New York Headlines

• Sage the dapper poodle takes home ‘Best in Show’ at Westminster Dog Show

  (by Katherine Donlevy for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  It was a paw-sitively fabulous night.
  
  

• Russian Gains in Ukraine War Worry U.S. Officials

  (by David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes and Kim Barker for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  Multiple factors are helping Russia’s military advance, including a delay in American weaponry and Moscow’s technological innovations on the battlefield.
  
  

• Anti-Israel student protesters take over CUNY Graduate Center, rename it after bombed-out Gaza university

  (by Allie Griffin, Larry Celona for The New York Post 6 hours ago)
  "Disclose. Divest. We will not stop, we will not rest," the roughly 30 students chanted as they stood and sat inside the building lobby.
  
  
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• Michael Cohen Testifies on White House Deal That Led to Trump’s Trial

  (by Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and Maggie Haberman for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  Michael D. Cohen’s story of an arrangement struck in the White House with Donald Trump was the only personal account tying the former president to falsified documents.
  
  

• Migrants charged in attack on NYPD cops in Times Square offered plea deals, including one who was re-arrested

  (by Desheania Andrews, Patrick Reilly for The New York Post 8 hours ago)
  “I am furious that Mr Brito was rearrested and charged with petty larceny while he was out on this case,” Judge Laura Wood said.
  
  

• Blinken Plays Guitar During Visit to Ukraine

  (by Michael Crowley for The New York Times 12 hours ago)
  The secretary of state, a longtime guitarist, strummed along to a song chosen to underscore a central message of President Biden’s foreign policy.
  
  

• The Trump Hush-Money Trial Courtroom Is Its Own Character. Here’s What It’s Like.

  (by Jonah E. Bromwich and Charlie Smart for The New York Times 12 hours ago)
  The courtroom where Donald J. Trump’s trial is being held is on the large side, but still too small to contain the vast interest in the case.
  
  

• Pursuit Makes the Case for Their Innovative Job Training Program

  (by Steve Lohr for The New York Times 13 hours ago)
  Pursuit, a nonprofit that trains low-income workers to become software engineers, is urging New York legislators to pass a new regulatory model for jobs programs.
  
  

• New York Announces $95 Million Revitalization of Port in Red Hook

  (by Patrick McGeehan for The New York Times 13 hours ago)
  New York City plans to rebuild three piers and add a new cargo crane after taking control of more than 100 acres of the Brooklyn waterfront.