Tag: New York

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren to Resign as Part of Plea Deal Over Alleged Campaign Finance Violations

October 5, 2021
campaign finance violationsCrime and Incidentselection lawsfirearmLocal NewsLovely WarrenNew YorkNY NewsNY PoliticsPoliticsRegional-Local NewsUSUS News
0 Comment

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren will resign from office by Dec. 1 after accepting the terms of a plea deal in court on Monday where she faced charges over alleged campaign finance violations, Rochester First reported. Warren, along with two assistants, Albert Jones Jr., her campaign treasurer, and Rosiland Brooks-Harris, political action committee treasurer and Rochester finance director, were each…

Read More

New Yorkers Chant ‘Save Australia’ in Protest Against Vaccine Mandates

October 5, 2021
AMERICAAustraliaCCP VirusLocal NewsmandatesNew YorkNY NewsprotestRegional-Local NewsUSUS NewsVaccineVaccines & SafetyWorld
0 Comment

Protesters in New York City on Monday waved the Australian flag and chanted “save Australia” in a demonstration against mandatory vaccinations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Protesters had gathered in Brooklyn outside the headquarters of the city’s Department of Education for a rally after a COVID-19 vaccine mandate took effect Monday for New York City public school employees. Hundreds of…

Read More

Nasdaq Ends Sharply Lower; Rising Treasury Yields Sink Big Tech

October 5, 2021
Big TechBusiness & EconomyCompaniescongressEconomieseconomyExecutive BranchLocal NewsMarketsMedia & Big TechNASDAQNew YorkNY NewsPoliticsRegional-Local NewstreasuryUSUS Newsyields
0 Comment

Wall Street ended sharply lower on Monday (Oct. 4) as investors dumped Big Tech and other growth stocks in the face of rising Treasury yields, while concerns about a potential U.S. government debt default also fed caution. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet, the U.S. stock market’s four most valuable companies, each dropped more than 2…

Read More

Students Sue St. John’s University Over Vaccine Mandate, Citing Use of Aborted Fetus Cells in Testing

October 4, 2021
abortionCCP VirusCOVID-19educationLocal NewsNew YorkNY NewsRegional-Local NewsUSUS NewsVaccinesVaccines & Safety
0 Comment

A group of students at St. John’s University (SJU) in New York are suing the school over its COVID-19 vaccination requirement, which they say violates their religious belief regarding abortion. The 17 students filed the lawsuit against the Manhattan-based Catholic university in Suffolk County Supreme Court. They are seeking $2.75 million in damages, barring a…

Read More

Thousands of Unvaccinated New York City Teachers on Unpaid Leave: Union

October 4, 2021
AMERICACCP VirusLocal NewsNew YorkNew York CityNY NewsRegional NewsRegional-Local NewsUSVaccineVaccines & Safety
0 Comment

Thousands of unvaccinated New York City teachers were placed on unpaid leave after a citywide mandate went into effect, according to the United Federation of Teachers. About 97 percent of teachers and other school staff represented by the union got the vaccine, the United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew confirmed in a news conference on…

Read More

George Floyd Statue Vandalized Days After Unveiling

October 4, 2021
Crime and IncidentsGeorge FloydLocal NewsNew YorkNew York CityNY NewsRegional-Local NewsUSUS News
0 Comment

A statue of George Floyd that was unveiled in New York City on Sept. 30 was vandalized on Sunday. Surveillance footage showed a white male dressed in black pants and a green long-sleeved shirt tossing gray paint from a cup onto the statue in Union Park at approximately 10:15 a.m. The man was riding a…

Read More

1 Shot Near Times Square, 3rd Shooting in Area This Year

October 4, 2021
bulletCrime and IncidentsLocal NewsNew YorkRegional-Local NewsshootingTimes SquareUS
0 Comment

NEW YORK—A person was shot in the leg Monday near New York City’s Times Square, police said. It was the third shooting this year in the area, a top destination for Big Apple tourists. The shooting happened around 12:15 p.m. near the entrance to a subway station at 40th Street and 7th Avenue, police said,…

Read More

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Now in Effect for New York City Teachers

October 4, 2021
AMERICACCP VirusCOVID-19educationLocal NewsNew YorkNew York CityNY NewsRegional-Local NewsUSUS NewsVaccines & Safety
0 Comment

A mandate requiring New York City teachers and other school staff members to get the COVID-19 vaccine went into effect, marking one of the first U.S. school district mandates requiring employees to be inoculated. On Oct. 1, Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a warning to the city’s 150,000 public school workers, saying that unvaccinated employees will…

Read More

‘Don’t Allow Them to Enslave Us:’ Black Americans Protest Against Vaccine Mandates in NYC

October 4, 2021
African AmericansBlack AmericanCCP VirusLocal NewsNew YorkNew York CityNY NewsRegional-Local NewsUSUS Newsvaccine mandatesVaccines & Safety
0 Comment

A group of almost 100 people, mostly African Americans, gathered at The Brooklyn Bank in New York to express their opposition to vaccine mandates. The meeting was vibrant, vociferous, and involved talk of summoning orthodox spiritual power, as well as other nomenclature used for higher divine authority. It was hosted and organized by Angela Stanton…

Read More

Maud Maron on NYC Schools Pushing Critical Race Theory; the Assault on Merit; and the Emerging ‘Community of the Canceled’

October 2, 2021
American Thought Leaderscritical race theoryEpochTVLocal NewsMaud MaronNew YorkNY PoliticsNYC schoolsRegional-Local NewsUS
0 Comment

“You can teach kids how to treat each other with respect and dignity without trying to racially essentialize kids.” Today, I sit down with Maud Maron, an elected New York public school council member and public defender who was fired from her job at the Legal Aid Society after speaking out against race essentialism in…

Read More