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Absentee ballots sit in a ballot box during early voting in the primary election, Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in the Soho neighborhood of New York. New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, is on the cusp of becoming the largest place in the U.S. to give noncitizens the right to vote. Legally documented, voting-age noncitizens, who comprise nearly one in 10 of the city's 8.8 million inhabitants, would be allowed to cast votes in elections to pick the mayor, City Council members and other municipal officeholders under a bill nearing approval. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Noncitizens skip the vote despite efforts to entice participation in local elections

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

NYPD officers investigate the scene of a shooting in Harlem on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in New York. A New York Police Department officer was killed and another gravely injured Friday night after responding to a domestic disturbance call, according to a law enforcement official.(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

1 NYPD officer killed, another wounded in Friday night shooting

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Police secure the scene outside a six story residential building, left, where two NYPD officers where shot responding to a domestic disturbance call in Harlem, Friday Jan. 21, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)

Official: 1 officer killed, 1 seriously hurt in NYC shooting

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

FILE — New York Mayor Eric Adams rides the subway to City Hall on his first day in office in New York, Jan. 1, 2022. Adams says the New York City subway system must be safe and New Yorkers must &quot;feel safe&quot; in the system. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NYC mayor says even he doesn’t feel safe on subway system

By Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

Alvin Bragg speaks to supporters in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Congressional Democrats from New York are distancing themselves from the Manhattan district attorney's "stay-out-of-jail-free" policy that downgrades some felonies and abandons prison sentences for other crimes, a move that is wildly unpopular with city police and business leaders. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Democrats backing away from Manhattan DA’s new soft-on-crime approach

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

A memorial for the victims of an apartment building fire is displayed in front of the building in the Bronx borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Many of the victims of New York City’s deadliest fire in years are still awaiting burial after funerals began with services for two children killed by Sunday’s blaze in a Bronx apartment building. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Bronx fire victims’ funeral draws huge outpouring of grief

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli attends the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 4, 2016. A federal judge on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 ordered Shkreli to return $64.6 million in profits he and his company reaped from inflating the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim and barred him from participating in the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of his life. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Shkreli ordered to return $64M, is barred from drug industry

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. The new mayor is seeking approval from city ethics officers to hire his brother as the head of his security detail. Adams has brought on his brother Bernard Adams, a former New York police officer who was most recently as the assistant director for parking at Virginia Commonwealth University, to serve as the executive director of mayoral security. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Mayor Eric Adams’ New York: No longer ‘Fun City’

By Cal Thomas

Emilee Carpenter, 27, a wedding photographer in Elmira, New York, will appeal a ruling she said unfairly compels her to violate her religious convictions or lose her business. (Photo courtesy Alliance Defending Freedom)

N.Y. wedding photographer to appeal court ruling compelling gay-wedding photoshoots

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

This image provided by Robin Hood shows Robin Hood CEO Richard R. Buery Jr., presiding over the foundation’s annual gala at the Javits Center in New York on Oct. 20, 2021. (Kevin Mazur/Robin Hood via AP)

How new Robin Hood CEO Buery plans to fight NYC poverty

By Glenn Gamboa - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Andrew is photographed on Aug. 11, 2021. Prince Andrew will face a civil sex case trial after a U.S. judge dismissed a motion by his legal team to have the lawsuit thrown out, it was reported on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. (Neil Hall/PA via AP) **FILE**

Giuffre’s Prince Andrew suit goes ahead despite Epstein deal

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays - Associated Press

Ladders are seen erected beside the apartment building where a fire occurred in the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Several with grave injuries after NYC fire that killed 19

By David Porter, Bobby Caina Calvan and Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

Firefighters work at the scene of a fatal fire at an apartment building in the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in New York. The majority of victims were suffering from severe smoke inhalation, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

19 people, including 9 children, killed in apartment fire in Bronx, official says

By David Porter and Bobby Caina Calvan and Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez speaks during a rally on the steps of City Hall ahead of a City Council vote to allow lawful permanent residents to cast votes in elections to pick the mayor, City Council members and other municipal officeholders, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in New York. More than 800,000 noncitizens and so-called Dreamers in New York City will have access to the ballot box, and could vote in municipal elections as early as 2023, after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation approved by the City Council a month earlier to automatically become law on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Watershed moment in NYC: New law allows noncitizens to vote

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Sidney Poitier, star of &quot;To Sir With Love,&quot; places his hands in wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on June 23, 1967. Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 in the Bahamas. He was 94. (AP Photo) **FILE**

Sidney Poitier, Oscar winner and groundbreaking star, dies

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks during his Save America rally in Perry, Ga., Sept. 25, 2021. A resurgent GOP is poised to reclaim one, if not both, chambers of Congress and retain its lock on dozens of state legislatures and governor’s offices. The turnaround — which is expected but far from assured — is fueled by an unpopular Joe Biden presidency, deep frustration with the lingering pandemic and fresh concerns about inflation, as well as the GOP having history on its side. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Trump, Ivanka, Don Jr. subpoenaed by NY attorney general

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In this June 25, 2013, file photo, Ghislaine Maxwell, founder of the TerraMar Project, attends a news conference on the Issue of Oceans in Sustainable Development Goals, at United Nations headquarters. (United Nations Photo/Rick Bajornas via AP) ** FILE **

Let’s out the men in Maxwell-Epstein case

By Cal Thomas

New York City Mayor Eric Adams rides the subway to City Hall on his first day in office in New York, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. Adams sought to ease concerns among parents about sending their children back to city schools as cases of the omicron variant surge, speaking during appearances on morning news shows, Sunday, Jan. 2. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Adams to parents: ‘Fear not’ sending kids back to school

Associated Press

Eric Adams is sworn in as mayor of New York City on the stage of the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

Eric Adams enters office as New York City mayor

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Mayor-elect Eric Adams speaks at a news conference at the Queensbridge houses in Long Island City, Queens on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in New York. Adams named Keechant Sewell, a Long Island police chief, as the city's next police commissioner, making her the first woman to lead the nation’s largest police force. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)

NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams to take oath at Times Square

By The Associated Press - Associated Press