It's Friday in New York, where more than 1,400 migrant children are on the verge of losing their federally funded legal representation.
A $200 million federal contract with the Acacia Center for Justice, a national nonprofit that manages agreements with 90 different legal service providers that represent unaccompanied migrant children, is set to expire today — and the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and Acacia haven't agreed on the terms of an extension.
Barring a new agreement, one attorney said judges will ask immigrant children to move forward with their cases, handing them documents in languages they don’t speak and asking them about the immigration charges against them.
A federal judge recently ruled that prison officials acted with “deliberate indifference” in managing medical care for 61-year-old David Blanding — who has bladder cancer and is incarcerated at an upstate prison — and must now report to court every two weeks with updates on his treatment.
The New York City Department of Buildings has ordered the owner of a buckled Midtown high-rise to hire an outside firm to scrutinize structural plans for its building next door.
A group of rays — also known as a “fever” — was spotted swimming through Newtown Creek, a notoriously filthy estuary of the East River, last weekend.
Does Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have a shot at winning the 2028 presidential election? Whether her endorsed candidate wins next week's Democratic Senate primary in Michigan will give some indication.
Earlier this week, police in Dunellen, New Jersey, used an officer disguised as a giant shrub to spot distracted drivers — and ultimately issue 74 citations.
"Jurassic Park" is one of many must-see masterpieces hitting cinemas and outdoor theaters this August, alongside some bona fide cinema classics, slasher horror flicks with a twist and a lovingly irreverent documentary about that one band whose name you were always afraid to say in front of your parents.
Our tour of the "Commie Corridor" revealed a scene that is trendy, queer, accepting and radical — hinting at the broad appeal of the democratic socialist movement that is growing across the country.
One of the people who stumbled on baseball at Elysian Fields was Henry Chadwick, a sports journalist who in 1856 was returning from covering a game of cricket — which had been played in America since British colonists arrived — when he saw a baseball game in the park.
