New York Headlines

• Mayoral candidate Akeem Browder talks being sex offender, felon

  (by JILLIAN JORGENSEN for The Daily News 11 minutes ago)
  The Green Party mayoral candidate is a registered sex offender and twice convicted felon.
  
  

• Man stabs ferry rider he claims used N-word, cops cast doubt on story

  (by Jazmin Rosa for The New York Post 25 minutes ago)
  A man stabbed a fellow rider waiting for the Staten Island Ferry and announced the victim called him the N-word — but police sources believe those were just the voices in the attacker’s head. The 45-year-old was stabbed in his left upper arm at the Financial District ferry hub Saturday morning, cops said. The attacker...
  
  

• Man spent 6 months in Rikers because no one told him bail was $1: suit

  (by Kaja Whitehouse for The New York Post 35 minutes ago)
  A Queens man said his Legal Aid lawyers and city jail officials left him to languish in Rikers for nearly six months — because they never informed him that his $50,000 bail had been reduced to just $1. Aitabdellah Salem, who was arrested in 2014 for stealing a coat from Zara on Fifth Ave., is...
  
  
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• Uber driver confesses to slitting cousin’s throat: cops

  (by Tina Moore, Max Jaeger for The New York Post 42 minutes ago)
  A Queens Uber driver slit his cousin’s throat early Monday during an argument in the bedroom they shared, police said. “I’m guilty, I’m the one who killed him,” Lubdeep Singh, 24, confessed, according to cops. Lubdeep plunged a knife into the neck of cousin Sharnjit Singh after the two became embroiled in an argument in...
  
  

• Queens man busted in fatal roommate stabbing

  (by Rocco Parascandola, Rahima Nasa, NICOLE HENSLEY for The Daily News 43 minutes ago)
  The attacker stabbed his roommate in the neck, killing him on Monday.
  
  

• NYPD Investigates Stabbing at Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Manhattan

  (by NY1 News for NY1 News an hour ago)
  The victim suffered a puncture wound but was not seriously hurt.
  

• NAACP joins fight against construction apprenticeship plan

  (by AARON HOLMES for The Daily News an hour ago)
  The NAACP joined a push against an apprenticeship requirement for construction workers.
  
  

• Amtrak Picks Former Delta Executive to be New CEO

  (by NY1 News for NY1 News 2 hours ago)
  The country's largest transit hub has come under fire in recent months because of derailments and signal problems.
  

• Amtrak Picks Delta’s Former Chief to Lead It Through Challenging Time

  (by PATRICK McGEEHAN for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Richard Anderson, then chairman and chief executive of Delta Air Lines, in 2014. He will succeed Charles Moorman as Amtrak’s chief this year.
  
  

• 200 Years Ago, Erie Canal Got Its Start as Just a ‘Ditch’

  (by SAM ROBERTS for The New York Times 3 hours ago)
  Large fermentation tanks belonging to the Genesee Brewing Company on a barge on the Erie Canal last month in Waterford, N.Y.
  
  

• US Open Ballperson Tryouts Today in Queens

  (by Clodagh McGowan for NY1 News 3 hours ago)
  If you want to be center court, without actually playing at the US Open, you're in luck.
  

• Supreme Court Will Hear Travel Ban, Which Is Partly Reinstated

  (by MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ADAM LIPTAK for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Protesters and others gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday, when the justices agreed to hear the case on President Trump’s travel ban.
  
  

• Staten Island Yankees Battle Dropping Attendance

  (by HANNAH ALANI for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Fans cheering on the Staten Island Yankees for their home opener Saturday at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.
  
  

• Questions and Answers About the Travel Ban Case

  (by MICHAEL D. SHEAR for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  The Supreme Court’s final ruling on the travel ban isn’t expected until late fall.
  
  

• Supreme Court Takes On Trump Travel Ban

  (by for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, explains the court’s decision to hear arguments on the legality of the Trump administration’s travel ban. The court also left part of the executive order in effect.
  

• The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump

  (by Jeffrey Toobin for The New Yorker 15 hours ago)
  The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit. Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?
  

• The Dubious Counting at the Center of the G.O.P.’s Health-Care Reform

  (by John Cassidy for The New Yorker 3 days, 4 hours ago)
  John Cassidy analyzes Mitch McConnell and the Republicans’ new health-care bill, which would cut Medicaid to deliver tax cuts to wealthy households.
  

• A Virginia Town Responds to a Murder, Hate Crime or Not

  (by Jonathan Blitzer for The New Yorker 3 days, 6 hours ago)
  Jonathan Blitzer reports from Reston, Virginia, on the aftermath of the murder of the teen-ager Nabra Hassanen, who was killed near her mosque, last week.