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People wait in line at an early voting site in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. New Yorkers lined up to vote early for a fourth consecutive day Tuesday after a weekend that saw a crush of more than 400,000 voters statewide. The unofficial tally shows about 194,000 voters this weekend in New York City, where some people waited an hour or more in lines that stretched for several blocks. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Deadline approaching for absentee ballot requests in NY

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

People line up at an early voting location near Lincoln Center Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in New York. Early voting ahead of the Nov. 3 general election continued for the second day in New York state. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Voters line up in rain in New York on 3rd day of early vote

By MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

Will history repeat itself in 2 congressional rematches?

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, file photo shows Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., speaking during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tom Reed, New York Republican, finds dead animal, brick with family member’s name at his home

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UN assembly chief unhappy at NY mayor spurning COVID meeting

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2013 file photo, Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., asks a question during the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The upstate New York congressman said he and his family were threatened after a dead animal and a brick bearing a family member's name were found at his home on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Dead animal, brick with a name left at congressman’s house

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Virus hospitalizations reach 1,000 in NY, highest since June

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A voter completes an absentee ballot form at the Albany County Board of Elections building, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Early voting makes presidential election debut in New York

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Santa Claus waves during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nov. 28, 2019, in New York. Macy's said Santa Claus won't be greeting kids at its flagship New York store this year due to the coronavirus, interrupting a holiday tradition started nearly 160 years ago. However, Macy's said the jolly old man will still appear at the end of the televised Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Santa Claus won’t be coming to Macy’s this year

By Joseph Pisani - Associated Press

Medical personnel at a drive-in COVID-19 testing site talk to a client in Lawrence, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. The rate of COVID-19 infections has risen enough in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut to require those states' residents to quarantine if they travel to New York, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York won't enforce the rules against those residents. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NY sees most virus cases since May as state targets clusters

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

This Date in Baseball

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 15, 2020, file photo, job seekers exercise social distancing as they wait to be called into the Heartland Workforce Solutions office in Omaha, Neb. For the first time in nearly 50 years, older workers are facing higher unemployment than midcareer workers, according to a study released Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, from the New School. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Older workers face higher unemployment amid virus pandemic

By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, May 2, 2020 file photo, people sit in view of Lower Manhattan at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J. Rising cases of COVID-19 in the nation and Northeast may lead to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut re-thinking how they add other states to their quarantine list. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he'll release an update Wednesday to his plan that designates parts of New York City and suburban communities as hot spots where schools and nonessential businesses are closed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York won’t enforce New Jersey, Connecticut quarantines

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Pedestrians in protective masks pass a storefront on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, as restrictions on operations are imposed due to an increase in COVID-19 infections in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York. After shutdowns swept entire nations during the first surge of the coronavirus earlier this year, some countries and U.S. states are trying more targeted measures as cases rise again around the world. New York’s new round of shutdowns zeroes in on individual neighborhoods, closing schools and businesses in hot spots measuring just a few square miles. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

As virus flares globally, new strategies target hot spots

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

NY mulls travel rules as neighboring states hit threshold

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2019, file photo, New York Jets nose tackle Steve McLendon (99) celebrates in the second half of an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, in East Rutherford, N.J. A person with direct knowledge of the move says the New York Jets have agreed to terms on a trade that sends veteran nose tackle Steve McLendon to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The deal that was agreed upon Sunday night, Oct. 18, 2020, will reunite McLendon with Buccaneers defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, who was the Jets' head coach from 2015-18. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Jets agree to trade veteran NT Steve McLendon to Buccaneers

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2020 file photo, a staffer wears a mask while taking orders at a small restaurant in Grand Lake, Colo., amid the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of Americans out of work. But many of those still working are fearful, distressed and stretched thin, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

AP-NORC/SAP poll: 1 in 4 US workers have weighed quitting

By ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Plastic bag ban starts in New York after months of delay

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FILE - In this April 16, 2016 file photo, Mexico's Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda salutes soldiers at the Number 1 military camp in Mexico City. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard wrote in his Twitter account Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau had informed him that Gen. Cienfuegos has been arrested in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Arrest of former Mexican defense minister shakes military

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press