Orthodox Jewish leaders have seen a growing, raucous faction of young men in the community, tired of pandemic guidelines and resentful of the secular authorities.
Rules that would have a pronounced impact on synagogues were met with protests and fires in a part of Brooklyn seeing an uptick in cases.
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Liam StackNEW: Orthodox Jewish and other religious leaders lashed out at Cuomo over new coronavirus restrictions as protests broke out in Brooklyn overnight. One Hasidic man was injured after a crowd of Hasidic men accused him of being disloyal to the community.
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The president is hospitalized and reporters are fighting for basic facts. What should elderly leaders — many of America’s top politicians are over 80 — reveal about their health?
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Liam Stack“We need a reporting culture that’s ready to handle the public decline of this generation of leaders, as long as they insist on declining in public.”
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The daily rate of positive tests rose to 3.25 percent, the highest it had been in months, as more students returned to classrooms.
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Liam StackIn a news conference, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a daily rate of 3.25 percent, the highest it had been since June. On Monday, the daily rate was 1.93 percent.
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Like many people on the Internet, those of us at the FiveThirtyEight office have been passing around a piece from Mallory Ortberg at The Toast that details the …
Liam StackAppearing on InfoWars, ex-Trump advisor Roger Stone said federal agents and GOP state officials should “physically” block voting and seize ballots & that Trump should nationalize police forces and order widespread arrests
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“This will sink his campaign,” predicted a College Democrat leader hoping to work for Rep. Richard Neal.
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Liam StackLeaders of the UMass College Democrats began a scheme last October to find Alex Morse’s dating profiles and entrap him into saying something they could use to damage his congressional campaign. When it didn’t work, they made vague accusations anyway.
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A helicopter and dozens of officers, some in riot gear, were deployed for an arrest at a Manhattan apartment.
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Liam StackA locked down block in Midtown. Dozens of officers. Two dozen NYPD vehicles. Riot gear. Police dogs. A helicopter. The tremendous show of force renewed questions about how the NYPD is dealing with racial justice protests and those who participate in them.
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More than 100 people were killed, and the second blast was felt as far away as Cyprus. An investigation and a search for survivors are underway.
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Liam StackBeirut’s port handled 60% of Lebanon’s total imports. The silos that were damaged or destroyed there stored 85% of the country’s grain, and the authorities said the wheat that survived the blasts was now inedible.
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Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. dropped seven percentage points last month, to 13% -- the lowest Gallup has measured since November 2011.
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Liam StackOnly 13% of U.S. adults are satisfied with the state of the nation, down 7 percentage points in the past month and 32 points since February
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LONDON (AP) — Allegations that President Donald Trump’s envoy to Britain made inappropriate remarks about women and minorities and may have violated federal ethics rules are roiling the U.S....
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Liam StackThe ex-No. 2 official at the US embassy in London said Amb. Johnson, a Trump donor, “definitely” asked the UK govt about moving the British Open to a Trump resort in Scotland. He said he reported it to the State Dept but no action seems to have been taken.
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In just over two months, the Northeast has gone from the country’s worst coronavirus hot spot to its most controlled. “It’s acting like Europe,” one expert said.
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Liam StackLike Europe, the Northeast suffered devastating illnesses and deaths in March and April. State leaders responded with aggressive lockdowns and investment in testing and tracing. Residents have mostly followed the rules, even at the cost of economic pain.
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