The state court system will require trial judges — including family court judges — to tour jails, juvenile facilities and other detention sites annually, with new training and reporting added to the rulebook.

Speaker Julie Menin joined after‑school providers at City Hall, urging the council to lock in baselined funding after contract rebids and a major expansion left programs scrambling.

Lawmakers approved a bill to strip confusing 'sell by' labels and standardize date labels to 'Use by' and 'Best if Used by' to cut waste and lower grocery bills.

A 90-minute "Concert for the First Amendment" at Town Hall features Bette Midler, Patti Smith and others while organizers mount counter-programming to a White House UFC spectacle.

A Bronx public‑defender group has sued to stop a plan to resume on‑the‑spot drug testing in several NYC family courts, calling the policy coercive and unconstitutional.

A landlord claims Councilwoman Julie Won lived rent‑free at Skyline Tower and owes roughly $25,000; Won says the lease is forged and vows to fight the claim. Ethics and tax rules complicate the dispute as she campaigns next week.

A D.C. judge ordered the DOE to reinstate $82.1M for 11 canceled clean‑energy grants after plaintiffs argued the cuts were politically targeted. The decision could restore funding for projects in five states.

Early voting runs June 13–21 across New York. Suffolk County has switched to ExpressVote XL touchscreen ballot‑marking machines for the 2026 primaries.

President Trump has nominated James M. McDonald, a Sullivan & Cromwell partner and former SDNY prosecutor, to lead Manhattan's Southern District of New York pending Senate confirmation.

After a decade of campaigning, Kyra's Law passed both legislative chambers and now heads to Gov. Kathy Hochul. The measure would make child safety a top priority in custody cases.

NYC-DSA slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani after the NYPD moved to add roughly 580 officers, calling the hires a reversal of his campaign promises and renewing calls to disband controversial units.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a tentative agreement with the Public Employees Federation; the union has posted a 2026–31 tentative agreement and will mail materials to members for a ratification vote.

President Trump said a U.S. strike killed Hector "Niño Guerrero" Guerrero Flores, the alleged leader of Tren de Aragua. He was already charged in Manhattan and sanctioned by Treasury.