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Rafael Espinal, the current head of the Freelancers Union, will serve as the new director of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.

Two weeks ago, Eric Adams was in Times Square to lead the New Year’s Eve ball drop as his last act as mayor. He returned on Monday to promote a new business interest.

In a filing in the case involving Emmanuel Clase of the Cleveland Guardians, the bettor said he had never been tipped off about pitches and had only traded messages with the player about cockfighting.

Maksud Agadjani wound up hospitalized after he had a profane altercation with a rival, all of it captured on video. Business has never been better.

Last year, the Cuomo campaign released a video created by artificial intelligence that depicted Zohran Mamdani eating rice with his hands. Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to ban such tactics.

The government will have to navigate difficult legal issues and use testimony about incidents clouded by time. But conspiracy laws are powerful tools for prosecutors.

Thousands of protesters, prompted by the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent, gathered near Central Park and marched through Manhattan.

In his first week as mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani tried to bridge the political theater of his campaign with the much harder work of governing.

Disputes among lawyers are not exactly rare, but in the case of Mr. Maduro, the captive leader of Venezuela, the stakes are high and the interested parties are many.

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature.