It's Tuesday in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling for the creation of “pedestrian-only” districts and a crackdown on reckless drivers over the next decade.
The agenda released this morning, which is Mamdani's first citywide plan to reduce traffic deaths, comes after street safety advocates held a “die-in” outside City Hall following a recent series of hit-and-run crashes. There have been at least 140 traffic deaths across the city so far this year, according to the Department of Transportation.
Mamdani’s update was light on specifics, and many of his most aggressive proposals would require approval by state lawmakers in Albany.
Manhattan prosecutors said they've seized the domains of 12 websites used to distribute and sell AI-generated "deepfake" porn that's based on the images of real people.
Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student who spent months detained by immigration officials last year, filed a federal lawsuit against the university over its alleged treatment of pro-Palestinian activists.
Police said a 17-year-old boy was stabbed in front of the William H. Taft Educational Campus in the Bronx yesterday morning.
New York, along with 21 other states and the District of Columbia, has sued to block a new Trump administration rule granting immigration officers nearly unfettered discretion to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.
The New Jersey attorney general’s office said it's “carefully reviewing” a claim that ICE is illegally detaining immigrants at a warehouse facility in Roxbury.
The cat caper has the neighborhood up in arms and on the hunt for a couple caught on surveillance camera walking away with the 3-month-old white kitten.
