NYTIMES (Benjamin Oreskes) - Antonio Delgado Drops Out of NY Governor Race
After falling out with Gov. Kathy Hochul, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado had hoped to challenge her from the left. But his campaign failed to gain traction.
NYTIMES (Tracey Tully) - Malinowski Concedes to Analilia Mejia in New Jersey House Primary
Tom Malinowski, a former member of Congress, congratulated Analilia Mejia, a political organizer, on a “hard-won victory.”
NYTIMES (David Enrich and Debra Kamin) - Epstein Directed Aide to Obtain Hidden Video Cameras
“I’m installing them into Kleenex boxes now,” the aide replied in the 2014 email exchange.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Pregnant woman rescued from sinking car gives birth on her birthday
Shedly Appolon says she was trapped in her car when a good Samaritan swam to her vehicle, opened the back door, and pulled her to safety.
NYTIMES (Jonathan Wolfe and Yan Zhuang) - Pride Flag Is Taken Down From Stonewall Monument
The removal of the flag from the Manhattan monument, the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement, came after a Trump administration directive about flags at national park sites.
AXIOS (Avery Lotz) - Pride flag removed from Stonewall monument
Government officials removed a pride flag from New York's Stonewall National Monument, the birthplace of the modern queer rights movement, following federal guidance restricting what flags can be flown in national parks , community leaders say. The big picture: The removal comes amid a broader federal effort to scrub LGBTQ+ history from government sites and single out transgender people, raising fears among LGBTQ+ advocates their community faces erasure from public life. - "It's an outrage," says Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal. "But it's an outrage upon another outrage because we know that this administration seems very comfortable in attacking religious, ethnic, and other minorities, including the LGBTQ population."…
Government officials removed a pride flag from New York's Stonewall National Monument, the birthplace of the modern queer rights movement, following federal guidance restricting what flags can be flown in national parks , community leaders say. The big picture: The removal comes amid a broader federal effort to scrub LGBTQ+ history from government sites and single out transgender people, raising fears among LGBTQ+ advocates their community faces erasure from public life. - "It's an outrage," says Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal. "But it's an outrage upon another outrage because we know that this administration seems very comfortable in attacking religious, ethnic, and other minorities, including the LGBTQ population."…Open
ABCNEWS - WATCH: The real people behind Bad Bunny’s big performance
Bad Bunny incorporated real-life figures and cultural heroes into his Super Bowl performance, celebrating Puerto Rican and Latin American influence in American culture.
NYTIMES (Claire Moses) - Chappell Roan Leaves Casey Wasserman Agency Over Epstein Files
Casey Wasserman, who founded and leads the talent agency bearing his name, exchanged flirtatious emails with Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s.
NYTIMES (Jonah E. Bromwich) - Immigration Judge Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Cannot be Deported
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.
NYTIMES (Reid J. Epstein) - Susan Collins Runs for Re-election, in One of 2026’s Top Senate Fights
The Maine Republican is one of her party’s most vulnerable senators, and her seat is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking control of the chamber.