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In today’s CapCon, top New York officials are demanding answers from the federal government after ICE agents shot a man in Manhattan while his child was in the car.
Then, the debate between state Attorney General Letitia James and her Republican opponent, Saritha Komatireddy, was full of fireworks. Here are five takeaways.
Later, a new bill seeks to create a new state effort to develop recommendations on how Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks could be prevented in New York City.
Names in today’s CapCon: Letitia James, Saritha Komatireddy, Kathy Hochul, Oscar Belgal, Paige Austin, J. Paul Oetken, Markwayne Mullin, Donald J. Trump, Zohran Mamdani, Jessica Tisch, Jumaane Williams, Gustavo Rivera, Diana Moreno, Marcela Mitaynes, Vanessa Gibson, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Adriano Espaillat, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
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