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New Jersey declared a drought warning on Wednesday to head off potential water shortages as the state and much of the Northeast continue to face a historic dry spell that’s triggered wildfires, smoky air, and rail disruptions across the region.

Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where the fire situation across the Hudson remains bad.

Shamira Ibrahim is a Brooklyn-based culture writer by way of Harlem, Canada, and East Africa, who explores identity, cultural production and technology via a race critical code framework as a critic, reporter, feature/profile writer, and essayist – with a particular emphasis on francophone accessibility in the anglophone Black diaspora.

Animals are having their moment in the sun on social media, from the phenomenon of Moo Deng, the Thai baby hippo, to the sagas of viral cat fights, which are documented on TikTok and viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.

By Brigid Bergin, Elizabeth Kim, Stephen Nessen and Jon Campbell Published Nov 13, 2024 at 2:59 p.m. ET

The legislation requires whoever hires a real estate broker to pay their fee. Usually that’s the landlord.

A yearslong battle between the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and developers trying to build a shadow-casting tower nearby is over, with the New York City Council’s land use committee on Wednesday finally approving the rezoning required for the project.

Juan Iturbide, a 40-year-old former delivery worker for DoorDash, said the company owes him $1,500 in unpaid wages.

From video by Slater Slater Schulman LLP and Levy Konigsberg LLP

The NYPD will begin using drones to find lost children, search for suspects, respond to other emergencies and patrol neighborhoods as part of an expanded program to use the flying remote controlled vehicles, Mayor Adams and police officials said Wednesday.