As the CDC removes vaccines from its childhood schedule, vaccination rates decline and measles spreads, parents are trying to figure out how to keep their children safe — including, in some cases, by limiting their activities or seeking vaccinations early. I talked to a number of them. Gift link:

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

Trump is now mobilizing the power of the federal government to relitigate the 2020 election that he lost by again advancing lies and distortions already debunked by Republicans and judges. Here is what really happened @reidepstein.bsky.social @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

"Unlike previous mayors who refrained from criticizing or overtly undermining their successors, Adams has largely cast aside decorum." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

NEW from @glennthrush.bsky.social & @anniekarni.bsky.social: The DOJ under Biden opened an investigation into Ilhan Omar's finances, campaign spending & interactions with a foreign citizen. But the inquiry into @ilhanmn.bsky.social appears to have stalled for lack of evidence.

"John Mitnick, who once was the head attorney at the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration, criticized his former agency on Saturday night. 'I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty,' he wrote" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city has only had three homicides so far this year. “Two of them were ICE," he added. “The relief we are asking for is stopping this Operation Metro Surge” immediately, he said.

“Mr. Daughtry was a main point of contact for Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, and helped to plan large-scale raids in New York City in cooperation with the White House’s immigration crackdown. The police commissioner, Jessica S. Tisch, blocked the raids” — www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/n...

Breaking News: Rejecting decades of science, the chair of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said that shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. The vaccines are credited with preventing disability and millions of deaths worldwide.

New York’s Metropolitan Opera announces layoff and production cuts and is looking into selling its Marc Chagall murals. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/a...

"This is incredibly suspicious” www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/e...

Here’s a gift link to an updated version of the @nytimes.com video analysis of the fatal shooting of Renee Good. It incorporates ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s cell phone footage. It still shows no indication that Ross was run over by Good’s SUV.

“Honeymoons are short" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/n...

"Rajkumar called Adams the 'greatest mayor of all time,'" and then "criticized her foe's focus on her close relationship with Adams as sexist." by @erindurkee.bsky.social hellgatenyc.com/david-orkin-...

"Garrett, a 16-year-old boy from Brooklyn, loves fantasy novels and video games. And since April, according to a lawsuit, he has been left alone in a juvenile detention cell for weeks or months at time." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/n...

"Finding ways to elide the traditional, skeptical press is an increasingly common tactic for politicians from both parties" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

Newspaper conglomerate McClatchy—the hedge fund-owned publisher that owns local outlets across the country—wants to *aggressively* implement A.I. into its newsrooms, w/proposals that have stunned the union. @nataliekorach.bsky.social has the scoop in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...

Julie Menin, on Wednesday afternoon, assumed the speakership of the New York City Council, where she is poised to serve as a structural counterweight to the democratic socialist mayoralty of Zohran Mamdani. w/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/n...

Trump casts his actions in Venezuela as a war on drugs. Experts say Venezuela is not a major drug producer, but a minor cocaine transit country, with most of the cocaine flowing through Venezuela heading to Europe not the US. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Eric Adams said he wanted to travel after he left office. Well, the former mayor is wasting no time. Just hours after attending Mamdani’s inauguration, a source has spotted Adams boarding an Emirates flight from JFK to Dubai. No indication if the trip is business or pleasure.

"Government is slow as shit," says the now-former mayor, Eric Adams. "And the machinery is old and busted. And some people do nothing but throw sand in the gears...Now comes the fun part....I'll have a lot more to say in the days and weeks ahead." x.com/ericadamsfor...

When he became mayor more than 1,400 days ago, Eric Adams’s schedule was stuffed. A ubiquitous presence, he branded himself the mayor of “swagger” who liked “sampling the product” of the city he led. But on his final day in office, Mr. Adams was nowhere to be found. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

SCOOP: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, according to internal guidance obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

“We went through a period of embarrassment as a community because of the mayor's troubles” gothamist.com/news/it-was-...

“Taking away help from deafblind kids? I don’t understand.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.

"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."

Read about Ahmed al Ahmed, local fruit stall owner and savior of who knows how many lives. May we all be this brave and righteous in a crisis. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.

Adams says it wasn't the indictment or the Trump admin's abandonment of his corruption charges that doomed his re-election bid. Rather, "We were not receiving the support we needed from our media in this city.” He describes the case, inaccurately, as a "leg-room case." ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

NEWS: At least 12 Afghans have been arrested by ICE in the Albany area in the past week as scrutiny of these immigrants mounts after the DC shooting of National Guard members. Others are being called in for questioning including a family of 4 yesterday www.timesunion.com/news/article...

The history of the Adams mayoralty, according to Adams:

Prison guards are turning visitors away after their body scans pick up “normal anatomy, medical conditions, and predictable artifacts.” nysfocus.com/2025/12/06/d...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Between transition planning meetings, Mr. Mamdani has been dialing donors and spending mornings and evenings glad-handing with the city’s wealthy, much as other politicians do. w/ @jeffcmays.bsky.social and Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

People who have seen video of the U.S. military’s first boat strike in September in the Caribbean Sea said two survivors climbed atop the overturned hull and waved to something overhead. The new detail further complicates the military’s explanations for its actions during the strike.

"This drips with irony” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

More on Emil Bove's transformation from star prosecutor of the Honduran ex-president to apologist for Trump's pardoning of him, by @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...

While the Trump team defends killing suspected drug dealers who have not been convicted of anything, the convicted drug trafficking former president of Honduras is released from prison by a Trump pardon. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

"the cuts resulted in the Food Bank for New York City receiving 10 million fewer pounds of food this year" and "Children’s Aid eliminating a program delivering weekly bags of food to 1,000 people" gothamist.com/news/nyc-non...

“one of the lead investigators in the case was Emil Bove” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.

NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

“This November was only the second time since 1989 that Democrats won mayoral races in each of the state’s five largest cities.” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The US military carried out a followup strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean on Sept 2, killing survivors of the initial strike, sources said. People briefed on the “double-tap” strike said they were concerned that it could violate the law of armed conflict. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...