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Bankers Scouring Porn Sites. Payment Processors Punishing Journalists. Here's How 'Big Finance' Is Chilling Speech

Financial censorship should worry us all, suggests Rainey Reitman in Transaction Denied.

Reason · Apr 29

NYPD investigates after video shows two officers punching and kicking man

New York mayor Mamdani calls footage of arrest of wrongly identified suspect ‘extremely disturbing and unacceptable’

The Guardian - US · Apr 16

Protests erupt in New York City after ICE raids Chinatown over ‘counterfeit goods’

Demonstrators were seen near a federal building after an unknown number of detainees were taken by agents

The Guardian - US · Oct 22, 2025

Programs that help NYC migrants achieve financial independence are in jeopardy

As New York City struggles to assimilate a deluge of migrants, key education and child care programs that help make recent arrivals less reliant on city services are at risk of being pulled out from under them.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2023

NYC police watchdogs, NYPD feud over what data to share in bias, racial profiling investigations

NEW YORK — More than 100 racial bias and profiling cases against cops are stalled by disagreement with the Police Department over what evidence to consider in the probes, the Civilian Complaint Review Board says.

Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2023

City Council urged to approve public financing of Chicago elections

Alisa Kaplan, executive director of Reform for Illinois, called public campaign financing “a very small investment ... that can really have a very high return on investment in terms of how it transforms the political landscape.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 23, 2023

Fears of ‘operational and moral failure’ at New York’s migrant tent city

An emergency shelter will house hundreds of people seeking asylum, including people bused north by Greg Abbott. One site flooded, the contractor built Trump’s border wall, and rights groups warn the plan runs afoul of a right-to-shelter mandate while city shelters are overwhelmed, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022