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New Jersey will allow schools to host outdoor in-person graduation ceremonies this summer, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday. Murphy said that starting July 6, commencement events can be held for the Class of 2020 — as long as they comply with social distancing rules. “Our goal is to give our students the sendoffs they richly...

The number of new coronavirus hospitalizations across New York state has dropped to the lowest level since tracking began at the pandemic’s onset, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, while the daily death toll also continued its steady decline. “[The] number of new COVID cases [is] down to the lowest level since this ever started, just...

The woman shown in a now-viral video calling the cops on a black man in Central Park after he asked her to keep her dog on a leash should be permanently banned from the green space, a neighborhood activist said Tuesday. Michael Fischer, president of the Central Park Civic Association, called Amy Cooper’s actions in...

A 37-year-old man who confronted a group of hooligans jumping on his car in Bedford-Stuyvesant wound up with a bullet in the chest, cops said.

"With all due respect to the president, the president left the impression on Friday that any and all religious services should start again," de Blasio said Tuesday during his first press briefing since Trump's announcement.

An off-duty NYPD cop was busted in Orange County for shoplifting at a Walmart, police said Tuesday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Trump will meet Wednesday at the White House to discuss what role a fierce focus on revitalizing New York’s infrastructure can have in jump-starting the state’s coronavirus-battered economy. “This is one of the things I want to talk to the president about,” Cuomo said during his Tuesday press briefing at...

Well this is going to sound familiar … The winner of the state’s “wear a mask” video contest, announced Tuesday by one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daughter’s, is a play on an ad slogan dating back to when Mariah Kennedy Cuomo’s dad was still a teenager. The most votes were cast for the “We Love...

Well, now it’s official! Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is “cool,” noted tastemaker Gov. Andrew Cuomo decreed Tuesday. “This is almost a point of cultural communication,” said Cuomo, who entered his press briefing at the newly reopened New York Stock Exchange sporting a standard, light-blue medical mask. “Wearing a mask...

A 64-year-old woman who was left in a vegetative state following a vicious attack and rape in East Harlem is not expected to recover, The Post has learned.