Brooklyn’s Eastville Comedy Club is abuzz with banter ahead of a comedy show fundraiser for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.). Ten minutes before the opening routine, the room is nearly full. The ethnically diverse, mixed-aged mass reflects the constituency that carried Bowman to a surprise 2020 win for the 16th district’s …
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Sometimes the law is complex and esoteric; other times it’s incredibly intuitive. The principles that govern sentencing are the latter. They are a distillation of commonly shared values in personal morality and public policy. As a former prosecutor and current defense attorney who has argued hundreds of sentencings, I have …
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The small town where I live, along the spine of the Green Mountains of Vermont, was a water world last summer. Endless days of rain, the most in our history, washed out the roads east and west out of town. We lost one house to a landslide, but we were …
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After a wild Memorial Day Weekend featuring Vintage Culture, Chris Lake, Alok & Bhaskar, and a surprise set by 50 Cent, the Surf Lodge is ready to reveal who else is coming through to the Hamptons’ biggest annual lineup of live music. While the 2023 season included performances by Wyclef …
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A 50-year-old man named Clifton Williams was arrested and charged with assault in the second degree Friday after allegedly attacking actor Steve Buscemi in New York City, police confirm to Rolling Stone. Williams was arraigned the following day, May 18, with the judge setting bail at $50,000. It was not …
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Donald Trump, if you take it from him, is cherishing the opportunity to stand trial on criminal charges related to a hush-money payment to a porn star. “I’m very proud to be here,” he told reporters before heading into court on Monday, calling the proceedings an “assault on America” that …
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T he first track on This Is Lorelei’s upcoming debut album is a sweet, sad song called “Angel’s Eye.” “So long, my lonely friend/Goodbye, my only love,” a high voice sings over gently rolling strums. It’s a pure, earnest country weeper, full of feeling in every note. If you don’t …
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Donald Trump, a man renowned for craving adulation and approval, has this week been confronted with the disdain of Manhattanites called as prospective jurors in his New York criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. No wonder he’s apparently …
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Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in New York County Supreme Court on Monday in the nation’s first criminal trial of a sitting or former president. Trump pleaded not guilty to a 34-count felony indictment last year that alleged the former president falsified business records in New York …
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Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond in the New York civil fraud case against him on Monday, preventing state authorities from collecting a $454 million penalty and seizing his assets, including properties such as Trump Tower, while he appeals the verdict. If his appeal fails, the former president, who …
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