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Indoor dining at New York City restaurants can start back up on Feb. 14 — Valentine's Day — at 25 percent capacity as long as coronavirus positivity rates in the city do not rise, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday. The latest ban on indoor dining in the city of 8.4…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that indoor dining will once again resume in New York City on Valentine’s Day.  The directive for restaurants to start preparing for the Feb. 14 date comes after Cuomo previously ordered the Big Apple's thousands of eateries to stop serving customers on-site in December. Overall, New York City’s coronavirus test positivity rate is declining, he says. …

Suraj Patel ran as a Democratic challenger in New York’s 12th Congressional District, funding his run primarily with donations from other South Asian Americans. William Mebane / The Washington Post via Getty Images Suraj Patel’s 2020 campaign website featured three ads: one in English, one in Spanish and one in…

Despite the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines and a drop in the coronavirus infection rate, it’s still important to follow coronavirus safety guidelines. For the time being, Dr. Fauci still wants people to avoid indoor gatherings, restaurants, gyms, and bars. Starting today, passengers flying into the U.S. will need proof of…

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…