New York
Covid Cases Are Rising Again. How Cautious Should We Be?
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Good morning. It’s Thursday. In the present day we’ll have a look at two units of statistics — on Covid-19 and crime — which can be more durable to parse than they might seem. The virus is surging once more in components of New York Metropolis, however up to now is principally hitting youthful individuals. And new information reveals that shootings have elevated this yr, but homicides have dropped.
In contrast with a month in the past, Covid-19 is spreading twice as quick round New York Metropolis. The town is recording 1,500 new circumstances per day and a 3 % positivity fee. Thus far, youthful adults are most affected, elevating fears that issues may get a lot worse if the rise begins to unfold sooner amongst extra weak older individuals.
But different numbers supply some hope: Hospitalizations have but to rise; circumstances are steadily growing, not spiking; 800,000 extra New Yorker have had booster photographs for the reason that final wave peaked; 83 % of individuals 65 and older at the moment are absolutely vaccinated, with 56 % boosted. And the hundreds of thousands of residents not too long ago contaminated with the Omicron variant are prone to be nicely protected against its subvariant BA.2, which is driving the current rise.
The blended information — together with blended messages, with well being officers urging warning as town up to now declines to reimpose a number of not too long ago lifted vaccine and masks mandates — leaves many New Yorkers not sure how finest to reply, my colleagues Sharon Otterman and Joseph Goldstein report.
“It’s complicated,” Catherine Jordan, 80, stated as she waited for a bus in Queens. “You don’t know what to do.”
Many people can relate. Guidelines and suggestions can appear to vary as usually because the virus mutates. The brand new wave prompted Mayor Eric Adams to maintain, for now, the preschool masks mandate he’d deliberate to elevate. But the rise comes, seemingly like clockwork, weeks after town stopped requiring bars and eating places to verify vaccine information and let public-school college students go maskless from kindergarten up. And information are more and more incomplete since extra individuals these days do exams at dwelling, that are typically not reported to metropolis businesses.
So find out how to decide what’s secure and accountable?
Everybody calibrates danger in their very own idiosyncratic, generally contradictory means, in response to their private circumstances, danger tolerance and strategy to shifting, imperfect info. (To not point out, it seems, their attitudes on politics and public well being.)
In our household, selections have been already advanced earlier than the brand new subvariant. One little one, in a crowded college, nonetheless masked most days; the opposite, privileged with a well-ventilated, high-ceilinged classroom, didn’t. Figuring that social connection, psychological wellness and exercise have been additionally necessary to our well being, and our neighborhood’s, we noticed buddies and octogenarian kinfolk and attended work conferences. In all probability not coincidentally, we began to get regular colds once more; we nervous, utilizing valuable at-home exams to rule out Covid-19.
Then, final weekend, my husband examined constructive. Not too sick, he retreated to a bed room. A few of us had little coughs, however have been they Covid? Fast exams stated no. The youngsters stored going to high school, below test-to-stay guidelines. However I ended visiting my 83-year-old father — leaving him alone in a hospital recovering from a fall. I’ve now examined constructive.
At the very least the subsequent step appears clear: whisking the youngsters to free metropolis websites for PCR exams. (That will be more durable, and danger exposing others, if we didn’t have a automotive.) The excellent news is, these websites, in my expertise, work shortly and easily.
To study them and different methods to get free testing within the metropolis, learn this information by my colleague Lola Fadulu.
Good luck on the market.
Climate
Put together for showers and potential thunderstorms within the afternoon and late at night time, with wind gusts and regular temps within the excessive 40s throughout the day and the mid-50s within the night.
alternate-side parking
In impact till April 14 (Holy Thursday).
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The police have launched crime statistics for the primary three months of 2022, they usually, just like the coronavirus information, are a blended bag. Shootings elevated in contrast with the identical interval final yr, as did crimes like burglaries, robberies and grand larcenies, however homicides declined. The police made greater than 4,000 felony arrests final month, twice as many as in final March.
But some kinds of crimes which can be growing are the type probably to unfold worry, similar to subway assaults and assaults on Asians, with 130 hate crime complaints made to the police final yr, up from only one in 2019. Additionally creating worry are shootings of bystanders, a lot of them within the Black and Latino neighborhoods most burdened by the rise in gun violence. In current days, 12-year-old Kade Lewin died in Brooklyn as he ate with kinfolk in a parked automotive, and a 61-year-old lady was killed by a stray bullet within the Bronx.
I requested my colleague Troy Closson, who reported on the information with Ali Watkins, find out how to perceive the numbers.
What’s a very powerful factor to know?
The true image is extra sophisticated than anybody individual’s notion or one set of knowledge. We’re coping with the pandemic, many adjustments and upheaval that continues. It’s onerous to attract conclusions from short-term statistics and never potential to foretell what’s going to occur. Folks all the time must simplify stats into headlines, however it’s extra advanced than that. And the burden isn’t equally shared. Folks in much less affected neighborhoods could overestimate the rise within the hazard to them, or undercount the influence on others.
How come homicides are down whereas shootings are up?
That’s one thing that gun violence specialists and sociologists are nonetheless grappling with. Some individuals marvel if enhancements in well being care play a job, if hospitals save extra gunshot victims than they used to. However we’re undecided. Typically it’s a battle to provide you with explanations for short-term crime fluctuations. There are numerous elements, together with coincidence.
Why are there extra felony arrests?
On one hand, there’s simply extra individuals to arrest — extra crimes being dedicated. However the police are additionally extra targeted on making gun arrests. A brand new model of the division’s contentious anticrime unit has been reinstated, however that doesn’t clarify most of it.
What we’re studying
METROPOLITAN diary
Coleslaw
Expensive Diary:
Early one sunny Saturday in 1975, my good friend Beth and I climbed the steps to the elevated tracks in Far Rockaway and caught the A.
The prepare bumped and rumbled alongside the seaside roads, into Brooklyn after which by means of the tunnel into Manhattan. The lights within the automotive flickered because the prepare screeched into every cease alongside the best way.
At Washington Sq., we jumped off, climbed the steps to the road and emerged into the brilliant daylight of a gorgeous fall day.
We wandered by means of Greenwich Village, stopping at retailers the place youngsters only a few years older and much hipper than us oversaw considerable inventories of artwork posters, handcrafted jewellery, T-shirts and a broad assortment of different, fantastically random objects.
The profusion of products was past thrilling to us. We drank within the sights and sounds, flapped enthusiastically over a couple of small purchases and tried our greatest to tune into the tradition surrounding us.
To economize, every of us had introduced a sandwich alongside. At one level, we discovered a facet avenue. We sat on a curb between two parked automobiles and had our picnic.
Beth’s sandwich had coleslaw on it, one thing I had by no means thought so as to add. It created a seismic shift in how I thought of meals.
Later, we caught the A, ensuring we bought dwelling earlier than darkish.
— June Holder
Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Ship submissions right here and learn extra Metropolitan Diary right here.
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New York
Trump Tries to Move Hush-Money Case to Federal Court Before Sentencing
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Former President Donald J. Trump sought to move his Manhattan criminal case into federal court on Thursday, filing the unusual request three months after he was convicted in state court.
The long-shot bid marks Mr. Trump’s latest effort to stave off his sentencing in state court in his hush-money trial, in which he was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal.
He is scheduled to receive his punishment on Sept. 18, just seven weeks before Election Day, when he will square off against Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
“The ongoing proceedings will continue to cause direct and irreparable harm to President Trump — the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election — and voters located far beyond Manhattan,” Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, wrote in the filing.
Their filing came even as the Trump legal team is awaiting the result of a separate effort to postpone the sentencing; it opened a second front that could complicate the first.
On Aug. 15, Mr. Trump asked the state court judge who presided over the trial, Juan M. Merchan, to delay the sentencing until after Election Day. Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued that they needed more time to challenge his conviction on the basis of a recent Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity for official acts.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which won the conviction of Mr. Trump on May 30, has argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling has “no bearing” on their case, which centers on Mr. Trump’s cover- up of a sex scandal involving a porn star. But the Manhattan prosecutors deferred to the judge on whether to delay the sentencing, leaving the door open for Justice Merchan to punt until after the election.
Justice Merchan was expected to rule on the delay request next week, and it is unclear whether Mr. Trump’s federal petition would disrupt that. In the federal filing, the former president’s lawyers asked a judge to find that Justice Merchan was barred by law from sentencing Mr. Trump while their attempt to move the case was underway.
It seemed possible that effort might backfire. If the federal judge does not grant the lawyers’ request, they will have further alienated Justice Merchan as he prepares to sentence their client. Mr. Trump faces up to four years in prison, though he could receive a shorter sentence, or merely probation.
There are signs the federal judge might be skeptical. Mr. Trump already tried — and failed — to move the case to federal court. Last year, soon after the former president was indicted, he asked the same federal judge to remove the case from Justice Merchan, arguing that it concerned official acts as president.
The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, rejected that argument.
“The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely personal item of the president — a cover-up of an embarrassing event,” Judge Hellerstein wrote in an opinion last year. “Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a president’s official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the president’s official duties.”
It is unclear how soon Judge Hellerstein might take up Thursday’s request, or whether he will hold a hearing to entertain it. In their filing, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cast aspersions on the New York State court system, saying its procedures had “proven inadequate” to protect federal interests and, if allowed to continue, would “result in further irreparable harm to President Trump.”
The unorthodox filing suggested that Mr. Trump’s lawyers are likely to make any and every attempt they can to delay the sentencing, even if Judge Hellerstein balks.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
The filing on Thursday captured two of Mr. Trump’s favorite legal strategies: delay, and attacks on Justice Merchan.
The former president has on three occasions sought to oust Justice Merchan from the case, claiming he is biased, and lobbing personal attacks at the judge’s daughter, who is a Democratic political consultant. The judge has rejected each request and assailed the claims as “rife with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims.”
New York
Video: Heavy Downpour Floods New York City Streets
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Senator Menendez’s Resignation Letter
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ROBERT MENENDEZ
NEW JERSEY
COMMITTEES:
BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN
AFFAIRS
FINANCE
FOREIGN RELATIONS
The Honorable Phil Murphy
Governor of New Jersey
Office of the Governor
Trenton, N.J. 08625
Dear Governor Murphy,
United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3005
July 23, 2024
528 SENATE HART OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
210 HUDSON STREET
HARBORSIDE 3, SUITE #1000
JERSEY CITY, NJ 07311
(973) 645-3030
208 WHITE HORSE PIKE
SUITE 18-19
BARRINGTON, NJ 08007
(856) 757-5353
This is to advise you that I will be resigning from my office as the United States Senator from
New Jersey, effective on the close of business on August 20, 2024.
This will give time for my staff to transition to other possibilities, transfer constituent files that
are pending, allow for an orderly process to choose an interim replacement, and for me to close
out my Senate affairs.
While I fully intend to appeal the jury’s verdict, all the way and including to the Supreme Court,
I do not want the Senate to be involved in a lengthy process that will detract from its important
work. Furthermore, I cannot preserve my rights upon a successful appeal, because factual matters
before the ethics committee are not privileged. This is evidenced by the Committee’s Staff
Director and Chief Counsel being called to testify at my trial.
I am proud of the many accomplishments I’ve had on behalf of New Jersey, such as leading the
federal effort for Superstorm Sandy recovery, preserving and funding Gateway and leading the
federal efforts to help save our hospitals, State and municipalities, as well as New Jersey families
through a once in a century COVID pandemic. These successes led you, Governor, to call me the
“Indispensable Senator.”
I thank the citizens of New Jersey for the extraordinary privilege of representing them in the
United States Senate.
Sincerely,
Pabet Menang.
Robert Menendez
United States Senator
New Jersey
cc: The Honorable Kamala Harris, President of the Senate
The Honorable Ann Berry, Secretary of the Senate
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