Mr. Duncan was elected clerk of the criminal court in New Orleans on Saturday, ousting an incumbent who claimed Mr. Duncan had never been cleared of the murder that sent him to prison.
Calvin Duncan, once seen as a long-shot candidate, easily outpolled the incumbent, Darren Lombard, in a runoff election Saturday, according to preliminary results.
Federal Border Patrol agents hit the streets again on Sunday, their second day in a city home to a growing population of immigrants. It remains unclear how long they will stay.
Three other people, including an 11-year-old boy, were wounded in the shooting on Saturday night, city officials said. It was unclear whether the police had made any arrests.
Law enforcement officials at the scene of a shooting that left a 10-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman dead and three others wounded, in Newark on Saturday night.
Mr. Boyd was wounded early on Sunday in a shooting in Midtown Manhattan. He is in his first year as a defensive player with the team after signing in March.
Kris Boyd of the New York Jets at practice in Florham Park, N.J., in May. He was shot and critically wounded early on Sunday in Midtown, officials said.
National Guard soldiers at an immigrant processing and detention center in Broadview, Ill., last month. The troops arrived near Chicago and Portland, Ore., in early October but never deployed into the streets because of legal challenges that continue in the courts.
Zohran Mamdani takes office on Jan. 1 with ambitious plans to rethink policing and some officers angry about his past criticisms. Winning them over could be a key to a successful term.
In a television interview, Zohran Mamdani spoke of recognizing “what those officers put on the line every single day, and the importance that we ask them to do that which is impossible.”
High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top.
Officials have yet to grasp the magnitude of heat-related deaths, let alone effectively deal with the problem, public health experts and scientists say.
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
Alice Wong in 2024. “One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there,” Ms. Wong said. “Part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
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