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  • When it comes to campaign strategy right now, the Democratic party has no choice, Hamilton Nolan argues.
  • The NYPD is working with female nonprofit workers who go "undercover" into brothels in an attempt to help sex trafficking victims.
  • Humpback whales are being spotted in NYC waterways more frequently, which appears to be a sign of ecological improvement.
  • The NYC Transit Workers' Union has thrown its support behind de Blasio's Brooklyn-Queens waterfront streetcar plan.
  • This Father's Day, NBC will broadcast an interview with a man who maintains that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged.
  • A dead body was found floating in Central Park's Conservatory Pond yesterday morning.
  • Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.
  • Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are quietly "drawing closer to passing a health care bill that looks a lot like the widely disliked version that cleared the House."
  • Police officers in East Harlem are being warned not to shower at the station house after one officer contracted Legionnaires' disease, a potentially life-threatening form of pneumonia.
  • Reminder, octopuses are amazing: