New York Headlines

• R. Kelly Used Bribe to Marry Aaliyah When She Was 15, Charges Say

  (by Nicole Hong for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  He bribed a government employee in 1994 so that he could obtain a fake ID for the singer Aaliyah, a person familiar with the matter said.
  
  

• Pelosi’s Leap on Impeachment: From No Go to No Choice

  (by Sheryl Gay Stolberg for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Nine months ago, the speaker said President Trump was “just not worth it.” Then she saw an explosive headline.
  
  

• Queens parents rage after being barred from school diversity meeting

  (by Selim Algar for The New York Post 6 hours ago)
  The situation grew so tense at one point that police were called to finally quell the throng and convince them to disperse.
  
  
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• Upstate New York duck farmers beg Cuomo to stop foie gras ban

  (by Bernadette Hogan for The New York Post 8 hours ago)
  Starting in 2022, all sales of the French delicacy will be illegal, with violators facing up to $2,000 in penalties.
  
  

• Trump Officials Dispute Some Giuliani Call Logs in Bid to Weaken Democrats’ Case

  (by Maggie Haberman and Nicholas Fandos for The New York Times 10 hours ago)
  The impeachment report shows that the president’s personal lawyer was in frequent contact with the White House at key moments in the Ukraine pressure campaign.
  
  

• New NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea talks criminal justice reforms

  (by Nolan Hicks, Craig McCarthy, Bruce Golding for The New York Post 10 hours ago)
  The city’s new top cop took aim Thursday at Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s impending criminal-justice reforms — saying some rollbacks are needed to ensure public safety. At his first news conference since being sworn in Tuesday, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea raised alarms about the “sweeping” changes that will go into effect on Jan. 1. “Do I...
  
  

• Pelosi Says House Will Draft Impeachment Charges Against Trump

  (by Nicholas Fandos for The New York Times 11 hours ago)
  The speaker said she was instructing House committee chairmen to move forward with articles of impeachment against President Trump; another hearing is scheduled for Monday.
  
  

• Zuzana Caputova, the President of Slovakia, Voices Her Country’s Hopes and Frustrations

  (by Masha Gessen for The New Yorker 16 hours ago)
  Masha Gessen writes about Zuzana Caputova, the new President of Slovakia, and how she serves as a political ray of hope for a whole region of the world.
  

• What the Law Professors Brought to the Trump Impeachment Hearings

  (by Amy Davidson Sorkin for The New Yorker 17 hours ago)
  Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the testimony of the law-school professors Noah Feldman, Pamela Karlan, Michael Gerhardt, and Jonathan Turley on Wednesday, the first day of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
  

• The Epic Rise and Hard Fall of New York’s Taxi King

  (by Brian M. Rosenthal for The New York Times 22 hours ago)
  Ferraris. Villas on the French Riviera. Tax fraud. No one embodies the spectacular collapse of New York’s taxi industry more than Gene Freidman.
  
  

• He Waited 6 Hours for Help at Rikers. Then He Tried to Hang Himself.

  (by Jan Ransom for The New York Times 1 day, 8 hours ago)
  Nicholas Feliciano, 18, had a history of suicide attempts, but Rikers jail guards failed to act for seven minutes when he tried to kill himself.
  
  

• The House Impeachment Report Highlights Trump’s Ongoing Abuse of Presidential Power

  (by John Cassidy for The New Yorker 2 days, 10 hours ago)
  John Cassidy writes about the House Impeachment report, which highlights President Donald Trump’s actions in the Ukraine incident and his obstruction of Congress.