NEW YORK CITY — Fifth Avenue became a river of rainbow flags Sunday as tens of thousands of marchers moved through Manhattan for New York City’s 56th annual Pride March, carrying a celebration born from Stonewall into another politically charged year for LGBTQ+ rights. Photograph by Sashimi-b The procession stepped off at 26th Street and Fifth Avenue before heading downtown. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani were among the elected officials at the front of the march,

NEW YORK CITY — By the time the Knicks began moving up Broadway, Lower Manhattan had already become a mass of orange, blue and bodies. Photographed by Andrew Schutzman Fans packed the sidewalks along the Canyon of Heroes, spilling several blocks beyond the official parade route. Some climbed traffic lights and sanitation trucks for a better view. Others perched on shoulders. The crowd stretched far enough that people gathered on the Brooklyn Bridge simply to hear the celebrat

NEW YORK CITY — Luigi Mangione returned to Manhattan Criminal Court on June 17 for a pretrial hearing that unexpectedly brought a central piece of his defense strategy into public view: his lawyers planned to argue that he was suffering from an “extreme emotional disturbance” at the time of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Justice Gregory Carro disclosed the planned defense in open court Wednesday, saying Mangione’s attorneys intended to present what he cal

NEW YORK CITY — After months of arguments over what happened inside an Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s and later at a police station, Justice Gregory Carro delivered a split ruling Monday that will shape the evidence jurors are permitted to hear in Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial. The most consequential pieces of physical evidence survived. Prosecutors will be permitted to introduce the 3D-printed handgun they allege was used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson,

LOS ANGELES— I moved with the crowd through MacArthur Park on May 1, surrounded by thousands of people carrying union banners, handmade signs, drums, cowbells, and air horns. Families marched beside labor organizers, students, janitors, airport workers, and immigrant rights groups as the procession pushed toward Downtown Los Angeles and Gloria Molina Grand Park. Broadway filled wall to wall with people chanting “No justice, no peace,” “Workers over billionaires,” and “This is

NEW YORK CITY— 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. Several people near the front wore

LOS ANGELES—I arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 30 as crowds gathered outside City Hall for the nationwide “ICE Out Everywhere” protests. By early afternoon, the area around Grand Park and Spring Street was packed with thousands of demonstrators carrying Mexican, Palestinian, American, and California flags while chanting “ICE out of L.A.!” and “When we fight, we win!” Students wearing backpacks climbed onto barriers holding handmade signs demanding immigrant rights as p

NEW YORK CITY — The federal case against Luigi Mangione changed dramatically Friday morning before the defendant even entered the courtroom. U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett dismissed the two most serious counts in Mangione’s federal indictment — including the only charge that made him eligible for execution — ruling that the stalking offenses prosecutors charged could not legally serve as the crimes of violence required to support the federal murder and firearms count

NEW YORK CITY— 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 freezing air. Salt and frost coated the stone pavement beneath the crowd. Protesters gather in New York City on Jan. 24 carrying

NEW YORK CITY — The fight over what federal prosecutors will be allowed to show a jury in Luigi Mangione’s case returned Friday to a black backpack taken into police custody hundreds of miles from Manhattan. Mangione appeared before U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett on Jan. 23 for a federal evidentiary hearing examining how police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, handle a person’s belongings after an arrest — and whether the procedures officers followed in Mangione’s case perm

NEW YORK CITY — Luigi Mangione returned to federal court in Manhattan on Jan. 9 for a roughly two-and-a-half-hour hearing that centered on a question with potentially life-or-death consequences: whether the federal indictment legally supports the charge that makes him eligible for the death penalty. Mangione entered the courtroom shortly after 11 a.m. with his ankles shackled and his hands free. He wore a tan prison uniform over a white long-sleeved shirt and took his place a

NEW YORK CITY — By the fifth day of Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearing, the routine outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse had become its own strange ecosystem. I arrived before sunrise Monday morning to another line already forming behind the barricades, with supporters wrapped in hoodies and jackets drinking coffee on the sidewalk while camera crews unloaded equipment nearby. Inside, the courtroom filled quickly once the doors opened. Luigi Mangione entered shortly before

NEW YORK CITY — By Thursday morning, the routine outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse had started to feel strangely familiar. I arrived before sunrise once again, passing clusters of reporters unloading camera equipment onto the sidewalk while supporters bundled in green scarves and hoodies gathered near the barricades waiting for the doors to open. One year after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the hearings surrounding Luigi Mangione had settled into so

NEW YORK CITY — I arrived outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse late Saturday night, nearly two full days before the first session of Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearing was scheduled to begin. By the early hours of Sunday morning, a small encampment had already formed across the street in Collect Pond Park, clustered along the fences and chess tables facing the courthouse. People wrapped themselves in blankets and hoodies against the cold downtown wind, charging phones off

NEW YORK CITY — In the early morning darkness Tuesday, I arrived outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse just after 3 a.m. to secure a seat for Luigi Mangione’s hearing. At that hour, supporters were gathered across the street along the fences and chess tables of Collect Pond Park, wrapped in hoodies and jackets against the cool night air while drinking coffee and scrolling through their phones as police maintained watch nearby. Around 6 a.m., the line began crossing the stree

NEW YORK CITY — Luigi Mangione stood before U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett in Lower Manhattan on Friday afternoon and entered a plea of not guilty to the four federal charges against him, formally moving a case in which prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty toward trial. The April 25 arraignment began at 1 p.m. in the Southern District of New York, eight days after a federal grand jury returned the indictment. At the prosecution table were Assistant U.S. Attor