Maryam Ahmad

Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the expansion of its ICE detention facility in Batavia to house women detainees. WAMC’s Maryam Ahmad spoke to Jose Sandoval, the Latino Communities Reporter at WXXI News, based in Rochester about the expansion, and how ICE enforcement actions have affected the region.

The American Cancer Society says a man's average lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is 1 in 755. Jake Messier is among the fewer than 1% of American men who find themselves as that one. The social media influencer and advocate has Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. He was first diagnosed in 2023.

The candidates for governor in New York are on opposite sides of a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state ban limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

More than 8,500 children have been arrested by ICE this year. In the U.S., the third-highest number of arrests of children was in New York since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

Many unhoused people in Schenectady go to the downtown library for shelter and resources, but the number of unhoused people at the library has become a city council election issue.

An investigation is underway into threats made against a Palestinian American family in Yonkers for displaying flags outside their home.

Moroccan restaurant Tara Kitchen began as a small stall at the Schenectady Greenmarket. Then, owner Aneesa Waheed and her husband decided to open a full-service eatery in the city in 2008. WAMC's Maryam Ahmad spoke to Waheed about the evolution of the business over 20 years.

The New York State Museum houses the largest collection of artifacts and objects related to 9/11. Part of its collection is on display in its permanent exhibit, which opened just a few months after September 2001. The museum is marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 with a new exhibit this year.

A former Stewart's is set to become a Middle Eastern bakery. Meezan Kitchen will be one of the first Palestinian-owned food establishments in the Capital Region.

Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ramped up its deportation and detentions across the country, including in New York. While most people detained by ICE in the state were men, women detained by ICE are more likely to be transferred out of state, since there is no ICE detention facility for women in New York.