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Ernest Hemingway's close friend and biographer A.E. Hotchner, left, poses for a photograph with his son Tim Hotchner, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in the Hotchner family home in Westport, Conn. When the 1958 film adaptation &quot;The Old Man and the Sea&quot; hit theaters, Ernest Hemingway told his close friend, the senior Hotchner, that he hated it and urged his writer pal to do his own adaptation someday. Now 101, and with Tim's help, Hotchner has finally completed Hemingway's request. Their stage adaptation of &quot;The Old Man and the Sea&quot; is set to premiere in Pittsburgh on Feb. 1. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

The Old Man and the Play: Friend keeps word to Ernest Hemingway

By Kristen de Groot - Associated Press

FILE- In this Oct. 5, 2007 file photo, visitors tour the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York. The site is run by the National Park Service and was closed during the 35-day partial government shutdown. It reopened on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. The National Park Service is preparing to resume operations nationally, but deputy director P. Daniel Smith says schedules for individual sites may vary depending on staff size and complexity. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Shutdown: NY airports back to normal, park sites not so much

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

The air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport is seen, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in New York. The Federal Aviation Administration reported delays in air travel Friday because of a &quot;slight increase in sick leave&quot; at two East Coast air traffic control facilities. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Travel groups praise deal on shutdown after flight delays

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 16, 2015 file photo, the casket bearing Kalief Browder is loaded into a hearse after his funeral service in the Bronx borough of New York. On Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, New York City officials said that the City will pay $3 million to Browder's family. Browder's long detention, nearly half of it spent in solitary confinement at the Rikers Island jail and suicide at age 22, made him a symbol of a broken justice system. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

NYC to pay $3 million to settle Kalief Browder lawsuit

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014 file photo, Lithuanian-born director Jonas Mekas attend the Whitney Museum Gala in New York. Mekas, 96, who survived a Nazi labor camp and years as a refugee, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, at his home, according to the Anthology of Film Archives. He was artistic director of the New York center for film preservation, a leading avant-garde movie theater. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Jonas Mekas, ‘godfather’ of avant-garde, dies at 96

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

This combination of three Jan. 22, 2019, photographs released by the Greece Police Department in Greece, N.Y., shows Brian Colaneri, from left, Andrew Crysel and Vincent Vetromile. Authorities said that the three men were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community with explosives. The three Rochester, NY-area men are accused of plotting to attack Islamberg, a 60-acre Muslim enclave west of the Catskills, according to court papers. (Greece Police Department via AP)

Muslim enclave that was foiled attack target urges justice

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This combination of three Jan. 22, 2019, photographs released by the Greece Police Department in Greece, N.Y., shows Brian Colaneri, from left, Andrew Crysel and Vincent Vetromile. Authorities said that the three men were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community with explosives. The three Rochester, NY-area men are accused of plotting to attack Islamberg, a 60-acre Muslim enclave west of the Catskills, according to court papers. (Greece Police Department via AP)

4 charged in plot to attack Muslim community named Islamberg

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In this Aug. 1, 2018 file photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks in Portsmouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File )

AP sources: Trump, others agitated by Giuliani’s performance

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

This combination of three Jan. 22, 2019, photographs released by the Greece Police Department in Greece, N.Y., shows Brian Colaneri, from left, Andrew Crysel and Vincent Vetromile. Authorities said that the three men were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community with explosives. The three Rochester, NY-area men are accused of plotting to attack Islamberg, a 60-acre Muslim enclave west of the Catskills, according to court papers. (Greece Police Department via AP)

Islamberg attack plot: Brian Colaneri, Andrew Crysel, Vincent Vetromile, 16-year-old charged

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The Latest: 4 charged with plotting attack on Muslim enclave

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Dimitry Lazar fires his 9mm pistol at targets at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop, Thursday, July 26, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Supreme Court to hear case on NYC handgun transport restrictions

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Airline baggage carts sit on the tarmac as crews prepare to remove snow at the Albany International Airport in Colonie, N.Y., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

The Latest: Bitter cold freezes US regions hit by storm

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Bill Moore cross-country skis down a street on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019, in Montpelier, Vt. A major winter storm that blanketed most of the Midwest with snow earlier in the weekend barreled toward New England Sunday, where it was expected to cause transportation havoc ranging from slick and clogged roads to hundreds of cancelled airline flights. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Ice glazes over swath of US as wind chills fall below zero

By PHILIP MARCELO and CATHERINE PERLOFF - Associated Press

Political activist Laura Loomer, right, holds a sign across the street from a rally organized by Women's March NYC after she barged onto the stage interrupting Women's March NYC director Agunda Okeyo who was speaking during a rally in Lower Manhattan, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, in New York. Loomer was escorted off the stage after the incident. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Laura Loomer, conservative gadfly, rushes Women’s March NYC stage, accuses leaders of hating Jews

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

New York City forecast: snow, sleet, rain, wind and ice

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019, file photo, a man throws a ball for his dog next to the border wall topped with razor wire in Tijuana, Mexico. In his demands that Congress set aside $5.7 billion for a border wall, President Donald Trump insists a physical barrier would stop heroin entering the U.S. from Mexico. But U.S. statistics, analysts and testimony at the trial of drug kingpin Joaquin &quot;El Chapo&quot; Guzman in New York show that most hard drugs entering the U.S. from Mexico come through land ports of entry staffed by agents, not open sections of the border. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

AP Explains: Trump says wall will stop drugs, facts differ

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

A section of the old Tappan Zee Bridge is brought down with explosives in this view from Tarrytown, N.Y., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The Latest: Old Tappan Zee Bridge over Hudson is demolished

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his State of the State address and executive budget proposal at the Hart Theatre, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Cuomo unveils plan to make NY 11th state to legalize pot

By DAVID KLEPPER and CHRIS CAROLA - Associated Press

A person wearing a supportive boot and multicolored socks goes pantless during the 18th annual No Pants Subway Ride, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, in New York. The prank began in New York, but is now staged in multiple cities across the world. The only two requirements are that participants be willing to remove their pants in public, on the subway while keeping a straight face about it. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Pant-less commuters invade NYC subway

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In this April 27, 2015 photo, New York State Assembly member Crystal Peoples-Stokes, stands behind Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, during a news conference at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Peoples-Stokes and Heastie argue that thousands of black and Latino New Yorkers were unfairly targeted by police and prosecutors during decades of the war on drugs. According to Heastie, any marijuana legalization must be accompanied by the expungement of past criminal convictions for marijuana possession. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Thorny questions threaten to slow legal pot in New York

By DAVID KLEPPER - Associated Press