Lessons learned from New York primary and other top stories.

• Lessons learned from New York primary

  

  Flanked by supporters, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton celebrates after winning the New York primary Tuesday in New York.(Photo: Kathy Willens, AP)ALBANY — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump cemented their status as their respective party’s presidential front-runner with decisive victories Tuesday in the Empire State.Now, political analysts and campaign operatives are left to comb through the results, hoping to pick up lessons they can use as they navigate the..

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• Ohio Massacre Victims Identified; 911 Calls Released

  

  Police released 911 calls that were placed from two of the four locations where eight family members were found dead on Friday."There's blood all over the house!" the first caller said in the call placed at 7:49 a.m. "I think my brother-in-law's dead.""I think they're both dead," she said before breaking down into sobs, according to one of two 911 call recordings released Saturday by the state attorney general's office. The victims were identified Saturday as Hannah Gilley, 20; Christopher Rhode..

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• Rangers vs. Penguins 2016, NHL playoff odds: New York Game 5 ...

  

  Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports The New York Rangers need a win as an underdog in Game 5 to avoid elimination against the Pittsburgh Penguins in their first-round series. The New York Rangers closed out their first-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2015 with three straight victories. Down three games to one in this year's series, the Rangers will need three straight wins against the Penguins again if they are going to advance out of the first round. New York is a +165 road u..

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• An Island of Support for New York's Police

  

  A few weeks after the decision in the Garner case, two officers, Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, 32, were executed in their squad car in Brooklyn. The two officers had young families, and when Staten Island residents watched them weeping and mourning at the funeral, it reminded many of us what was at stake — what was always at stake — when our fathers, brothers and cousins left for their shifts each night. We remembered that they were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice every time they bu..

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• The tragic romance that shaped Meryl Streep's life

  

  In 1978, a young Meryl Streep was on the verge of becoming the greatest actress of her generation. She was also about to lose the love of her life. “She doesn’t talk about it much,” says Michael Schulman, who explores this time in his new biography “Her Again.” “But that year was so wildly eventful and dramatic in her life. It was instrumental in shaping who she was as a person and an actor.” Streep was 29 years old, a gosling in the New York theater world. She was living in a loft on Franklin ..

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• Saving a New York Neighborhood From Gentrification

  

  Photo Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times The New York City Council on Wednesday approved Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan for rezoning East New York. Those 190 blocks of Brooklyn are the first, and largest, of 15 neighborhoods across the city where the administration intends to harness the real estate market to help achieve its ambitious 10-year goal of building or preserving 200,000 affordable apartments.That goal might seem paradoxical or utopian, given what the admini..

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• Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees game preview

  

  TV: FOX Sports Sun Time: Pregame coverage begins at 12:30 p.m. By the time Blake Snell takes the mound Saturday for his major league debut against the New York Yankees in the Bronx, it might be the calmest point of the previous 36 hours of his life. The 23-year-old with plenty of promise gets the ball for the Tampa Bay Rays in this matchup of AL East rivals. Snell was slated to start for Triple-A Durham on Friday, but those plans changed when Saturday's scheduled starter - Erasmo Ramire..

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• Routine Voter Purge Is Cited in Brooklyn Election Trouble

  

  Photo Voting at a polling station in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Tuesday morning. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times The mysterious loss of roughly 125,000 Democratic voters from the election rolls in Brooklyn for one of the most hard-fought presidential primaries in years seemed to have occurred during what should have been a routine removal of residents who were ineligible to vote.Something went wrong in that purge, according to multiple election law experts and..

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• Hillary Clinton's Campaign, Cautious but Confident, Begins ...

  

  Most leading presidential campaigns start organizing their vice-presidential searches at this point in the race, when they have a sizable lead in delegates needed for the nomination. The candidates themselves remain sharply focused on the remaining contests: Mr. Sanders insists he could still overtake Mrs. Clinton, despite her big lead. And she is superstitious about getting too far ahead of herself, as she sometimes did in her failed 2008 race.But given the methodical nature of Mrs. Clinton’s ..

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