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COUNCILMEMBER ATTACKED AT RIKERS: A Rikers Island inmate hurled an “unknown liquid substance” at a Brooklyn City Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-33) who visited the prison complex last Wednesday, Sept. 22

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CONGRESS APPROVES WOMEN’S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT: Just after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the historic Women’s Health Protection Act to establish a federally protected right to abortion.

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QUESTIONING TREATMENT OF HAITIAN REFUGEES: New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 17 attorneys general have sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas expressing concern over the treatment of thousands of Haitian refugees currently seeking humanitarian aid along the border in Texas. 

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