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Queens

The week ahead: de Blasio on the clock for promised trip to problem-plagued Rikers Island

By Robert Pozarycki

Queens

After NYC jail officials ignored suicide prevention plan, five detainees took their own lives

By Reuven Blau, THE CITY

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‘Torture island’: Calls grow louder for mayor to shutter Rikers, address inhumane conditions

By Dean Moses

Queens

De Blasio sparing rod, offering spoils for Rikers Island corrections cops working triple duty

By Robert Pozarycki

Gracie Mansion protesters urge de Blasio to act over latest Rikers Island inmate death

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Biden administration seeks to lift U.S. refugee cap to 125,000

By Mica Rosenberg and Lisa Lambert, Reuters

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After latest Rikers Island death, de Blasio acknowledges more improvements coming

By Morgan C. Mullings

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Op-ed | ‘Less is More’ act may mean more trouble than its worth

By Thomas Kenniff

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De Blasio pledges to visit chaotic Rikers Island before his term is up

By Ben Brachfeld

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Emergency plan aims to help inmates, NYC ‘get the hell’ off Rikers Island: de Blasio

By Robert Pozarycki

Queens

‘I just witnessed an attempted suicide’: Elected officials shaken during latest Rikers Island visit

By Dean Moses

Business

Newest eviction moratorium takes effect in NY as Hochul signs special session bill

By Robert Pozarycki

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De Blasio, women’s leaders condemn ‘dystopian’ Texas abortion ban, SCOTUS ignorance

By Robert Pozarycki

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Rikers wrath: Families, advocates demand mayor immediately reduce prison population

By Dean Moses

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Out of order! De Blasio, NYS courts trade barbs over slow criminal case processing

By Robert Pozarycki

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FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated: sources

By Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters

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Op-ed | Proposed parole reform would be deadly encore to new bail laws

By Thomas Kenniff

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NRA’s ‘unabated’ corruption justifies shutting it down, AG James argues

By Jonathan Stempel, Reuters

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Op-ed | The next Manhattan DA must help fix the incarceration crisis

By Mark Shervington

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Order in the courts: NYC gun crime cases to be expedited beginning next week

By Robert Pozarycki

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Lawmakers ask U.S. Justice Department to stop seeking death penalty

By Jonathan Allen, Reuters

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Safer city: Murder rate dropped 49.1% in July as NYPD, prosecutors squash street gangs

By Robert Pozarycki

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Carr v. de Blasio: Judicial inquiry takes shape in death of Eric Garner at hands of NYPD

By Dean Moses

Homeless men on the subway terminal platfrom being reached out by city homeless agents

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Fed Judge Halts City’s Plan to Move Homeless Back into Shelters

By Ariel Pacheco

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