A Yale student is accused of sexually assaulting a young mom on an uptown R train on June 28. Prosecutors say the woman couldn’t move on the crowded subway car and that her four kids saw the whole thing. He was arraigned yesterday and released without bail. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/09/t...

BREAKING: At 9:53p, the Second Circuit, via Judge Eunice Lee, denies Trump's request for an immediate administrative stay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking: Judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered the release of $5 million+ in damages owed to E. Jean Carroll by Donald Trump. Trump failed to convince the judge to delay the payment. This comes more than three years after he was found liable for sexual assault.

Donald Trump’s lawyers, arguing against E. Jean Carroll getting paid despite SCOTUS roundly rejecting his appeal, cite ... Michael Cohen, who previously celebrated the damages awarded to Carroll and criticized Trump as a “civilly convicted rapist”

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sky over the Long Island sound

Daredevil lovebirds Angelina Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov, charged with burglary & other offenses, batted off questions until asked whether the power of love — or love of power — was on display in court. “It’s the most powerful power, love,” Kuznetsov said. “We believe in love.”

Ahem

Kagan: “I’m not sure what to call a remnant of a remnant, but that is what the Court has left today. And the result will be what Justice Breyer warned of: a legal regime increasingly unable to stop political corruption and thus to preserve our institutions’ democratic legitimacy”

SDNY Judge Margaret Garnett, now on the bench, adjourns Luigi Mangione’s federal trial to Jan 5. She says "it’s simply impossible" to move through the jury selection process in this case while Mangione and his attys are fully occupied w the state trial starting Sept. 8.

The Supreme Court leaves in place a Manhattan jury’s finding that Donald Trump sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll.

SDNY Judge Failla says she will issue a TRO blocking the Trump Justice Department from seeking the medical records of trans youth from NYC hospitals. She provisionally granted class certification to NYers under 18 who have received gender-affirming care in the city since 2020.

@alexbores.nyc stole Sunday’s front page of the Daily News from FDNY widows, Monday’s from the man who fell to his death at MSG (in the district he’s running to represent), and today’s from a young father killed in a Brooklyn hit-and-run

NYPD Officer Quilbvio Espinal just pleaded not guilty to menacing charges. Atty Robert Gottlieb said he didn’t “intentionally” point a loaded gun in his colleague’s face at 1PP. He also denied that Espinal relentlessly sexually harassed the civilian employee, as she’s alleged.

This looks like an endorsement, but its not -- the wood of the Daily News should not be for sale! Our staff was mortified to wake up to a front page covered by a deceptive political ad for two days straight. Shame on Heath Freeman and Alden for selling our good name for a buck.

Luigi Mangione has withdrawn his notice about asserting the extreme emotional disturbance defense. Unclear whether that means he’s abandoning the strategy altogether, though it’s required to have a mental health expert testify. He could make the case on the stand himself.

NEWS: Luigi Mangione will raise the extreme emotional disturbance defense at his state murder trial for the killing of Brian Thompson. Judge Carro just unsealed the record, revealing the defense’s sealed motion filed earlier this month.

Luigi Mangione was MIA at his highly anticipated hearing this morning because the Manhattan DA forgot to ask the MDC to bring him to court. “Mistakes happen,” his attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo graciously concedes.

Last night’s lightning storm, shot on my banged up, 4 year old iPhone, which I refuse to be gaslit into upgrading

Flowers Sent as a Gift (1995) by David Hockney 1995

What a life, RIP David Hockney. Thank you for brightening the world with your art 🎨

Mere hours after losing a trial about obstructed access to an elevator, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton is tapped for director of national intelligence

Where to begin …

News: A Manhattan magistrate judge has determined Brad Lander is NOT GUILTY of obstructing elevators and an elevator lobby at 26 Federal Plaza while demanding access to ICE detention cells last summer

The future of journalism? Credentialed members of the New York City press corps came to Luigi Mangione’s hearing today to support the defendant they’re purportedly reporting on and to promote jury nullification “to the most cucked and submissive population in all of human history”

Luigi Mangione is set to present a very creative defense at his state homicide trial. In his decision published this morning, Judge Carro suppressed a loaded magazine from evidence but not the 3D-printed pistol. The alleged manifesto is in, while cell phone and Faraday bag are out.

News: Once again, a Manhattan jury has said it cannot reach a unanimous decision about whether Harvey Weinstein is guilty of raping Jessica Mann. The panel began deliberating Wednesday morning. This comes in the retrial after another jury was deadlocked on the charge last year

Cork: University President John O'Halloran, said he had just returned from the US where he said colleagues from Harvard were "in tears" about the impact on their universities.

Desperately need this fashionable midi skirt emblazoned with Cillian Murphy’s face

Something special about collectively engaging in mindfulness with a courtroom full of people when a witness is instructed to wait until the sirens pass

I’m always seeing injured pigeons in distress. What can I do to help them? Will 311 send a guy?

New end times get rich quick scheme

We’ve been training for this perp walk our whole careers… The stone-faced SantaCon leader Stefan Pildes leaves the SDNY after his release on a $300K bond, refusing to say whether he fears he’ll get coal for Christmas or will feature on Santa’s naughty list.

Federal prosecutors in New York have accused SantaCon founder Stefan Pildes of being a conman who “stole Christmas from tens of thousands of victims” and deprived local charities of more than $1M. He could face up to 20 yrs if convicted of wire fraud. content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

There are actually three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes and TurboTax shaking me down in the eleventh hour after I swore I’d learn how to file them at the library

I was gonna repost something extremely bleak but guess what, you’re getting these adorable flowers instead, enjoy!!

I will be so ready to write off a bad day in this godforsaken city when I turn a corner and see something like this… oh, nyc…

Only 👏 use 👏 “BREAKING” 👏 if 👏 you’re 👏 a 👏 reporter 👏 actually 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 news 👏 yourself.

In addition to banishing on-topic only, we must abolish “statements” that are just tweets by electeds cosplaying as BREAKING news reporters, breaking nothing but my resolve

The Board of Immigration Appeals has issued a final administrative removal order against Mahmoud Khalil. His lawyers, who anticipated this, said it didn’t impact the status quo, they’ll appeal to the 5th Circuit, & that he cannot be detained while his habeas case is pending.

Trump also timed dramatic exits during Robbie Kaplan’s closing at one of E Jean Carroll’s trials and when Cohen testified in the fraud case

At Luigi Mangione's hearing this AM, the feds indicated they were eager to show their evidence to people who think he's a hero “Your honor need only look out the window to see the people who follow this defendant and believe that what he did was right,” AUSA Dominic Gentile said

I am smoking my last cigarette. There can be no going back. I’ve heard it all before but will accept any tips from former Serious smokers who kicked it.

Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight Red sky in morn, shepherd’s warn Red sky over 26 Federal Plaza?

An NYPD officer got a DAT for pulling a gun on another cop at 1PP yesterday www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/27/n...

Rep. Dan Goldman has this morning requested a full accounting from ICE and DHS of everyone arrested and targeted for deportation in immigration courts, following the revelation that ICE provided the DOJ with false info to justify the practice www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/27/n...

ICE misinformed DOJ prosecutors about its authorization to arrest migrants at immigration courts, according to the Manhattan US Attorney's office—which is withdrawing briefs that relied on bad info and has told a judge he will need to revisit past orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Shoutout to my truly tough-as-nails grandmother, Lily Newman (née Brew), born 100 years ago in Kilrush, County Clare. She got a letter as Gaeilge and a check from President Connolly, but was most pleased with her banoffee birthday cake.

A Harlem man died Sunday waiting to be arraigned on a low-level charge for allegedly stealing incense from CVS. Vincent Thoms “spent his final moments languishing in a jail cell,” Legal Aid said in a statement calling on city leaders to meaningfully address in-custody NYPD deaths.

An NYPD inspector under criminal investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a subordinate remains on the job with a gun and authority over his accuser, 1+ years after facing accusations, per new filings requesting that he be disarmed and demoted www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/20/n...