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Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?

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Par :Stefanos Chen
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Gov. Kathy Hochul must decide by year’s end whether to sign a law that would mandate two-person crews on all trains, a practice critics say is costly and outdated.

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A subway train conductor at the Union Square station. The system employs roughly 3,600 train conductors, who are paid an average of $38 an hour, according to M.T.A. data.
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Blue Origin to Launch NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars: How to Watch

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Par :Kenneth Chang
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This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’ space company and will include a key test of whether it can land a booster stage for later reuse.

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A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, before the launch was scrubbed.
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Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows

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Par :Holland Cotter
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The great Cuban modernist, whose politics and Afro-Asian roots shaped his paintings and inspired generations of artists, gets a revelatory survey at MoMA.

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Wifredo Lam’s 1942-43 “La Jungla (The Jungle)” at the Museum of Modern Art. The artist said he reflected “the poetry of Africans who came to Cuba, poetry that still hides much pain in its song.”
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William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs

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Par :Dan Barry
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The author, 97, raised money for the food pantry at his old church by reading from “Legs,” the gangster novel he began his celebrated Albany cycle with half a century ago.

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William Kennedy went to the ADCo Bar & Bottle Shop in Albany, where he took part in a marathon reading of “Legs,” his 1975 novel.
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Hochul Vetoed 7 of His Bills in a Single Day. Could It Be Personal?

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Par :Grace Ashford
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State Senator James Skoufis of New York has been a steady critic of Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat. Her vetoes of his bills seemed intended to send a message.

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James Skoufis has criticized Gov. Kathy Hochul from the State Senate floor, and led an inquiry into a troubled state health program.
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Under Fire for Tucker Carlson Remarks, Think Tank Chief Pleads Ignorance

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Par :David A. Fahrenthold and Ken Bensinger
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Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.

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“I actually don’t have time to consume a lot of news,” Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, said to staff members last week.
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Justice Dept. Struggled to Find Lawyers to Handle Maurene Comey Suit

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Par :Jonah E. Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum
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Ms. Comey sued the Trump administration after she was abruptly fired over the summer, saying the action was retaliation. Federal attorneys in New York City and a Justice Department branch in Washington have declined to handle the case.

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Maurene Comey’s father, James B. Comey, has a fraught relationship with President Trump.
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How to See the Northern Lights on Wednesday

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Par :Nazaneen Ghaffar and Amy Graff
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A geomagnetic storm made the aurora borealis visible across a swath of the United States again on Wednesday, illuminating the skies as far south as Arizona.

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The northern lights shine in the night sky in Valtournenche, Italy, on Wednesday.
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Erik Bottcher Joins Crowded House Primary to Succeed Nadler

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Par :Nicholas Fandos
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Erik Bottcher, a Democrat from Chelsea, began his career as an L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist. He faces a growing field of rivals vying for a Manhattan House seat.

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City Councilman Erik Bottcher, running to succeed Representative Jerry Nadler, who is retiring, argued that his experiences as an L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist had prepared him to face a fractious moment in American politics.
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Epstein’s Emails

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Par :Sam Sifton
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Congress released new files from the Epstein investigation. We explain what they mean.
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What’s Behind the Coming House Vote on Releasing the Epstein Files

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Par :Michael Gold
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Proponents of fuller transparency used an arcane rule to prod their leaders to act. When it became clear they had succeeded, the speaker agreed to hold a vote.

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Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina was one of the Republicans who signed a petition requiring the House to vote on a measure requiring the full release of the Justice Department’s files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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What James and Maurene Comey’s Cases Tell Us About Trump

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Par :Jeffrey Toobin
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The legal precedent established by Maurene Comey’s case may turn out to be far more consequential than the finding in her father’s.

© Photo Illustration by The New York Times; source photographs by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images and Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance

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Par :David A. Fahrenthold and Ken Bensinger
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Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.

© T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times

“I actually don’t have time to consume a lot of news,” Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, said to staff members last week.
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Comey and James Challenge Appointment of Lindsey Halligan, Trump Loyalist Prosecuting Them

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Par :Alan Feuer
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The outcome could have serious consequences for the cases against two of President Trump’s opponents, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

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President Trump put Lindsey Halligan in charge of the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia with explicit public instructions to go after his rivals.
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