As lawyers for Daniel Penny, a former Marine accused of choking a homeless man to death in a New York subway car, vetted jurors Friday, a woman sat at a courtroom table, leaning toward the people being questioned and scribbling in a notebook. The woman, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, a jury consultant …
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Representative Marc Molinaro has spent his decades of public service building a reputation as a particular brand of New York Republican: a measured and courteous pragmatist more interested in responsible governing than in ideological battles. But that reputation is being tested as Mr. Molinaro, a first-term congressman, seeks re-election against …
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There are many ways for New York City to turn the page on Mayor Eric Adams. None of them need to include Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor now plotting a comeback as mayor. Yet he is working the phones right now, trying to persuade donors and New York Democrats …
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