NEW YORK (AP) — Judge has set Donald Trump's sentencing for July 11, just days before Republicans are set to select him as 2024 nominee.

HUGE win for Alvin Bragg, who faced down death threats and political attacks for doing his job.

More than *100,000 households* have already applied for the Section 8 waiting list this morning The application portal has only been open for 10 hours, most of those pre-dawn The stat comes from NYCHA, which administers the largest Section 8 program in NYC

Mayor Adams vetoed NYC’s ban on solitary confinement for detainees at Rikers. Then City Council overrode his veto. Now, Mayor Eric Adams is hiring a law firm to petition a federal judge to suspend the solitary ban, according to a new letter filed today in federal court.

CVS store-brand drugs are a few dollars cheaper and consumers could assume they're the same as the big, name brand ones. Mold, bacteria and barefoot factory workers say otherwise. Read my latest investigation: bloom.bg/45hcae9

BREAKING: The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed the Tulsa Race Massacre case, in what was likely the final opportunity for survivors to receive justice whatimreading.net/p/oklahoma-sup…

"40 Acres and a Mule" remains the nation's most famous attempt to provide reparations. Finally, there's been a specific accounting of the 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were actually given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Why are NYPD helicopters, whose flight hours and operating costs are way up under Mayor Adams, cruising major tourist attractions, ferrying brass to Philly, and zipping out to the Hamptons on a summer Friday? None of your business. hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-is-fl…

A project everyone should read - perhaps especially today on Juneteenth. Do you know about the first systemic attempt to provide benefits/reparations to those formerly enslaved? Thousands were given land. Then it was taken back. 🧵motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

What Mike Sisak 🗒️ said! You will not want to miss this! 😎

NEWS: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has been bombarded with a surge of death threats and racist harassment in the three weeks since his office secured Trump’s conviction. He received this letter with a cutout of his head stuck beside a noose during the trial. nydailynews.com/2024/06/20/da-…

Today, I reported w/ The New York Times that the NYPD has been burying cases of police brutality — chokeholds, taserings, and more. Let me tell you about some of those cases. About what happened to the victims. And about what happened to *the officers*

NEW: A Rikers Detainee Made a Daring Escape. The Getaway Car? A City Bus. nytimes.com/2024/06/27/nyr…

My The Associated Press colleagues captured Americans watching the debate across the country last night and it is stunning.

Justice Sotomayor: "If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military...to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?" Trump’s Lawyer: "That could well be an official act." – Trump v. US, oral arguments

A prosecutor reviewed Marcellus Williams's case and found “clear and convincing evidence” of his innocence. The Missouri Supreme Court still set an execution date. Today, the circuit court will decide if it'll hold a hearing and consider that evidence missouriindependent.com/2024/06/28/st-…

I'm so tired of being gaslit by America's pundits and editorial-page editors, so I kind of went all Harper Valley PTA in my new newsletter Biden mumbles and walks slow. Democracy is on a ventilator. Journalists need to figure out what's more important 🎁inquirer.com/columnists/att…

Democracy in crisis is more important than poll numbers. We seem unable, even now, to shift news coverage consistently towards the unprecedented unrolling of democratic and constitutional norms and the impending cataclysm. We should be listening not to pundits but to scholars of

As media, we consistently proclaim that we are just reporting the news when in fact we are driving it. What we cover, how we cover it, determines often what Americans thinks is important and *how* they perceive these issues yet we keep pretending it is not so. If Americans don’t

NYC COVID cases up 250% in 2 months — and this variant's harder to duck buff.ly/3zCD7gq