Videos and images circulated on social media Saturday afternoon showing New York Police Department officers driving vans into crowds, accosting credentialed media ― and arresting a HuffPost reporter ― and, in one instance, apparently pulling down a protester’s mask to pepper spray him as the demonstrations […]

“Whether they’re fired up or not, that doesn’t prevent them from getting the virus,” said Bradley Pollock, chairman of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Article source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/protests-raise-fears-coronavirus-outbreaks_n_5ed3966bc5b6535fe4b8b3ca

As nationwide protests against police brutality and the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd grew Friday evening, a video circulated showing a crowd cheering as a city bus driver in Brooklyn stood outside his bus with his arms crossed. Brian Gresko, who tweeted the video […]

Since mid-March, the group has grown into a global community of nearly 800 members from the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, New Zealand, Mexico, Uruguay and India, among other countries. Article source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/social-distancing-portraits_l_5ec6ba31c5b67586ba0d368d

State and municipal lawmakers have communicated unclear messaging on what kinds of institutions can reopen and how they can do so safely, placing the onus on individual institutions. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is allowing outdoor museums, gardens, galleries and exhibitions to resume operations. […]

As of May 15, there were nearly 350,000 COVID-19 cases in New York and more than 27,500 deaths, nearly a third of the nation’s total. The corresponding numbers in California: just under 75,000 cases and slightly more than 3,000 deaths. In New York City, the […]

The first day of coronavirus testing at Bethany Baptist Church, a historic Black congregation in Brooklyn, New York, got off to a slow start. About 130 people showed up Wednesday for diagnostic tests at the temporary testing site, according to Rev. Adolphus C. Lacey. Article source: […]

The virus has now killed more than 86,000 people nationwide and sickened upwards of 1.4 million. New York state has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, with more than 343,000 confirmed cases and over 27,000 deaths. The number of cases in the […]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) used the “drop dead” reference in a tweet to Trump in February. Headlines in The New York Times, The Week, The Daily Beast, The Nation and, yes, the New York Daily News have all linked Trump to what may be the […]

Filed on April 29 by four deaf New Yorkers and the group Disability Rights New York, the lawsuit said Cuomo was the only U.S. governor holding daily coronavirus briefings without a visible, real-time ASL interpreter on-screen — known as “televised in frame ASL interpretation.” Article source: […]