Year: 2025
March 18, 2025
Politics
Trump releases 80,000 JFK assassination files
The Trump administration released 80,000 files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Tuesday evening -- triggering a feeding frenzy among amateur historians, conspiracy buffs and experts...
March 18, 2025
Politics
NYC gears up to boot rule-breaking residents from some homeless shelters: ‘Culture of accountability’
Mayor Eric Adams wants to revive a Bloomberg-era policy that allowed the city to at least temporarily boot rule-breaking residents from homeless shelters. Mayor Eric Adams wants to revive...
March 18, 2025
Politics
Powerful Republican poses potential roadblock to Trump-backed plan for saving TikTok
Trump has long argued that Oracle – co-founded by his close friend Larry Ellison, the Silicon Valley billionaire – should be at the center of any deal involving TikTok....
March 18, 2025
Politics
Lefty Gavin Newsom schools Tim Walz on MAGA, denies it’s just ‘racism and misogyny’ — while praising Steve Bannon
"I don’t think you can dismiss what saying, reminds me a lot of what Bernie Sanders was saying, reminds me a lot of what Democrats said...
March 18, 2025
Politics
Hochul will defy Trump deadline to stop NYC congestion pricing — but insists president still backs her Penn Station revamp plan
Hochul is framing the Penn project as one of her biggest areas of agreement with Trump, but noted he winced when she asked him to help secure a massive...
March 18, 2025
Health Care
The Trump administration is discussing cutting CDC’s domestic HIV funding
The cuts would seem to run counter to a first-term Trump priority. The cuts would seem to run counter to a first-term Trump priority. Health Care
March 18, 2025
Politics
Married Minnesota lawmaker with four kids accused of soliciting sex from minor
State Sen. Justin Eichorn, 40, thought he was arranging to meet a 17-year-old girl for sex in Bloomington when he was actually communicating with police detectives, according to the...
March 18, 2025
Politics
NYC mayoral hopeful Brad Lander among critics demanding ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo return $5M profits from COVID book
A state ethics panel already tried to force Cuomo to return the $5.1 million in book money in 2021, saying the three-term governor violated pledges not to use state resources...
March 18, 2025
Politics
NYC mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo proposes boosting subway cops to level not seen since ‘90s
Mayoral candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a subway safety plan Tuesday that would boost the number of underground transit cops by 50% to more than 4,000 --...
March 18, 2025
Politics
Trump admin demands MTA fork over NYC subway crime data — or risk billons in federal funding
Get on board with subway safety or hop off the gravy train. President Trump’s transportation chief demanded the MTA fork over data on plants to tackle subway crime and...