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News 12 Bronx
April 3, 2018
The letter was spread on social media and sent to Muslim officials and different communities around England and the U.K. last week. Muslim leaders said it wasn't sent to anyone specifically in New York City, but that they were taking it seriously. Religious leaders gathered Tuesday with Brooklyn BoroughÃâà...
New York Times
April 3, 2018
In the lawsuit, filed in United States District Court in New York, the officials argued that adding the citizenship question would depress the response to the census by noncitizens and their relatives, thwarting the Constitution's requirement of an “actual enumeration” of the nation's residents. The suit alsoÃâà...
New York Times
April 3, 2018
“We are preparing for the military to secure our border between Mexico and the United States,” he said during a news conference with the Baltic leaders, adding that he would be meeting with Mr. Mattis and other officials on the matter later in the day. “I think it's something we have to do.” Mr. Trump'sÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
FILE- In this Oct. 30, 2015, file photo John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, is interviewed by The Associated Press in Washington. Williams was officially announced on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, as the next president of the Fed's New York regional bank, considered the mostÃâà...
New York Times
April 3, 2018
Critics have suggested that school officials in New York City have ignored the subpar education at yeshivas because of the Jewish community's political clout. “I don't know if we met Senator Felder's demands,” said the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie. “I think we read the bill a different way.” He added: “ItÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
Sarah E. Mendelson, a former State Department official under President Barack Obama now at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested it may be part of “a strategy on the Russians' part to engage Trump as if he were disconnected ... The two did meet in New York in 2015 during a United Nations session.
U.S. News & World Report
April 2, 2018
NEWCOMB, N.Y. (AP) — State officials are conducting a public meeting on management plans for the recently expanded Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness. The meeting Tuesday night in Newcomb will deal with the classification of over 11,000 acres of the Boreas Ponds tract as wilderness, 9,118 acresÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 2, 2018
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. District Judge Leonard Wexler, who oversaw high-profile cases involving New York public officials during three decades on the bench, ... Wexler, who was based in Central Islip, died on Saturday, according to his son, William Wexler, a North Babylon, New York attorney.
WPIX 11 New York
March 28, 2018
QUEENS — A man being transported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at John F. Kennedy Airport escaped officials' custody Tuesday night, the department said. Mohamadou Lamine Mbacke, 31, was in custody and awaiting a flight when he fled the airport in a taxi around 9 p.m.,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
Ms. Hernandez is the second person in New York City to publicly seek sanctuary in a church. The first ... But ICE reserves the right to go into sensitive sites “in limited circumstances,” according to its official policy. ... The police officer, seeing she had no documents, reported her to immigration officials.
Syracuse.com
March 28, 2018
State officials said last month that it would remove and replace hundreds of "I Love NY" tourism signs along the Thruway and other New York highways after the federal government threatened to withhold $14 million in funding if they weren't removed. No project date was announced, but federal officialsÃâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official had repeated communications during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential race with a business ... In February 2017, he told The New York Times he had “never knowingly spoken to Russian intelligence officers, and I have never been involved withÃâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
Updated, 9:30 a.m.. Good morning on this gray Wednesday. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is again making our country's capital blush. Which got us wondering — is there an official flower for New York City? The state flower has long been the rose. A decade ago, Mayor Michael R. BloombergÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 27, 2018
“Quiroz-Zamora oversaw the delivery of multi-kilogram loads of fentanyl to New York, powerful enough to kill millions. The Strike Force and the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor acted quickly and efficiently to seize the toxic kilograms before hitting the streets and arresting all conspirators, includingÃâà...
New York Times
March 27, 2018
After the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, the Trump administration had been largely silent until the actions against Russian officials on Monday. President Trump, however, personally remained silent. We can anticipate that the Russians will expel a comparable number of American and WesternÃâà...
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