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Federal crackdown aims to curb violent crime spike in NYC

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York State of bankruptcy

By Gary Anderson

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (7) and wide receiver Diontae Johnson (18) warm up before an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

The Latest: Cowboys edge Giants with field goal on last play

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Arbitrator orders city to pay teachers back wages

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Members of the Jewish Orthodox community speak with NYPD officers on a street corner, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo moved to reinstate restrictions on businesses, houses of worship and schools in and near areas where coronavirus cases are spiking. Many neighborhoods that stand to be affected are home to large enclaves of Orthodox Jews. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Court allows NY virus restrictions ahead of Jewish holidays

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Members of the Jewish Orthodox community pass a grocery store in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Hundreds of businesses in New York City neighborhoods where COVID-19 cases have spiked were supposed to be closed Thursday by order of the governor, but in Brooklyn's Borough Park section, some merchants subject to the shutdown order appeared to be operating as usual at midday, including a barber shop, cell phone stores and a toy store. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Businesses shut in effort to contain virus in NYC hot spots

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Trees border a green field at Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York on May 10, 2020. Writer Jennifer Lehman found solace being near trees during the darkest days of the pandemic and in the months that followed. (AP Photo/Jennifer Lehman)

VIRUS DIARY: In age of pandemic, she finds solace in trees

By JENNIFER LEHMAN - Associated Press

Number of New York schools closed by COVID-19 mounts

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020, file photo, Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health nurses Crys Kuntz, left, and Sara Nelson confer inside the Bismarck Event Center in Bismarck, N.D., where vehicles were lined up for the weekly drive-thru COVID-19 testing. A surge of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin and the Dakotas is forcing a scramble for hospital beds and raising political tensions, as the Upper Midwest and Plains emerge as one of the nation’s most troubling hotspots. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Tensions rise as virus cases surge in Wisconsin, Dakotas

By ADAM GELLER and STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press

Jim Dwyer, longtime chronicler of New York City, dies at 63

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An adolescent Humpback whale designated &quot;Whale 0140,&quot; identified through patterns on the whale's fluke, is seen from the vessel American Princess during a cruise offered by Gotham Whale, as the cetacean is spotted off the northern New Jersey coast line Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. According to Paul Sieswerda, President and CEO of Gotham Whale, sightings are up nearly a hundred fold from just a decade ago, with an abundance of menhaden seemingly driving the whale resurgence. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Young whales looking to dine flock to waters off NYC

By PATRICK WHITTLE and TED SHAFFREY - Associated Press

Members of the Jewish Orthodox community gather to listen to an interview conducted by a journalist on a street corner, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo moved to reinstate restrictions on businesses, houses of worship and schools in and near areas where coronavirus cases are spiking. Many neighborhoods that stand to be affected are home to large enclaves of Orthodox Jews. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

‘Just not fair’: Communities bristle at new NYC shutdowns

By TED SHAFFREY and MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2020, file photo, two women walk with children during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Amid a new surge of COVID-19 in New York’s Orthodox Jewish communities, many residents are reviving health measures that some had abandoned over the summer – social distancing, wearing masks. For many, there’s also a return of anger: They feel the city is singling them out for criticism that other groups avoid. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Some Orthodox Jews bristle at NYC’s response to virus surge

By DAVID CRARY and MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

Cuomo defends not wearing a mask at indoor presser

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 28, 2020, file photo, a woman and a group of young children cross a busy street in the Midwood neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. As New York state's daily count of new coronavirus cases continues on an upward trend, one of the hotspots in the state included the New York City borough of Brooklyn, where more than 350 people tested positive on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

NYC seeks to reinstate virus restrictions in some spots

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Actor Rick Moranis appears in a MintMobile commercial with Ryan Reynolds, September 2020. (Image: YouTube, Ryan Reynolds, MintMobile ad, video screenshot) ** FILE **

Rick Moranis attacked in Big Apple by man in ‘I Love NY’ hoodie; actor’s head, back and hip injured

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This July 1, 2018 photo shows St. Agnes Cathedral, seat of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, on New York's Long Island. New York's Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, the largest in the U.S., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because of financial pressure from lawsuits over past sexual abuse by clergy members. (AP Photo/Michael R. Sisak)

Suburban NY diocese files for bankruptcy amid abuse lawsuits

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and DAVID R. MARTIN - Associated Press

NY schools report 1,200 infections among students, staff

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center right, greets students as they arrive for in-person classes outside Public School 188 The Island School, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in the Manhattan borough of New York. Hundreds of thousands of elementary school students are heading back to classrooms starting Tuesday as New York City enters a high-stakes phase of resuming in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

In NYC and LA, returning pupils face battery of virus tests

By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press