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New York City public school children head to their first day of class without masks.
A current research from the state well being division discovered that, as with adults, most youngsters hospitalized for or with Covid-19 had been unvaccinated. The report additionally discovered that youngsters aged 4 or youthful, who will not be eligible for coronavirus vaccines, had been overrepresented amongst all pediatric hospitalizations. Masks are nonetheless required in New York Metropolis for youngsters ages 2 to 4 in kindergarten and preschool lecture rooms.
The United Federation of Academics, which represents town’s public college educators, stated on Friday that it supported shifting to a system the place masks are non-compulsory. President Michael Mulgrew referred to as it “the accountable, considerate solution to make our subsequent transition.”
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Even so, the union harassed the significance of sustaining a sturdy in-school and take-home coronavirus testing program, to make sure that town, with a couple of million youngsters in its public faculties, remained “on the fitting path.”
Some mother and father, public well being specialists, and native officers have stated that it was too early to ease restrictions, and a few have urged youngsters and academics to proceed to put on masks.
With the statewide mandate gone, some districts started going maskless final week.
A sophisticated combination of feelings was on show on the Cynthia Jenkins Elementary Faculty within the Springfield Gardens neighborhood of Queens, the place about 11 p.c of the college’s college students are absolutely vaccinated.
Natalie Charles, the mom of a second-grader, Ethan Scarlett, stated that she was not totally snug with dropping masks. “That is what I informed him, it’s a must to hold the masks on,” she stated, including that her total household was vaccinated.
Ms. Charles questioned why the masks mandate was ending whereas faculties had been nonetheless testing college students. These contradictory alerts helped result in her determination, she stated.
A barely shy Ethan, 7, simply nodded whereas masked, agreeing together with his mom.
Sadef Ali Kully, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Adeel Hassan contributed reporting.
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Adams’s Former Chief Adviser and Her Son Charged With Corruption
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who resigned as Mayor Eric Adams’s chief adviser, and her son, Glenn D. Martin II, were charged with taking $100,000 in bribes from two businessmen in a quid-pro-quo scheme.
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We allege that Ingrid Lewis-Martin engaged in a long-running bribery, money laundering and conspiracy scheme by using her position and authority as the chief adviser of — chief adviser to the New York City mayor, the second-highest position in city government — to illegally influence city decisions in exchange for in excess of $100,000 in cash and other benefits for herself and her son, Glenn Martin II. We allege that real estate developers and business owners Raizada “Pinky” Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi paid for access and influence to the tune more than $100,000. Lewis-Martin acted as an on-call consultant for Vaid and Dwivedi, serving at their pleasure to resolve whatever issues they had with D.O.B. on their construction projects, and she did so without regard for security considerations and with utter and complete disregard for D.O.B.’s expertise and the public servants who work there.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE,
Defendant.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, ss.:
Original
AUSAS: Dominic A. Gentile,
Jun Xiang, Alexandra Messiter
24 MAG 4375
SEALED COMPLAINT
Violations of
18 U.S.C. §§ 2261A, 2261(b), 924(j), and
924(c)
COUNTY OF OFFENSE:
NEW YORK
GARY W. COBB, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a Special Agent with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and charges as follows:
COUNT ONE
(Stalking – Travel in Interstate Commerce)
1. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, traveled in interstate commerce with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place
under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, and in the
course of, and as a result of, such travel engaged in conduct that placed that person in reasonable
fear of the death of, and serious bodily injury to, that person, and in the course of engaging in such
conduct caused the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE, traveled from Georgia to New York,
New York for the purpose of stalking and killing Brian Thompson, and while in New York,
MANGIONE stalked and then shot and killed Thompson in the vicinity of West 54th Street and
Sixth Avenue.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2261A(1)(A) and 2261(b)(1).)
COUNT TWO
(Stalking – Use of Interstate Facilities)
2. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place under surveillance with intent
to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, used an electronic communication service and
electronic communication system of interstate commerce, and a facility of interstate or foreign
commerce, to engage in a course of conduct that placed that person in reasonable fear of the death
of and serious bodily injury to that person, and in the course of engaging in such conduct caused
the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE used a cellphone, interstate wires, interstate
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Luigi Mangione Is Charged With Murder
The first-degree murder charge branded him a terrorist over the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson.
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We are here to announce that Luigi Mangione, the defendant, is charged with one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree, including one count of murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism for the brazen, targeted and premeditated shooting of Brian Thompson, who, as was as you know, was the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare. This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation. It occurred in one of the most bustling parts of our city, threatening the safety of local residents and tourists alike, commuters and businesspeople just starting out on their day.
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