Eye-level view of the iconic skyline of Los Angeles By the time I reached Columbus Circle on March 28, the march had already begun moving along the edge of Central Park. A line of demonstrators advanced down the cobblestone path beneath bare winter trees, framed by Midtown towers rising through the branches. At the front, marchers carried large organizational banners for the New York Immigration Coalition and the NYCLU, the blue NYCLU lettering stretched wide across the crowd

Eye-level view of the iconic skyline of Los Angeles By the time I arrived in Lower Manhattan, the cold had already settled into people’s bones. The wind cut sharply through Foley Square and Union Square as thousands of demonstrators gathered across downtown Manhattan on Jan. 24 to protest ICE operations and the recent killing of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents. Protesters wore thick coats, scarves wrapped over their faces, knit hats pulled low against the

Eye-level view of the iconic skyline of Los Angeles The fourth day of Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearing unfolded Monday inside a packed Manhattan courtroom, where prosecutors played body camera footage showing Altoona police officers searching the backpack recovered during Mangione’s arrest at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s. Mangione entered court shortly before testimony resumed, wearing a gray suit jacket over a blue shirt. Before proceedings began, he briefly raised a clench

Eye-level view of a bustling urban street with diverse people and activities One year after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione sat quietly in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday as prosecutors played body camera footage, 911 audio, and testimony surrounding the moments leading up to his arrest inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The hearing, now several days into a sprawling suppression fight over evidence in the state murder case, focused

Eye-level view of a bustling urban street with diverse people and activities On the first day of Luigi Mangione’s pivotal suppression hearing in Lower Manhattan, the atmosphere inside the courtroom felt less like a procedural pretrial hearing and more like the opening scene of a national spectacle finally slowing down long enough to examine itself. The room was packed before proceedings began Monday morning. Supporters filled the benches in the back row, some dressed in green

Eye-level view of the iconic skyline of New York City Luigi Mangione appeared in a packed Lower Manhattan courtroom Tuesday morning as New York Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro dismissed two terrorism-related charges tied to the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The decision removes the most severe counts from the Manhattan District Attorney’s case, ruling prosecutors failed to demonstrate that Mangione acted with the legal intent required under New York