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As New York Focus’s audience engagement editor, I’m used to seeing data. Every week, I look at metrics that tell us how many people visit the stories we publish on our website, view our posts on ...
Health insurer Leading Edge once tried to cancel a coma patient’s insurance and, in another case, retracted approval for ...
For 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they're feeding it to ...
State leaders have weighed how to tackle the challenge and its overlap with homelessness, which has more than doubled in New ...
A lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and any other day ...
President Donald Trump may have retreated from a full-blown trade war with most of the world, but his fight with China is still raging — and it could stymie New York City’s plans to decarbonize its ...
Sometimes, innocent people go to jail because of junk science or an unreliable witness. More often than not, though, official misconduct is what leads to wrongful convictions, both across the country ...
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump’s administration fired its latest broadside at climate action: an executive order aimed at “protecting American energy from state overreach.” The order seeks ...