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New Yorkers Line Up for Hours in 2nd Day of Early Voting
Voters across New York waited in long lines for hours to cast their ballots in the second day of early voting in the presidential election on Sunday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday he didn’t have turnout numbers yet, but that “I heard that there was a tremendous number of people voting, which is very exciting.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who...
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Tribune Closing 5 Newsrooms Including NY Daily News
Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York’s Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The company said the newspapers — including the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and the Carroll County…
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Higher Education: Colleges Add Cannabis to Curriculum
Students can pursue what amounts to a marijuana major or cannabis minor as a growing number of colleges look to prepare graduates for jobs in a blossoming industry.
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Middle School Strip Search Claims Prompt State Investigation
Allegations that four 12-year-old girls were strip-searched for drugs in an upstate New York middle school because they were hyper and giddy raised “serious concerns of racial and gender bias,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday, as he directed the state Education Department to investigate the incident.
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Federal Investigators Win Access to Limo in Deadly NY Crash
Federal investigators will finally be able to examine the stretch limousine in an October crash that killed 20 people, ending an increasingly testy impasse with local prosecutors over who has priority to probe the nation’s deadliest transportation disaster in nearly a decade.
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Baby Bump: April the Giraffe and Calf Become Cash Cow for Tiny Zoo
April the giraffe has become a cash cow for a tiny zoo in rural upstate New York, thanks to a YouTube video livestream of her pregnancy and birth of an incredibly cute calf that has riveted viewers around the world.
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NY Bill Would Keep Birth Control Free if ‘Obamacare' Revoked
Public and private health insurance would have to cover birth control in New York even if President-elect Donald Trump repeals “Obamacare,” under legislation proposed Wednesday by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The bill would codify into state law the Affordable Care Act mandate for cost-free contraception and expand upon the federal requirements to provide cost-free coverage for all birth control…
