CAPITOL HILL — AN EXPERIMENTAL POLICY THAT WOULD ENABLE PRIVATE INSURANCE AND AI TO MAKE DECISIONS ON SENIOR CITIZENS’ HEALTHCARE got a rebuke from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.

NATIONWIDE — A RECALL OF BAGGED SHELLFISH PRODUCTS HAS EXPANDED to include more items sold in stores across the United States, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration reports. Raw shrimp and other ...

BOROUGH HALL AND CONEY ISLAND — TWO KEY ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE STATED PUBLICLY THEIR PLANS TO VOTE AGAINST the proposed ‘The Coney’ casino, ahead of the upcoming Community Advisory Committee vote. The ...

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — JAMAICAN FAST FOOD CHAIN Juici Patties’ Brooklyn outlet in Bed-Stuy, which opened this past spring, is quickly becoming one of the brand’s top performers, selling 24,000 patties a ...

CITYWIDE — FORMER VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris on Monday gave a lukewarm endorsement to New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, joining Gov. Kathy Hochul and Assembly Speaker Carl ...

CROWN HEIGHTS — Joining the Brooklyn Children’s Museum as Director of Education is Kaylynn Mayo. Her new role marks her return to BCM; earlier in her career, she served as the lead artist and educator ...

CAPITOL HILL — BROOKLYN CONGRESSMEMBER YVETTE D. CLARKE ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 19 INTRODUCED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES’ VERSION OF THE ALGORITHMIC ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2025. (A Senate version was ...

MANHATTAN — New York Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey H. Pearlman on Wednesday temporarily enjoined the New York City Board of Elections from placing the name of former independent mayoral candidate Jim ...

EDITORS’ NOTE: In recent years, chess clubs have popped up throughout Brooklyn’s neighborhoods and bars. While no two clubs are alike, each club offers so much more than just a place to play.

So does Gil Fershtman and Jeff Schrier. They remember the man called “The Spider” – the former baseball coach at Lafayette High School, who passed away at the age of 81 last month. “I met Joseph ...

NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its ...

NATIONWIDE — A PHANTOM HACKER has been targeting victims at or past retirement again in a three-stage scam, State Attorney General Letitia James warned in a consumer alert issued on Wednesday, Sept.