Day: March 20, 2025

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle editorial staff highlights images from around the world, photos courtesy of the Associated Press.

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A former math teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights was sentenced to seven years in prison and must register as a sex offender.

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President Trump’s executive order on Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to shut down the cabinet department she oversees drew immediate backlash from New York Congressional Democrats.

Trump’s order instructs McMahon to return authority over education back to the states, according to published reports. However, permanently eliminating the agency requires an act of Congress, and while Democrats are in the minority in both chambers, they still have some leverage to block the Republican effort.

The executive order comes as Trump has been making moves to shrink the department’s purview and cut its staff in half over the past few days.

House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Brooklyn) slammed the executive order as Trump taking a “chainsaw to public education in America.”

“Shutting down the Department of Education will harm millions of children in our nation’s public schools, their families and hardworking teachers,” Jeffries said in a statement. “Class sizes will soar, educators will be fired, special education programs will be cut, and college will get even more expensive, at a time when the cost of living is already too high.”

Jeffries pledged to stand against any House Republican efforts advancing legislation to shutter the department, even though the GOP holds the majority in the House.

Baker Motley was the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court and first Caribbean woman appointed to the federal judiciary. 

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THE COURT OF APPEALS’ 6-1 VOTE TO BLOCK NYC’S noncitizen voting Local Law 11 had one dissension, from Associate Justice Jenny Rivera. 

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On Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court, John Ragano, also known as “Bazoo,” was sentenced for extortionate collection of credit.  

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TWO TEENAGERS were hospitalized Wednesday after crashing their moped into a parked car on Bay Ridge Parkway, according to police.

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NYU RESEARCHERS have developed an AI-powered tool capable of analyzing food photos to calculate nutritional values.

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A FIRE at the NYCHA Brownsville Houses left 13 people injured on Wednesday evening, according to officials. 

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