New York Headlines

• How Russia Is Brutalizing Its Own Soldiers, and More Than 5 Million Pages of Epstein Files

  (by Tracy Mumford, Ian Stewart and Paul Sonne for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Plus, the viral video that got the White House’s attention.
  
  

• They, Too, Died After Beatings by Guards. No One Raised an Alarm.

  (by Jan Ransom for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?
  

• Mamdani Chooses a Veteran N.Y.C. Education Leader as Schools Chancellor

  (by Troy Closson for The New York Times 10 hours ago)
  The selection of Kamar Samuels, who leads schools on the West Side of Manhattan, could help Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani craft his schools agenda.
  
  
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• Mamdani Nominates Top City Lawyer and Deputy Mayor of Health

  (by Jeffery C. Mays for The New York Times 10 hours ago)
  The mayor-elect said the selections indicate his administration’s commitment to help New York City’s vulnerable residents.
  
  

• World’s most contagious virus detected at 2 major US airports amid peak holiday traffic

  (by Fox News for The New York Post 10 hours ago)
  Measles has made its way to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
  
  

• Zohran Mamdani taps Kamar Samuels as next NYC schools chancellor: sources

  (by Craig McCarthy, Caitlin McCormack for The New York Post 11 hours ago)
  Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to name a Manhattan superintendent who worked to dismantle Gifted & Talented programs as his next schools chancellor, The Post has confirmed.
  
  

• New York mom sent ‘flying in the air like a kite’ by 70 mph winds

  (by Zoe Hussain for The New York Post 12 hours ago)
  “It happened so quickly, I couldn’t believe it was happening,” Miller told the outlet. “Never in a million years did I think I would go flying in the air like a kite.”
  
  

• Ocasio-Cortez Will Give Opening Remarks at Mamdani’s Inauguration

  (by Andy Newman for The New York Times 14 hours ago)
  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose rise to prominence foreshadowed Zohran Mamdani’s success, will speak at his swearing-in outside City Hall on Thursday.
  
  

• 6 Takeaways on the Unwinding U.S.-Ukraine Alliance

  (by Adam Entous for The New York Times 14 hours ago)
  A Times investigation reveals the inside story of the Trump administration’s chaotic push for a peace deal and its erratic role in the war.