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NEW YORK: A tourist from Kansas was hit in the shoulder by a stray bullet near New York‘s Times Square early Wednesday, police said. The 44-year-old man was shot shortly after 2 a.m. near West 38th Street and Eighth Avenue, a police spokesperson said. Police do not believe he was …

HOUSTON: Texas governor Greg Abbott has issued an executive order that bans the government mandated Covid-19 “vaccine passports”. According to the executive order issued on Tuesday, it prohibits state agencies or political subdivisions in the state from creating a “vaccine passport” requirement, or otherwise conditioning receipt of services on an …

NEW YORK: Over 16 years old can sign up for Covid-19 vaccinations starting Tuesday, a major expansion of eligibility as the state seeks to immunize as many people as possible. Gov. Andrew Cuomo expanded eligibility to 30 and over last week and announced that people aged 16 to 29 would …

SALT LAKE CITY: Biological fathers in Utah will be legally required to pay half of a woman’s out-of-pocket pregnancy costs under a new law unique to the state that critics say doesn’t do enough to adequately address maternal healthcare needs. The bill’s sponsor has presented the measure as an effort …

NEW YORK: New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is in the hospital with an apparent kidney stone, his campaign said on Friday. Yang, 46, went to the emergency room after experiencing abdominal pain Friday morning, co-campaign manager Chris Coffey said in a tweet. His wife, Evelyn, is with him. …

NEW YORK: Federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday they have offered a plea deal to two Brooklyn attorneys charged with firebombing an empty police vehicle last year amid demonstrations in New York City following the death of George Floyd. US District Judge Brian Cogan set a 90-day deadline for lawyers …

Covid-19 was the primary or contributing cause of 377,883 deaths in the United States last year, with a particularly high toll among the elderly, according to a government report released on Wednesday. The Covid-19 mortality rate made it the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020 …

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last July that New York would spend $100 million in federal coronavirus relief to help cash-strapped tenants pay months of back rent and avert evictions. By the end of October, the state had doled out only about $40 million, reaching 15,000 of the nearly 100,000 people …

WASHINGTON: Some jokingly said the cryptic tweet, “;l;;gmlxzssaw,” was a US nuclear launch code. Others, that the Pentagon had been hacked. And some even thought it was a signal to political conspiracists. Now the US Strategic Command, which runs the country’s powerful nuclear weapons force, says the enigmatic posting on …

NEW YORK: New York state’s highest court on Tuesday cleared the way for a former contestant on The Apprentice to sue Donald Trump for defamation, after the former US president called her a liar for accusing him of sexual assault. Trump had argued before leaving the White House on January …