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More hospitals are requiring masks as flu and COVID-19 cases surge

January 4 | Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer

More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses. While many experts say this season likely won’t prove to be as deadly as some other recent winters, it still could mean hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and many […]

A “lion’s den” at the Lions Gate: Day to night in Sara D. Roosevelt Park

January 3 | Ella Napack

Sara D. Roosevelt Park, a stretch of green in Chinatown, has seen an increase in violence and illicit drug use in the past two years. The park began to draw city-wide attention in February of 2022, when a man with mental illness followed 35-year-old Christina Yuna Lee home from the park and stabbed her to […]

Prosecutors drop charges against woman who accused Jonathan Majors the day after her arrest

October 26 | Jake Offenhartz, AP

Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday dropped all charges against a woman who accused the movie star Jonathan Majors of assault, less than a day after she was arrested by New York City police following his allegation that she initiated the physical confrontation. Grace Jabbari was briefly put under arrest at a New York City police station […]