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Open season on the free press: Journalists targeted in attacks as U.S. protests rage
On Friday evening, viewers watched as CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew were arrested on live television while covering a protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. By Saturday, as protesters and the police clashed across the
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New York governor warns against paying ‘greedy corporations’ in stimulus bill
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called on Congress to pass a stimulus package in response to the coronavirus pandemic that funds police officers, teachers and other local and state employees and warned against repeating the corporate-focused bailouts following
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Cuomo: Rare syndrome tied to COVID-19 kills three children in New York
Three children in New York have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, a development that may augur a pandemic risk for the very young. Both Cuomo
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New York governor says some states making a mistake by reopening
States that are reopening their economies despite rising cases of the novel coronavirus are making a mistake, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday, urging that such decisions be based on facts and data rather than politics. “You have
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New York’s Cuomo warns against ‘blindly’ reopening states
NEW YORK : New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday pushed back against what he called premature demands that he reopen the state, saying he knew people were struggling without jobs but that more understanding of the new coronavirus was
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Bodies found in unrefrigerated trucks in New York during COVID-19 pandemic
NEW YORK : The city of New York delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home on Wednesday after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefrigerated U-Haul vehicles, a Reuters eyewitness said. The eyewitness saw bodies in
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Oil drops over $1 on oversupply after OPEC+ delays meeting
SINGAPORE/NEW YORK: Oil prices slipped more than $1 a barrel on Monday, after the world’s top producers delayed a meeting to discuss output cuts that could partly alleviate oversupply in global markets as the coronavirus pandemic pummels demand. Brent crude
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Trump drops idea of New York lockdown as U.S. death count crosses 2,000
WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would issue a travel warning for the hard-hit New York area to limit the spread of the coronavirus, backing off from an earlier suggestion that he might try to cut
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Covid-19: Famous chefs, New York restaurants to push landlords for rent breaks
NEW YORK: Renowned restaurants, including Cipriani, Smith & Wollensky, The Smith, and Boqueria, as well as owners Stephen Starr and chef Bobby Flay, have formed a new group seeking help from New York City landlords to survive the coronavirus crisis.
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New York coronavirus cases explode; Trump calls outbreak ‘great national trial’
NEW YORK: New York state suffered another quick and brutal rise in the number of COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, becoming the latest U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, as California warned it could be next to face a spike in cases.
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