New York Headlines

• Behind Trump’s Dealings With Turkey: Sons-in-Law Married to Power

  (by David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Lipton for The New York Times 34 minutes ago)
  Informal relationships between family members help explain the course of diplomacy between the White House and Turkey’s leader.
  
  

• Erdogan Warns That Turkey Will Keep Deporting ISIS Detainees

  (by Carlotta Gall for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  The Turkish leader is preparing to travel to Washington to meet with President Trump.
  
  

• After Schumer Praised the Retiring Rep. King, Some Democrats Jeered

  (by Jesse McKinley for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Another Democrat, Representative Ilhan Omar, had a different response to the news: “Good riddance.”
  
  
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• Bloomberg for President? ‘No Way,’ His Successor Says

  (by Jeffery C. Mays for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Mayor Bill de Blasio portrayed Michael Bloomberg as out of touch with Democratic values: “a billionaire who epitomizes the status quo.”
  
  

• New York’s Jails Are Failing. Is the Answer 3,600 Miles Away?

  (by Henrik Pryser Libell and Matthew Haag for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  City officials are looking to Norway, whose correctional system is a radical departure from cold, harsh American prisons.
  
  

• Wild video shows cyclist being rear-ended on Queens bike path

  (by Tamar Lapin for The New York Post 10 hours ago)
  Shocking GoPro footage posted on Twitter shows the minivan swerving into a bike lane along a stretch of Greenpoint Avenue near the Long Island Expressway in Long Island City.
  

• MTA asks City Hall to kick in another $159M for Access-A-Ride

  (by David Meyer for The New York Post 13 hours ago)
  City Hall needs to chip in more money for the paratransit Access-A-Ride service as the program’s costs balloon, MTA chairman Pat Foye demanded in a letter obtained by The Post on Monday. The bill for Access-A-Ride will hit $616 million this year, according to agency financial documents. That’s a 60-fold increase from the $10 million...
  
  

• Thrill seeker arrested after climbing facade of Manhattan high-rise

  (by Larry Celona, Kenneth Garger for The New York Post 14 hours ago)
  A thrill seeker from Staten Island was arrested for allegedly climbing the facade of a glitzy residential high-rise in Manhattan on Monday night, police said. James Lotito, 31, was spotted by witnesses scaling an apartment building at the corner of West 19th Street and 11th Avenue in Chelsea at about 5:15 p.m., cops said. He...
  
  

• E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules

  (by Lisa Friedman for The New York Times 15 hours ago)
  A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.
  
  

• Donald Trump Makes an Awkward Pitch to Black Voters in Atlanta

  (by Charles Bethea for The New Yorker 2 days, 4 hours ago)
  Charles Bethea reports from the inaugural Black Voices for Trump rally, in downtown Atlanta, where President Donald Trump spoke on Friday to a racially diverse crowd of more than four hundred people.
  

• The Trump Administration’s Plot to End DACA Faces a Supreme Court Test

  (by Jonathan Blitzer for The New Yorker 2 days, 4 hours ago)
  Jonathan Blitzer writes about how the Supreme Court will soon hear a suite of cases challenging the Administration’s decision to cancel DACA.
  

• A Bloomberg Presidential Campaign Would Likely Be a Costly Folly

  (by John Cassidy for The New Yorker 2 days, 22 hours ago)
  John Cassidy writes that the former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is unlikely to succeed if he decides to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.