New York Headlines

• Mayor Adams Walks Back Budget Cuts, but No Reprieve for Libraries

  (by Jeffery C. Mays and Dana Rubinstein for The New York Times 18 minutes ago)
  The mayor released a revised $111.6 billion budget, which included $2.3 billion that would restore some funding for schools and cultural institutions.
  
  

• 5 Moments That Have Defined Trump’s Hush-Money Trial So Far

  (by Wesley Parnell for The New York Times 32 minutes ago)
  Trials are wars of words. These are some of the most memorable that have been spoken as a jury hears the criminal case against Donald J. Trump.
  
  

• NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War

  (by Helene Cooper for The New York Times 33 minutes ago)
  The alliance’s largest exercises offer a preview of what the opening of a Great Power conflict could look like. How it ends is a different story.
  
  
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• Biden Signs a $95.3 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

  (by Zolan Kanno-Youngs for The New York Times 36 minutes ago)
  The $95.3 billion measure comes after months of gridlock in Congress that put the centerpiece of President Biden’s foreign policy in jeopardy.
  
  

• Elite NJ private school closes after ‘threatening’ racist graffiti found in bathroom

  (by Miranda Devine, Patrick Reilly, Steve Janoski for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  An elite New Jersey private school was closed on Wednesday after a threatening message targeting the Black and Hispanic communities was found written on a bathroom wall.
  
  

• Rudy Giuliani slams ‘terribly misguided’ protesters in Columbia visit as he calls for president’s resignation

  (by Olivia Land for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  “Who hates Jews more, Harvard or Columbia?” Giuliani, 79, opined during his Tuesday evening broadcast.
  
  

• Cats used as live bait to train ferocious pitbulls in illegal NYC dogfighting ring, group claims

  (by Chris Harris, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  Stray cats in the Bronx are being snapped up and used as live bait for underground dogfighting rings -- with the sick practice caught on disturbing video footage, a local animal rescue group says.
  
  

• Arizona Democrats Consider 3rd Attempt to Repeal 1864 Abortion Law

  (by Jack Healy for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  The almost-complete ban on abortions in the state could go into effect as early as June 8, the state’s attorney general said.
  
  

• New York City’s Everlasting Scaffolding

  (by Patrick McGeehan for The New York Times 12 hours ago)
  Why the protective barriers over sidewalks stay up for so long.