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NY’s Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has won bipartisan praise for rallying supplies for his ravaged hospitals and helping slow the coronavirus, is coming under increasing criticism for not bringing that same level of commitment to a problem that has so far stymied him: nursing homes. In part-lecture, part-cheerleading briefings that have made him a …

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INSANITY: DeBlasio Says New Yorkers Should Not Have To Pay Rent For 12 Months

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday called for new measures to protect tenants who are struggling to pay rent as the city continues to grapple with the coronavirus outbreak. During his daily briefing from City Hall the mayor called on the Rent Guidelines Board to enact a rent freeze for the city’s roughly one million …

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NY Democrats To Appeal Reinstatement Of Presidential Primary

Democratic members of the state’s Board of Elections filed an appeal Wednesday of a federal judge’s reinstatement of the New York presidential primary. The appeal by board Commissioner Andrew Spano and other members comes a day after the June 23 primary was reinstated by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan, who said canceling it …

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg back home from the hospital

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back home after being discharged from the hospital following nonsurgical treatment of a gallstone infection. Ginsburg, 87, returned home on Wednesday, after participating in  the court’s oral arguments by teleconference from her  hospital room. She spent one night at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for infection known as acute …

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Israeli Robotics Program Creates Robot to Treat COVID-19 Patients

The battle against coronavirus in Israel just got a helping hand from an unexpected source: the robotics club at the prestigious Hebrew Reali School in Haifa. Students and alumni of the robotics club, called “Galaxia 5987 in memory of David Zohar,” answered a call from Rambam Medical Center and the Technion – Israel Institute of …

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