NEW: Last summer, the Alito beach home in New Jersey flew the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which like the upside down US flag, is linked to Jan. 6. We have photos from July, August and September as well as eyewitnesses. nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/…

w/ ⁦William K. Rashbaum⁩ and ⁦Michael Rothfeld⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/20/nyr…

As New Yorkers Turn on Mayor Adams, Prominent Democrats Join the Pile-On: shorturl.at/P282i

This article is technically about the simultaneity of the Trump and Menendez trials, but the main character is New York City and it's great. Nicholas Fandos nytimes.com/2024/05/18/nyr…

Senator Menendez's daughter is sitting in the first row of the courtroom, behind her dad. She's taking notes and at times looking over at the jury box. This is the first time I've noticed anyone close to the senator in court with him.

Jamaal Bowman asking for DSA’s endorsement — really late — in #NY16

Mr. Trump shakes his head and mouths obscenities. Mr. Menendez has appeared more amiable, singing to himself during breaks and chuckling as an F.B.I. agent testified that he spent his birthday searching the senator’s home ⁦Nicholas Fandos⁩ on the 2 trials: nytimes.com/2024/05/18/nyr…

“I can’t think of another time where you have had two major criminal trials, both involving political figures, vying for the front page like this,” said Robert Pigott, who leads walking tours of the court district.

“Usually one is enough.” nytimes.com/2024/05/18/nyr…

An Ex-President, a Senator and the Week Manhattan Became the Center of the (Legal) Universe

“Trials are in reality not run the way they are in television.” This script would be too wild anyway, with Trump and Menendez awaiting their fates 500 feet apart. nytimes.com/2024/05/18/nyr…

'Nadine is suffering from Grade 3 breast cancer, which will require her to have mastectomy surgery,' Menendez discloses on Day 4 of his bribery trial. 'We are of course concerned about the seriousness and advanced stage of the disease.' w/Nicholas Fandos nytimes.com/2024/05/16/nyr…

NEWS: Nadine Menendez, the wife of Senator Robert Menendez, is being treated for breast cancer and will undergo a mastectomy, her husband revealed on Thursday, a day after his lawyers pinned blame on her in court.

w/Tracey Tully
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The list of the top 20 percentage and numerical population losing cities, 2020-23 (top) and 2022-23 (bottom) - all with a 2023 pop > 10,000.

Numeric decline has slowed in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia and other big cities, but they're still losing population.

Menendez's lawyer tells jurors that a U.S. senator was duped by his wife
It's a tale that involves a locked closet in a house he didn't own filled w/ women's clothing + and gold bars

Prosecutors say it's fiction
Benjamin Weiser Nicholas Fandos Maria Cramer
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The corruption trial of Senator Bob Menendez spun into motion in Manhattan on Wednesday, with combative opening statements and an extraordinary claim by the defense.

Here are the takeaways:
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We're about 30 minutes out from opening statements in the corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez, D-NJ.

Benjamin Weiser Tracey Tully Maria Cramer Maia Coleman and I are LIVE from the other major political trial playing out in Lower Manhattan >>
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Opening statements in the bribery trial of Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey are expected to begin later today in Manhattan federal court. Nicholas Fandos reports. nytimes.com/2024/05/15/nyr…

ICYMI: Democrats’ Split Over Israel Takes Center Stage in Tense Primary Debate nytimes.com/2024/05/13/nyr…

At one point, Latimer suggested the incumbent had done little more than “preach and scream” from the steps of the Capitol in two terms. Bowman, who is Black, accused his white opponent of playing “the Southern strategy in the North” by portraying him as “the angry Black man.”

'The angry Black man! The angry Black man!' Bowman says to Latimer at one point. 'It's the Southern strategy in the North.'

NEW: The fight between Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer began around American policy toward Israel.

But today's debate made clear it has long since exposed deeper cleavages over race, class and ideology that divide the modern Democratic Party.

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