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Gov. Andrew Cuomo attends a meeting with President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of mayors and governors to discuss a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, in Washington.

N.Y. Republicans call for Cuomo impeachment in wake of federal nursing home probe

February 19, 2021 at 12:46 p.m.

ALBANY — Republicans ramped up their criticisms of Gov. Cuomo Thursday, calling for his impeachment over the state's mismanagement of nursing homes during the COVID crisis. Assembly Minority Leader Will...

FILE - In this Friday, April 17, 2020 file photo, a patient is wheeled out of the Cobble Hill Health Center nursing home by emergency medical workers in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Cuomo aide defends comments amid mounting criticism over New York’s handling of COVID in nursing homes

February 12, 2021 at 1:17 p.m.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo's top aide is defending comments made to lawmakers this week as criticism over the state's handling of nursing home deaths during the COVID pandemic has morphed...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling for the legalization and regulation of marijuana for recreational use by adults, his third attempt in as many years to get the drug fully legalized in the state.

Cuomo calls for legalizing marijuana for adult use, details mobile sports betting in New York

January 6, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is again supporting the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults and provided details Wednesday about his new plan to allow mobile sports betting as...

Cuomo to fully embrace mobile sports betting in State of the State address

January 6, 2021 at 8:56 a.m.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is finally willing to wager on mobile sports betting. The governor, who has long pushed back against legalizing online sports betting, will make the revenue-generating measure...

Karen Dette, left, director of Good Shepherd Services, a community-based organization that supports West Brooklyn Community High School, stands in the hallway at the school after the principal announced the news that the school would be closing for the third time this year due to the city's attempt to control the coronavirus.

NYC school buildings will close at least through Thanksgiving weekend over rising COVID-19 rates

November 18, 2020 at 6:33 p.m.

The 300,000 students who opted for in-person city schooling this year will stay home Thursday through at least the Thanksgiving holiday as mounting COVID-19 rates led Mayor de Blasio to...

In this Nov. 4, 2019, file photo, Rochester Police Department Chief La'Ron Singletary speaks to the media during a news conference in Rochester, N.Y. On Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, Singletary, Rochester's outgoing police chief, defended his officers' response to protests over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, which included the use of pepper balls.

Rochester police chief out in aftermath of Prude’s death

September 14, 2020 at 8:19 p.m.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fast-tracked the removal of the city's police chief, suspended a top lawyer and called for a federal probe Monday into the death of Daniel Prude. The...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a press conference Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in Manhattan, New York.

Cuomo tells younger New Yorkers now is not the time to ‘fight for your right to party’

July 23, 2020 at 4:14 p.m.

Gov. Cuomo borrowed a line from the Beastie Boys as he warned Thursday that coronavirus infection rates are rising among younger New Yorkers who aren't taking the deadly respiratory illness...

Health care workers tend to patrons who arrive for rapid COVID-19 tests at ProHealth Care on Dec. 3, 2020, in Jericho, New York. Earlier today, ProHealth opened rapid test drive-thru facilities at six locations in New York City and on Long Island.

Cuomo says 5-year-old NYC boy died from coronavirus-linked ‘toxic shock,’ first such case in the state

May 8, 2020 at 4:03 p.m.

A 5-year-old boy in New York City died from coronavirus this week after developing "toxic shock" symptoms synonymous with the so-called Kawasaki disease — the state's first confirmed fatality attributed...

People practice social distancing while enjoying the nice weather at Central Park's Sheep Meadow on Saturday, May 2, 2020, in New York. New York City police dispatched 1,000 officers this weekend to enforce social distancing as warmer weather tempted New Yorkers to come out of quarantine.

NY Gov. Cuomo presses ‘pause’ by imposing tough new controls as coronavirus spirals to 7,100 cases and 35 deaths

March 20, 2020 at 3:18 p.m.

Gov. Cuomo dramatically ramped up New York's coronavirus response on Friday by ordering a statewide lockdown that will shutter most businesses and places strict new restrictions on residents as the...

A victim of the Covid-19 virus is evacuated from the Mulhouse civil hospital, eastern France, on Monday March 23, 2020. The Grand Est region is now the epicenter of the outbreak in France, which has buried the third-most virus victims in Europe, after Italy and Spain.

Cuomo announces one-mile ‘containment zone’ to halt coronavirus in New Rochelle, epicenter of the state’s outbreak, with two-week shutdown of schools

March 10, 2020 at 6:59 p.m.

Gov. Cuomo announced an unprecedented plan Tuesday to combat coronavirus with the establishment of a mile-wide "containment zone" in New Rochelle for the next two weeks. The radically ramped-up state...

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