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      Inmates sue to watch solar eclipse after New York orders prison lockdown

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 13:07

    Lawsuit argues lockdown violates inmates’ rights by preventing them from taking part in religiously significant event

    Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse .

    The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the 8 April lockdown violates inmates’ constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event.

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      Trump gag order expanded after he attacks judge’s daughter on social media

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 01:57

    Move bars Trump from lashing out at family members of attorneys and court personnel in case tied to hush-money payments

    The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s forthcoming criminal trial in New York expanded an existing gag order on Monday, preventing the former president from making inflammatory comments about the judge’s family members, after they became the target of Trump’s personal attacks.

    The new protective order continues to allow Trump to rail against the judge and the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who charged Trump last year with falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal before the 2016 election.

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      Trump posts $175m bond in civil fraud case and averts asset seizures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 00:47


    Former president was found liable in February for fraudulently inflating his net worth to secure better loan and insurance terms

    Donald Trump posted a $175m bond in his New York civil fraud case on Monday, averting asset seizures by state authorities that could have hobbled the former US president’s business empire.

    Trump, to face Joe Biden in the November US election, was found liable on 16 February for fraudulently inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to secure better loan and insurance terms.

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      New York’s Easter parade and bonnet festival – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 09:00


    In a tradition dating back to the 1870s, New Yorkers dressed up in creative and whimsical Easter finery on Sunday to take part in the annual Easter parade and bonnet festival in Manhattan, with St Patrick’s Cathedral among the best vantage points

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      The birdwatcher fighting racism in public spaces - Podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 02:00

    A Central Park birdwatching incident went viral after Christian Cooper filmed a white woman threatening him. Now he is using his platform to share his passion for nature

    In May 2020, Christian Cooper was in an area called the Ramble in Central Park in New York. It’s a beautiful place, he says, and vital to the local bird population. So when he saw a dog off its leash, which is not permitted in the Ramble to protect the birds, he confronted the owner.

    The woman, angry that Cooper was filming, said she would call the police and say ‘an African American’ man was threatening her if he did not stop. The video went viral and the ugly incident sparked fury, coming as it did on the same day as the death of George Floyd.

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      ‘He knew it was wrong’: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison over FTX fraud

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March - 18:38

    Judge orders disgraced crypto mogul to forfeit $11bn in assets and says he showed no remorse for his crimes

    Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul who perpetrated one of the largest financial frauds in history, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11bn in assets. His lawyer reiterated a pledge to appeal the sentence the same day.

    The judge, Lewis Kaplan, issued the penalty in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday. Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was convicted of fraud and conspiracy to launder money late last year.

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      Sites of resistance: threatened African burial grounds around the world

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March - 11:00

    Too often cemeteries for enslaved people have been all but erased from history but how we remember matters

    For archeologists, what defines people as human is how we bury our dead. Imagine, then, a society that relegates a whole community as legally inhuman, enslaved with no rights. In spite of slavery, African burial grounds are tangible reminders of the enslaved and free – defying oppressive circumstances by reclaiming people’s humanity through acts of remembrance.

    When I first visited the British overseas territory of St Helena in 2018 and saw the burial ground in Rupert’s Valley, I was astounded by its size and significance. It unambiguously placed the island at the centre of the Middle Passage – tying the British empire to the institution of slavery in the US, the Caribbean, and globally.

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      Poliovirus detected in NYC sewage; health officials urge vaccination

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 12 August, 2022 - 18:54

    Transmission electron micrograph of poliovirus type 1.

    Enlarge / Transmission electron micrograph of poliovirus type 1. (credit: Getty | BSIP )

    Health officials in New York are ramping up efforts to boost polio vaccination rates in local children as yet more poliovirus has surfaced in sewage sampling.

    On Friday, August 12, New York state and New York City health officials announced that poliovirus had been detected for the first time in New York City sewage , suggesting local circulation of the virus.

    The finding follows similar detections in sewage sampling in nearby Rockland and Orange counties during May, June, and July. On July 21 , health officials in Rockland county reported a case of paralytic polio in a young, unvaccinated male resident who had not recently traveled out of the country. The man's symptoms began in June.

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      À New York, les stades et des salles de spectacle vont rouvrir sous conditions

      Le HuffPost avec AFP · news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Thursday, 11 February, 2021 - 09:36 · 1 minute

    Le Barclays Center, salle omnisports située dans l

    ÉTATS-UNIS - Une première, après presque un an de fermeture. Le gouverneur de l’Etat de New York a annoncé ce mercredi 10 février que les grandes salles de spectacle et les stades pourraient rouvrir avec une jauge de 10% de leur capacité d’accueil à partir du 23 février.

    Le seuil de 10% s’applique aux salles capables d’accueillir plus de 10.000 personnes , a précisé Andrew Cuomo , sans donner plus d’informations quant aux bâtiments de moindre capacité, qui resteront, a priori, fermés.

    Pour assister au spectacle ou à la rencontre sportive, les spectateurs devront présenter à l’entrée l’attestation d’un test PCR négatif datant de moins de 72 heures et se faire prendre la température. Une fois dans la salle, ils devront porter un masque et respecter les règles de distanciation physique.

    Le Barclays Center, première salle à rouvrir

    Les premiers à ouvrir le bal seront, dès le 23 février, le Barclays Center, salle qui peut accueillir 17.700 spectateurs en configuration basket, et le légendaire Madison Square Garden, dont la jauge ordinaire est d’environ 19.800 places.

    À Brooklyn, l’équipe de la ligue professionnelle NBA des Brooklyn Nets aura l’autorisation d’accueillir du public pour son match contre les Sacramento Kings, tandis qu’à Manhattan, les Knicks recevront les Golden State Warriors.

    Ce sera la première fois depuis 352 jours que Nets et Knicks évolueront devant leurs spectateurs. Brooklyn et New York ont joué plusieurs fois à domicile cette saison, mais toujours à huis clos.

    Dans un message posté mercredi sur Twitter, les New York Rangers, équipe de la ligue de hockey NHL qui évolue également au Madison Square Garden, ont annoncé qu’ils recommenceraient à accueillir des spectateurs à compter du match du 26 février contre les Boston Bruins.

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