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Saturday, May 2, 2026 · 53 stories
Tax increases elsewhere have not led to an exodus, but some worry the city is reaching a tipping point. Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to raise income taxes on New York City’s millionaires.
New Jersey bills itself as the “diner capital of the world.” Lawmakers are trying to help it stay that way, despite economic turmoil causing food prices to skyrocket.
Mifepristone Planned Parenthood of Greater New York had expanded telehealth options for abortion meds just hours before the ruling.
Caught in limbo after the fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, Kurdish families struggle with cold, loss and uncertainty — feeling abandoned by the U.S.
While we were at that scene (in Valley Stream), we received information that an individual who was stopped at 169 Atlantic Avenue in Lynbrook, he asked to see the police, said Darienzo. He said he had killed somebody that night, homicide detectives responded to that scene," said Detective Lieutenant George Darienzo, commanding officer of homicide for the Nassau County Police Department. NASSAU COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- Police have charged a man with murder after he allegedly stabbed two women to death in Nassau County.
ISLAND PARK, Long Island (WABC) -- Police say a 22-year-old man killed his roommate and a coworker in two separate attacks Thursday night and early Friday morning in Nassau County. You don't have to know somebody to feel horrible for what happened." A resident reacting to the scope of the alleged attacks said, "For him to go out of his way to kill his roommate down the street and then go all the way to a Wendy's that he worked at to kill his coworker. The officers responded, and that individual said he had killed somebody that night," Darienzo said.
The Israeli military said one of its soldiers was killed during combat in southern Lebanon on Thursday, bringing the number of Israeli troop deaths since early March to 17. At least 13 people, including four women and a child, have been killed in Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said. Along with 17 Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon, two civilians have been killed by Hezbollah attacks in Israel.
Zambia’s government had originally welcomed the RightsCon 2026 summit on “human rights in the digital age”, due to be held in the capital, Lusaka, on 5-8 May, but Thabo Kawana, permanent secretary for the Ministry of Information & Media, said last week that the conference would not go ahead to allow time to ensure the gathering “aligns with Zambia’s national values, policy priorities, and broader public interest considerations”. Government blocks RightsCon 2026 conference.
On Saturday, Hamidreza Mohammadi told the BBC: "Her current problems include low blood pressure and a heart attack, but her previous conditions, such as pulmonary embolism (…) and having undergone stenting and angiography, make any treatment by the doctors in Zanjan effectively impossible." He said his sister should be transferred to a hospital in Tehran "so that her own specialists, who have treated her. On Friday, the Narges Mohammadi Foundation, run by her family, said she had been transferred to a hospital in Zanjan province "following a catastrophic deterioration in her health".