New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the hardest-hit state in the union will begin a staged reopening this Friday. Three regions of the state will begin reopening May 15th. Those are Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley. Cuomo said those areas had met seven metrics that will be used to determine when loosening…
Cuomo on N.Y. preparing to get back to work New York State had 488 new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in the past 24 hours along with 161 deaths related to coronavirus-related illness. Governor Andrew Cuomo said it was the best daily metrics on record since March 19. "That is just about where we started this…
In New York City, a ban on gatherings and the widespread closures of nonessentials businesses were not likely to end before June, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.Right NowGovernor Cuomo said that an additional 161 people in the state had died of the coronavirus — the lowest daily death toll since March 27, the last time…
To all the women screaming, “I love you, Andrew Cuomo, and I want to have your baby!”: Would you mind asking him where that baby will go to school? Millions of New York parents would like to know what, exactly, is the plan for the kids. When Cuomo closed schools in New York for the…
What to KnowNearly 34,000 people in the tri-state area have died because of COVID-19, though officials admit the real toll is likely higher; other indicators like infection rate and total hospitalizations continue a slow declineNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to provide a key update on which regions may be able to reopen after…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…