State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just sounded a blaring alarm about the state’s cash shortfall — but don’t expect lawmakers to take heed.
Day: August 12, 2025
In our news wrap Tuesday, National Guard soldiers were seen on the streets of the nation’s capital as President Trump’s temporary federal takeover of policing in Washington, D.C. begins, Texas GOP leaders say they’ll call a second special session of the legislature if Democrats don’t return by Friday, and police in Texas say the man who shot three people in a parking lot opened fire randomly.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the government will continue to issue the monthly jobs report, which includes the nation’s unemployment rate, despite comments by an administration’s nominee that suggested suspending it.
Three MS-13 members who allegedly terrorized Nassau County with a spate of violent crimes including 14 counts of attempted murder and 49 counts of assault are police custody following a joint Aug. 8 operation between ICE New York City, the Nassau County Police Department and the FBI.
“This behavior is either a precursor to something more serious — or it’s ignorance and it’s fixable,” the cop said.
For a preview of how relations will look between City Hall and the NYPD under a Mayor Mamdani, just look at one ex-cop’s take on Bill de Blasio’s tenure.
“No visit to the NSMV vessel is planned after the WH realized how many steps were involved to get on the ship,” a MARAD official notified members of Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), quoting a contact the agency had at that shipyard.
VA hospitals are finding it harder to fill jobs, watchdog says
Researchers have discovered that certain types of gut bacteria may raise or lower the risk of insomnia.
Nearly a dozen ex-cons graduated Monday from the city’s Department of Probation’s inaugural culinary-skills program, part of a range of new classes offered to parolees to try to bolster employment and slash recidivism rates.