It's been a big day for news about redistricting and the fate of various maps for House seats, with news out of Alabama, South Carolina, and most recently, Florida. Here's a rundown:

There were 5,567 people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents between Jan. 20, 2025, and March 10, 2026, a 71 percent increase from the same number of days under the Biden administration.

More than a year before Caleb Vazquez and a friend attacked a mosque in San Diego and killed 3 people, the police secured a court order to confiscate his father’s guns. “Child was involved in suspicious behavior idolizing nazis and mass shooters,” a police officer wrote.

A judge declared a mistrial today after the jury in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial was unable to reach a verdict on the charge that the disgraced Hollywood producer raped an aspiring actress in a hotel room in 2013. It’s the second time a jury has not been able to reach a verdict on this charge.

SCOOP: When the U.S. indicted India’s richest man, prosecutors described an “elaborate” bribery scheme involving “corruption and fraud at the expense of U.S. investors.” Now, according to several people with knowledge of the case, the DOJ is planning to drop the charges.

Grocery stores can use shoppers’ personal data to charge different customers different prices, a practice known as surveillance pricing. Lawmakers in New York are considering a ban.

Schlossberg has translated his fame, charisma and creativity into a narrow polling lead. But a group of people with direct knowledge of the campaign described an operation so erratic and plagued by turnover that it raises questions about how he might handle himself as a member of Congress.

Democrats looking to flip Lawler's seat are scrutinizing a complex and lucrative web of political and financial ties among his campaign, several nonprofits and a political consulting firm, Checkmate Strategies, that he founded before he became a state legislator.

The series, hosted by the “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, is set to begin airing in NBC prime time next year. The Times will serve as a production partner, alongside Jimmy Fallon, the host of “The Tonight Show.”

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, is in a Florida hospital in critical condition, his spokesman said Sunday.

SCOOP: A suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail has been kept secret for nearly seven years, locked up in a New York courthouse.

BREAKING: Camp Mystic, where 28 people died in catastrophic flooding last year, said on Thursday that it would not reopen this summer, just weeks before it had been set to welcome hundreds of campers.

When Jacqueline Pritchett’s 11-year-old son, Jacob, vanished last year, she refused to acknowledge that he existed. Her life is as mysterious as his disappearance.

The proposed legislation would allow victims of Epstein to seek punitive damages in state lawsuits against his estate and the people who worked with him. It would also criminalize the actions of people who help perpetuate sex trafficking and benefit from schemes set up by people like him.

NYC is remarkable for its dynamism, but also for its stubborn refusal to change www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

For more than 60 years, the judges have used this as a parking lot. For roughly half that time public officials, neighborhood gadflies and parents have argued that it should be converted into a park. Their argument is based on more than a stubborn desire for more green space: The land is parkland.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Tuesday that it will install trackers on rescue vehicles at its three major airports after investigators faulted the agency for not having the recommended devices on a fire truck during a deadly collision with a jet at LaGuardia Airport.

More DOJ/Comey news, but this is a different member of the Comey family.

Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who accused the Trump administration of firing her last year for political reasons, may proceed with a lawsuit in federal court over the government’s objection, a Manhattan judge ruled today.

I finally remembered to snap a photo of this Times Square ad campaign so I could see the #LawSky lawyers’ reactions. There are four billboards, all atop a subway entrance on 7th Ave.

An appeals court judge granted a former New York City police sergeant bail, allowing him to be released as he challenges his conviction for the killing of a Bronx man who fled arrest on a motorbike.

Most attendees at the 8 World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium will not be able to park there. Other options include: Take a 15-minute train ride for $150; spend $80 on a limited number of shuttle bus seats; or spend $225 or more to park at the American Dream Mall.

Now Mr. Mamdani has decided to put his weight behind a City Council candidate, Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to accuse former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of sexual harassment.

A baker at the church’s popular cafe in Midtown Manhattan was accused of swindling nearly $4 million from the church’s donations and bequests.

Most setups the city has approved so far this year are for small sidewalk areas, said Lincoln Restler, a city councilman in Brooklyn. Only 500 restaurants are operating outdoor dining sheds in roadways, out of just over 2K. During the pandemic, there were 6K to 8K restaurants with outdoor seating.

If you saw the news about the second home tax in NYC that Hochul plans to propose, here's an explainer about the details. Yes, it includes the answer to the question I saw most on here after @nytimes.com broke the news: What if they make the NYC residence their primary residence?

The lead organizer of SantaCon NYC, an annual Christmas-themed bar crawl that is both beloved and reviled, took more than half of the nearly $3 million the event raised for charity over five years, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

BREAKING: Hochul will formally propose a yearly tax surcharge on second homes in NYC that are worth $5 million or more, she said on Tuesday. The exact cost of the surcharge has not yet been ironed out, but the governor hopes to raise $500M annually that would be used to address the city's deficit.

The chief’s downfall rippled through New Haven and thrust the city into the middle of a national discussion about the increasing ubiquity of gambling and how insidious instantaneous betting can be.

We've added visuals of the plan, including how traffic would flow, to the story.

Exclusive: Mayor Mamdani's DOT is planning to eliminate car traffic on one end of Grand Army Plaza, reconnecting its famous arch to Prospect Park. free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

The plan would effectively reconnect the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch with Prospect Park restoring the arch as a grand entrance to the park. Cars would be banned from the parts of the plaza that border the park on the southern end of the plaza, from Union Street to Eastern Parkway

The man accused of murdering at least seven women on Long Island pleaded guilty on Wednesday, a reversal that, if accepted by the judge, could bring an end to a case that took investigators more than a decade to solve.

The survey, conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, is the first high-quality, nonpartisan poll to capture New Yorkers’ views of Mr. Mamdani, 34, since he took office on Jan. 1.

My biggest accomplishment for today has already happened: I figured out how to get the iPad in the conference room near my desk to stop reading out the schedule of meetings booked in that room today Every. Single. Minute. But not until I'd spent an hour listening to it. 🫠

“This is all like synchronized swimming,” Mr. Mansylla said. “To build a structure in New York City in, what, 48 hours? That’s as fast as it gets.”

Officials are examining whether an air traffic controller at LaGuardia Airport had to step away to use an emergency telephone before an Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

His lawyers wrote that the judge in New Jersey, Emil Bove III, was probably involved in high-level decision-making related to Khalil’s case while still at DOJ. They said it would be a conflict of interest for Bove to weigh in on a high-stakes legal issue related to Khalil’s release from detention.

Criminal charges against 4 people tied to a contractor that has provided shelter services in NYC are expected to be unsealed today as part of an investigation that has also focused on a City Council member and the husband of the Brooklyn Democratic leader, 5 people with knowledge of the matter said.

The absence of matching funds may be a daunting obstacle for Mr. Blakeman, who faces an uphill battle in his quest to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul. The governor has a $20 million war chest, and her party maintains a commanding registration advantage over Republicans across the state.

The Mamdani administration announced today that it will allow city agencies to use TikTok under restrictive guidelines. Agencies must designate specific staff members to use the app, assign specific government-issued devices just for TikTok and create accounts using agency-managed credentials.

The rally for a car-free Freedom Drive is part of a new citywide campaign calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani and city officials to ban personal cars from all New York City parks.

The New York Police Department and federal authorities disrupted what officials described as a plot to assassinate the leader of one of New York’s most active pro-Palestinian protest groups and charged a New Jersey man with possessing Molotov cocktails, according to officials and court papers.

The New York Times used air traffic control audio, flight data and surveillance footage to reconstruct the nine seconds before the incident, the first fatal crash at LaGuardia in more than three decades. Those nine seconds were critical.

A union representing about 950 full-time faculty members who are not on track to earn tenure began their strike at 11 a.m., several minutes after the university’s lawyers responded to the union’s final offer, said Brendan Hogan, a spokesman for the union, the Contract Faculty United-UAW.

The two pilots of an Air Canada Express plane were killed, officials said, and dozens of passengers and crew members were hospitalized. The F.A.A. said the airport would be closed until at least 2 p.m. Eastern.

I finally finished a really tedious task for my capstone project and I’m irrationally excited. Actually, no, it’s rational. By this time next weekend I’ll actually be able to start analyzing all the data I’ve been scraping for the last six months.

Breaking News: The Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets violated the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled, in a victory for The New York Times.

Street vending is part of the fabric of New York City, but for sellers it has a dark side: scams, crackdowns, immigration raids, arrests. Now an activist who has spent years trying to fix the street vending system, Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, is joining the Mamdani administration.