Hochul defends NYC migrant busing program: 'It's not always going to be perfect'

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NYC street homelessness would surge if Mayor Adams gets permission to scrap right-to-shelter, Legal Aid argues in court

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Retired NYC workers sue to block Mayor Adams' latest Medicare Advantage Plan: 'An unjust bait and switch' (Exclusive)

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Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy, diagnosed with dementia - May 30, 2023

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Trump lawyer say he was 'waved off' searching Mar-a-Lago office for classified documents -- Attorney Evan Corcoran told two colleagues he was barred from looking for secret documents in Trump's personal office at the Florida resort club.

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Debt ceiling deal set to move forward over howls of opposition from right-wing Republicans -- Two members of the conservative Freedom Caucus voted against the measure in the powerful GOP-led rules committee but it looked set to move to the full House.

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Trump takes aim at birthright U.S. citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants -- Trump declared he would end birthright citizenship as a priority if he wins a second term in the White House.

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40 migrants from NYC arrive in Albany; upstate officials battle busing program in courts -- Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan said her city welcomed the arrivals, but she seemed to quibble with the Adams administration's hotel selection for the migrants.

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Trump and Ron DeSantis spar over GOP war on 'woke' Disney -- After the Florida governor accused Trump of backing the media giant, the ex-president hit back by blaming DeSantis for allowing Disney to drift to the left on his watch.

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NYC Mayor Adams rails against 'hot rays of socialism and communism' in Memorial Day speech -- Mayor Adams denounced left-wing ideologies in an ultra-patriotic Monday speech in which he also lamented a perceived lack of national pride among young Americans.

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Russia issues Lindsey Graham arrest warrant over Ukraine war comments -- Sen. Lindsey Graham is now wanted for arrest in Russia for comments about Ukraine. And the South Carolina Republican said he wants it that way.

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Republicans, Biden wrangle votes for debt ceiling deal -- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's vote counters were making calls on the Memorial Day holiday to stem defections from GOP conservatives who wanted far more cuts and a much smaller increase in the debt limit.

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Critics want Mayor Adams to push NYC landlords to make vacant apartments available for migrants -- One thing Adams has generally avoided doing publicly is calling on the city's landlords to make their vacant apartments available for migrants. Critics are now asking why.

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Biden, McCarthy try to win over Congress after reaching tentative debt ceiling deal -- With many Republicans lawmakers scoffing at the agreement and some Democrats feeling they'd been left out of the process, Biden and McCarthy's work was cut out for them Sunday.

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Thousands of NYC apartments for homeless sit empty amid migrant crisis -- Obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request, the documents show that 2,646 of the city's supportive housing units — which are meant for homeless individuals with a need for social services — were empty on March 31.

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Impeached: Historic House vote forces out Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton -- Attorney General Paxton faces the possibility of becoming just the third Texas official in the state's almost 200-year history to be impeached.

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VP Harris becomes first woman to deliver West Point commencement speech, warns cadets of 'unsettled world' -- VP Kamala Harris commended West Point's graduating cadets on Saturday, making her as the first woman to ever give the keynote address in the military academy's 221-year history.

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Debt ceiling deadline extended to June 5 as Congress breaks for Memorial Day weekend -- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the projected debt ceiling deadline is extended to June 5, four days later than previously estimated.

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New Iowa school law bans LGBTQ discussions, forces outing of trans kids, removes HIV/HPV info from curriculum -- A new Iowa school law bans LGBTQ discussions, forces schools to out transgender kids, bans books with any sexual content, and removes HIV/HPV information from curriculum.

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Ron DeSantis snipes at Trump for first time as presidential campaign gets underway -- Seeking to bounce back from a glitch-plague campaign launch, the Florida governor has accused Trump of going soft on hot-button issues like abortion, immigration and the so-called "war on woke."

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Member of far-right group Oath Keepers gets 8-plus years in prison for Jan. 6 Capitol attack -- Jessica Watkins, an Army veteran from Ohio, tearfully pleaded in vain for leniency after she was convicted of obstruction and conspiracy to impede Congress' certification of President Biden's victory and the peaceful transfer of power.

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NYC Council's Italian-American caucus lodges ethics complaint against Councilman Chi Ossé, cites ethnic slights -- Councilman Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican and a member of the caucus, said he emailed the complaint to Councilman Kalman Yeger, the chairman of the Council's Standards and Ethics Committee, and an attorney for the Council, on Thursday.

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White House and Republicans inch toward debt ceiling deal to avoid catastrophic default -- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said negotiators are inching toward a deal that reportedly includes raising the limit until after the 2024 presidential election and freezing some domestic spending.

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Weight discrimination is now illegal in NYC -- People who are overweight, tall or short in New York City will now be protected from discrimination rooted in those characteristics under a bill Mayor Adams signed into law Friday — a measure advocates hope will prompt other cities to follow suit.

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Ex-Cuomo admin official Ana Almanzar picked as Mayor Adams' deputy for strategic initiatives -- Ana Almanzar, who served as chief of staff in Cuomo's state nonprofit unit between 2014 and 2020, is expected to become Adams' deputy mayor of strategic initiatives, a source told the Daily News.

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Texas lawmakers call for impeachment of AG Ken Paxton after investigation -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton came perilously close to impeachment, after the Republican-led House investigative committee recommended impeachment on Thursday.

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NYC Council votes to expand rent voucher access in face of Mayor Adams' opposition, teeing up potential veto fight -- Adams' opposition to the package of bills sets the stage for him to potentially issue a veto. His spokesman, Fabien Levy, would not say after the vote whether he will take the rare executive action, but added: "We are reviewing our options."

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In court fight preview, Legal Aid lawyer points at hole in NYC's plan to lift right-to-shelter: 'It's not thought through' -- A top Legal Aid Society lawyer who's expected to fight Mayor Adams' proposed right-to-shelter rollback in court said Thursday that the mayor's plan contains a "bizarre" contradiction that could draw scrutiny from a judge — providing a preview of how arguments in the high-stakes legal case could play out.

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Trump mocks Ron DeSantis after epic fail of campaign launch on Twitter -- After DeSantis stumbled badly in his long-awaited campaign launch, Trump derided his Republican rival as a disloyal GOP establishment retread or worse.

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Letizia Tagliafierro, former NY inspector general, dies at 50 -- In the Cuomo administration, Tagliafierro served as director of intergovernmental affairs, head of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and finally as inspector general.

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Trump workers moved classified documents at Mar-a-Lago before prosecutors arrived: report -- The two Trump employees, including longtime valet Walt Nauta, brought boxes of documents to a basement storage room on June 2, just hours before Justice Department officials came to the Florida resort to execute the subpoena, a report said.

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Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé accused of anti-Italian bias: 'Reprehensible and disgusting' -- The uproar is rooted in a comment that Ossé, a Democrat who heads the Council's Cultural Affairs Committee, made Monday about Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, a city contractor that had to cough up more than $1 million in restitution last year after being accused of fraud.

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Ron DeSantis launches 2024 campaign with embarrassing tech snafu as Trump looms large -- 'I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback,' DeSantis declared Wednesday night after more than 20 minutes of awkward Twitter glitches.

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Ron DeSantis files paperwork to run for president ahead of announcement tonight on Twitter -- Ron DeSantis filed paperwork to run for president Wednesday afternoon ahead of tonight's official announcement on Twitter with controversial owner Elon Musk.

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