Day: August 11, 2025

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Popping the question in Brooklyn Bridge Park


Brooklyn courts, justice, and community programs highlight transparency, empowerment, and accountability amid legal battles and reforms.

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Medicare update: Lawmakers sound alarm about major change to program


The new model incorporates artificial intelligence to help make decisions and is being tested in six states beginning in January.

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Former WWE Superstar Wins First Title Since Being Released


Just a few months after being released, a former WWE Superstar has already won a championship on the independent circuit.

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The Right Keeps Getting Social Security Disastrously Wrong


Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was filmed saying the new “Trump Accounts” would be a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security.”

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Taylor Swift live updates: Will she be on Travis Kelce’s ‘New…


“If not Taylor, why Taylor shaped.” -One Swiftie, saying what we’re all thinking about a new promo for Travis Kelce and his brother Jason’s “New Heights” podcast that features a silhouette of the &…

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Judge won’t unseal transcripts of grand jury that indicted Epstein ex-girlfriend Maxwell


The judge says releasing the transcripts would risk unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised.

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✰PREMIUM What They’re Saying: live arts in Brooklyn this week, Aug. 11


A roundup of Brooklyn’s cultural offerings this week, from comedy to theater to music to art, and what critics are saying about them.

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ICE detains green card holder returning from vacation after 23 years in US


The Filipino immigrant helped the government over a decade ago to arrest narcotics co-conspirators, receiving a reduced sentence and monetary fine.

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Judge Denies Pam Bondi’s Efforts To Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts from Ghislaine Maxwell Case


The Justice Department’s premise that releasing the materials would bring new information about Jeffrey Epstein to light ‘demonstrably false.’

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Turkey detains constructor after building collapses in earthquake


Authorities have detained the owner and constructor of a building that collapsed during a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in northwestern Turkey.