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WBAI 99.5 FM’s show about politics and policy - which ran from 2018 to 2024. Co-host Jeff Simmons @JackHites hosts @CityWatchWbai now on Thursdays at 5 pm ET.

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The state’s senior senator has had success in Minnesota by being a more moderate Democrat.
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A super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is running ads against Tom Malinowski, who is hoping to replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey in the House.
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is concerned the federal government may “withhold” information about the death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.
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People who knew a man fatally shot by federal agents pushed back against what they called a smear campaign by federal officials. “He was a good man,” his family said.
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In an interview, the president says immigration-enforcement officers will “at some point” leave the area.
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Part casting director, part media guru, Morris Katz is behind the biggest Democratic campaigns this cycle.
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Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are scrutinizing Mr. Carone, who served as chief of staff during Eric Adams’s first year as mayor of New York.
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Tune to City Watch on @WBAI 99.5 FM NY this Thursday at 5 PM ET when host Jeff Simmons @JackHites talks w/ Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias, author of To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose The Radical Right @AtriaBooks @simonschuster
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Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism.
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The incident follows the deadly shooting of Renee Good by a federal officer earlier this month.
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The detention this week of a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota animated protesters in New York City, who faced freezing temperatures.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing $2 million in new funding for the State Police to investigate auto insurance fraud and sweeping tort law changes aimed at curbing staged crashes.
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Some representatives say they’re waiting for the new administration to detail how it'll handle street encampments.
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This is one of five indictments charging Eric Ulrich, the former New York City buildings commissioner under Eric Adams, with taking bribes totaling more than $150,000.
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Insiders said he will be a political appointee within Homeland Security based in Suffolk County and working with ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations.
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Federal agents have taken a 5-year-old boy and his father from Minnesota to a detention facility in Texas.
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New York is joining the small group of states switching to chip-and-pin cards to evade skimming devices that siphon money for food from low-income people.
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Tune to @WBAI 99.5 FM NY at 5 PM today when host Jeff Simmons @JackHites focuses on housing issues with @carlinarivera, Pres/CEO of the NYS Association for Affordable Housing & Pascale Leone, Exec. Dir. of the Supportive Housing Network of NY
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The podcaster had tough words for the ICE agents targeting Minnesota.
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