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The professor, speaking on a hot mic, said, “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school” when a student objected to the possible closure of a middle school. The remark was assailed as racist.

Considered an “author’s publisher” at Random House and then Penguin, she cultivated the careers of dozens of celebrated novelists and nonfiction writers.

Busloads of New Yorkers flooded the State Capitol to press state leaders to raise taxes on corporations and high earners to help fund various initiatives.

The Treasury Department is interfering with Nicolás Maduro’s constitutional right to counsel, his lawyer argued. Mr. Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, faces federal charges.

Prosecutors said that Asif Merchant traveled to the United States in 2024, under the guise of a businessman, to coordinate plots to kill leaders, including President Trump.

The New York transportation authority said it would sue the Trump administration if it did not release more than $58 million in funding that had already been awarded by next week.

Community groups are opposing proposals to expand the decades-old Cross Bronx Expressway in favor of more limited fixes and improvements to local streets.

Maurene Comey is joining Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. She was abruptly fired by the Trump administration last year after a career as a top federal prosecutor.

When the snow melts, it brings a new hassle as the pavement freezes and expands. The Sanitation Department will be on pothole patrol in the spring.

As the forecast rapidly worsened, Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged his staff to implement new policies and emphasized the need to communicate aggressively about the snow.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani selected Erin Dalton, a public official in the Pittsburgh area, to head New York City’s Department of Social Services.

When Malibu Diner in Chelsea shut down on Sunday night, it ended a unique breakfast program for older people in the city.

The Nobel laureate Richard Axel is not accused of wrongdoing but called his association with Jeffrey Epstein a “serious error in judgment.”

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said officers had been attacked at a snowball fight at Washington Square Park during Monday’s blizzard.