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New York City is poised to lose funding for 60 school psychologists and nearly a quarter of the roughly 2,000 social workers embedded in public schools, even as Mayor Eric Adams has warned of an ongoing “youth mental health crisis.” The support staff were hired as part of a major expansion of mental health services…

Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling the MTA to pump the brakes on a plan that reportedly asked New York City Marathon organizers to cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover money lost from uncollected tolls, officials said Thursday. The decision comes just a day after the New York Times reported that the MTA…

A comprehensive webinar titled “How to Navigate the Small Claims Court” was presented to the public via Zoom on Tuesday, March 12. This informative session was a collaboration between the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Metropolitan Black Bar Association and Antioch Baptist Brooklyn, a united front from the legal community to educate the public. Judge Lola…

Thursday on the NewsHour, the Biden Administration warns Israel to change the way it is handling the war with Hamas or risk losing U.S. support. An exclusive conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on efforts to increase security cooperation in Asia. Plus, we go to the southern border with migrants who’ve made the grueling…

Patricia Llivisaca-Ramos was a legal assistant in her native Ecuador but took whatever work she could get after arriving in New York City two years ago. That included cleaning homes in Brooklyn, earning $60 for two apartments or one three-story home in four hours. The 42-year-old met customers in public, then followed them to their…

The Dali, a Singaporean-flagged cargo vessel that spans the size of almost three football fields, remains stuck under debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the ship crashed into the bridge in the early morning of March 26 in Baltimore, Maryland. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images The port of Baltimore, one of the nation’s…

The state health department has rejected plans for closing Lower Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel as “incomplete,” sending hospital leaders back to the drawing board. The decision comes after both the health department and a state Supreme Court judge repeatedly ordered the hospital to stop shutting down services without permission in recent months. Loren Riegelhaupt,…

The Guardian‘s reproductive health reporter Carter Sherman says efforts are underway in a number of states to assign fetuses “some kind of rights that we would generally ascribe to a human person.” Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews Ripley starring Andrew Scott. Film critic Justin Chang reviews Woody Allen’s new French-language drama Coup de Chance.…

AG James, Met Council CEO David Greenfield and volunteers assemble baby supply care packages with baby formula for low-income parents. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Attorney General Attorney General Letitia James distributed 4,668 cans of baby formula to families across New York City on Tuesday. This was in response to her investigation into…