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New York City mayor meets with Trump’s ‘border czar’ to discuss how to go after ‘violent’ criminals

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic mayor expressing an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration to pursue violent criminals in the city while Trump promises mass deportations. The mayor’s meeting with Tom Homan, who will oversee the southern and northern borders and be responsible for deportation efforts in the Trump administration, came as Adams has welcomed parts of the president-elect’s hardline immigration platform. Adams told reporters at […]

todayDecember 14, 2024 1

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Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults was ‘an absolute lovefest.’ He described Jan. 6 the same way.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Urged by some allies to apologize for racist comments made by speakers at his weekend rally, Donald Trump took the opposite approach on Tuesday, saying it was an “honor to be involved” in such an event and calling the scene a “lovefest” — the same term he has used to describe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Trump gathered supporters and reporters to his Mar-a-Lago resort two days after a massive rally at Madison Square Garden featured a […]

todayOctober 30, 2024

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The New York Times’ roundtable of Black men who support Trump was exactly as bad as you would think

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. It was really painful to read the New York Times’ new roundtable with 11 Black men who like Donald Trump. I almost never hear Black Trump supporters give reasons for supporting him that make sense in the real world. It’s like they live on a planet where up is down. I went into this roundtable expecting more of that. Any time I […]

todayJuly 16, 2024 2

Economy

Black Entrepreneur’s Deli in New York City to Make $1.2M in Sales, Opens 2nd Location

Meet Joshua Dat, the Guyanese owner of Datz Deli in Queens which offers a unique twist on classic New York deli favorites, Dat's Caribbean-inspired creations. Within just a year, Dat turned a $70,000 investment from his savings into a culinary sensation with nearly $1.2 million in sales and the opening of a second location."I wanted to be different," Joshua said in an interview with CNBC. "I wanted to give people something new to try."The star of Datz Deli's menu is […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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New York gov vetoes bill making challenging convictions easier

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their convictions, a measure that was favored by criminal justice reformers but fiercely opposed by prosecutors. The Democrat said the bill’s “sweeping expansion of eligibility for post-conviction relief” would “up-end the judicial system and create an unjustifiable risk of flooding the courts with frivolous claims,” in a veto letter released Saturday. […]

todayDecember 24, 2023 2

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