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A woman wears a protective glove as she purchases a metro card at a subway station, Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in New York. She said that she always wears gloves in the subway &quot;because it's filthy.&quot; According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC), &quot;It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.&quot; (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

11 in NY have new virus, many with ties to afflicted lawyer

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 2019 photo, a gambler plays a slot machine at the Resorts casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Despite the overwhelming rejection by voters of a move to allow casino gambling in the northern part of the state in 2016, New Jersey lawmakers have reintroduced bills to allow for casino expansion, even though they say they have no plans to act on them now. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Trounced at polls, north Jersey casino bills still lurking

By WAYNE PARRY - Associated Press

Man hospitalized with New York’s 2nd case of COVID-19 virus

By MICHAEL HILL and MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Third case of COVID-19 infection reported in Florida

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks at the the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Conference, Monday, March 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mike Bloomberg decides night before Super Tuesday to court Donald Trump’s 2016 Dems

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Conference, Monday, March 2, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mike Bloomberg, at AIPAC, boasts of backing mosque near 9/11 Ground Zero

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Nurses assemble plastic face shields at a hospital designated for the coronavirus patients in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, Sunday, March 1, 2020. New York confirmed Sunday the state's first positive test of the new virus that has sickened tens of thousands of people across the globe. (Chinatopix via AP)

Woman who visited Iran is NYC’s first case of new virus

By RYAN KRYSKA - Associated Press

Judge James Burke, left, instructs the jurors before they begin deliberating on Harvey Weinstein's rape trial, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in New York. The panel of seven men and five women heard instructions in the law from the judge before going behind closed doors to consider charges that Weinstein raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performed oral sex on another woman, TV and film production assistant Mimi Haleyi, in 2006. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Weinstein juror: #MeToo movement was not a factor in trial

By Karen Matthews - Associated Press

Boy fatally hit by car in NYC near where girl killed by bus

Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 24, 2019 file photo shows Billy Idol at the Los Angeles premiere of &quot;The Irishman.&quot; Idol is the face of an anti-idling campaign launched Thursday in New York City. “Billy never idles, so why should you?” the '80s MTV star growls in a public service announcement intended to shame New Yorkers into shutting the engine off. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

A rebel yell: Billy Idol stars in New York anti-idling ads

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FILE - In this June 2, 2011 file photo, Mexico's Genaro Garcia Luna speaks during a ceremony to designate June 2 as the Federal Police Day in Mexico City. The former Federal Secretary of Public Safety is to be arraigned in New York, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The indictment claims that Garcia Luna allegedly received millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)

Feds cite new evidence against former Mexico security chief

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledges the crowd as he is introduced before speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar shun pro-Israel AIPAC conference

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

New York’s Cuomo wants $40 million to respond to new virus

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 20, 2018 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, speaks during a roundtable talks on sanctuary cities hosted by President Donald Trump, third from right, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington. The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020 in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Court sides with Trump in ‘sanctuary cities’ grant fight

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Michael Bloomberg defends soda ban, ‘war on obesity’

By Alex Swoyer and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Elizabeth Warren: Bloomberg told employee to get abortion

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: Sanders would study moving US embassy in Israel

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Interim president appointed to lead NYC transit system

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 5, 2016 file photo, a man carries a sign before a rally opposing the Constitution Pipeline outside the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The nearly $1 billion Constitution Pipeline project that was designed to bring natural gas from Pennsylvania's shale gas fields to metropolitan New York and New England has been abandoned after years of legal regulatory challenges made it economically unfeasible, according to a statement Monday from a spokeswoman for project partner Duke Energy said Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Costs, delays scuttle 124-mile Constitution Pipeline project

By MARY ESCH - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with his wife Jane, left, speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Bernie Sanders’ surge fuels ‘clear the field’ calls for Michael Bloomberg

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times