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A long-debated bill to automatically seal the criminal records of millions of New Yorkers a certain period after their conviction has passed both chambers of the state Legislature for the first time. Lawmakers voted to pass the measure, which supporters call the Clean Slate Act, at the finish line in the last minute of an extended legislative session originally scheduled to end Thursday. The bill would automatically seal criminal records three years after a misdemeanor conviction and eight years after a person is released from prison on a felony conviction. It does not apply to Class A felonies or misdemeanors…

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday ripped apart the federal indictment accusing him of mishandling classified documents, accusing Democrats of a “political job” against him as he alleged a double standard in the administration of justice . “They took office, and they did it 36 ​​different times. And we have a bully who’s in charge. This is a political success job, Republicans are treated very differently at the Justice Department than Democrats,” he said. said in a speech at the Georgia Republican state convention. The 2024 front-runner was indicted on Friday on 37 federal charges, including willful withholding of national…

CNN — A man is accused of entering a Florida theme park, jumping into an alligator enclosure and recording a video for social media, a dangerous stunt that authorities say led to his arrest. Tampa Bay police say 20-year-old Jacob Pursifull jumped a fence to illegally enter Busch Gardens theme park on June 1. He and two others went to the park’s alligator enclosure, which is equipped with two layers of metal fencing, footage of the incident shows. . Authorities say Pursifull entered the compound while one of the people with him recorded him. according to a release from the…

June 10, 2023 Breaking news Houston Chronicle The Houston Police Department is in the middle of an investigation after a body was found in a U-Haul truck. MORE ABOUT LOCAL: A man shot in the arm by possible ‘gangsters’ after buying some tacos Houston police posted on Twitter Friday afternoon that they responded to a report of a body found inside a truck at a storage facility at 10200 Katy Freeway. Twitter – Houston Police Twitter MORE ABOUT LOCAL: Two shot, including a 60-year-old man, after a standoff at the apartment A photo shows officers and several patrol vehicles at…

It’s been six months since Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was elected speaker of the House after a marathon 15 rounds of voting, the most rounds needed since 1923, when nine votes were needed to confirm the position of President of Massachusetts Fredrick Huntington Gillett. a century ago From the beginning, the battle for McCarthy’s presidency raised questions about whether he would be able to negotiate a caucus with members who were willing to openly oppose him in the House. With such a slim majority, McCarthy can only lose five votes at any given time, giving some outspoken members great power….

After days of poor air quality in New York and much of the Northeast, the state’s top health official says monitoring will continue. Acting Health Commissioner James McDonald, in an interview with Spectrum News 1 Friday, said air quality improved in most areas of New York state Friday after two days of cloudy skies milky and sometimes orange due to forest fires in Canada. “We’re going to monitor things and I just encourage you to monitor along with us,” McDonald said. New Yorkers can monitor air quality on their phone, just as they would check the daily weather, McDonald said….

America needs a new centrist, but it doesn’t need a new centrist political party. A new centrist political party that could overcome the widely acknowledged dysfunction of our national politics would be great, but it’s not going to happen. There are too many impediments to the rise of a vibrant third party, including the fundraising hurdle, gerrymandering and the poor track record of third-party candidates. What is needed is an increase in independent politicians who are not part of a weak national third, but who push, directly and indirectly, the political system towards a new central space. Ironically, Democrats and…

MADRID, June 10 (Reuters) – An alliance between Spain’s main far-left parties Sumar and Podemos will be “more than positive” to help win next month’s election, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. Podemos, the junior partner in the coalition government with Sánchez’s Socialist Party, announced on Friday that it will join forces with Sumar and a number of small regional parties for the July 23 election. Sánchez called early elections after his Socialist party and Podemos fared worse in last month’s local elections, losing ground to right-wing parties. Analysts said a unified far left is essential to Sánchez’s chances…