New York Headlines

• Congress Approves Full Social Security Benefits for Public Sector Retirees

  (by Maya C. Miller for The New York Times an hour ago)
  The popular measure gives full benefits to millions of people who currently receive them at a reduced level. Critics warn the $196 billion cost will speed up the program’s insolvency.
  
  

• Trump Wanted Shutdown to Happen on Biden’s Watch, Not His

  (by Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  The president-elect was eager to evade responsibility for the consequences of a potential shutdown even as he blew up a bipartisan deal that would have kept the government open.
  
  

• Adams’ ex-aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin hosts NYC toy drive, sings Beyoncé’s ‘Cuff It’ — day after she was hit with bribery charges

  (by Dorian Geiger, Anna Young for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  Lewis-Martin took center stage during karaoke, singing and swaying to the Beyoncé track laden with expletives as others moved and grooved nearby.
  
  
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• Congress Approves Spending Extension, Ending Shutdown Crisis

  (by Carl Hulse and Catie Edmondson for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  The Senate passed the measure, sending it to President Biden’s desk, shortly after the midnight deadline for funding to lapse.
  
  

• Insurance industry leaned on DOJ to take Luigi Mangione case as deterrent against copycat killers: sources

  (by Joe Marino, Ben Kochman, Matt Troutman for The New York Post 11 hours ago)
  Health insurance industry leaders leaned on the US Department of Justice to prosecute accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.
  
  

• Luigi Mangione could join Sam Bankman-Fried, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 15-person jail unit in coming days: report

  (by Georgett Roberts, Anna Young for The New York Post 12 hours ago)
  Mangione, 26, will reportedly be shacking up with Combs and SBF in a 15-man protective custody unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in the coming days.
  
  

• White Judge Who Threatened to Shoot Black Teens at Party Resigns

  (by Shayla Colon for The New York Times 12 hours ago)
  Justice Erin P. Gall of Oneida County, N.Y., faced removal from office after a judicial commission found that she engaged in a “racially offensive, profane” tirade at a high school graduation party.
  
  

• Luigi Mangione to Be Arraigned on New York State Charges on Monday

  (by Hurubie Meko for The New York Times 13 hours ago)
  Luigi Mangione faces terror and murder charges in New York court. A federal prosecution is proceeding in parallel.
  
  

• At Luigi Mangione’s Perp Walk, Mayor Eric Adams Appeared Stage Right

  (by Emma G. Fitzsimmons for The New York Times 14 hours ago)
  In widely seen images, Mayor Eric Adams was behind Mr. Mangione, a murder suspect, when he arrived in Manhattan. Some questioned the mayor’s motives.