New York Headlines

• Biden’s China Tariffs Are the End of an Era for Cheap Chinese Goods

  (by Jim Tankersley for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  The president’s move to protect strategic manufacturing sectors from low-cost competition aims to increase jobs, but consumers might not like the costs.
  
  

• Ethics Panel Cautions Juan Merchan, Judge in Trump Trial, Over Political Donations

  (by William K. Rashbaum, Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Justice Juan M. Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, donated modest amounts to Democratic groups in 2020.
  
  

• U.C.L.A. Faculty Votes Against Rebuking University’s Chancellor

  (by Jill Cowan for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  The votes came weeks after students at a pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked for hours by a large group of counterprotesters without police intervention.
  
  
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• Trump to hold first NY rally since 2016, weeks after massive Jersey Shore gathering

  (by Victor Nava for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  The event in the South Bronx is the native New Yorker's first in the Empire State since 2016.
  
  

• Iconic NYC steakhouse sneakily displays ‘A’ health rating — when it earned a ‘C’

  (by Jack Morphet, Natalie O'Neill for The New York Post 6 hours ago)
  The pricey Theater District steakhouse Gallaghers has been displaying an “A” health rating on its storefront while online city records show it actually earned a “C.”
  
  

• New Star Wars Plan: Pentagon Rushes to Counter Threats in Orbit

  (by Eric Lipton for The New York Times 7 hours ago)
  Citing rapid advances by China and Russia, the United States is building an extensive capacity to fight battles in space.
  
  

• New Hampshire day care workers sprinkled melatonin in children’s food, police say

  (by Fox News for The New York Post 8 hours ago)
  The owner and three workers at a New Hampshire day care are facing charges after they sprinkled melatonin in the food of children they were responsible for. Sally Dreckmann, 52, the day care owner; and her employees Traci Innie, 51; Kaitlin Filardo, 23; and Jessica Foster, 23, all of Manchester, were charged with 10 counts of endangering...
  
  

• 5 Takeaways From the First Week of Robert Menendez’s Corruption Trial

  (by Maia Coleman, Tracey Tully and Benjamin Weiser for The New York Times 9 hours ago)
  A lawyer for the New Jersey senator pinned much of the blame on his wife. A government official explained halal meat certification.
  
  

• Why Is N.Y.U. Forcing Protesters to Write Apology Letters?

  (by Ginia Bellafante for The New York Times 14 hours ago)
  The university calls it a “restorative practice”; the students call it a coerced confession.