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Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.

More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.

Though he said, without naming names, that he regrets trusting the wrong people, he says he has no regrets about hiring Ingrid Lewis-Martin (who was indicted), Tim Pearson (who was sued at least 4 times for sexual harassment) or Eddie Caban (who attracted a federal investigation.

Mayor Adams weighs in on his legacy, achievements He will leave as New York City’s second Black mayor, and the first one-term mayor in more than three decades.

Adams says it wasn't the indictment or the Trump admin's abandonment of his corruption charges that doomed his re-election bid. Rather, "We were not receiving the support we needed from our media in this city.” He describes the case, inaccurately, as a "leg-room case." ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors

NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Afghan family's call to ICE check-in highlights fear caused by immigration crackdown Supporters waited outside the Malta facility for hours on Monday morning, hoping they would reemerge.

NEWS: At least 12 Afghans have been arrested by ICE in the Albany area in the past week as scrutiny of these immigrants mounts after the DC shooting of National Guard members. Others are being called in for questioning including a family of 4 yesterday
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The history of the Adams mayoralty, according to Adams:

State Prisons Are Turning Away Visitors After Scanners Pick Up Their… Guards demanded body scanners to cut down on contraband. Now they’re turning visitors away over their hygiene and medical supplies.

Prison guards are turning visitors away after their body scans pick up “normal anatomy, medical conditions, and predictable artifacts.”

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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

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w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.

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Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest

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The Mamdani transition team said on Friday that it had raised more than $3 million to date from nearly 30,000 people, using contributions as large as $3,700 from wealthier donors to supplement thousands of smaller contributions.

The next morning, Mr. Mamdani was off to TriBeCa, where a Hunt oil fortune heiress and a major cryptocurrency advocate held another fund-raiser for the mayor-elect.

At a private home in the West Village on Tuesday evening, a cryptocurrency billionaire, a Qualcomm heir and a son of George Soros hosted a sold-out fund-raiser for Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s incoming mayor.

Mamdani Woos Wealthy Donors Alongside Grassroots Givers for Transition

Between transition planning meetings, Mr. Mamdani has been dialing donors and spending mornings and evenings glad-handing with the city’s wealthy, much as other politicians do. w/ @jeffcmays.bsky.social and Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack The new detail further complicates the military’s explanations for its actions during the Sept. 2 strike in the Caribbean Sea.

People who have seen video of the U.S. military’s first boat strike in September in the Caribbean Sea said two survivors climbed atop the overturned hull and waved to something overhead. The new detail further complicates the military’s explanations for its actions during the strike.

Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.

"This drips with irony” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Trump’s Pardon of Honduran Ex-President Erases Top Loyalist’s Triumph

More on Emil Bove's transformation from star prosecutor of the Honduran ex-president to apologist for Trump's pardoning of him, by @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...

Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon

While the Trump team defends killing suspected drug dealers who have not been convicted of anything, the convicted drug trafficking former president of Honduras is released from prison by a Trump pardon. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

NYC nonprofits brace for more federal funding cuts after already scaling back programming The city’s organizations have lost millions in pounds of food, staff and programs, according to a new report.

"the cuts resulted in the Food Bank for New York City receiving 10 million fewer pounds of food this year" and "Children’s Aid eliminating a program delivering weekly bags of food to 1,000 people" gothamist.com/news/nyc-non...

In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions

“one of the lead investigators in the case was Emil Bove” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.

Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

Forget Mamdani. New York’s real political shift happened everywhere else. Democrats flipped over 50 county legislative seats across the state. Republicans flipped one.

“This November was only the second time since 1989 that Democrats won mayoral races in each of the state’s five largest cities.” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

US military carried out second strike killing survivors on a suspected drug boat that had already been attacked, sources say | CNN Politics The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the ma...

The US military carried out a followup strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean on Sept 2, killing survivors of the initial strike, sources said.

People briefed on the “double-tap” strike said they were concerned that it could violate the law of armed conflict. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

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Israeli Forces Kill Two Palestinians in West Bank After They Appear to Surrender, Video Shows The Israeli authorities said they were reviewing the shooting, which came amid days of extensive military operations in the West Bank.

Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank on Thursday after they appeared to surrender, according to videos released by an international news agency and two Arab television networks.

Oregon attorney general, district attorneys warn feds to stop using excessive force • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon's attorney general and three district attorneys said they'll investigate and prosecute federal agents if they use excessive force.

Oregon's attorney general and DA's warn that they will investigate and prosecute ICE agents if they continue to use excessive force: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/25/o...

In City Hall Housecleaning, Mamdani Asks 179 Adams Staff Members to Quit

It is typical for new administrations to clear out political appointees who served the prior mayor, though it is not always done with as much lead time or so extensively. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video

After Trump called for them to be executed, the FBI is now said to be investigating six members of Congress for reminding military service members that they should not obey illegal orders. It is not at all clear what law they supposedly violated @gregjaffe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration

Special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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