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New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he‘d like city denizens to mask up again as COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses surge again this winter. The Democrat on Tuesday also started to wear a mask of his own. “With the holiday season in full swing and cases of COVID-19, flu…

ATHENS—Antisemitic hate crimes are soaring in New York City, and Mayor Eric Adams is proposing legally enforced federal regulations to cut hate speech and antisemitism on social media platforms. Adams told The Daily Beast—during interviews in New York this week and on a trip to Greece at the start of…

An Altice USA call center. Photo Credit: Hudconja BMG, Concord, and Universal Music Group (UMG) have officially filed a more than $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against New York City-headquartered internet-service provider (ISP) Altice USA. The noted music-company plaintiffs (as well as UMG’s Capitol Records) just recently submitted the over…

(RNS) — Rebuilding is a spiritual obligation and civic opportunity. A sacred space can be far more than just an edifice when it becomes a center for activists, artists, organizers and volunteers who reach far beyond its walls. So it had been for Middle Collegiate Church, the oldest continuously operating church…

Although the Premier League doesn’t resume until after the Qatar World Cup, the lower leagues (EFL) have all now kicked off again in early December. It is a more open Championship than in previous seasons, with not that many points separating those at the top and those towards the bottom.…

Photo: Adam Berry (Getty Images) Uber filed a lawsuit against the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) on Friday to block a mandatory price hike for ride-share drivers in New York City. The TLC submitted the proposal in August and according to Uber, the law that passed last…

New York City’s latest plan to keep mentally ill people from languishing in public is billed as a common-sense strategy to get them help. By encouraging police officers and city medics to take more psychologically disturbed people to hospitals, even if they refuse care, Mayor Eric Adams says he’s humanely…

America’s largest Christmas tree is no longer found at Rockefeller Center in New York City. America’s tallest Christmas tree now resides in Enid, Oklahoma, standing at 140 feet, 75 percent taller than the Rockefeller Center tree. Last year’s tree, dubbed the “Christ Tree,” was ringed with 20,000 multi-colored LED lights,…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi greets the crowd during an election camping rally in Tehran, Iran, in May 2017. File Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA-EFE Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Some of the world's top creatives, from musicians such as Pink Floyd's Roger Waters to artists whose works have been displayed in institutions…

NYCHA told federal officials that $443 million in rent arrears threaten to impede progress in making schedlued repairs uinder the 2019 settlement agreement. Paul Martinka It’s not just the MTA struggling to recover from the pandemic’s impact: The New York City Housing Authority may have taken an even harder hit…