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Amnesty International has launched a new campaign against facial recognition titled Ban The Scan — and is launching with a demand for New York City to halt police and government use of the technology. Amnesty argues facial recognition is incompatible with basic privacy rights, and will exacerbate structural racism in…

A New York woman said she felt like she was being attacked by animals after a group of men accosted her in Harlem, biting her face and breaking the skin, according to NBC New York. The woman, 31, who has not been publicly identified, was also beaten, spit on and…

President Joe Biden wants to remove the word "alien" from US immigration law. Biden wants to replace it with "noncitizen." It's a symbolic gesture, his administration said, to frame America "as a nation of immigrants." Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. President Joe Biden wants to remove the word…

New York is blue! At least in the eMLS world. NYCFC's Didychrislito defeated New York Red Bulls' Adamou in the Grand Final of eMLS League Series One presented by Coca-Cola on Sunday and maintains the top spot in the latest eMLS Power Rankings. While there's no movement in the top three spots, Toronto FC's PhilB94…

by Lauran Neergaard and Joseph B. Frederick Nurse Brianne Stockman, left, prepares to draw some blood from study participant Lani Muller in a mobile medical unit parked in the Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. With more vaccines in the pipeline, scientists worry whether enough volunteers will…

In retrospect, probably the last thing America’s bungled Covid-19 vaccine rollout needed was for the Trump administration to spend its final week in power promising the states extra vaccines that didn’t exist. Last Tuesday, departing Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar announced that the federal government would release…

Google has started rolling out an exciting Google Maps feature the company announced back in August. Google Maps will now support richer street-level details, with streets that look just like they do in real life, and will offer crosswalk and sidewalk data. The revamped maps experience is available in four…

January 18, 2021 9:18 PM ET Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang received an endorsement Monday for his New York City mayoral run from the son of Martin Luther King Jr. The endorsement from Martin Luther King III came on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday that celebrates…

Wendy Levey. Wendy Levey This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Manhattan-based educational consultant Wendy Levey has deep roots in New York City's preschool scene, having founded and directed her own school on the Upper East Side for 45 years. She…

A new study comparing the incidence of sudden deaths occurring outside the hospital across New York City's highly diverse neighborhoods with the percentage of positive SARS-CoV-19 tests found that increased sudden deaths during the pandemic correlate to the extent of virus infection in a neighborhood. The analysis appears in Heart…