Commuters at Union Station in Washington have been confronted in recent days by an image of Lady Liberty with her finger pointed at them. “New York Wants You!” she says. Were she not sporting her standard robe and crown, she could be mistaken for Uncle Sam. The ad, appearing on a station kiosk, is part … Read more
Two Manhattan prosecutors who worked on the corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, were put on administrative leave by the Justice Department on Friday, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. The prosecutors, Celia Cohen and Andrew Rohrbach, had been serving in high-ranking positions in the U.S. attorney’s office for … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams of New York moved to bolster his administration on Friday by naming replacements for the four deputy mayors who announced last month that they were stepping down to protest the mayor’s cooperative stance toward President Trump’s immigration enforcement. Two of the appointees, Kaz Daughtry and Adolfo Carrión Jr., currently work in the … Read more
The Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University because of what it described as the school’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment. The announcement escalated the administration’s targeting of Columbia, where protests last year over the war in Gaza set off a … Read more
Experts are emphasizing the importance of vaccination against measles after two people in New York and three in New Jersey were diagnosed with the viral illness since the start of the year. It’s not unusual for sporadic cases of measles to be reported. Last year, 14 people in New York City were diagnosed with the … Read more
Corrections officers who staged unauthorized strikes that have sowed chaos across New York State’s prisons for the last two and a half weeks received an ultimatum on Thursday night: Return to work on Friday or face termination, disciplinary action and the possibility of criminal charges. In exchange for the officers’ returning to work, the state … Read more
Last year, as a growing schism over Israel tore at the Democratic Party, Andrew M. Cuomo threw himself into the fray. He announced he would lead a new advocacy group leveraging his clout as New York’s former governor to beat back growing anti-Israel sentiment on the left. The group, Never Again, NOW!, offered an ambitious … Read more
Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott, Nina Hoss and More, Off Broadway in March
Paul D. Clement, the lawyer whom a federal judge asked to deliver independent arguments on the Trump Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, is to deliver his views to the court on Friday. The widely anticipated filing was sought by the judge, Dale E. Ho, because … Read more
ADLER What I learned immediately is if the critics didn’t like you, you didn’t have long. So at that point, not to spoil any of the excitement of coming out of London and L.A., and about the release of the film, I wanted to close as quickly as possible. If I regret it, I only … Read more