Renita Francois, director of Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety, interview with author, New York City Hall, March 25, 2019 City of New York Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Mapping the connection between stronger and safer neighborhoods. ... Inc.,..…

Let’s return to justice, to peace … and finally to the negotiating table.” The New York Times reported Friday that that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the nuclear agreement is formally known, could be broadened to cover questions beyond Iran’s the nuclear..…

Following Kenya’s request for delay, International Court of Justice postponed hearing on Somalia-Kenya maritime border dispute from 9-13 Sept to 4-8 Nov. In New York, Farmajo and Kenyan President Kenyatta 24 Sept agreed to normalise relations. . . . . ..…

District Judge J. Paul Oetken, an Obama appointee for the Southern District of New York, ruled that the states had failed to show the cap meaningfully constrained their tax policies and hence there was “no basis for concluding that the SALT cap is unconstitutionally coercive.” ...…

Following Kenya’s request for delay, International Court of Justice postponed hearing on Somalia-Kenya maritime border dispute from 9-13 Sept to 4-8 Nov. In New York, Farmajo and Kenyan President Kenyatta 24 Sept agreed to normalise relations. . . . . ..…

Oliver North speaks on April 26, 2019, at National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis. ..…

lawsuit by four states challenging the cap on state and local tax deductions was dismissed Monday by federal judge.. New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland claimed that the $10,000 limit on SALT deduction was unconstitutional and designed to force them to change their own..…

In many respects, New York's approach to justice and its simultaneous sharp drops in both incarceration and youth crime, Vincent Schiraldi, former Commissioner of New York City Probation and co-director of Columbia University Justice Lab... Raise the..…

Paul Oetken Sept 30 threw out lawsuit over the cap filed last year by New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland. The judge said the government has the exhaustive power to impose and collect income taxes and that the states can enact their own tax policies as they..…

New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS . U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel 'Beloved' about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize..…

District Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York wrote in his decision. . Judge Oetken was appointed in 2011 to the federal court on the recommendation of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and was the first openly gay man appointed to the federal judiciary. ...…