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The rebel leader believed success was in hand: An autocrat deposed, tyranny on the run, one of America’s oldest cultural institutions rescued from disaster. “We used classic guerrilla tactics,” said Twig Branch, the rebel leader, savoring his victory. He and a small band of allies had successfully ousted the president of Chautauqua Institution, a 151-year-old … Read more
Two people approached a Tesla parked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan one night last month and spray-painted a bright red swastika on it. A few weeks later, another pair walked up to a Tesla parked in Brooklyn and carved a swastika on its door, along with the word “Nazis.” The Police Department is … Read more
The New York attorney general’s office said on Wednesday that it would not file charges against a police officer who fatally shot a 13-year-old boy in Utica, N.Y., because it did not believe the evidence would convince a jury that the officer’s use of force was unjustified. The killing of the boy, Nyah Mway, sparked … Read more
The night before Dr. Joanne Liu was scheduled to deliver a long-planned speech at N.Y.U., her alma mater, she received a call that stunned her. Her presentation on humanitarian crises was being canceled, the university official on the other end of the line said. The reason, Dr. Liu said she was told, was that her … Read more
‘I Did Nothing Wrong’: Adams Says After Corruption Charges Dropped
Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City who, after his federal corruption indictment, forged a mutually beneficial relationship with President Donald J. Trump, on Wednesday made clear where his loyalties lie. Hours after a federal judge granted the Trump administration’s request to dismiss the corruption charges against him, Mr. Adams suggested at a … Read more
Columbia University’s move to use police force to clear demonstrators from a campus building last spring could potentially have been avoided, as some students were urgently asking if they could leave voluntarily, according to a report released Tuesday by the university’s senate. The students, who early that morning had entered Hamilton Hall and barricaded the … Read more
Little Island, the floating park atop a collection of funnel-like columns in the Hudson River, will welcome a flurry of programming to its theaters with no walls this summer, the second season of programming funded by Barry Diller and his family foundation. Filling its three open-air performance spaces — the Amph, the Glade and the … Read more
Case 1:24-cr-00556-DEH Document 177 Filed 04/02/25 Page 40 of 78 of the leave-of-court requirement in Rule 48(a) is to enable a court to inquire into whether the dismissal should be with prejudice”). The Second Circuit has thus far declined to “rule out discretionary dismissals with prejudice” in similar contexts. Hilbert v. Dooling, 476 … Read more
Senator Cory Booker’s staff members described a nagging fear as they worked for a week to fill 15 binders with enough material to cover what would soon become a history-making, 25-hour speech. What if no one listened? Their worry was short-lived. By 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 16 hours after Mr. Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, … Read more