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New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley shops in a thrift store before getting a tour of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service in New York, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Wiley joins a crowded Democratic primary field that includes longtime elected officials and veterans of the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is barred by the city charter from seeking a third term. The Democratic mayoral primary is scheduled for June 22. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Crowded Democratic primary field vies for NYC mayor’s job

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Los Angeles Unified School District employees wait in the school gym before getting their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, as LAUSD's first vaccination site opened at the Roybal Learning Center, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Los Angeles. Superintendent Austin Beutner was there in the morning to meet with the vaccination team and the first district employees to receive their vaccines at this site. (Dean Musgrove/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP)

The Latest: Nevada has 1st confirmed case of SAfrica variant

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE — In this Aug. 3, 2020, file photo, a coalition of teachers, students, and families protest during a rally called National Day of Resistance Against Unsafe School Reopening Opening, in New York. President Joe Biden is pushing for K-8 schools to fully reopen in his first 100 days. But many parents are in no hurry to send their children back to school. The reticence of large numbers of parents complicates reopening plans for districts that also are weighing other factors including resistance of teachers unions. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Divides in parent opinion complicate school reopening push

By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press

In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a question at a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

New York sues Amazon over worker safety during pandemic

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press

MTA expanding NYC subway nighttime operating hours

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, file photo, a distraught woman who was denied entrance because she didn't have an appointment speaks to reporters at a COVID-19 vaccination site at CitiField in the Queens borough of New York. Millions of New Yorkers with health conditions that leave them at high risk of illness from coronavirus can sign up for appointments at state-run vaccination sites starting Sunday, but a lack of vaccine supply means many will be frustrated in their search for a shot. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

New York expands vaccine eligibility despite supply issues

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Lama Ngawang Yonten and other Buddhist members of the United Sherpa Association prepare for the Dakini Day practice, a group meditation that includes song and food and is celebrated on the 25th day of each lunar month, at their community temple in the Queens borough of New York on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Buddhist temple food pantry a lifeline for Nepalese students

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI - Associated Press

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters during a news conference at a COVID-19 pop-up vaccination site in the William Reid Apartments in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Jan. 23, 2021. More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes at the height of the pandemic under a controversial order that was scrapped amid criticisms it accelerated outbreaks, according to new records obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool)

Nursing home disclosures taint Cuomo’s pandemic performance

By MICHAEL HILL and MARINA VILLENEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Edith Cordova, co-owner of Cinco de Mayo restaurant, delivers food for customers dining outside, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that New York City indoor dining can reopen at 25 percent capacity on February 12. Her Brooklyn restaurant will be able to have three tables available for indoor dining starting Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Governor loosens closing time restrictions for NY eateries

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

FILE — In this Sept. 14, 2018 file photo, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, is joined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as she speaks to reporters during a news conference, in New York. De Rosa, Cuomo's top aide, told top Democrats frustrated with the administration's long-delayed release of data about nursing home deaths that the administration &quot;froze&quot; over worries about what information was &quot;going to be used against us,&quot; according to a Democratic lawmaker who attended the Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 meeting and a partial transcript provided by the governor's office. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

The irredeemable press coverage of Andrew Cuomo

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

MTA brings celebrity voices to NYC transit announcements

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President Biden is reportedly not tuning into the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. The trial began this week. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: TV off: Biden’s not watching the trial

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, an employee checks a visitor outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. The warden brought in to clean up the embattled federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself has abruptly stepped down after a year-long tenure marred by the rampant spread of coronavirus, inmates complaints about poor conditions, a gun smuggled into the facility, and an inmate's death. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

New warden at Epstein jail served as prison executioner

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Workers clear wet snow from the sidewalk in front of a COVID-19 vaccine hub at George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School during a snowstorm, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in New York. Most of New York city's vaccine sites remained open in spite of the storm, but State-run COVID-19 vaccination sites in Long Island and community-based 'pop-up' locations throughout the New York City area were closed Sunday because of the weather. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Cuomo says indoor restaurant dining in NYC can start Friday

By KAREN MATTHEWS and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Charlene Dixon, of Pottsville, Pa., cleans snow off her car parked along Mahantongo Street in Pottsville, Pa., on Sunday morning, Feb. 7, 2021. (Jacqueline Dormer/Republican-Herald via AP)

2nd major snowstorm in a week blankets Northeast

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This combination of photos shows people riding bicycles in New York's Times Square, left, on April 29, 2020, and in Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Ala., March 12, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. The human loss from the pandemic isn’t going to be reflected in the U.S. population count used for divvying up congressional seats among the states. And that could save a congressional seat for New York but cost Alabama one. (AP Photo)

Calendar timing means virus deaths won’t be seen in census

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Storm postpones state vaccine clinics in New York City area

Associated Press

Vaccine wait goes on for New Yorkers with health problems

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a nurse administers the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site at the God's Battalion of Prayer Church, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. States including New York are wrestling with the decision of whether to allow medically vulnerable residents below the age of 65 to receive the coronavirus vaccine. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

State to NYC: Can’t tap 2nd doses to give more 1st shots

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Play ball! Yankee Stadium to open for vaccinations Friday

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