New York Headlines

• Live Updates: Trump’s Trial Enters Third Day With 7 Jurors Chosen

  (by The New York Times for The New York Times 10 minutes ago)
  The process of picking jurors for the criminal case against former President Donald Trump has accelerated. He is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 campaign.
  
  

• Trump’s ‘hush money’ NYC trial live updates: Ex-prez arrives at court for criminal ‘hush money’ case; Stormy Daniels refused subpoena

  (by Ben Kochman, Kyle Schnitzer, Kaydi Pelletier for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Follow the Post’s live updates from Manhattan court during jury selection over "hush money" payments Donald Trump is accused of paying to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal ahead of the 2016 election.
  

• Shocking video captures moment protester near Columbia University yells, ‘We’re all Hamas,’ ‘Long live Hamas’

  (by Isabel Keane for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  The clip shows a female protester with a keffiyeh covering her head and face loudly banging on NYPD barricades erected near the university's Morningside Heights campus.
  
  
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• Antisemitic hate crimes surge 45% in NYC in 2024: NYPD data

  (by Steven Vago for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  Antisemitic hate crimes have skyrocketed by 45% this year, according to police data obtained by The Post Wednesday — as the NYPD said they’ll increase patrols at synagogues for Passover.  So far in 2024, 96 anti-Jewish incidents have been reported across the Big Apple, compared to 66 for the same time period last year, according to the police...
  
  

• TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass

  (by Mara Hvistendahl and Lauren Hirsch for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.
  
  

• Takeaways From a Trove of ByteDance Records

  (by Mara Hvistendahl for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  The records briefly surfaced in a lawsuit involving the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.
  
  

• TikTok Bill to Be Bundled With Aid to Ukraine and Israel, House Speaker Indicates

  (by David McCabe and Sapna Maheshwari for The New York Times 11 hours ago)
  A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
  
  

• Eric Adams’s Top Aide, Timothy Pearson, Is Hit With a Second Harassment Lawsuit

  (by Dana Rubinstein and William K. Rashbaum for The New York Times 13 hours ago)
  The aide, Timothy Pearson, was accused of harassing and retaliating against a second police sergeant under his watch.
  
  

• 4 Takeaways from Today’s Hearing on Antisemitism at Columbia University

  (by Alan Blinder for The New York Times 18 hours ago)
  The closely watched hearing included several tense exchanges between members of Congress and Columbia representatives.