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Chaos outside Knicks watch party after Game 3 resulted in arrests, 5 NYPD officers injured
What began as a calm, yet spirited gathering of New York Knicks fans on the manicured lawn of Bryant Park quickly turned chaotic Monday night, with more than 20 people taken into custody, five NYPD officers injured and video footage showing people in San Antonio Spurs attire being verbally and physically harassed.
Chaos outside Knicks watch party after Game 3 resulted in arrests, 5 NYPD officers injured
What began as a calm, yet spirited gathering of New York Knicks fans on the manicured lawn of Bryant Park quickly turned chaotic Monday night, with more than 20 people taken into custody, five NYPD officers injured and video footage showing people in San Antonio Spurs attire being verbally and physically harassed.
Knicks to host NBA Finals Game 1 watch parties outdoors after NYPD lifts ban
New York Knicks fans can, once again, gather outside Madison Square Garden to watch their team push for an NBA title. The New York Police Department has lifted its ban on outdoor watch parties around the Knicks’ home arena, freeing the team to secure a permit for fans to gather at Plaza 33 ahead of Wednesday’s Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs.
Knicks to host NBA Finals Game 1 watch parties outdoors after NYPD lifts ban
New York Knicks fans can, once again, gather outside Madison Square Garden to watch their team push for an NBA title. The New York Police Department has lifted its ban on outdoor watch parties around the Knicks' home arena, freeing the team to secure a permit for fans to gather at Plaza 33 ahead of Wednesday's Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs.
‘New one for you’: Inside Steve Tisch’s transactional friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
In late 2011, a Russian model sent a pleading email to Jeffrey Epstein. “We had sex, I did massage for u non-stop,” she wrote.
Jeffrey Epstein scouted women for New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, emails show Original
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected New York Giants chairman and co-owner Steve Tisch with multiple women, according to newly released emails, and Tisch received scouting reports on women from Epstein and the two men discussed whether women were “pro or civilian” or a “working girl.” The emails, sent in 2013, were among more than 3 million Epstein-related documents that the Department of Justice released Friday.
Jeffrey Epstein scouted women for New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, emails show
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Como o capital privado influencia a ética da pesquisa farmacêutica
À medida que as empresas de capital privado expandem sua presença no mundo dos testes farmacêuticos, muitos ensaios clínicos estão agora sendo avaliados por empresas ligadas aos fabricantes de medicamentos, o que levanta preocupações sobre conflitos de interesse e segurança dos pacientes. Blake Cale/The New York Times Muitos ensaios clínicos são agora supervisionados por comitês de ética que operam como empresas e têm conexões com grandes laboratórios.
How did Chauncey Billups team up with a career criminal?
Spook liked to brag. He brushed shoulders with some of the biggest names in the NBA, he said. He jetted to Sin City routinely to gamble with them. He shot dice with players in hotel rooms. Thomas Sawyer, a Drug Enforcement Administration task force officer, heard Eric “Spook” Earnest boast about his connections to NBA players and other famous athletes during four months of wiretaps while dismantling a St. Louis drug ring nearly 20 years ago. At the time, he dismissed it as false bravado.
How did Chauncey Billups team up with a career criminal?
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How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research
As private equity firms expand their footprint into the world of pharmaceuticals testing, many drug trials are now being vetted by companies with ties to the drugmakers, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and patient safety. Blake Cale/The New York Times Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence.
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research Original
When the Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk wanted to test whether the main ingredient in Ozempic, its wildly popular weight-loss and diabetes drug, could also treat liver disease, it first needed approval from an ethics panel to ensure the safety of trial volunteers in the United States. Such panels, called institutional review boards, have the power to reject drug trials or order modifications if participants face unreasonable risks.
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research
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Mulheres veem aumento de ‘stalking’; o que fazer para evitar outro caso igual ao de Monica Seles
Capital paulista voltará a receber um torneio da WTA após 25 anos; evento será realizado entre os dias 6 e 14 de setembro. Crédito: Felipe Rosa Mendes e Júlia Pereira No Dia dos Namorados em 2023, Latyr Thiaw, 19, um trabalhador de manutenção morando em Washington, D.C., viu uma foto de Kiki Rice, uma jogadora de basquete feminino da UCLA, no Instagram. Ele assistiu entrevistas com ela no YouTube e sentiu algo “magnético” entre eles.
An alarming rise in stalking in sports
On Valentine's Day in 2023, Latyr Thiaw, 19, a maintenance worker living in Washington, D.C., saw a picture of Kiki Rice, a UCLA women's basketball player, on Instagram. He watched interviews with her on YouTube and felt something "magnetic" between them. In the months that followed, Thiaw sent Rice dozens of unanswered messages on social media. In December 2023, Thiaw flew to Los Angeles and rented a U-Haul van, parking near the UCLA campus for days and sleeping in the back. On Dec.
Stalking has become an unsettling part of sports landscape: Key takeaways from our investigation
Cases of high-profile sports figures being stalked have piled up in the last year, as harrowing details fill court filings and interviews. Paige Bueckers. Caitlin Clark. Aaron Donald. Emma Raducanu. The growing problem — fueled, in part, by the increasing popularity of women’s sports and the easy access fixated strangers have to celebrities through social media — is not confined to a particular age, sport or league. Advertisement Stalking has become an unsettling part of the sports landscape.
Stalking has become an unsettling part of sports landscape: Key takeaways from our investigation
Cases of high-profile sports figures being stalked have piled up in the last year, as harrowing details fill court filings and interviews. Paige Bueckers. Caitlin Clark. Aaron Donald. Emma Raducanu. The growing problem — fueled, in part, by the increasing popularity of women’s sports and the easy access fixated strangers have to celebrities through social media — is not confined to a particular age, sport or league. Stalking has become an unsettling part of the sports landscape.
The catfishing scam putting fans and female golfers in danger Original
Indiana native. 62 years old. Big golfer. A huge fan of the LPGA. On Aug. 4, Rodney opened an Instagram account with the handle @lpgafanatic6512, and he quickly followed some verified accounts for female golfers and a few other accounts that looked official. Within 20 minutes of creating his account and with zero posts to his name, Rodney received a message from what at first glance appeared to be the world’s No. 2-ranked female golfer, Nelly Korda.
‘I’m sitting behind the bench’: Inside sports’ escalating stalking problem Original
On Valentine’s Day 2023, Latyr Thiaw, a 19-year-old maintenance worker living in Washington, D.C., saw a picture of UCLA women’s basketball player Kiki Rice on Instagram. He then watched interviews with her on YouTube and felt something “magnetic” between them. She reminded him of a character from “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” In the months that followed, Thiaw sent Rice dozens of unanswered messages on social media, and he changed the background screen on his phone to a picture of her.
ICE’s go-to charter airline for deportations also flew NCAA teams, Inter Miami and more Original
Cheers greeted the Memphis men’s basketball team as it emerged from an Airbus A320 on the night of March 16. The plane had carried the team from Fort Worth, Texas, to Memphis International Airport, and the flight home was a joyous one. The 16th-ranked Tigers were American Athletic Conference tournament champions and NCAA Tournament-bound. The trophy, topped by a large silver basketball, was buckled into a seat next to head coach Penny Hardaway. On the tarmac, cameras flashed.
Athletes and the pursuit of 'consent' in the digital age
It's nearly 3:30 a.m. on June 19, 2018, and inside a room at the Delta Armouries Hotel in London, Ontario, a six-second cellphone video is being recorded. "You're OK with this?" an unidentified man asks a young woman, who is shown from the neck up. "I'm OK with this," she responds before the video cuts off. Almost an hour later, another cellphone video is recorded. This one is about 12 seconds long. The same woman stands with a towel covering her chest.
MLB 'evaluating' Diversity Pipeline Program, strikes DEI references from its website
In February, amidst an onslaught of executive orders from President Donald Trump aimed at eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred pledged to keep the league's values on diversity "unchanged." But about a month later, the MLB Careers home page is devoid of any reference to "diversity." Details regarding the league's once-lauded Diversity Pipeline Program, which began as a means to combat the lack of diversity within MLB's...
What drugmakers did not tell volunteers in Alzheimer's trials
By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the drugmaker Eisai, the trial was a shot at a windfall — potentially billions of dollars — for defanging a disease that had confounded researchers for more than a century. To assess the drug’s effectiveness and safety, Eisai sought to include people whose genetic profiles made them especially prone to develop Alzheimer’s.
As America's marijuana use grows, so do the harms
Deborah Hasin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University in New York, analyzed data from the federal government's annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health to calculate rates of cannabis use disorder among self-identified cannabis users. Rates were determined for various age groups and for different types of users - those who had consumed cannabis at all in the previous year, and those who had consumed it almost daily.
As America’s marijuana use grows, so do the harms
In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they consume it practically all day, every day — “a remarkably scary amount,” she said. From Washington state to West Virginia, psychiatrists treat rising numbers of people whose use of the drug has brought on delusions, paranoia and other symptoms of psychosis.
As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms Original
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. Credit...Sonny Figueroa/The New York Times Published Oct. 4, 2024Updated Aug.
Stories of Marijuana’s Little-Known Harms: ‘It Took Over Everything’ Original
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. ‘It Took Over Everything’: Stories of Marijuana’s Little-Known Risks A growing number of marijuana users in the U.S. are experiencing severe health problems like these. As marijuana legalization spreads across the country, people are consuming more of the drug, more often and at ever-higher potencies.
Niños, lesionados y muertos en uno de los empleos más peligrosos
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En las redes sociales, se hacen llamar ruferitos. Se levantan antes del amanecer para que los lleven a lugares de trabajo lejanos, a veces a través de fronteras estatales. Cargan con pesados paquetes de tejas que les hacen temblar los brazos. Trabajan bajo olas de calor en tejados de alquitrán negro que les abrasan las manos. La ley federal prohíbe a los menores trabajar en tejados por su peligrosidad, pero los niños inmigrantes lo hacen en todo Estados Unidos, según descubrió The New York Times.
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Niños, lesionados y muertos en uno de los empleos más peligrosos
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En las redes sociales, se hacen llamar ruferitos. Se levantan antes del amanecer para que los lleven a lugares de trabajo lejanos, a veces a través de fronteras estatales. Cargan con pesados paquetes de tejas que les hacen temblar los brazos. Trabajan bajo olas de calor en tejados de alquitrán negro que les abrasan las manos. La ley federal prohíbe a los menores trabajar en tejados por su peligrosidad, pero los niños inmigrantes lo hacen en todo Estados Unidos, según descubrió The New York Times.
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Children Risk Their Lives Building America's Roofs
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The New York Times spoke with more than 100 child roofers in nearly two dozen states, including some who began at elementary-school age. They wake before dawn to be driven to distant job sites, sometimes crossing state lines. They carry heavy bundles of shingles that leave their arms shaking. They work through heat waves on black-tar rooftops that scorch their hands. The rise of child roofers comes as young people are crossing the southern border alone in record numbers.
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President Biden May Have Ushered In New Anti-Trust Sentiment, But Will FTC Be Effective Against Hospital Mergers, Or Is It More Rhetoric?
Series: A Closer Look Examining the News In recent months, federal antitrust regulators have notched some notable achievements, blocking four hospital mergers. Those actions follow the announcement of a major change in antitrust philosophy, embodied by President Joe Biden’s executive order last year aimed at promoting competition.
How Effective Is The Government’s Campaign Against Hospital Mergers?
In recent months, federal antitrust regulators have notched some notable achievements, blocking four hospital mergers. Those actions follow the announcement of a major change in antitrust philosophy, embodied by President Joe Biden’s executive order last year aimed at promoting competition.
How Effective Is the Government’s Campaign Against Hospital Mergers?
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In recent months, federal antitrust regulators have notched some notable achievements, blocking four hospital mergers. Those actions follow the announcement of a major change in antitrust philosophy, embodied by President Joe Biden’s executive order last year aimed at promoting competition.
US: How Effective Is the Government’s Campaign Against Hospital Mergers?
By propublica.org october 28, 2022 As Puerto Rico’s Privatized Power Grid Collapses, Its Owner Eyes A Bigger Payday by Allan Sloan and Carson Kessler ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In recent months, federal antitrust regulators have notched some notable achievements, blocking four hospital mergers.
How to Avoid Being Overcharged for a Funeral
For the funeral industry, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant flush times. Revenues have surged at Service Corporation International, the largest such chain in the U.S., with more than 1,500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. And “COVID impact,” according to a recent investor fact sheet, helped SCI more than double its earnings per share between 2019 and 2021. Prices for funerals have always been steep.
How to Avoid Being Overcharged for a Funeral
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For the funeral industry, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant flush times. Revenues have surged at Service Corporation International, the largest such chain in the U.S., with more than 1,500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. And “COVID impact,” according to a recent investor fact sheet, helped SCI more than double its earnings per share between 2019 and 2021.
Local New York Cemetery Raises Prices During, After Pandemic
August 11, 2022 Civil Rights, Economy And Finances, Morality and Ethics, News The Leader of New York’s “City of the Dead” Cashes In. Again. by Carson Kessler ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The stretch where Pinelawn Road turns into Wellwood Avenue on New York’s Long Island is known to locals as Cemetery Row.
The Family Behind Pinelawn Memorial Park Cashed in During COVID Original
Carson Kessler, ProPublica Posted on Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The stretch where Pinelawn Road turns into Wellwood Avenue on Long Island is known to locals as Cemetery Row.
The Family Behind Pinelawn Memorial Park Cashed in During COVID Original
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The stretch where Pinelawn Road turns into Wellwood Avenue on New York’s Long Island is known to locals as Cemetery Row. For 3 1/2 miles, the four-lane road is lined with sweeping, manicured lawns with separate entrances to eight cemeteries set back from the street.
Former Kentucky Secretary of State Faces Ethics Charges
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Kentucky’s Executive Branch Ethics Commission accused Democratic former Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes of misusing her office for personal and political purposes, according to an initiating order filed by the commission on Thursday.
The Celebrity-Backed Green “Fintech” Company That Isn’t as Green as It Seems
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. You can save the planet with a swipe of your bank card. That’s the enticing proposition made by a company called Aspiration, which promises to take the leftover change from customers’ purchases and use it to plant trees around the world.
Chime And Other 'Neo-Banks' Abruptly Close Accounts: Probe
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee is calling for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to evaluate the risks associated with apps that provide banking services, citing ProPublica’s article on Chime, the most widely downloaded of those apps.
Senate Banking Chair Asks CFPB How It Plans to Address Risks of Chime and Other Banking Apps
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The chair of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee is calling for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to evaluate the risks associated with apps that provide banking services, citing ProPublica’s article on Chime, the most widely downloaded of those apps.
Senate Banking Chair Asks CFPB How It Plans to Address Risks of Chime and Other Banking Apps
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Chime App is Closing Peoples Accounts
By Carson Kessler This story was originally published by ProPublica. The day after Jonathan Marrero’s federal stimulus payment landed in his bank account, he took his 5-year-old twins out for lunch at an Applebee’s near where he lives in New Jersey. When he went to pay, his only means of payment, a debit card issued by the hot financial technology startup Chime, was declined. He didn’t understand why. Marrero had checked his account earlier that day and saw a balance of nearly $10,000.
A Banking App Has Been Suddenly Closing Accounts, Sometimes Not Returning Customers’ Money
By Carson Kessler This story was originally published by ProPublica. The day after Jonathan Marrero’s federal stimulus payment landed in his bank account, he took his 5-year-old twins out for lunch at an Applebee’s near where he lives in New Jersey. When he went to pay, his only means of payment, a debit card issued by the hot financial technology startup Chime, was declined. He didn’t understand why. Marrero had checked his account earlier that day and saw a balance of nearly $10,000.
A Banking App Has Been Suddenly Closing Accounts, Sometimes Not Returning Customers' Money
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The day after Jonathan Marrero’s federal stimulus payment landed in his bank account, he took his 5-year-old twins out for lunch at an Applebee’s near where he lives in New Jersey. When he went to pay, his only means of payment, a debit card issued by the hot financial technology startup Chime, was declined.
A Banking App Has Been Suddenly Closing Accounts, Sometimes Not Returning Customers’ Money
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The day after Jonathan Marrero’s federal stimulus payment landed in his bank account, he took his 5-year-old twins out for lunch at an Applebee’s near where he lives in New Jersey. When he went to pay, his only means of payment, a debit card issued by the hot financial technology startup Chime, was declined. He didn’t understand why.
Bronx NYCHA Tenants Robbed of Hot Water as Cold Pandemic Winter Gets Underway Original
Lorraine Echavarry hasn’t taken a hot shower in over two months. With no hot water flowing into her apartment bathroom, the 68-year-old Bronx resident has two options when it comes to bathing: an ice-cold shower or the kitchen sink. “I get up at all hours of the night to see if by any chance I can get some hot water,” she told THE CITY.
New York City’s Volunteer Ambulance Crews Struggling When They’re Needed Most
On July 12, a 1-year-old boy was fatally shot at a family cookout in Brooklyn. Just three blocks away, an empty ambulance sat outside of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps headquarters. But the EMTs couldn’t answer the call. The crew’s operating certificate renewal was tied up in bureaucratic red tape inside the state’s overburdened and underfunded Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, a division of the state Department of Health.
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