Letitia James

Some critics of President Donald Trump are hoping that when the final report for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is released, it will be so damning that impeachment will be inevitable. But if there is a major lesson to be learned from attorney Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee on February 27, 2019, it is that Trump’s legal woes don’t begin or end with Russiagate. Cohen, who spent more than a decade in Trump’s employ, wasn’t allowed to discuss Mueller’s probe at the Wednesday hearing—and yet, he spoke for hours about things he believed could imperil Trump legally, from banking and tax matters to campaign finance violations.

It remains to be seen exactly when Special Counsel Robert Mueller will deliver his final report for the Russia investigation and what all that report will reveal. But whatever ultimately happens with the Russia probe, the Daily Beast reported Monday that President Donald Trump would like his attorneys, including Jay Sekulow and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to stay close by.

The Trump administration said on Friday that taxpayer-funded family planning clinics which primarily serve low-income Americans will no longer be able to refer patients for abortions, a move that critics vowed to challenge in court.

New York’s attorney general on Wednesday said she has resolved a probe into a group of Colorado companies that once sold fake followers, “likes” and views on social media platforms, in the first U.S. settlement to deem such sales illegally deceptive.

A disturbing video shows New York City police officers trying to yank a 1-year-old child from his mother's arms during an incident at a social services office.

The "Fearless Girl" statue in New York City, whose face-off with Wall Street's "Charging Bull" won her legions of fans in just three weeks, will hold her ground for at least another 11 months.

Ved Parkash earned the award for the worst slumlord in New York City despite swearing to the Norwood News that his building is in "excellent" condition. Residents disagree and staged a protest outside the Bronx Housing Court waving signs reading “We want housing for us” and “No tenants should be harassed.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio commented for the first time Monday on the Daily News/ProPublica's investigation into the NYPD's use of the nuisance abatement law to boot hundreds of people from homes, saying while he supports the underlying "concept" of the law to keep neighborhoods safe, he thinks "there should always be due process" and promised to "look carefully at protocols."

Last week, the New York Times had an amazing and devastating expose of exactly how much exploitation is going on in New York City nail salons, where desperate women are often forced to work for months at a time for no pay at all and, even when they do get paid, it's a pittance. Since getting manicures and pedicures is nearly universal amongst middle class women in NYC, this was like a shockwave of guilt and anger and outrage, as it should have been. But I have to register a complaint about how this is playing out. A sample:

Petition from civil rights groups had demanded the release of transcript including testimony from the police officer who put Garner in a chokehold before he died

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Salvatore Grillo was walking his Labrador retriever near Brooklyn's Prospect Park on a cold morning in February when he heard what sounded like a muffled explosion.