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It's Monday in New York City, where two local cops from Altoona, Pennsylvania, have found themselves in the middle of one of the most highly publicized trials in a decade.
The two officers who arrested Luigi Mangione in a McDonald's last year testified in an ongoing pre-trial hearing that they found a handgun, loaded magazine, silencer, notebook, and a "manifesto" inside the suspect's backpack.
But according to the accused CEO shooter's defense lawyers, those officers opened and searched the backpack without a warrant — and a judge should therefore toss all the evidence found in it.
Federal immigration officers were able to enter private areas of New York City shelters or obtain resident information without presenting judicial warrants at least five times earlier this year, according to official incident reports obtained by Gothamist.
The Archdiocese of New York said it's selling the land beneath the Palace Hotel in Manhattan to the hotel owner for $490 million — part of a real estate sell-off meant to fund a global settlement for church sex abuse survivors.
Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation that would have revoked the mayor of New York City's prerogative to bounce any City Council-proposed changes to the City Charter off the ballot. If Hochul had signed it into law, Mamdani would have faced new complications enacting his ambitious agenda.
A coalition of New York medical schools and other prominent research institutions is asking Gov. Hochul to commit billions of state dollars in the coming years to create a new biomedical research fund amid ongoing uncertainty around federal science funding.
