A female stowaway skulked past multiple security checkpoints at New York’s JFK International Airport and onto a Paris-bound Delta Airlines flight without a boarding pass or identification. The flyer took advantage of the holiday madness and bypassed two identity verification sections of the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint line Tuesday,

The judge said the city had placed incarcerated people in “unconstitutional danger” by failing to comply with 18 separate provisions of court orders pertaining to security, staffing, supervision, use of force and the safety of young detainees.

A judge ruled New York City is now in contempt over "grave" conditions at the Rikers Island prison complex, with a federal takeover of the system now seen increasingly as likely in a years-long legal battle.

US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said the city had placed incarcerated people in “unconstitutional danger” by failing to comply with 18 separate provisions of court orders pertaining to security,