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March 2, 2021 at 4:54 pm
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that he is “actively exploring” a run for New York governor as Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) faces mounting calls for his resignation.
In a tweet, Zeldin cited the ongoing controversy over Cuomo’s role in withholding data on coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes, as well as mounting allegations of inappropriate behavior toward women, as the impetus for a potential campaign.
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“With his nursing home cover-up & abuse coming more to light, it's clear #CuomosGotta...
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March 2, 2021 at 4:50 pm
President Biden on Tuesday said that the United States will have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all American adults for coronavirus by the end of May, crediting a “stepped up process” under his administration.
Biden made the announcement while outlining a partnership between Merck and Johnson & Johnson to produce the latter’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine.
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“We’re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May,” Biden said in remarks Tuesday afternoon at the White House. &ld...
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March 2, 2021 at 4:47 pm
The deal would roll back broad powers granted to the governor in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic
Legislators from New York's Assembly and state Senate struck a deal Tuesday to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of his pandemic-linked emergency powers and return matters like lockdowns to local control.
The deal would reverse emergency powers granted to Cuomo exactly a year ago, in the early days of the COVID pandemic, that gave him free rein to order measures like quarantines.
“I think everyone understands where we were back in March and where we are now. We certainly see the need for a quick response but also want to move toward a system of increased oversight, and review. The public deserves to have checks and balances. Our proposal would create a system with increased inp...
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March 2, 2021 at 4:36 pm
Construction is due to begin in 2025 on the world’s first “space hotel” in low Earth orbit that will include restaurants, a movie theater, spa and rooms for some 400 guests, the Daily Mail reported on Monday.
Named the Voyager Station, the complex could be operational as early as 2027. Developed by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the project will be a large circle and rotate to generate artificial gravity similar to that of the Moon’s.
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The plan is to construct the inner spinning wheel using robots in Earth orbit, with...
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March 2, 2021 at 4:36 pm
The United States “enthusiastically embraces” the working definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the Jewish Insider reported on Monday.
The outlet was able to obtain a letter penned by Blinken to American Zionist Movement President Richard Heideman.
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It cited Blinken as saying that stressing the long-running ties between Israel and the US and affirming Washington’s commitment to fighting Israel’s delegitimization.
Blinken also reiterated the belief in a two-state solu...
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March 2, 2021 at 4:32 pm
Former Trump attorney and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was recently suspended from posting to YouTube for making unfounded claims about last year’s presidential election.
Giuliani in videos had falsely claimed the race was stolen, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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A spokeswoman for YouTube said in a statement to The Hill that the attorney’s channel will be blocked from posting content for two weeks for violating its “election integrity policy.” The platform also said it removed content from the channel for violatin...
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March 2, 2021 at 3:24 pm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott made the “statewide announcement” Tuesday afternoon that it’s time to open Texas 100% and he ended the mask mandate.
“Under no circumstance can someone be punished for not wearing a mask,” said Gov. Abbott.
By next Wednesday, March 2 all business of any time can open at 100% and ending statewide mask mandate.
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He made the announcement from Lubbock on the same day Texas reported a new one day record for the number of people receiving vaccines—more than 216,000.
“Within a few months, experts ...
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March 2, 2021 at 3:23 pm
Forty-one percent of voters said they are not willing to get the coronavirus vaccine, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.
The same survey found that 59 percent of respondents said they were willing to receive the vaccine.
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Among those who said they were unwilling to get the vaccine, 66 percent said they were concerned about side effects, while another 33 percent said they did not believe it was effective. Twenty-seven percent said they were not concerned about the virus, 23 percent said it should go to more a...
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March 2, 2021 at 1:44 pm
Nearly one year after the first cases of coronavirus were detected in Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan addressed the plan to vaccinate residents.
Just a few days short of the one-year mark since the first cases of coronavirus were detected in Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan addressed the state of the virus at a Tuesday news conference.
A new mass vaccination site is opening Thursday in southern Maryland, he said, with two others opening this month, bringing the total to five statewide.
Three mass vaccination sites are open — at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, the Baltimore Convention Center and Six Flags America in Prince George's County.
A fourth is opening Thursday in Waldorf, according to the governor. One mass vaccination site in ...
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March 2, 2021 at 1:43 pm
A Louisiana police officer providing security at a high school basketball game in New Orleans was shot and killed following a mask-related dispute, authorities said, and a suspect was immediately taken into custody.
Tulane University Police Officer Martinus Mitchum was shot Friday while working at George Washington Carver High School in the 3000 block of Higgins Boulevard, the New Orleans Police Department said.
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John Shallerhorn, 35, was booked early Saturday for armed robbery and first-degree murder of a policeman, Fox 8 reported, citing Orleans Paris...
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March 2, 2021 at 1:37 pm
Five weeks into his administration, the Biden White House has yet to make good on its commitment to release visitor logs, according to a report.
Daily schedules for the president and Vice President Kamala Harris are also not posted online, the White House comment line is shut down and the White House website doesn’t list citizen petitions, the report published Monday by Politico adds.
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The administration has said it intends to make the visitor logs public, but it will not reveal the names of people attending virtual meetings — a key mode ...
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March 2, 2021 at 1:35 pm
Former President Trump and former first lady Melania Trump both received coronavirus vaccines in January, an adviser confirmed to The Hill on Monday.
The two got their first dose while in the White House and have since received their second dose, the adviser said. It was not clear whether they received the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine.
The Trumps both contracted the coronavirus in late September, with the former president spending three days in the hospital due to more severe symptoms.
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The former president did not initially get the vaccine, even as of...
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March 2, 2021 at 1:35 pm
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has retained a prominent white-collar criminal defense lawyer to represent his office in a federal investigation into the state’s misreporting of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a spokesman said on Monday.
Cuomo has come under fire in recent weeks over his office’s role in reporting the official count of coronavirus fatalities among patients of nursing and extended-care facilities, as well as for allegations of harassment leveled against him.
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Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor now working in ...
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March 2, 2021 at 1:31 pm
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered an end to a controversial surveillance program to track COVID-19 infections through cellular phone location data, citing concerns about the country spying on its own citizens.
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“The State of Israel is the only Western democracy that enlisted its clandestine spy agency in the war against the coronavirus pandemic,” wrote Justice Isaac Amit in the 73-page ruling.
Nearly one year ago, the Israeli government ordered the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, usually charged with monitoring Pa...
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March 2, 2021 at 1:28 pm
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Monday for the House Judiciary Committee to hold a public hearing on “cancel culture,” arguing that the committee should investigate what he claimed was a wave of “censorship” occurring in private companies, on college campuses, and other facets of American life.
Jordan, the committee’s ranking member, did not give a reason in his letter why the Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with overseeing the federal court system and law enforcement, would have purview over this issue.
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March 2, 2021 at 1:15 pm
The Cabinet has voted to largely open Ben Gurion Airport for Israeli citizens. Beginning Sunday, March 7, three thousand Israeli citizens will be permitted to enter Israel. These passengers will not need special permits to return to Israel; rather the flow will be controlled by limitations on the number of flights.
All returning passengers will be required to take Covid tests upon arrival to Israel. Those who have not recovered from Corona or have been vaccinated will need to quarantine. They will be able to do so at home, if they consent to wearing ankle bracelet monitoring devices. Those who do not consent will be forced to quarantine in government hotels.
Israelis who have recovered from Corona or who have been vaccinated will be able to depart from Israel freely. Non vaccinated...
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March 2, 2021 at 12:49 pm
The company that publishes Dr. Seuss’ children’s books said it will stop selling six of his titles because they contain racist and insensitive images.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises — the firm charged with preserving and protecting the beloved author’s legacy — said it scrapped the books because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”
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“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communiti...
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March 2, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is calling on the Biden Administration to declassify intelligence concerning reports of Russian bounties on U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, Politico reports.
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The New York Times reported last June that Russian military intelligence, known as the GRU, had offered Taliban-connected militants bounties on U.S. and coalition forces that were in Afghanistan. Then-President Donald Trump denied the report at the time, and the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, claimed in September that the memo had not b...
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March 2, 2021 at 12:42 pm
The director-general of Israel’s health ministry suggested on Tuesday that the government’s latest decisions to lift coronavirus restrictions were influenced by politics and the upcoming March 23 election, the fourth in two years.
“We all assess that all these discussions are influenced and tainted by the panic over elections and are affected by it,” Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy told Radio 103FM in an interview.
Levy stressed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so far “has been very careful, he does not want to open (the economy).”
“For weeks, he said he supports the views of the experts and is opposed to [Blue and White party head Benny] Gantz’s position in favor of opening. Now he joined him.”
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March 2, 2021 at 12:39 pm
At least 15 people were killed in an accident involving an S.U.V. and a tractor-trailer in Southern California, the authorities said Tuesday.
The crash took place on State Route 115 in the area of El Centro, Calif., a city about 60 miles west of the Arizona border and near the border with Mexico.
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Fourteen people were found dead at the scene, Judy Cruz, the managing director of the emergency department at the El Centro Regional Medical Center said at a news conference. Seven people were taken to El Centro Regional Medical Center, where one person di...
