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The announcement came a day after Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said the federal government intended to spend $8 billion on the project.

A lawsuit challenges the police practice of shackling mentally ill arrestees in New York, sometimes for long periods, while they await arraignment in locked psychiatric wards.

They encountered demonstrations and ultimatums from the Trump administration. At Wednesday’s commencement, it was all about the sweltering weather.

Citizens Union, a government watchdog group, suggested that although Mr. Adams’s federal indictment was dropped, his alleged offenses would still be state crimes.

A Honduran man was taken into custody on Tuesday in New York City, which his lawyers said violated a prohibition imposed a day earlier. Hours later, the man was released.

The deaths, of a 40-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, bring to four the number of fatalities at Rikers Island this year.

Expanding child care is a pillar of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda. Newly released application numbers may raise questions about strategy and demand.

Details are still emerging about the contract reached after a three-day strike that shut down America’s busiest passenger rail service. But the fallout could be felt for years.

The woman plunged 10 feet, and a passer-by heard her screams. Con Edison said video footage suggested the manhole cover had been dislodged by a truck 12 minutes earlier.

Workers for the nation’s busiest passenger rail service, who had not received a raise since 2022, were on strike for three days. Despite the agreement, commuting was likely to remain difficult on Tuesday.