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/PRNewswire/ -- Today, thirteen mayors are being recognized for their efforts to address the climate crisis as part of the 2021 Mayors Climate Protection...

Mayors from 11 New York cities have called on leadership in the state legislature to enact a stricter gun law in the state. The letter, addressed to State Senate leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, urges the leaders to take action and pass a law that would hold “bad actors” in the gun industry accountable. The letter states New York neighborhoods suffer greatly as a result of gun violence with an average of 3,400 people shot and killed or wounded by gunfire each year. The letter also claims gun violence costs the state $5.9 Billion a year, $321 Million of that...

Westchester DA investigating assault on Korean woman as hate crime News 12 Staff Updated on:Mar 13, 2021, 12:49pm EST The assault of an 83-year-old Korean woman in White Plains is under investigation by the Westchester District Attorney's Office. Police say Nancy Toh was at the intersection of Westchester Avenue and Bloomingdale Road Tuesday evening when a homeless man named Glenmore Nembhard suddenly attacked her. Police say he spit on Toh and punched her in the face, causing her to fall and hit her head on the ground. The impact apparently caused her to blackout. When she regained her sense...

Posting less, posting more, and tired of it all Vox.com 3/1/2021 Rani Molla © Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images A selfie in front of artist Jonas Neve’s mural of Sen. Bernie Sanders in Culver City, California, on January 24. Mona, a tech executive in Boston, stopped using Facebook during the pandemic. She felt the posts she was seeing were incongruous with what was happening in the outside world. “‘Look at me doing my Peloton workout’ or ‘Look at me, I got in shape,’” she mimicked. “Do you realize half a million peopled died?” said Mona, who asked us not...