New York Headlines

• Bicyclist killed by hit-and-run truck driver in Brooklyn

  (by Stephanie Pagones for The New York Post 40 minutes ago)
  A young cyclist was fatally struck by a hit-and-run truck driver early Friday morning in Brooklyn, police said. MD Rajon, 21, was riding an electric bike within the designated bike lane near the intersection of Pitkin and Atkins avenues in East New York shortly before 1 a.m. when he was hit by a white box...
  
  

• Cohen Says ‘Of Course’ Trump Knew Hush Payments to Women Were Wrong

  (by MAGGIE HABERMAN and EILEEN SULLIVAN for The New York Times an hour ago)
  Michael D. Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer and fixer, leaving federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday after being sentenced to three years in prison.
  
  

• NYPD officer accidentally shot himself in the hand: police

  (by Ben Feuerherd for The New York Post 4 hours ago)
  An NYPD cop accidentally shot himself in the hand in a Brooklyn police station late Thursday night, police said. The officer was inside the PSA 1 station in Coney Island when he accidentally fired his gun and grazed his hand just before midnight, cops said. He was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital to be treated...
  
  
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• Cuomo determines L train tunnel repair is ‘vital and complicated’

  (by C.J. Sullivan for The New York Post 4 hours ago)
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo took an early morning tour of the damaged L train tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn and determined the underpass is in bad shape. “We saw a very old tunnel that needed a lot of work,” Cuomo said after the 45-minute visit to the Canarsie tunnel, which connects the Lower East Side to...
  
  

• Inmate Says Rikers Guards Raped Her in Jail

  (by JAN RANSOM for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  The entrance to the Rikers Island jail complex in Queens.
  
  

• Trump Inaugural Fund and Super PAC Said to Be Scrutinized for Illegal Foreign Donations

  (by SHARON LaFRANIERE, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ADAM GOLDMAN for The New York Times 10 hours ago)
  Federal prosecutors are investigating whether President Trump’s inaugural fund and a pro-Trump super PAC received illegal foreign donations.
  
  

• Troubled Girls Were Sent to This Town to Heal. Many Were Lured Into the Sex Trade Instead.

  (by NIKITA STEWART and BENJAMIN WEISER for The New York Times 11 hours ago)
  Hawthorne Cedar Knolls Residential Treatment Center in Mount Pleasant, N.Y., is being closed. Some residents were forced into a sex-trafficking ring, federal prosecutors said.
  
  

• Democrats in New Jersey Have a Firm Grip on Power. They Want Even More.

  (by NICK CORASANITI for The New York Times 16 hours ago)
  Democrats want to make Republicans a permanent minority in the state by essentially writing gerrymandering into the State Constitution.
  

• Sherrod Brown Wants to Bring a Working-Class Ethos Back to the Democratic Party

  (by Benjamin Wallace-Wells for The New Yorker 20 hours ago)
  Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the Ohio senator Sherrod Brown’s trade-unionist politics and what they may portend for the future of the Democratic Party.
  

• Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Role in a Russian Effort to Influence Conservatives

  (by MATTHEW ROSENBERG for The New York Times 20 hours ago)
  The Russian national has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors about attempts to shift conservatives’ views to see Russia as a friend, not a foe.
  

• The Complicated Politics of the Gilets Jaunes Movement

  (by Elisabeth Zerofsky for The New Yorker 1 day, 13 hours ago)
  Elisabeth Zerofsky on the gilets jaunes movement in France, in which protesters in yellow vests have taken to the streets of Paris.
  

• What Does the Vote of Confidence in Theresa May Mean for Brexit?

  (by John Cassidy for The New Yorker 1 day, 14 hours ago)
  John Cassidy writes on the vote of confidence in Theresa May, the unpopularity of the Brexit deal, and what‘s next for the U.K. in the ongoing negotiations.