Manhattan DA Bragg Sued Over 'Racial Equity' Pursuit

The New York City district attorney who indicted former President Donald Trump in relation to hush-money payments to an adult film actress is being sued by a former bodega clerk charged with murder after fatally stabbing an attacker in his store last year. Jose Alba, who stabbed to death ex-con Austin Simon during a fight at a Harlem bodega in July 2022, claimed self-defense in the incident. Simon had approached Alba from behind the counter and shoved him, sparking a fight that ended in the ex-con's death and the clerk's...