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A three-judge appeals panel wrote Wednesday that public interests weighed in favor of allowing the government to continue probing the trove of confidential documents.

Raymond Dearie, 78, a widely respected Long Island-born judge, has taken on local mobsters and once oversaw a court battle in a New York City mayoral race. Now, he's set to review secret papers Donald Trump dragged to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.

“We’ll have over 100 troopers from the New York State Police Department on their way to Puerto Rico over this next week,” Hochul said at a news conference in Midtown Manhattan. “As the need continues to arise, we’ll be ready to offer other resources and support.”

Tim Balk covers politics and Broadway at the New York Daily News. He previously worked at Chicago magazine and can often be found racing subway cars on the Manhattan Bridge bike path.

As his predecessor plans a weekend rally in his hometown, President Biden is set to deliver a primetime speech on Thursday night in Philadelphia, taking aim at the Republican Party’s right wing and enablers of former President Donald Trump.

Despite some hotly contested races, the August election drew only a fraction of eligible voters after a confusing redistricting process resulted in newly drawn State Senate and Congressional districts and the splitting of the state’s primaries.

Though analysts spy a top tier crystallizing after de Blasio’s humbling exit, the contest in the safely blue district seems mostly unsettled with less than a month until the Aug. 23 Primary Day.

Adams spokesman Fabien Levy said the mayor went on the Department of Housing Preservation and Development website to pay a $13 fee for registering his building after The News reached out for comment Thursday. Adams had mistakenly believed “he was in compliance,” Levy added.

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden said Monday that the "Second Amendment was never absolute" and that after the Texas elementary school shooting, there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman.

Two days after a hate-filled, gun-wielding white teenager launched a heinous attack on Black shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, killing 10 people, New Yorkers shared in grief at a Harlem vigil for the victims on Monday night.