The man from the Dominican Republic shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Marble Hill still has a bullet lodged in his neck, four days after the shooting, and is being held in solitary confinement at a federal jail, without access to adequate medical care, his attorneys said in a statement Sunday evening.

Oscar Belgal, 28, was told he needed to return to the hospital for surgery from a specialist. His attorneys say it isn’t clear if he will be taken to the hospital to get that care.

Happy Wednesday in NYC, where, after decades of political wrangling, Mayor Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have finally reached a deal to phase out the horse-drawn carriage industry operating in Central Park.

For years, local officials and advocates have pushed to abolish the carriage rides popular among tourists over concerns about the wellbeing of the horses and safety for passengers. That campaign kicked into high gear this summer after two incidents in June, in which a horse collapsed and died after eating a poisonous shrub, and an 18-year-old tourist named Romanch Mahajan was killed after being thrown from a carriage when the horse got spooked and bolted.

However, efforts to end the practice have repeatedly run up against opposition from powerful unions representing the carriage drivers, most recently the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which has fought proposed bans on the grounds that it would destroy hundreds of jobs and put longtime carriage operators out of business.

But yesterday, according to POLITICO, the two most powerful people in municipal government — Mamdani and Menin — agreed to back a bill named for Mahajan that would end the industry by 2028. Romanch’s Law will go to a vote in the City Council on Oct. 22, where it already has the formal support of a majority of members.

“Horse-drawn carriages have long been part of New York City’s history, but in an increasingly busy Central Park, this tradition has become a growing public safety liability,” Menin said in a statement.

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A wave of anti-transgender legislation has appeared in statehouses across the country over the past few years. Now, transgender issues are a recurring topic on the 2026 midterm campaign trail.

As a scholar of LGBTQ+ politics and history, I’ve noticed surprising trends in how Democrats in key states like Texas and Ohio talk about policies focused on transgender people, as the party vies for control of Congress.

With a rise in anti-trans rhetoric from the White House, some Democrats are using similar messaging in an attempt to secure undecided voters. In my assessment, this approach could alienate moderates, progressives and LGBTQ+ people more broadly.

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