Chris Hippensteel
Investigative Fellow at Times Union (Albany)
National fellow @nytimes | Formerly investigations @timesunion, @TB_Times, @CNN, @thedailybeast, @PublicSourcePA
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Chris Hippensteel |Charlie Savage |Laurel Rosenhall
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. A volley of court rulings has made the legal path unclear in a case challenging President Trump’s use of troops in Los Angeles. For now, the president has retained control of the state militia.
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1 week ago |
wral.com | Kellen Browning |Chris Hippensteel
The overnight shootings of two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses — which left one couple dead and another hospitalized — were the latest in a series of recent attacks on political figures that has shaken U.S. politics. Melissa Hortman, a state representative and the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and her husband died in the attack, while state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were each shot multiple times.
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2 months ago |
timesunion.com | Chris Hippensteel
ALBANY — Two state lawmakers are championing legislation that would forbid insurance companies from exempting lead poisoning claims from policies covering landlords — a move they hope will incentivize the industry to do something about lead hazards in the properties they insure. Those exemptions are the result of a decades-old policy that allowed New York insurers to leave landlords on the hook for lawsuits brought by children poisoned in their properties. State Sen.
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2 months ago |
star-telegram.com | Chris Hippensteel
ALBANY - For years, New York's strategy for protecting children from exposure to lead has been to intervene after a child has already been poisoned. Since the 1990s, the state has mandated blood testing of young children for elevated levels of lead, which indicate exposure to the toxic metal through paint, pipes, or other environmental hazards.
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2 months ago |
timesunion.com | Chris Hippensteel
ALBANY — For years, New York’s strategy for protecting children from exposure to lead has been to intervene after a child has already been poisoned. Since the 1990s, the state has mandated blood testing of young children for elevated levels of lead, which indicate exposure to the toxic metal through paint, pipes, or other environmental hazards.
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Excited to share that I'm heading downstate in a few months to join the New York Times 2025-26 fellowship class. I'll be on the National desk starting in June.
We’re pleased to introduce the 2025-26 @nytimes fellowship class. https://t.co/wxMMecIglW
New from me in the @timesunion: a preview of how a second Trump administration could reshape the U.S.-Canada border https://t.co/yMpDeC9qcP
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