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NEW YORK - Two men were shot, one fatally, at New York City's popular Tompkins Square Park in the East Village Friday morning. Police are searching for the gunman. Surveillance video shows the moment shots were fired just before 10 a.m. near East 7th Street. Sources say the two victims, 74 and 44, were shot in the back.…

Republican presidents and presidential candidates have used their leadership at critical moments to set a tone for society to live up to. Mr. Reagan faced down totalitarianism in the 1980s, appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court and worked with Democrats on bipartisan tax and immigration reforms. George H.W. Bush signed the Americans…

New York state will be mandating hotels to forgo small bottles containing “hospitality care” products such as shampoo and lotions. The enforcement comes as a bill was passed in the New York Assembly in hopes of reducing waste. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2025, hotels with more than 50 rooms will not be able to provide toiletry…

George Stephanopoulos, the ABC news anchor who recently interviewed President Biden about his fitness for the presidential race, was caught on camera Tuesday indicating that he doesn’t think Biden can serve another four years.Stephanopoulos, a former Democratic operative turned news anchor, is seen in gym clothes in a video published by TMZ when…

If Donald Trump wins the White House this fall and has a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice or two in the years that follow — by no means a certain prospect, but one that must be contemplated — his nominees are likely to be quite different than they were during his first term. Everything we know about Mr. Trump today suggests that he will…

When this Supreme Court term began last October, one of the more intriguing predictions from commentators was that Justice Amy Coney Barrett — entering her third full term on the court — would come out of her shell and emerge as the court’s new swing justice, casting the decisive vote in the most divisive cases.The commentators got half of that…

At Columbus Circle, only one of the 40 shops that opened in its underground market eight years ago is still open today. At Fulton Center, the decade-old mall in a Lower Manhattan subway station is nearly vacant. In Midtown, empty storefronts line the Port Authority and Rockefeller Center stations.The state of retail in New York City’s vast…

All sounds fine in President Biden’s world. That devastating debate? Just a bad night. Those dismal poll numbers? Simply inaccurate. The gloomy election predictions? The same old doomsayers, wrong again. The Democrats who want him to drop out? No one has told him that.For Mr. Biden, the crisis seen by so many Democrats who are not on his payroll…

Rishi Sunak, the outgoing British prime minister, conceded his Conservatives party’s defeat early Friday, while holding onto his seat in Parliament.Mr. Sunak took 47.5 percent of the vote in his constituency of Richmond and Northallerton in northern England. It was likely a relief for Mr. Sunak, who was reportedly worried about maintaining his…

Whenever a politician cites “Judeo-Christian values,” I find it’s generally followed by something unsettling.Last month brought two flagrant instances. In both cases, Republican officials introduced state laws that formalize precepts of the Christian nationalist movement — in the words of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (A.D.…