New York Headlines

• Democrats Win Filibuster Battle for Now

  (by The New York Times for The New York Times 42 minutes ago)
  
  

• Mom charged after baby found dead in NYC homeless shelter hotel

  (by Amanda Woods for The New York Post an hour ago)
  The mother of the 2-month-old boy found dead inside a Manhattan homeless shelter hotel has been criminally charged after investigators determined she allegedly slammed the tot against something in their room, police said Tuesday. Cops showed up at the Candlewood Suites hotel on West 39th Street near Ninth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen around noon Sunday...
  
  

• Republicans Waver on Convicting Donald J. Trump

  (by Nicholas Fandos for The New York Times an hour ago)
  House managers presented the Senate with an article charging Donald J. Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” But Republicans are increasingly indicating they are unlikely to find him guilty.
  
  
• 

• Majority of NYC residents support bus and bike lanes, poll shows

  (by David Meyer for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  A majority of New York City voters support bus-only lanes and protected bike lanes — even if they come at the expense of parking spots, according to a new poll. The Siena College poll of 805 Big Apple voters — commissioned by transit advocacy group Transportation Alternatives — found support for bus and bike lanes...
  
  

• From Navy SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the Capitol

  (by Dave Philipps for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  The presence in Washington of a longtime member of the Navy SEALs who was trained to identify misinformation reflects the partisan politics that helped lead to the assault.
  

• Trump’s Pardon of Bannon Could Raise Risk for 3 Co-Defendants

  (by Benjamin Weiser for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  President Trump’s former adviser Stephen K. Bannon may now be a witness against three other men accused in a border-wall swindle.
  
  

• N.Y.C.’s Bike Parking Problem: 1.6 Million Riders and Just 56,000 Spots

  (by Winnie Hu for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  During the pandemic, bicycling boomed, leaving many cyclists to lock and park their bikes wherever they can.
  
  

• The High-Risk Group Left Out of New York’s Vaccine Rollout

  (by Troy Closson for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  Virus cases are surging among incarcerated people at prisons and jails. But state officials have not announced when they will be vaccinated.
  

• Man seen on video being beaten, stripped in NYC was targeted gangbanger

  (by Tina Moore, Larry Celona, Joe Marino, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon for The New York Post 13 hours ago)
  A Brooklyn man who was stripped naked and viciously beaten by about a dozen people after getting off a bus from Atlanta was a gangbanger who was targeted in the attack, police sources told The Post. The 26-year-old beating victim was pounded after getting off the bus near Canal Street in Manhattan around 11:30 a.m....
  
  

• Navalny’s Long-Running Battle with Putin Enters a New Phase

  (by Joshua Yaffa for The New Yorker 1 day, 15 hours ago)
  The jailed opposition leader is creating a model of guerrilla political warfare for the digital age.
  

• Andrew Yang’s Ideas on Universal Basic Income Earned Him Fans. But Can He Win Votes?

  (by Eric Lach for The New Yorker 3 days, 3 hours ago)
  His pitch in the mayoral race is for New York to become the “anti-poverty” city.
  

• Can the COVID-19 Vaccine Beat the Proliferation of New Virus Mutations?

  (by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker 5 days, 13 hours ago)
  Stopping transmission blocks the opportunity for viral mutation. Vaccination is the only means we have of standing in the virus’s way.