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NEW YORK — Coronavirus infection rates are surging in the city with more than 15% of all tests coming back positive on average in the past week, data from the Health Department shows — and it remains unclear what Mayor Eric Adams plans to do to address the pandemic resurgence.
While the weeklong test positivity average is at 15.4% citywide, there are pockets in every borough where the rate tops an alarming 20%, the data shows. COVID-19 hospitalizations are ticking up, too.
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One week after a shooting at a Fourth of July parade that left seven dead, the Chicago suburb of Highland Park held a moment of silence Monday morning to mark the exact time police say the first shot was fired. More than 100 people gathered and hugged each other in a downtown plaza for a tribute that began at 10:14 a.m. and lasted longer than the planned two minutes. Churches in the community along Lake Michigan tolled their bells seven times. The event was held not far from the building where a gunman fired dozens of shots from the roof along the parade route. A huge memorial of flowers and chairs holding photographs of the seven victims is now there.
Connecticut is boosting service along two Metro-North rail lines. It's a move that comes as ridership on the commuter railroad that serves Connecticut and New York moves closer to pre-pandemic levels. Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that six new express trains on the New Haven Line and seven new weekday trains on the Waterbury Branch Line had begun service. It marks a 47% increase in service on the Waterbury line, a 27-mile stretch that has undergone safety and infrastructure improvements. The president of the Connecticut Commuter Rail Council called it the biggest day ever for the Waterbury line.
A judge has declared many of Minnesota’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional, including the state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion. Ramsey County Judge Thomas Gilligan on Monday also struck down Minnesota’s requirements that only physicians can perform abortions, and that abortions after the first trimester must be performed in hospitals. Gilligan issued the ruling in a lawsuit from abortion rights groups that argued the restrictions were unconstitutional under a landmark 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling. Opponents of abortion rights are calling on Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison to appeal.
Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, interrupted President Joe Biden’s speech Monday during a White House event commemorating the new law aimed at reducing gun violence.
French lawmakers have failed to pass a no-confidence motion requested by a leftist coalition to symbolically mark their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s government and economic policies. It came as Macron's critics questioned his cozy relations with Uber after an international media investigation detailed those ties. The no-confidence motion won 146 votes, far short of the 289 needed to be valid. While many lawmakers are angry at Macron's policies, some opposition parties are also against the leftists and did not join them in the vote. Macron’s centrist alliance lost its parliamentary majority in last month’s election but still has the most seats in the National Assembly.
It's official: Lea Michele will soon star in "Funny Girl" on Broadway.
Nursing home trade associations say they have come to an agreement to boost staffing levels at the facilities along with legislation newly signed by Gov. Tom Wolf to boost aid to an industry wracked by COVID-19 and struggling with high staff turnover. Wolf on Monday signed legislation authorizing nearly $300 million a year in additional Medicaid reimbursements, or nearly 20% more. That followed nursing home trade associations working out a compromise on staffing levels with Wolf’s administration and a labor union. They say the money should help boost worker salaries, staffing levels and retention while stabilizing the facilities’ finances and improving the quality of care.
The chief judge of New York’s Court of Appeals announced Monday she will step down after more than six years presiding at the state’s highest court and overseeing the state court system. Judge Janet DiFiore said in a letter to her colleagues that she will step down at the end of August and “move on to the next chapter of my professional life.” DiFiore is 66. She did not elaborate on what she planned to do next. DiFiore had been the district attorney in suburban Westchester County in 2015 when she was nominated to the court by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters on Monday were racing to protect a grove of ancient sequoia trees from the 2,340-acre Washburn fire in Yosemite National Park in California.
The U.S. says it is still seeking the extradition of a Palestinian woman in Jordan convicted of aiding a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in 2001. But it declined to comment on a request from the family of one of the victims for a meeting with President Joe Biden when he visits Israel later this week. The family wants him to press Jordan, a close American ally, to send Ahlam Tamimi to the U.S. for trial. Tamimi was released by Israel in a 2011 prisoner swap with the Hamas militant group and sent to her native Jordan, where she lives freely. Jordan has rebuffed U.S. calls to extradite her.
Maisie Bramble is introduced early in "The Sea Beast" as a bit of a rule breaker.
David Ortiz made a Hall of Fame career out of staring down pitchers with the game on the line. Looking out at the Cooperstown crowd for his induction speech is a whole different story. The longtime Red Sox slugger says he is “freaking out” about it and can't wait for it to be over with. Ortiz was a 10-time All-Star who helped Boston win three World Series championships. He will be the 58th first-ballot Hall of Famer when he is inducted on July 24. He says all the walk-off hits were just part of being a ballplayer, but making a Hall of Fame induction speech isn't anything he ever expected.
Most Americans depend on cars to get around, but recent data shows purchasing a new vehicle may now be out of reach for average earners.
NEW YORK — Coronavirus infection rates are surging in the city with more than 15% of all tests coming back positive on average in the past week, data from the Health Department shows — and it remains unclear what Mayor Eric Adams plans to do to address the pandemic resurgence.
The Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche have promoted Joe Sakic to president of hockey operations. Sakic was the architect behind a team that captured its first title since 2001. The Hall of Fame forward-turned-front office executive was recently honored as the general manager of the year. The team also announced that assistant GM Chris MacFarland will now serve as the GM. Colorado capped its most successful regular season by dethroning two-time defending champion Tampa Bay in the final. The Avalanche closed out the series in six games and finished the postseason with a 16-4 mark.
A judge has consolidated hundreds of lawsuits alleging physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center more than two years after the first case was filed. David Meehan sued the state in January 2020. Since then, about 450 men and women have filed lawsuits alleging abuse by 150 staffers over six decades. The litigation has largely been on hold since 11 former youth workers were arrested last year, but a judge last week ordered the cases to be consolidated. The lawyer representing most of the victims filed a master complaint Friday and intends to file about 700 individual complaints in the next 30 days.
Two men charged in connection with what police have said was a thwarted Fourth of July mass shooting in Richmond, Virginia, have been ordered held without bond. Brief court hearings for the men Monday produced no new details about the alleged plot. Rolman Balcarcel and Julio Alvarado-Dubon were arrested on a charge of possession of a firearm by a non-U.S. citizen. Richmond police said they received a call from a concerned citizen indicating there was a shooting being planned on a July 4 celebration. Balcarcel’s attorney said he believes they came to the U.S. to work. He said he'd be "very surprised” if they were planning a mass shooting.
“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah chose to keep her drama on the TV screen, not in the courtroom, and has taken a plea deal in her telemarketing fraud case.
Serbia’s interior minister is advocating a “Serbian world” that would unite all Serbs living in the Balkans into a single state, rejecting a U.S. warning that such calls could lead to more tensions in the still-volatile region. He was responding Monday to a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade which said that such comments “are not in accordance with the Dayton (peace) Agreement and contradict Serbia’s integration into European structures.” The U.S.-sponsored peace agreement reached in 1995 ended a bloody Bosnian war that killed more than 100,000 people and left millions homeless. That war was also fueled by Bosnian Serb demands to hand over territory to Serbia.
The takeover of Sri Lanka's presidential residence and other official buildings was a dramatic turning point in monthslong protests that have shaken the country, and the ultimate push that forced the president to say he will resign. For months, demonstrators have camped outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office in the capital, demanding he quit for severely mismanaging the economy. Many have accused Rajapaksa and his powerful, dynastic family of corruption and policy blunders that tipped the island nation into its worst economic crisis. People’s patience has grown increasingly thin in recent months, with the crisis sparking shortages of fuel, medicine, food and cooking gas.
Don't worry about Florence Pugh's breasts, darling.
A member of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” has pleaded guilty to a fraud conspiracy charge that could result in a prison sentence of over 11 years. Jennifer Shah entered the plea Monday in Manhattan federal court. She signed a plea agreement with prosecutors that carries a recommended sentencing range of 11 to 14 years behind bars. She told a judge that beginning in 2012, she participated in a massive telemarketing fraud for nearly a decade that prosecutors say cheated thousands of individuals nationwide. She said that she knew what she was doing was wrong and that many people were harmed.
A former Olympic volleyball player says she was attacked in downtown Los Angeles when a man threw a metal object at her face in an assault that fractured multiple bones in her face and left one of her eyes swollen shut. Kim Glass was a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She posted several videos to Instagram where she talked about the incident. Los Angeles police confirmed the attack and a police spokesperson says a man was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Glass is a Los Angeles native and posted videos showing her injuries to her eye, nose and cheek.
Evander Kane's agent tells The Associated Press that the Oilers have granted him permission to negotiate with other NHL teams while talks continue with Edmonton. Elsewhere, an AP source says right wing Nicolas Aube-Kubel will become a free agent after being told the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche will not issue him a qualifying offer. The Columbus Blue Jackets also declined to make offers to defenseman Gabriel Carlsson and center Kevin Stenlund. Players not receiving qualifying offers are eligible to become unrestricted free agents.
Sure, it’s been a wild NASCAR Cup season, with seemingly everyone in the field capable of taking the checkered flag. Through all the chaos, one driver has emerged as the clear favorite. Chase Elliott is the guy everyone else is chasing. The 26-year-old became the first three-time winner in the Cup series with a thrilling victory at his home track this past weekend. He made a timely block on the final lap to fend off Corey LaJoie’s bid to become the most unlikely winner yet in a year filled with surprises.
Lea Michele has been tapped to step in and lead the Broadway revival of the beleaguered “Funny Girl" this fall. The announcement was made just hours after current star Beanie Feldstein revealed she was leaving the revival sooner than anticipated due to the show taking a “different direction.” The high-profile casting change represents another step toward a return to the spotlight and respectability for Michele after former “Glee” castmates in 2021 accused the actor of behavior that was interpreted as racist and bullying. Box office revenues have softened of late, with a slow decline since the Tony Awards in June.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida man was arrested over the weekend after trying to outrun deputies on a John Deere lawn mower, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Francine Niyonsaba has withdrawn from the world championships with a foot injury. The injury comes just as she looked to be a good bet for her first major medal in the 5,000 meters after being forced to switch to long-distance events by contentious testosterone rules. Niyonsaba says on Instagram she is almost fully recovered but has missed too much training. She says she is “extremely sorry” to withdraw. Niyonsaba is a former Olympic silver medalist in the 800 meters but was barred from that event by World Athletics regulations governing athletes with intersex conditions known as 46,XY differences in sex development. They are the same rules affecting Caster Semenya.
The missing 77 minutes between the start of the Robb Elementary School shooting and the police shooting of suspect Salvador Ramos could finally be a little clearer.
There’s no time like the present, and time heals all wounds (a stretch, but we’ll go with it), but time waits for no one — not even the bro-heavy, bitcoin-crazed, anti-government crowd that put the annual festival gathering known as Anarchapulco on the map. And not just the map of Mexico.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection won’t restore hours of operation to pre-pandemic levels at some entry ports in North Dakota, despite pressure from Gov. Doug Burgum. In a letter Friday to the agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Burgum said a reduction in hours at several North Dakota port crossings along the U.S.-Canadian border “causes significant hardship on the movement of citizens, goods and tourists between our two nations.” In a statement to The Associated Press, the agencies say longer opening hours cannot be justified because of the shrinking volume of traffic at the border crossings — a decline that began even before the pandemic.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been added to the new Broncos ownership group. Rob Walton announced the inclusion of Rice in a statement issued on behalf of the Walton-Penner family ownership group. The group agreed to buy the franchise from the Pat Bowlen Trust last month for a reported $4.65 billion. It’s pending approval by the NFL. Rice served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2005-09.
NEW YORK — Beanie Feldstein is taking an early bow.
A trial is set to begin this week in Colorado for the founder of a Pennsylvania dental franchise accused of killing his wife on an African safari six years ago and collecting nearly $5 million in insurance proceeds. Federal prosecutors allege that 67-year-old Lawrence “Larry” Rudolph, 67 killed his wife during a 2016 safari trip in Zambia. Rudolph's attorney say Bianca Rudolph's death was accidental and accuse prosecutors of relying on circumstantial evidence. He was a big game hunter and former head of an international safari club. The trial is in Colorado is in because several insurers tied to the payout were based here.
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Abortion rights are poised to come before Michigan voters in November after an abortion rights campaign turned in a record-breaking number of signatures for a ballot initiative. The signatures turned in Monday to the secretary of state’s office will still need to be validated before going forward. But the initiative, which would make abortion a constitutional right, will be a focus in battleground state's elections. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel have made abortion rights a centerpiece of their reelection campaigns. The push to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution comes after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and gave power to the states in decisions regarding abortion.
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