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If you thought the Cuomo headlines were over, you thought wrong.  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an investigation Monday into the head of Cuomo’s vaccination program, who reportedly called county executives to gauge their support for the governor.  The calls, made by Cuomo’s “vaccine czar” Larry…

In 2019, more than a hundred thousand people walked into the Pierre, the five-star hotel on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Some checked in at the front desk; others, in ball gowns and tuxedos, headed up the stairs to the Grand Ballroom. About five hundred events were held at the Pierre…

Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal on Monday suspended use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine over new reports of blood clots, even as a U.S. official said the vaccine could win U.S. authorization next month. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told Reuters that data from the 30,000-person vaccine trial…

The wait is finally over for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s adaptation of his Tony-nominated musical “In the Heights,” directed by Jon M. Chu. With a new trailer debut Sunday, the first official look at the completed pic since late 2019, the drama is set to deliver on its promise of celebrating Latinx…

Hailey Bieber can officially add global ambassador for Sugerga to her ever-expanding resume. Hailey stars in the footwear brand's spring/summer 2021 campain, which was shot in New York City in December 2020 at Pier 59 with an all-women team. The gorgeous shots were taken by Stevie Dance while stylist and…

After long pandemic year, a changed New York shows renewal By DEEPTI HAJELA March 13, 2021 GMT NEW YORK (AP) — Pamela Puchalski still remembers how frightening it felt when the coronavirus upended life in her New York City neighborhood last March. With terrifying swiftness came the first infections, the…

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Pressure on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) mounted on Thursday, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined 59 New York state lawmakers in calling for the governor's resignation in light of a sixth sexual harassment allegation. Why it matters: Cuomo has refused to resign and insisted on…

Tuesday was a beautiful day in New York City—60 degrees, cloudless, a perfect March day after a brutal February. At 10 a.m., right when the weather was getting very nice, management at BuzzFeed called a meeting with the staff at HuffPost, which had been acquired by the company in November,…

You know what the plot of a show called CSI: Chicxulub would be? Finding out what killed the dinosaurs, of course. There’s now no question that the scene of the “crime” was the Yucatan Peninsula, in Mexico, where researchers found a massive crater. But what was the murder weapon—an asteroid,…