Tag: New York

NTD’s New TV Drama ‘A Good Cop’ Premieres Sunday Dec. 5

NTD Television is launching its first-ever original drama series. The 10-episode series called “A Good Cop” is inspired by true events. It follows the lives of three NYPD officers during the “defund the police” movement. But this show is about more than just policing. Taylor Karin plays Elizabeth Fox, who she described as “an abolitionist-turned-rookie…


NTD’s ‘A Good Cop’ Premieres Sunday Dec. 5

NTD Television is launching its first-ever original drama series. The 10-episode series called “A Good Cop” is inspired by true events. It follows the lives of three NYPD officers during the “defund the police” movement. But this show is about more than just policing. Taylor Karin plays Elizabeth Fox, who she described as “an abolitionist-turned-rookie…


New York City Mandates COVID-19 Vaccines for Religious, Private School Workers

New York City religious and private school workers must get a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Dec. 20 or face termination. Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, announced the new mandate this week. It’s an extension of an order that applied to all public school employees. The extension applies to roughly 56,000 workers across…


Nadler ‘Absolutely’ Running for Another Term in 2022

Longtime Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) says he is definitely running in 2022, trying to tamp down rumors he is considering retirement. “Absolutely,” Nadler told CNN when asked about the rumors on Friday. Nadler, 74, has been in office since 1992. He chairs the House Judiciary Committee. The New York Post recently reported, citing a mix…


Stocks Stumble, Yields Choppy After US Jobs Report as Omicron Looms

NEW YORK/LONDON—Global stock markets faltered on Friday, while benchmark bond yields gave up earlier gains after data showed U.S. job growth slowed considerably in November and markets stayed volatile as investors assess implications from the new Omicron coronavirus variant. After opening higher, Wall Street’s main indexes quickly turned negative in morning trading. European markets also…


Narrowing Equity Market Breadth May Signal a ‘Market Top’: BofA

LONDON—Narrowing equity market breadth, rising volatility, and the prospects of rate hikes are the classic signs of a market top, BofA said in a weekly report on Thursday. Just five of the biggest U.S. technology stocks accounted for 71 percent of the nearly 20 percent gains in U.S stocks, BofA analysts noted of the performance…


World Shares Mostly Higher After Broad Rally on Wall Street

BANGKOK—Stocks were mostly higher in Europe and Asia after a broad rally on Wall Street as investors awaited U.S. employment and other data due out Friday. Concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus variant and measures governments are taking to restrain it remained, but appeared to have been assuaged by reports that its symptoms…


5 Omicron Cases Detected in New York

Five cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York State, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced late Thursday, after cases were detected in Minnesota and Colorado. “New York State has confirmed five cases of the omicron variant,” she said on Twitter. “Let me be clear: This is not cause for alarm. We knew this…


Armed Man Outside UN Arrested After Standoff, Lockdown

NEW YORK—The United Nations headquarters in New York City was locked down for several hours Thursday after a man was seen pacing outside one of its main gates with a loaded shotgun, holding it under his chin at times, police said. The man, who appeared to be in his 60s, was taken into custody without…


S&P 500, Dow Surge Over 1 Percent on Boost From Financials, Boeing

The Dow and the S&P 500 rebounded on Thursday, boosted by financial shares and Boeing in a week so far marked by wild swings on rising angst about the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant globally. Boeing Co. jumped 5.7 percent after China’s aviation authority issued an airworthiness directive on the 737 MAX that…