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Lows: Mid-60s
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Around NYC
1. Trump administration to hold back grants from NYC, Chicago, Fairfax schools over bathroom policies
Three of the nation’s largest public school districts stand to lose $24 million after missing a Trump administration deadline to agree to change policies supporting transgender students, officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights had given New York City Schools, Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia until Tuesday to agree to stop giving students access to locker rooms and restrooms corresponding with their gender identity or risk losing funding for specialty magnet schools.
2. New report shows ways NYC can address lack of housing supply and production
A new report by Vital City details the ways the city is failing to produce new housing and how it can improve.
Jamie Rubin, the chair of the New York City Housing Authority Board and the chief investment officer of Aligned Climate Capital, an investment firm of clean energy companies, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Wednesday to discuss the report.
3. Harris faces protesters, condemns Israel’s war in Gaza on first night of book tour
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, forced to confront Israel’s war in Gaza on the first night of her book tour, expressed compassion for the Palestinians and condemned President Donald Trump for giving the Israeli government “a blank check.”
“What’s happening to the Palestinian people is outrageous and it beaks my heart,” she told a packed New York City performance center on Wednesday night after being interrupted by the first of four pro-Palestinian protesters. “Donald Trump has given (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu a blank check to do whatever he wants.”
Around the Nation
1. Justice Department to try to charge ex-FBI Director James Comey, sources say
2. Kimmel is back on ABC to big ratings, but some affiliates still refuse to air his show
3. Family of 1 of the 67 Washington plane crash victims sues the FAA, Army and American Airlines