New York Headlines

• Tour-bus drivers’ beef ends in stabbing: cops

  (by Sarah Trefethen, Larry Celona, Emily Saul for The New York Post 34 minutes ago)
  A fight between two Manhattan tour-bus drivers ended in bloodshed Sunday when one of them stabbed the other for refusing to back up so he could make a turn, police and sources said. The violence occurred near the intersection of Pearl and State streets near Battery Park about 3 p.m., authorities said. One of the...
  
  

• They Grabbed Her Baby and Arrested Her at a Welfare Office. Now She’s Speaking Out.

  (by ASHLEY SOUTHALL and NIKITA STEWART for The New York Times 38 minutes ago)
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• Corpse found in Queens bird sanctuary: NYPD

  (by Sarah Trefethen for The New York Post an hour ago)
  A man’s body turned up in a Queens bird sanctuary Sunday, according to police. A passer-by discovered the corpse in Bayswater Point State Park in Far Rockaway shortly before noon, cops said. The unidentified man had suffered trauma to his head and body, officials said. His death is under investigation.
  
  
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• A Shutdown Looms. Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote?

  (by JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and EMILY COCHRANE for The New York Times an hour ago)
  Even if President Trump ultimately embraces a solution that avoids a shutdown, House Republican leaders do not know whether they will have the votes to pass it.
  
  

• Spotted Lanternfly, a Christmas tree superbug, could destroy New York parks

  (by Reuven Fenton, Natalie O'Neill for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Bah hum-bug! An invasive foreign insect may be hitching rides on fresh-cut Christmas trees from out of state, which could wreak havoc on Central Park and other green areas of the Big Apple, US Sen. Chuck Schumer warned Sunday. The Spotted Lanternfly — an inch-long planthopper native to China and parts of southeast Asia —...
  
  

• Elizabeth Warren, Speaking to Black Graduates, Warns ‘the Rules Are Rigged’

  (by ASTEAD W. HERNDON for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  The speech is the latest indication of how seriously Ms. Warren is taking outreach to black communities in preparation of a possible presidential campaign.
  
  

• Grace Notes: Delightful, De-Lovely and Deconstructed: Cole Porter’s Piano Is Being Rebuilt

  (by JAMES BARRON for The New York Times 7 hours ago)
  At the Steinway factory in Astoria, Queens, technicians dismantle Cole Porter’s piano.
  
  

• What Amazon Could Learn From Google in New York City

  (by WINNIE HU and J. DAVID GOODMAN for The New York Times 1 day, 22 hours ago)
  Google’s building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, where the company has grown from having a single worker in 2000 to employing more than 7,000 in offices there.
  
  

• Behind the Scenes of Virgin Galactic’s First Space Mission

  (by Nicholas Schmidle for The New Yorker 2 days, 2 hours ago)
  Nicholas Schmidle writes about his on-the-ground observations of the first space flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.
  

• Chris Collins Overcomes Indictment, Absentee Ballots, to Capture 4th House Term

  (by TYLER PAGER for The New York Times 2 days, 2 hours ago)
  After his indictment on insider trading charges, Representative Chris Collins ended his re-election campaign, only to resurrect it in September.
  
  

• Adam Schiff’s Plans to Obliterate Trump’s Red Line

  (by Jeffrey Toobin for The New Yorker 2 days, 4 hours ago)
  With the Democrats controlling the House, Schiff’s congressional investigation will follow the money, Jeffrey Toobin writes.
  

• “This Is Not a Normal Time”: Trump and the Rapidly Expanding “Witch Hunt”

  (by Susan B. Glasser for The New Yorker 2 days, 14 hours ago)
  Susan B. Glasser on comments made this week by the departing senators Jeff Flake and Claire McCaskill, and what may be in store for the Republican Party in 2019, when Democrats take control of the House of Representatives.