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New York tourist arrested after posting Hawaii beach photos

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

People wearing masks wait in line for food donations Wednesday, May 13, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

NYC broadens guidelines for who should be tested for virus

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A registered nurse draws blood from Harlem resident Saundra Maynard during a COVID-19 antibody test drive at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Thursday, May 14, 2020, in the Harlem neighborhood of the Manhattan. Churches in low income communities across New York are offering COVID-19 testing to residents in conjunction with Northwell Health and New York State. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

‘It’s impossible’: NY nursing homes fret about testing order

By JENNIFER PELTZ and JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Soldiers deployed for virus outbreak return to Fort Campbell

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FBI: Charges in weapons sting follow anti-Semitic posts

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

In this Monday, May 11, 2020 photo, a jogger wearing a face masks runs in between a biker and a pedestrian not wearing masks as they make their way over the Williamsburg bridge in New York.New York's governor has ordered masks for anyone out in public who can't stay at least six feet away from other people. Yet, while the rule is clear, New Yorkers have adopted their own interpretation of exactly when masks are required, especially outdoors. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Wear a mask? Even with 20,000 dead, some New Yorkers don’t

By JAKE SEINER and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

A cyclist wears a protective mask as they pass Madison Square Park, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Cuomo: Wear a mask to respect nurses who died to save us

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MARINA VILLENEUVE and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

This 2020 electron microscope made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention image shows the spherical coronavirus particles from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. On Monday, May 4, 2020, New York City health authorities issued an alert to doctors about severe inflammatory condition possibly linked with COVID-19 has been found in a cluster of U.S. children in New York City after first being reported in Europe. On Wednesday, New York said 64 potential cases had been reported to the state. Fever, abdominal pain and skin rashes are common symptoms of the unnamed condition, which has features similar to Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome. (C.S. Goldsmith, A. Tamin/CDC via AP) **FILE**

‘A pretty scary thing’: Kid illness tied to virus worries NY

By MARY ESCH - Associated Press

In this Dec. 13, 2019, file photo, A Jewish man, right, walks along Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City, N.J., near the location where three people and two gunmen were shot and killed earlier in the week. American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi's New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Anti-Defamation League reports anti-Semitism surge led by New York

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 11, 2011, photo, Ben Stiller, left, and his father Jerry Stiller arrive at the Help Haiti benefit honoring Sean Penn hosted by the Stiller Foundation and The J/P Haitian Relief Organization, in New York. Comedian veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

Jerry Stiller, comedian and ‘Seinfeld’ actor, dies at 92

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Pedestrians walk through the nearly empty Oculus during the coronavirus pandemic Saturday, May 9, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Study: Virus death toll in NYC worse than official tally

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

In this Aug. 2018 file photo, a woman walks a small dog near a sign at Finger Lakes Welcome Center on the banks of Lake Geneva in Geneva, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, May 11, 2020 gave the green light to several regions of the state not as severely affected by the outbreak to gradually restart their economies once the latest stay-at-home order expires Friday. The Southern Tier, Mohawk Valley and the Finger Lakes have met all seven benchmarks for opening some business activity and need to work out some logistical details by the end of the week, Cuomo said. The North Country, which includes Essex County, is close behind. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Locked down along with NYC, upstate areas prepare to reopen

By MARY ESCH and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2020 file photo, a man enters the subway on a rainy day in New York. New York City transit officials said they're providing buses for homeless people to shelter from unseasonably frigid temperatures this weekend during newly instituted overnight subway closures. The subway system has been shutting down from 1 to 5 a.m. since Wednesday, May 6, as part of an outbreak-related plan for daily train disinfecting. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

In New York’s subway shutdown, an unthinkable departure

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2019, file photo, actress Tina Fey attends the American Museum of Natural History's 2019 Museum Gala in New York. Fey says more than $115 million was raised toward supporting New Yorkers impacted by COVID-19 during a virtual telethon. A tearful Fey said “Thank you, thank you&quot; in reaching the dollar amount as host of the Rise Up New York! event Monday, May 11, 2020. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Telethon raises $115M for New Yorkers impacted by COVID-19

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Bicyclists and runners enjoy Central Park, Saturday, May 9, 2020, in New York during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NY to require virus testing for nursing home staffers

By MARINA VILLANEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this May 7, 2020, photo, the Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, sits for a portrait at his group's field hospital in New York's Central Park. The Christian relief charity is set to conclude its coronavirus efforts at the end of next week. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Franklin Graham: No interest in federal money meant for WHO

By ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press

World War II veteran Ken Hay walks in his garden in London, Monday, May 4, 2020. VE-Day was the end of four days of celebration for Ken Hay. It began when the former prisoner of war got his first sight of home in almost a year from a Lancaster bomber he flew back in. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

‘We just did our bit:’ WWII vets recall war 75 years later

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

People walk by ambulances parked outside NewYork–Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in New York during the coronavirus pandemic. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says most COVID-19 patients coming into New York hospitals are not working and not traveling daily and tend to be older than 50. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Eviction protection extended; push for antibody testing

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and KAREN MATTHEWS and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

People wear masks and maintain social distance to help stop the spread of new coronavirus, while waiting in line to enter a store on 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, a Brooklyn neighborhood with one of the city's largest Mexican and Hispanic communities, Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in New York. The annual street festival parade marking Cinco de Mayo, an annual celebration held on this day to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire on May 5, 1862, was canceled this year due to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Most new COVID-19 patients in NY not working, older: survey

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MARINA VILLENEUVE and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

Ashley Zeolla rides her motorcycle over the Williamsburg Bridge on a delivery run of personal protective equipment to a doctors office with Masks for Docs as the lower Manhattan skyline looms in the distance Sunday, May 3, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Taxis, bikes & sushi robots keep New Yorkers fed, protected

By JAKE SEINER - Associated Press