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Medicaid, pot to drive NY politics in 2020

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

People take part in a march crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in solidarity with the Jewish community after recent string of anti-semitic attacks throughout the greater New York area, on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Solidarity march against anti-Semitism, acts of hate

By REBECCA GIBIAN - Associated Press

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's officers are shown in this July 2019 file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

ICE nabs illegal immigrant released by New York town despite hit-and-run homicide case

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2017, file photo, New York Yankees relief pitcher Dellin Betances throws during the eighth inning of Game 6 of baseball's American League Championship Series against the Houston Astros in Houston. The New York Mets have reached an agreement with free-agent reliever Betances on a one-year contract with a player option for 2021. The Mets announced the deal with four-time All Star on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith, File)

Mets find relief in New Year, introducing Dellin Betances

By SCOTT ORGERA - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, photo, a group of orthodox Jewish children cross the street in Monsey, N.Y. With the rapid expansion of Orthodox communities outside New York City has come civic sparring, and some fear the recent violence in the area may be an outgrowth of that conflict. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Anti-Semitism grows in Jewish communities in NYC suburbs

By Mary Esch and Ryan Tarinelli - Associated Press

Flower bouquets rest on the doorstep of a rabbi's residence in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

Family: Man stabbed in Hanukkah attack may have brain damage

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Neighbors gather to show their support of the community near a rabbi's residence in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration. A knife-wielding man stormed into the home and stabbed five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City, an ambush the governor said Sunday was an act of domestic terrorism fueled by intolerance and a "cancer" of growing hatred in America. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) ** FILE **

How Democrats stir bigotry and division

By Tammy Bruce

Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Ramapo, N.Y. Thomas is accused of stabbing multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in the Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

Marines: Hanukkah stabbing suspect kicked out of boot camp

By JIM MUSTIAN and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 20, 2014 photo, members of the congregation file out after Sunday morning worship services at Riverside Church in New York. Fifty years ago, civil rights activist James Forman interrupted the Sunday worship service the church and demanded $500 million in reparations for the mistreatment of African Americans from white churches and synagogues. The demands never caught fire in the broader American religious community. But five decades later, the reparations debate has reentered the national spotlight, with some faith-based institutions leading the way. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Reparations and Religion: 50 years after ‘Black Manifesto’

By MATTHEW J. CRESSLER and ADELLE M. BANKS - Associated Press

New York City set for $15 minimum wage

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Ramapo, N.Y. Thomas is accused of stabbing multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in the Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

Hate crime charges filed against Grafton Thomas, man accused in Hanukkah stabbing

By Ryan Tarinelli, Jim Mustian and Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

In this July 18, 2016, file photo, Pastor Paula White delivers the benediction at the close of the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. White now has a formal role in the administration with the Public Liaison Office, which oversees outreach to constituent groups seen as key parts of the president's base. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Faith leaders promote strength of peace and diversity at summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Grafton Thomas is led from Ramapo Town Hall in Ramapo, N.Y. following his arraignment Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. Thomas was charged in the stabbings of multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in Monsey, an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. (Seth Harrison/The Journal News via AP)

Family: Grafton Thomas, Hanukkah stabbing suspect, had mental illness history

Associated Press

Orthodox Jewish people listen to N.Y. state Assemblyman Dov Hikind speak in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing late Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration. A man attacked the celebration at a rabbi's home north of New York City late Saturday, stabbing and wounding several people before fleeing in a vehicle, police said. (AP Photo/Allyse Pulliam)

Cuomo: 5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration was fueled by hate

By Ryan Tarinelli - Associated Press

A Ramapo police officer directs traffic outside a rabbi's residence in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing at the home Saturday night during a Hannukah celebration. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

5 stabbed at rabbi’s house on Hanukkah; suspect in custody

By Ryan Tarinelli - Associated Press

Medicine, running bring Rayford full circle

By MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS and Daily Journal - Associated Press

Police work the scene of a residence in Monsey, N.Y., early Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration. Authorities say that several people were stabbed north of New York City late Saturday night and a possible suspect has been located. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley region tweeted reports that the stabbing took place at the house of a Hasidic rabbi while they were celebrating Hanukkah. (Seth Harrison/The Journal News via AP)

5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration north of NYC

By RYAN TARINELLI and JUSTIN MADDEN - Associated Press

Radio personality Don Imus addresses the audience at New York's Town Hall during his return to radio in 2007. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

DJ Don Imus, made and betrayed by his mouth, dead at 79

By David Bauder - Associated Press