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Gov. Kathy Hochul says there still aren’t details of a proposed pied-à-terre tax, which would tax second homes for wealthy New Yorkers.
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On the latest 51%, we speak with sociologist Gretchen Sisson about her book Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood. Sisson studies the relationship between abortion and adoption in the U.S., and is part of a team of researchers for "The Turnaway Study" at the University of California, San Francisco. In Relinquished, Sisson compiles a decade's worth of interviews with women who gave their newborns up for adoption through a private adoption agency. In unpacking how some agencies pressure (and rely on) struggling moms to relinquish their children, Sisson pushes back on the idea that adoption is an ethical alternative to abortion, and questions whether it's really a choice at all.Encore Episode.
The Met Opera airs Saturdays at 1 p.m. beginning Dec. 6 through May 30, 2026.
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Congressman Tim Kennedy welcomed Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to push three bills they say will transform cancer care.
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Lawmakers have long complained that governors put too much policy in the budget. But they’re not eager to pick a fight. -
Advocates estimate at least 2,800 people outside of New York City could benefit from the HIV Emergency Shelter Allowance program. -
“We're going to flood the zone. You're going to see more ICE agents than you've ever seen before,” border czar Tom Homan said.
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The Court of International Trade has struck down a second round of global tariffs ordered by President Trump, after his earlier import taxes were outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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She has spent decades helping others struggling to make ends meet. Now the rising cost of gas and groceries has left Dalene Basden feeling the strain herself. -
After an appeals court tried to end telemedicine access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in a medication abortion, the Supreme Court stepped in. Here's what's happened and what's to come. -
A group of emergency experts wants the Trump administration to raise the bar for federal help after disasters, and also make it easier for survivors to get money quickly.
