Ban on Weight Discrimination Becomes Law in New York
The New York Times
The bill, signed by Mayor Eric Adams on Friday, adds weight to the list of characteristics protected from discrimination in areas like employment and housing.
Michael Tisius, convicted in the murders of two jail guards, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday.
Former President Donald J. Trump told a judge that he could not have defamed E. Jean Carroll by denying her rape accusation because a jury had found him liable only for sexually abusing her.
The guard, Jimmy Solano-Arias, forced a migrant, who was waiting to file an asylum application, to perform oral sex on him, federal prosecutors said.
After graduating from Stanford, David Breaux struggled to find his path — until he found his calling as “the Compassion Guy.”
A study proposed new approaches to get riders to pay to ride New York City’s transit system, including replacing subway turnstiles with fare gates that are harder to jump over.
The former South Carolina governor, who also served as United Nations ambassador under Donald Trump, emphasized her experience and vision. Will it be enough for her to stand out?
The state attorney general said the migrants carried documents that specified a Florida government agency and a company that dropped migrants in Martha’s Vineyard last year.
President Biden is asking voters to keep him in the White House until age 86, renewing attention to an issue that polls show troubles most Americans.
With single-party statehouse control at its highest level in decades, legislators across much of the country leaned into cultural issues and bulldozed the opposition.
Michael Tisius was convicted of murdering two jail guards. He is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday.
On a two-block stretch of Brownsville in April, the police stepped aside and let residents respond to 911 calls. It was a bold experiment that some believe could redefine law-enforcement in New York City.