Marianne McCune

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The president is in town, and New Yorkers know what that means -- street closures, barricades, and lots of cops. Get used to it, he's for a few days. Marianne McCune has more.

He came Monday and did the Late Show with David Letterman and he's ...

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The rich and powerful will be all over midtown Manhattan today and throughout the week. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

REPORTER: While the United Nations holds a summit on climate change, the Clinton Global Initiative kicks off its annual discussion of the world's problems, with past and ...

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While lawmakers in Washington focus on healthcare reform, advocates in the New York area this week are fighting to keep immigration on the national agenda. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

Immigrants in New York and New Jersey have been holding press conferences, town hall meetings, protests and ...

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In New Jersey, State Attorney General Ann Milgram is warning local law enforcement agencies that they must follow the rules when questioning people about their immigration status. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

REPORTER: Milgram says police must follow state laws that protect against racial-profiling, and that means ...

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Two Chinatown consultants are charged with conning an immigrant out of almost $5,000 by pretending they could expedite his family's immigration cases.

Advocates say immigrants are vulnerable to these type of scams. But these cases are rarely prosecuted, partly because immigrants who don't have legal status ...

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the city will get $35 million in transit security stimulus money that the city can use to hire more police officers. She says the money will put more than 100 additional cops on city subways and busses. The move ...

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Researchers say hundreds of arrest reports from New Jersey and New York show that immigration authorities have been illegally entering immigrants' homes and arresting disproportionate numbers of Latinos, without legal basis. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

REPORTER: When it comes to finding and deporting immigrants who aren't ...

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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor captured the attention of millions of Americans during her confirmation hearings this week. some more so than others:

Twenty year old Zila Acosta comes from a part-Puerto Rican, part-Dominican family. Her mother is a school principal, and her father is a ...

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Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are on radios and televisions in offices across the city, especially those with many Latino employees.

Columbia University student Zila Acosta works for a group of political consultants who are mostly Latino, and she says everybody's got one ...

WNYC’s Radio Rookies program takes listeners inside the most intimate moments of teenager’s lives. Now, for the first time, we present a special, “Growing Up, Getting By”, an hour of stories and interviews about how teenagers find their way to adulthood.

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Drug enforcement officials say more and more marijuana is being smuggled across the border between Canada and New York. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

REPORTER: Just this week, 13 men were arrested. The indictments are part of an ongoing investigation into the smuggling of millions of dollars ...

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The case of a Pakistani immigrant who was held in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn prison after the September 11th attacks reached the Supreme Court.

His lawyers and the government will argue over whether then Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller have to ...

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The lines are long but many people are just happy be there. WNYC's Marianne McCune is in Hamilton Heights in Upper Manhattan where people are calling their friends and taking photos while they wait on line.

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Voters in Connecticut and New Jersey have until 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. in New York, to make their opinions known at the polls.

Turnout continues to be heavy. Nellie Vasquez was an early riser, getting in line to vote 15 minutes before her polling site ...

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There’s been much talk of racism this election season - and not only white racism. The Latino vote may be a deciding factor in some states and throughout this election many Hispanics have spoken of prejudice in their own communities against African-Americans.

But polls are increasingly ...