New Yorkers, including many who voted for him. Dustin Meighan, 38, … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams of New York has chosen Kaz Daughtry, a deputy police commissioner known for his combative social media presence and close relationship with the mayor, to be deputy mayor for public safety, according to two people familiar with the matter. Deputy Commissioner Daughtry will replace Chauncey Parker, a former prosecutor who announced his … Read more
Four top New York City officials said they would resign after the Justice Department moved to dismiss Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case in apparent exchange for his help with President Trump’s deportation agenda. The four officials — Maria Torres-Springer, the first deputy mayor, and Meera Joshi, Anne Williams-Isom and Chauncey Parker, all also deputy mayors … Read more