New York Today

This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. With measles cases on the rise in the United States, public health experts in New York are encouraging vaccination against the highly contagious virus. Measles spreads easily and can lead to serious complications, or death, among those who are […]

Federal authorities’ arrest this weekend of a green card-holding former graduate student at his Columbia University-supported apartment — evidently for his public role in pro-Palestine or anti-Israel campus protests — exposed the wide rift the issue has opened between Democratic mayoral candidates in New York City. Comptroller Brad Lander, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Assemblymember