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Editorial: Sanity in sight: Mayor Adams enlists Albany to improve mental health services for those with serious psychological problems

It’s not our collective imagination: Large numbers of deeply unstable New Yorkers are inhabiting the streets and subways. A small fraction of those beset with psychosis — Simon Martial, Peter Zisopoulos, Alexander Wright and Frank James come to mind — present a danger to others.

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NYC Mayor Adams faces backlash for move to involuntarily hospitalize homeless people

Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that officials will begin hospitalizing more homeless people by involuntarily providing care to those deemed to be in "psychiatric crisis."

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Eric Adams' Plan To Involuntarily Hospitalize Mentally Ill Homeless People Will Face Legal Challenges

Civil liberties groups say Adams' plan violates constitutional rights protecting people with mental illness from being confined against their will simply for existing.

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‘Deeply problematic’: Advocates pan New York City policy to hospitalise mentally ill people against their will

Disability advocates and civil rights group warn new policy amounts to unconstitutional discrimination

The Independent UK

New York mayor plans to hospitalize mentally ill people involuntarily

Advocacy groups for civil rights groups and the homeless criticized mandate: ‘Mayor is playing fast and loose with the legal rights’

The Guardian - US

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Walmart employee sues for $50 million, says company knew about gunman’s troubling behavior

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Mayor Adams to use broader reading of state law to remove mentally ill from NYC streets

NEW YORK — New York City police and mental health clinicians who engage emotionally disturbed people on streets and subways will now be armed with a much broader interpretation of state law to institutionalize those who pose a risk to themselves or others.

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Mayor says NYC will treat mentally ill, even if they refuse

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new initiative that would allow authorities to more aggressively intervene to help people in need of mental health treatment

The Independent UK

Commentary: There is no real evidence that stop-and-frisk helps reduce crime

Imagine your doctor tells you that you have a serious wasting condition. Your physician prescribes a powerful kind of therapy that has serious side effects similar to chemotherapy’s. You ask what evidence there is of the therapy’s benefits. Your physician cheerfully says there’s none. She is prescribing the therapy because…

Chicago Tribune

The other New York: how Republicans made ‘shocking’ gains in the empire state

The GOP made surprise gains in immigrant enclaves in Brooklyn, as Republicans slammed Democrats as ‘soft on crime’

The Guardian - US

NYC mayor takes supportive tone after governor signs bill restricting crypto mining

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams took a supportive if somewhat cryptic tone after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation this week limiting some cryptocurrency mining in the state, casting the new law as an acceptable step toward smart tech policy.

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New York City mayor to attend summit against antisemitism in Greece next week

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams will attend a summit against antisemitism in Greece next week, his office said Friday.

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How did Seven Nation Army become a terrace anthem – and what links it to Blur and Bernie Sanders?

From arty indie bands to US election knockouts, we join the dots around one of the most enduring stadium singalongs

The Guardian - UK

Inmate Deaths, Threat Of Federal Takeover Will Determine The Fate Of Rikers Island

The humanitarian crisis worsens as politicians and advocates debate closing or fixing the embattled facility.

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Court battle begins over Trump’s special master review of papers

Should the former president lose, the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago will be available for the criminal investigation. Plus, your daily update on the Qatar World Cup

The Guardian - US

New York City mayor’s longtime friend now holds high-paid NYPD job

Lisa White, who earns $241,000 a year, is one of a number of Eric Adams’s friends, family and former colleagues hired to top roles

The Independent UK

2 arrested after Twitter threats to 'shoot up a synagogue'

Authorities say two men who were arrested at New York’s Penn Station after antisemitic threats were posted on social media represented a real danger

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Mayor Adams unveils latest NYC anti-rodent laws: ‘We are going to kill some rats’

NEW YORK — This mayor’s a killer — of rats, that is!

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12 Republicans Support Same-Sex Marriage in Key Senate Vote

Plus: What Orion is carrying to the moon, when you might be able to munch on some lab-grown meat, and more...

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Mayor Adams says feds, state must reimburse NYC for migrant crisis now that ‘campaign season is over’

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams hinted Monday that he believes electoral politics is to blame for the fact that President Biden and Gov. Hochul have dragged their feet on reimbursing his administration for costs associated with the city’s migrant crisis.

Tribune News Service

New York state Democrats undertake post-mortem after stunning midterm defeats

NEW YORK — With the results of this year’s midterm elections now mostly set in stone for New York, Democrats around the state have begun the bitter process of trying to understand what went wrong.

The Independent UK

New York will close migrant ‘tent city’ less than a month after opening

Migrants will be moved into a midtown hotel, a move welcomed by immigration advocates as officials work towards more permanent shelter solutions after thousands of asylum seekers arrived in the city

The Independent UK

The ‘red wave’ came for New York. Now Democrats are sounding the alarm over the party’s future

If Republicans win the House, the blame could fall on the largely Democratic state. And on party leadership, GOP narratives on crime and an albatross in the shape of Andrew Cuomo, Alex Woodward reports

Tribune News Service

Rep. Lee Zeldin concedes to Gov. Kathy Hochul in New York governor’s race

NEW YORK — Rep. Lee Zeldin conceded to Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday afternoon, about 13 hours after The Associated Press called New York’s tighter-than-expected race for governor.

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New Yorkers vote with abortion, crime and other hot-button issues in mind

NEW YORK — New York City voters had abortion, crime and climate change on their minds Tuesday while they cast their ballots for governor and other key local races.

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