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This photo released by Erin Elliott shows the wedding of Melissa Todd and Jeffrey Hall in November 2019 in Chicago. The couple had seven guests, feeding a trend toward micro weddings that has grown stronger since the coronavirus pandemic sent millions into isolation. (Erin Elliott via AP)

Couples turn to ‘minimonies’ to salvage wedding plans during coronavirus crisis

By Leanne Italie - Associated Press

The rising sun shines over the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday morning, May 11, 2020. (AP Photos/Mark Sherman)

Justices appear split ideologically on House Democrats’ subpoena for Donald Trump’s tax records

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

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

FILE - This March 15, 2012 file photo shows Richard Beneville, right, reading poetry to volunteers and fans at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race headquarters in Nome, Alaska. Beneville, who was in his third term as the mayor of Nome, Alaska, died Monday, May 11, 2020, of pneumonia at the age of 75. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Richard Beneville, enthusiastic mayor of Nome, dies at 75

By MARK THIESSEN - 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

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

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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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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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

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 Thursday, March 26, 2020, file photo, Oriole Park at Camden Yards is closed on what would've been Opening Day in Baltimore, Md. Whenever baseball returns because of the coronavirus pandemic, there's an element that might come into play like never before: the sound of silence. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

Less than 1% of Major League Baseball employees test positive for virus antibodies

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump listens during a meeting about the coronavirus response in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump is hoping to persuade a Supreme Court with two of his appointees to keep his tax and other financial records from being turned over to lawmakers and a New York district attorney. The justices are hearing arguments by telephone Tuesday, May 12. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump asking justices to bar demands for taxes, bank records

By MARK SHERMAN - 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

In this April 24, 2020, file photo provided by the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Gov. Cuomo addresses the media while holding an N95 mask during his daily press briefing on COVID-19, Coronavirus, at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The mask was sent to the governor by a retired farmer from Kansas whose wife only has one lung. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP)

NY’s Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll

By JIM MUSTIAN and JENNIFER PELTZ and BERNARD CONDON - 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

Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19 has caused 64 children in New York to be hospitalized, with cases reported in three other states. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

COVID-19 possible cause of severe illness in children

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

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

In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson watches from the sideline during the first half of an NFL preseason football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville, Fla. Pederson enters his fifth season with a Super Bowl victory, two NFC East crowns and three straight playoff appearances on his resume. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File) **FILE**

Redskins improve, but NFC East still a two-team race

By Rob Maaddi - Associated Press