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Federal immigration authorities on Saturday detained a well-known activist who played a major role in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian student movement last year, his lawyer said on Sunday. The arrest of the activist, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was a significant escalation of President Trump’s crackdown on what he has called antisemitic campus … Read more

Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in … Read more

The lobby lacks the swirly marble flooring and chandeliers of finer residential buildings. The long hallways are almost dingy. But behind one of the apartment doors on a recent night, the mood was anything but dull. Butterflied branzino was about to go in the oven. A pan of glistening buns rested on the stove. Fariyal … Read more

There are plenty of thorny policy issues facing the next governor of New Jersey. Housing and health care costs are high. Mass transit is on the ropes. Schools are among the most segregated in the country, and sea levels along the state’s 130-mile coastline are rising. But on the campaign trail, nearly all the candidates … Read more

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As a reporter for The New York Times, Dionne Searcey has, as she put it, covered “a gazillion different things.” She has written about politics, environmental issues and economics and traveled to places like Romania; … Read more

Good Seat Dear Diary: My husband and I got tickets for “Take Me Out” when it first played in New York in the early 2000s. We had seats close to the stage, and I started a conversation with a woman sitting to my right who had a thick Texas accent. She and a male colleague … Read more

When New Yorkers get a sky-high energy bill, many turn to social media and vent their frustrations on Instagram, TikTok or Reddit. Recently, their rage has been directed toward a state-run website, too. In January, the Department of Public Service, which regulates utilities, began considering a request for a rate increase by Con Edison, the … Read more

As Adrienne Adams officially kicked off her mayoral campaign on Saturday, she urged potential voters at a rally in Jamaica, Queens, to view her as an alternative to the city’s two most recognizable candidates, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. But many of her supporters see her candidacy as something else: an … Read more

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting on Friday night that killed one Newark police officer and injured another, Essex County officials said on Saturday. The boy, who was also injured, was charged with murder, attempted murder and possessing illegal weapons following the shooting, Theodore N. Stephens II, the Essex County … Read more

Sergio Furnari likes to think big. For the last 25 years, he has made a name for himself creating and displaying his giant works of art in public spaces. “I believe in manifestation,” he said. “If you dream it, it will come true.” His latest project, a nine-foot-tall metal statue of the soccer star Cristiano … Read more