Hochul Reaches Deal on A.I. Regulation in New York NYT | Top Stories Benjamin Oreskes 20 December 2025 at 08:56 The bill, which lawmakers passed in June, will be modified to more closely match a similar law in California, at Big Tech’s urging. © Kent J. Edwards for The New York TimesGov. Kathy Hochul at Grand Central Terminal in December.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul to Sign Prison Reform Bill After Beatings and Deaths NYT | Top Stories Benjamin Oreskes and Jan Ransom 20 December 2025 at 03:24 Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a Times investigation found. © José A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York TimesCorrections officers viciously beat to death a handcuffed prisoner, Robert L. Brooks, at the Marcy Correctional Facility near Utica, N.Y., last year.