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- 'The time has come': New York's GOP lawmakers launch bid to impeach Governor Cuomo over sexual-harassment allegations
Republicans in the New York Assembly have begun an effort to force a vote on their resolution to impeach Governor Andrew Cuomo, saying he no longer has the credibility to run the state amid a widening sexual-misconduct scandal. - Is the pandemic over? Cuomo slated for writing BOOK on his Covid 'leadership' after disastrous nursing home order & high NY deathsNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo, with a lack of self-awareness seldom seen outside hereditary dictatorships, is writing a book on managing the Covid-19 outbreak – after leading the state to the US' highest coronavirus death toll.
- ‘The smell was overwhelming’: DOZENS of decomposing corpses found in non-refrigerated trucks at New York funeral homeDozens of dead bodies were found inside moving trucks near a funeral home in New York City, discovered after neighbors complained of a sickening odor emanating from the vehicles, which may have stored the corpses for weeks.
- US coronavirus deaths pass 60,000, eclipsing Fauci’s lowered prediction – JHU countThe Covid-19 death toll in the US has passed 60,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The deaths are now above the figure predicted by the latest model used by Dr Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump’s disease specialist.
- ‘We never said it didn’t happen’: New York Times says its probe didn’t absolve Biden of sexual assault claimsDemocratic candidate Joe Biden’s campaign says the sexual assault claim against him was disproven by a New York Times probe. Originally criticized for going too soft on Biden, the Times now says it never wrote off the allegation.
- Lies, half-truths & propaganda: Even during Covid-19 crisis, Britain’s leading news source can’t resist Russia-bashingOne of the side-effects of attaining any reasonable level of knowledge about Russia is that it’s subsequently impossible to read most US/UK media coverage of the country without suffering a discomforting rise in blood pressure.
- NYC mayor blasted for 'anti-Semitism' after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi's funeralA tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor's own distancing policy and said his outburst had "invited anti-Semitism."
- One Covid-19 patient is like ‘fire through dry grass’, Cuomo says – but demands care homes take them in anywayNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo has acknowledged that a single Covid-19 patient in a nursing home could rip through the facility like “fire through dry grass.” His order that facilities treat all infected patients remains, however.
- Rules for you, but not for us: DeBlasio appoints wife ‘equity’ czar & strolls in park while New York City remains on lockdownEthics or strict lockdown rules did not prevent New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio from traveling from Manhattan to Brooklyn to soak up some sunshine with his wife, or from appointing her ‘equity and racial inclusion’ overseer.
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