Tag: New York

New York Protesters Rally Against Vaccine Bills in Albany: ‘We Need Civil Disobedience in This Country’

New York state lawmakers returning for the 2022 legislative session were met with hundreds of demonstrators, who gathered outside the state Capitol in protest against a host of measures that would tighten the already strict COVID-19 vaccine rules across the state. As New York Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her first-ever State of the State address,…


New York Protesters Rally in Albany Against Vaccine Bills: ‘We Need Civil Disobedience in This Country’

ALBANY, N.Y.—New York state lawmakers returning for the 2022 legislative session were met by hundreds of demonstrators who gathered outside the state Capitol to protest a host of measures that would tighten already strict COVID-19 vaccine rules across the state. As Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her first State of the State address, the protesters on…


NY Resident’s Mother Takes Own Life After Detention in Chinese Brainwashing Center

NEW YORK—On Liu Danbi’s 31st birthday in December—the first that passed without a birthday wish from her mother—she did not cry. She said her tears had run out long ago. Liu had not seen her mother face-to-face since they parted at the airport in China seven years ago, before she boarded the flight for New…


Mother of NY Resident Takes Own Life After Detention in Chinese Brainwashing Center

NEW YORK—On Liu Danbi’s 31st birthday in December—the first that passed without a birthday wish from her mother—she did not cry. She said her tears had run out long ago. Liu had not seen her mother face-to-face since they parted at the airport in China seven years ago, before she boarded the flight for New…


Mother of NY Resident Takes Own Life After Torment in Chinese Brainwashing Center

NEW YORK—On Liu Danbi’s 31st birthday in December—the first that passed without a birthday wish from her mother—she did not cry. She said her tears had run out long ago. Liu had not seen her mother face-to-face since they parted at the airport in China seven years ago, before she boarded the flight for New…


NY Resident Loses Mother Following Torment in Chinese Brainwashing Center

NEW YORK—On Liu Danbi’s 31st birthday in December—the first that passed without a birthday wish from her mother—she did not cry. She said her tears had run out long ago. Liu had not seen her mother face-to-face since they parted at the airport in China seven years ago, before she boarded the flight for New…


Teacher Potentially Facing 4 Years Jail Time for Allegedly Vaccinating Teen Without Parental Consent

A New York public school science teacher has been arrested after she was accused of vaccinating a 17-year-old student without parental consent. Nassau County police said in a news release that Laura Parker Russo, 54, appeared to give a student a dose of what appeared to be a COVID-19 vaccine at her home in Sea…


Jan. 6 Narrative Depends on Who Tells the Story

Protesters. Insurrectionists. White supremacists? The thousands of Americans who went to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and their intentions on that day, have been described in many ways. They were there to: Have their voices heard. Register concern over election accuracy. Overthrow the government? The narrative of that day depends on who is…


Blue States Ask Supreme Court to Review SALT Tax Deduction Caps

After losing in the lower courts, four Democratic-dominated northeastern states are asking the Supreme Court to consider their legal challenge to the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions imposed by then-President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law. The case is New York v. Yellen. Janet Yellen is being sued in her official capacity as secretary…


New York City Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Private Employer Vaccine Mandate

A real estate firm in New York City has lodged a class-action lawsuit over the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, alleging it violates the U.S. Constitution. Cornerstone Realty, a Staten Island broker, filed the lawsuit, obtained by The Epoch Times, on Tuesday. It takes aim at a mandate issued by former Mayor Bill…