NY Teens Accused of Conspiring to Detonate Bomb at School

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• Three Long Island teens were arrested after conspiring to build a bomb and detonate it at their high school.

• Students overheard the trio discuss building the bomb while on the bus ride home Wednesday.

• Suffolk County cops arrested the three 16-year-olds at the Bohemia school Thursday morning.

Three teens were arrested after allegedly conspiring to build a bomb and detonate it at their Long Island high school.

The trio was overheard discussing building the bomb while on the bus ride home on Wednesday, according to officials. Multiple students informed an administrator at Connetquot High School, who called police Thursday morning.

Suffolk County cops arrested the three 16-year-olds at the Bohemia school, charging them with conspiracy to detonate the bomb.

Upon searching the homes of the students, police said one was found to be in possession of The Anarchist Cookbook, which contains instructions on how to build explosives.

Long Island Teens Accused of Conspiring to Set Off Bomb

All three were arraigned in youth court on Thursday.

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Hail, Gusty Storms Possible Today; More Rough Weather Ahead

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• The threat for rain and storms lingers around the tri-state through Sunday as a wacky weather pattern grips the region, Storm Team 4 says

• A warm front heated most of the area into the 70s on Thursday, but Friday will be cooler and possibly more damp as a cold front pushes in

• Rain is possible again on Saturday, but Sunday looks like it is going to be a washout before skies brighten and the area dries out on Monday

The seesaw weather pattern gripping the tri-state the last few days will continue into the weekend, with a chance for storms every day along with a wacky warm front that sent temps soaring into the high 70s in Central Park Thursday. 

Storm Team 4 says showers and storms are possible daily from Thursday through Sunday. Skies will stay mostly cloudy Thursday, though spotty showers and thunderstorms could roll through during the afternoon and evening hours.

Track the rain below using the interactive radar. 

Stronger storms could fire up south of the city leading into Thursday night, and Storm Team 4 says there is a risk of severe weather. Widespread severe weather is not expected, says Storm Team 4, but some places could see small hail and gusty winds as storms fire up later in the day. Most of the shower and storm activity should ease around midnight after a high around 73 degrees.

Storm Team 4 says there is a better chance for rain on Friday, with showers in the morning and a storm in the afternoon, as a cold front passes through. It’ll be cooler as well, with a gusty breeze and highs in the mid-60s in the Big Apple.

Showers are possible again on Saturday, and Sunday unfortunately looks to be a washout before the region begins to brighten up and dry out on Monday.

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Trump Lashes Out on Twitter Over Firefighters’ Support of Biden

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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday unleashed a string of about 60 retweets in what appeared to be an effort to counter a notion that the Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. has the support of all firefighters in the country, belying Mr. Trump’s anxiety about losing the critical union vote to Mr. Biden in the 2020 general election.

Just days after Mr. Biden, the former vice president, announced his campaign to run for the Democratic nomination, the national firefighters’ union endorsed him over a sea of candidates, and Mr. Biden positioned himself as the best president for union workers, who largely supported Mr. Trump in the 2016 election.

Mr. Trump lashed out in between dozens of retweets early Wednesday, writing: “I’ve done more for Firefighters than this dues sucking union will ever do, and I get paid ZERO!”

The volume of retweets was unusual even for Mr. Trump, particularly as his attorney general, William P. Barr, was expected to face difficult questions from senators on Wednesday morning about his portrayal of the special counsel’s report on his investigation into Russian election interference and whether Mr. Trump obstructed the inquiry.

After his retweet barrage about firefighters, Mr. Trump posted twice about the Russia investigation, quoting a Republican senator and Lou Dobbs, a Fox Business Network host.

That his focus was overwhelmingly on the firefighters and not the Russia investigation suggested Mr. Trump perhaps is more concerned about retaining support from union workers than he is about the impact of the special counsel in his re-election bid.

On Monday, after the International Association of Fire Fighters threw its support behind Mr. Biden, a longtime ally of the labor union, Mr. Trump appeared to dismiss the endorsement and pit union members against union leadership.

“The Dues Sucking firefighters leadership will always support Democrats, even though the membership wants me. Some things never change!” he wrote in a Twitter post.

Since Mr. Biden officially joined a crowded field of now 22 Democrats competing to win the party’s nomination, Mr. Trump has narrowed his focus on Mr. Biden, the front-runner in recent polls, calling him, “Sleepy Joe” and “not the brightest light bulb.”

It was no coincidence that Mr. Biden gave his first speech as a 2020 presidential contender in Pennsylvania on Monday — a state that is critical to Democratic efforts to reclaim the Oval Office next year. In 2016, Democrats lost the state to Mr. Trump by 44,000 votes.

“He obviously doesn’t know that Pennsylvania is having one of the best economic years in its history, with lowest unemployment EVER, a now thriving Steel Industry (that was dead) & great future,” Mr. Trump wrote in a Twitter post on Monday.

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Swarthmore Students Demand Closing of Fraternity That Boasted of ‘Rape Attic’

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The fraternity brothers wrote of acquiring date-rape drugs and bragged about their “rape attic.” They wrote of sexual encounters with underage girls and suggested getting group tank tops that read, “We don’t drink during the day, we BLACK OUT.”

Dozens of students at Swarthmore College, the elite school in Pennsylvania, stormed a fraternity house this weekend after campus publications leaked these details from a lengthy document in which members of the school’s Phi Psi fraternity bragged about sexual conquests and referenced sexual assaults.

The protesters, who call themselves the Coalition to End Fraternity Violence, have been camped in and around the fraternity house since, calling on the school to dissolve Phi Psi and the school’s other fraternity, Delta Upsilon.

The occupation places Swarthmore, a small liberal arts school with a progressive reputation, at the center of a continuing national debate over sexual assault on college campuses.

The documents, the protesters say, are evidence of what they have been trying to tell university administrators for years: the school’s fraternity houses are dangerous places and should be shut down.

“I’ve told the fraternity liaison,” said Morgin Goldberg, 22, a senior who has been sleeping in the Phi Psi house since Saturday as part of the protest. “I’ve told the dean of conduct, I’ve told the old dean of students, I’ve told the new dean of students, I’ve told the president.”

Ms. Goldberg, who said she was sexually assaulted by a member of Phi Psi as a freshman, said that the presence of the so-called rape attic has been known around campus for years, and that she had notified administrators of the dangers of locked rooms in fraternity houses on at least 20 occasions.

In a letter to students, President Valerie Smith, a scholar of African-American literature who has led the school since 2015, called the fraternity documents “heinous” and said that “the racism, misogyny and homophobia described within them is antithetical to the values of the college.” She has temporarily suspended fraternity activity pending the results of an independent investigation.

The school is also in the midst of a larger examination of fraternity life on campus.

Sexual assault has long been a problem on college campuses, but calls for administrators to curb violence have intensified in the last decade, and in particular in the wake of the #MeToo movement. In 2015, an extensive survey from the Association of American Universities said a quarter of college women had experienced sexual assault since their freshman year.

In response, schools across the country have introduced courses about sexual consent, reviewed the way they handle allegations of assault, and stepped up counseling for survivors.

But the question of how to handle fraternities has dogged administrators for years: Critics say fraternity houses encourage drunken partying and sexual misconduct, while supporters say many of them build camaraderie and foster future professional relationships.

The Swarthmore documents, published by The Phoenix and Voices, both student-run publications, read like a series of meeting minutes between fraternity brothers and appear to chronicle life at Phi Psi between 2010 and 2016. This means many of the people mentioned in them have since graduated. But students say they are representative of the current atmosphere.

In early April, Ms. Goldberg and other students started a Tumblr account in which students could publish anonymous accounts of encounters at fraternity parties. One wrote of being raped in a basement with a “foreign object.” Another wrote of running away as two intoxicated fraternity brothers shouted a homophobic slur.

The Swarthmore police did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the assault accusations.

In a statement on Facebook, the fraternity distanced itself from the documents.

“We wholeheartedly condemn the language of the 2013 and 2014 notes, as they are not representative of who we are today,” the statement said. “All our current brothers were in high school and middle school at the time of these unofficial minutes, and none of us would have joined the organization had this been the standard when we arrived at Swarthmore.”

“Today,” the statement goes on, “Phi Psi is proud to be an open and safe social space for anyone in the community.”

Protesters, who entered the building on Saturday afternoon, have brought mattresses and sleeping bags into the fraternity’s party room and have pitched tents in the yard.

They are asking the college to immediately end leases with the school’s fraternities and allocate their buildings to groups that have been historically marginalized, like students with disabilities, black students and transgender students.

This week is the last week of classes at Swarthmore. Between class assignments, demonstrators have been singing protest songs in the fraternity yard. One of their signs reads: “This house is ours.”

In an email, a spokeswoman for the school, Alisa Giardinelli, said that Swarthmore has been involved in a larger discussion about the role of Greek life on campus, and that Ms. Smith had charged a task force with examining fraternity activity last fall. That task force is expected to deliver its recommendations to her on Friday.

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Richard Lugar, Longtime Indiana G.O.P. Senator, Dies at 87

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After his return to the United States, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and eventually became a briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke, the chief of naval operations, who was a hero of World War II and renowned as a guileful player in Washington politics. Friends said this was his most significant exposure to geopolitical thinking on a global scale and probably the single greatest source of his fascination with foreign policy.

After a few years back in Indiana running a machine business, he was elected to the Indianapolis school board. His old high school by then was 90 percent African-American and he pushed through a plan to make his alma mater one of the nation’s first integrated magnet schools for college-bound youngsters, and it became divided evenly between blacks and whites. But the plan was highly unpopular politically and was reversed in little more than a year. Because of that, he suffered his first electoral setback, being defeated for school board president.

He rebounded, however, to be elected mayor of Indianapolis in 1967 at age 35. In his two terms, he helped conceive of and push through a plan to unify Indianapolis with surrounding Marion County in all forms of government but for the schools.

He defeated Senator Vance Hartke in 1976 after failing to unseat the state’s other incumbent Democrat, Senator Birch Bayh, two years earlier. He had always been able to campaign as a true son of Indiana and as someone who still operated a large soybean farm. He had no Democratic opponent in his last successful re-election race in 2006.

But six years later, he became a target for the unforgiving conservatives of his party’s Tea Party wing and was defeated in the Republican primary by Richard Mourdock, the state treasurer. It was apparent that many Republican primary voters had lost patience with Mr. Lugar’s moderate stances on some issues and especially his relentless and outspoken faith in the need for cooperation with Democrats

In fact, Mr. Lugar represented many of the features of Republican incumbents that Tea Party adherents came to regard with fury. In addition to his practice of working with Democrats, he was moderate on many issues. Attention to foreign relations has traditionally brought few political dividends to senators. And in his case, his inclination was toward an expansive, internationalist view of world affairs, often disdained by party conservatives.

The narrative of the Tea Party as an effective spoiler in Republican politics but without wider appeal played out after his primary defeat; Mr. Mourdock was defeated in the general election by Joe Donnelly, in part because of Mr. Mourdock’s statement that he opposed abortion in cases of rape because any resulting pregnancies were “something that God intended to happen.”

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$16K Sculpture Stolen From Midtown Art Gallery: NYPD

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A robber stole a sculpture worth $16,000 from a midtown art gallery, police said. 

The sculpture by Fred Allard looks like a shopping basket but is made with crystal resin and adorned with gold chains, the NYPD said. 

The man stole it from Galeries Bartoux on Central Park South on Friday afternoon, police say. 

The suspect appears to be in his late 50s and about 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a black jacket and blue jeans.  

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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Caught on Camera: Thief Steals $5K From Home Safe, NYPD Says

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What to Know

• Police are searching for a man they say stole thousands of dollars from a Bronx home’s safe over the weekend

• Video surveillance from inside the residence shows the burglar, police say

• The NYPD urges anyone with information to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA

Police are searching for a man they say stole thousands of dollars from a Bronx home’s safe over the weekend.

According to the NYPD, on Sunday, at about 6 p.m., a 34-year-old woman who returned to her residence on 206th Street and Rochambeau Avenue reported a theft.

Police say that video surveillance found that on Saturday, at around 10:30 p.m., an unknown man was seen inside the residence. The suspect allegedly removed about $5,000 in cash from a safe and feld on foot.

The suspect is described as being in his 20s or 30s and was last seen wearing all blue clothing, police say.

The NYPD urges anyone with information to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA. 

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Consumer Reports Reveals America's Best Grocery Stores

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• Consumer Reports’ annual ranking of the best and worst grocery stores in America is out; more than 75,000 subscribers weighed in

• Trader Joe’s was the only national chain to earn a top overall satisfaction score; five regional chains also had high satisfaction

• Subscribers reported their single most important reason for shopping at one grocer over another was price

Consumer Reports has released its latest supermarket report, which ranks America’s top grocery stores. The findings are based on a survey of more than 75,000 Consumer Reports subscribers. 

Trader Joe’s was the only national chain to earn Consumer Reports’ top overall satisfaction score, which incorporates factors such as cleanliness, price, food quality and variety checkout speed, healthy options and other indicators. 

Five regional chains also shared top marks for overall customer satisfaction: Wegmans, Market Basket, Texas-based Central Market, Heinen’s (Ohio and Chicago) and Gelson’s Markets (SoCal). 

Subscribers reported their single most important reason for shopping at one grocer over another was price — and Trader Joe’s, along with Market Basket, earned top honors in that category this year. 

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Price wasn’t a total deal-breaker, though. Some said they were willing to spend more money for fresher, higher quality food. 

What about tri-state favorite Whole Foods, you ask? The Consumer Reports study found it was ranked favorably in virtually every category, particularly for meat and poultry quality, but overall, it got an average score for overall satisfaction. According to Consumer Reports, that’s because its prices are perceived to be too high. 

Other chains with top pricing marks include Costco, Fareway, Lidl, Aldi and Winco, among others. 

Read more about Consumer Reports’ methodology here.  If you’re a subscriber you can also see breakdowns of the top grocery stores in the Northeast.

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A Houston High School Has a New Dress Code. For Parents.

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A school dress code has once again set off a heated discussion about race, class and cultural norms. Only this time, the dress code is aimed at parents, not students.

James Madison High School, a public school of about 1,600 students in Houston, notified families this month of a sweeping policy that banned revealing and sagging clothing for all people visiting the school, as well as pajamas, hair rollers and satin caps and bonnets, which are often worn by black women to protect their hair.

“Parents, we do value you as a partner in your child’s education,” the principal, Carlotta Outley Brown, wrote in a letter dated April 9 that asked adults to set an example by wearing appropriate attire on campus. “You are your child’s first teacher.”

The letter came a day after a local television station reported that a mother said she had been turned away from enrolling her daughter at the school because the mother was wearing a short dress and a head scarf. The policy has since ricocheted across Houston and beyond, with many calling it another example of how policies on personal appearance can enforce racist and classist power structures.

Controversies over dress codes frequently spring up in education, where people of color, especially young women, often bear the brunt of rules governing attire. Black girls have been asked not to wear braided hair extensions and African head wraps to school and, last year, New Jersey state officials opened a civil rights investigation after a black high school wrestler with dreadlocks was forced to cut his hair to compete in a match.

The policy for parents in Houston also includes a focus on hair, which critics said hurts African-American women. The rule against pajamas and housewear was also flagged as potentially harmful to lower-income families, at a school that is 58 percent Hispanic and 40 percent black, and where three-quarters of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch, according to school data.

“Most of the parents likely cannot afford to comply with this dress code,” Ashton P. Woods, a community activist who is running for Houston City Council, said in a tweet criticizing the policy as elitist and a form of respectability politics.

Dorinda Carter Andrews, the associate dean for equity and inclusion for the college of education at Michigan State University, said that educators have the right to be clear about what kind of attire is appropriate in schools, including which clothing is too revealing. But she said the policy in question inappropriately included rules against hair coverings and housewear.

“There is a fine line here around a socially constructed high standard that is based on norms that aren’t inclusive,” she said, adding that black women’s bodies and hair in particular have been policed historically.

“That has been so problematic historically and in contemporary times for black women, because our hair is like a representation of self,” she said.

The principal, Ms. Outley Brown, who is black, did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

In her letter, she described the policy in the context of the school’s having high standards. “We are preparing your child for a prosperous future,” she wrote. “We want them to know what is appropriate and what is not appropriate for any setting they may be in.”

The Houston Independent School District, the largest school district in Texas, declined to answer questions Wednesday.

The idea of imposing restrictions on parents’ dress has taken root in fits and starts in recent years, primarily in an effort to discourage adults from wearing inappropriate or revealing clothing on school campuses. A bill in Tennessee that would have required school districts to establish codes of conduct for everyone on school property stalled this year. In 2014, a school board in Florida considered, but ultimately rejected, imposing a dress code for parents.

The policy in Houston has its supporters. Online, some people spoke up in agreement, lamenting that a policy asking parents to dress appropriately had to be written out in the first place.

But as schools grapple with the issue, they engage in a delicate dance between encouraging adults to serve as role models for students and ostracizing the very parents they want to engage.

“If we really want to lead and bring people up to a higher standard and elevate people, then we bring them in, rather than push them out,” said Zeph Capo, the president of the Houston Federation of Teachers.

Dr. Carter Andrews, who is also an associate professor of race, culture and equity at Michigan State, encouraged schools to handle problems with attire by having individual conversations with parents, rather than a blanket policy.

“They may themselves have had negative experiences with schooling so this practice is really another way to further marginalize them, instead of cultivate a relationship,” she said.

Joselyn Lewis, the mother in Houston who said she was turned away this month because of her attire, told Channel 2 News that she had worn a T-shirt dress and head wrap to enroll her 15-year-old daughter, who was being bullied at another school.

At first she thought the school had mistaken her for a student, she said, before learning that a standard of attire indeed applied to parents.

“I don’t have to get all dolled up to enroll her to school,” she said. “My child’s education — anyone’s child’s education — should be more important than what someone has on.”

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NY, NJ Reach 'Understanding' on Congestion Pricing: Murphy

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• New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he, along with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, “came to a conceptual understanding” on congestion pricing

• The understanding would make New York’s congestion pricing fairer to New Jersey commuters, according to Murphy

• The news comes after two New Jersey congressmen proposed legislation last week to protect New Jersey motorists from New York’s pricing plan

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he, along with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, “came to a conceptual understanding” that should congestion pricing move forward, it would be fairer to New Jersey commuters, according to the state leader.

Murphy said Wednesday that the understanding is that New Jersey commuters will be treated equally at all Hudson River crossings: Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel and George Washington Bridge.

“New Jersey will also have a seat at the table as the plan moves forward,” Murphy said.

“As we ensure the equal treatment for our commuters, we will pursue the conversion, and this important, to cashless tolling at Port Authority-controlled crossings,” Murphy added. “This will not only make delivering the credits to New Jersey drivers possible, but will also relieve congestion at the toll plazas, especially at the George Washington Bridge.”

Congestion Pricing Coming to New York City

The news comes after two New Jersey congressmen proposed legislation last week to protect New Jersey motorists who already pay up to $15 for bridge or tunnel tolls.

One provision would deny federal transportation funding to New York if New Jersey commuters who pay bridge or tunnel tolls aren’t exempted from the new fee. 

Details on New York’s fee plan are being finalized. It won’t go into effect until 2021 and will be used to fix the city’s mass transit system.

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