New York Headlines

• Creep who allegedly raped 12-year-old girl in NYC stairwell cowardly ducks cameras after arrest

  (by Anna Young for The New York Post an hour ago)
  The creep hunched his torso forward to dodge the flashing cameras as cops dragged him out of Brooklyn's Special Victims precinct and hauled him off to jail.
  
  

• Trump Administration Appeals to Supreme Court to Block Order to Pay Full SNAP Benefits

  (by Tony Romm and Abbie VanSickle for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  The temporary ruling by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, blocking a lower court order to fully fund the aid, added to the uncertainty around the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.
  
  

• Judge Blocks National Guard From Portland and Says Trump Overstepped His Authority

  (by Anna Griffin for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the Trump administration had failed to prove that protesters were hampering President Trump’s policies.
  
  
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• New York State Officials Approve Proposal for Controversial Underwater Gas Pipeline

  (by Hilary Howard for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  The contentious proposal, previously rebuffed by state regulators who expressed environmental concerns, was deemed acceptable on Friday.
  
  

• Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani schmoozes with NY Dem leaders who’ll be key to passing his socialist ‘tax the rich’ plans

  (by Craig McCarthy, Vaughn Golden, Matt Troutman, Anna Young for The New York Post 6 hours ago)
  The TaxMam cometh.
  
  

• Democrats Scale Back Shutdown Demands, but G.O.P. Digs In

  (by Catie Edmondson for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  After weeks of stalemate, Senate Democrats said they were willing to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of health care subsidies. Republicans ruled it out.
  
  

• Boy, 16, shot at Bronx public housing complex: cops

  (by Amanda Woods for The New York Post 6 hours ago)
  The teen was blasted in the back around 9:30 a.m. at East 161st Street and Forest Avenue, part of NYCHA's William McKinley Houses in Morrisania, police said.
  
  

• Sister of Blind Man Targeted for Deportation Asks U.S. to Free Him

  (by Benjamin Weiser and Luis Ferré-Sadurní for The New York Times 7 hours ago)
  Eva Magdalena Chalco Chango, who has no lawyer, asked a federal judge to free her brother, whom she has cared for throughout his life.
  
  

• New York Prepares for a Potential Trump Immigration Crackdown

  (by Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Dana Rubinstein for The New York Times 10 hours ago)
  The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor has stoked speculation that President Trump might move to send forces into the city.