Nina Bernstein

As Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law prepares for a White House role, his undisclosed talks with a secretive Chinese company highlight potential conflicts of interest.

Without consent from relatives, the bodies were “lent” to a medical school and then left in a bureaucratic limbo by the medical examiner’s office, revealing continuing problems with the city’s mortuary system.

The agency extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare in New York through falsified and improper billing while shortchanging patients, the suit says.

In recent years, some friends of Mr. Rahami, the suspect in the Manhattan and New Jersey bombings, noticed a marked change in his personality and religious devotion.

A law signed this week ends a 162-year-old system that has required New York City officials to appropriate unclaimed bodies on behalf of medical schools and mortuary schools.

It was also announced that a group representing the state’s 16 medical schools was withdrawing its opposition to a bill that would end the educational use of bodies with no known survivors.

An insurance group has been systematically and improperly cutting the hours of home care for their disabled clients, according to a report by a coalition of more than 100 nonprofit groups.

The measure, which awaits Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s signature, would end the practice in which unclaimed human remains often quickly go from city morgues to medical and mortuary schools.

Nina Bernstein, a Metro reporter, followed a complex web of records to track down wards of court-appointed guardians who ended up buried on Hart Island.

Cadavers at N.Y.U.’s medical school that were supposed to be cremated were buried in a potter’s field, in a practice the university admitted had gone on for years.