New York Headlines

• Biden Praises Debt-Ceiling Deal in Address to the Nation

  (by Michael D. Shear for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  The president addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening, after congressional passage of legislation to prevent economic calamity.
  
  

• India Train Crash: Up to 230 Dead and 900 Injured in Odisha

  (by Dan Bilefsky for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  Indian news reports said the tragedy occurred after at least 10 train cars derailed.
  
  

• The Debt-Ceiling Deal Suggests Debt Will Keep Growing, Fast

  (by Jim Tankersley for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Negotiations to prevent a government default reaffirmed that the big drivers of future deficits are all off the table in a divided Washington.
  
  
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• Disgraced ex-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo fights in court to keep $5M from COVID book

  (by Zach Williams for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  Lawyers for the ethics commission argue it has the authority to probe whether Cuomo used taxpayer resources to write the book -- a tome that netted him the hefty publishing $5.1 million paycheck.
  
  

• 2 asylum seekers found dead in car outside NYC mega migrant shelter: cops

  (by Bernadette Hogan, Joe Marino, Craig McCarthy for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  The men were found in a parked Nissan Sentra at Scott and Flushing avenues — outside The Jefferson, a six-story commercial building that was opened to handle the migrant crisis in March.
  
  

• NY Gov. Hochul overly reliant on local officials during historical Buffalo blizzard: report

  (by Zach Williams, Nolan Hicks for The New York Post 6 hours ago)
  Hochul's handling of the road closures came under intense scrutiny in the immediate aftermath of the snow squall as photos and videos of motorists stranded on roads circulated widely.
  
  

• Stuyvesant High School Admitted 762 New Students. Only 7 Are Black.

  (by Troy Closson for The New York Times 14 hours ago)
  New York City’s specialized high schools represent perhaps the highest-profile symbol of segregation in the nation’s largest school system.
  
  

• She Attacked Israel and the N.Y.P.D. It Made Her Law School a Target.

  (by Ginia Bellafante for The New York Times 21 hours ago)
  A student gave a commencement address at the famously progressive CUNY law school. Two weeks later, she was attacked by the tabloids and the mayor, and the school disavowed her speech.
  
  

• Eric Adams Loves to Tell a Good Story. It Might Even Be True.

  (by Emma G. Fitzsimmons for The New York Times 1 day, 2 hours ago)
  The New York City mayor has made an art form of telling stories about himself that are nearly impossible to verify, adding fresh details to often-told anecdotes.