The race to replace former City Councilman Jumaane Williams is over.
The winner is Farah Louis, with more than 42% of the vote.
Williams vacated his seat on March 20 after winning a crowded race for NYC Public Advocate.

A small plane has conducted an emergency landing the Hudson River in Rockland County, officials said.
Police from Piermont and Orangetown confirmed a plane landed into the river Tuesday evening after 5 p.m.
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The New York Police Department official in charge of training new recruits said Tuesday that the restraint technique an officer used on Eric Garner five years ago, leading to his death, “meets the definition” of a banned chokehold.

Police officers escorting President Donald Trump’s motorcade in Louisiana have been involved in an accident.
Four motorcycle police officers crashed at 1:30PM on Interstate 10 as the Trump motorcade departed Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana, according to the Secret Service.

Israel’s government went on a spending binge in its West Bank settlements following the election of President Donald Trump, according to official data obtained by The Associated Press.

A boy called 911 to report that he and six other children had been left in a car in Maryland with the windows rolled up and the motor not running.
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Spyware crafted by an “advanced cyber actor” infected multiple targeted mobile phones through the popular WhatsApp communications program without any user intervention through in-app voice calls, the company said.
The Financial Times identified the actor as Israel’s NSO Group, and a WhatsApp spokesman later said “we’re certainly not refuting any of the coverage you’ve seen.”

A Jewish woman was in critical condition after she was stabbed multiple times in the city of Helsingborg in Sweden, Swedish media reported Tuesday.
According to an eyewitness which spoke to Maariv news, the approximately 60-year-old victim was heard screaming “Help me!

Fresh out of his job as deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein said Monday that the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian election interference was “justified,” that he would have never allowed anyone to interfere with it and that closing it had not been an option.

Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.