New York Headlines

• Connecticut EMT accused of tossing Molotov cocktails at four ambulance facilities

  (by Kenneth Garger for The New York Post 4 hours ago)
  An emergency medical worker in Connecticut was arrested after allegedly using Molotov cocktails to set fires at four ambulance facilities on Saturday, police said. Richard White, 37, was busted in Pennsylvania following his alleged spree against EMS agencies in Meriden, Old Saybrook and Roxbury, NBC Connecticut reported. Police said White set blazes at all four...
  
  

• Council Speaker Corey Johnson running for city comptroller

  (by Carl Campanile for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  Council Speaker Corey Johnson is throwing his hat in the ring to run for city comptroller, The Post has learned. Johnson declined to run for mayor last fall after saying he was struggling with depression amid the coronavirus pandemic. But he has printed up petitions to gather voter signatures to qualify for ballot status to...
  
  

• Nancy Pelosi calls sexual harassment claims against Cuomo ‘credible’

  (by Tamar Lapin for The New York Post 8 hours ago)
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said the sexual harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are “credible.” The California representative joined a chorus of Democrats calling for a truly independent probe into the accusations of misconduct lodged against Cuomo by two of his former staffers. “The women who have come forward with serious...
  
  
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• Cuomo Investigation: Governor Attacked Over His ‘Independent Review’ of Sex Harassment Claims

  (by Jesse McKinley and Dana Rubinstein for The New York Times 8 hours ago)
  Governor Cuomo said on Sunday that he may have been “insensitive or too personal, and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended.”
  
  

• Cuomo Investigation: Governor Attacked Over His ‘Independent Review’ of Sex Harassment Claims

  (by Jesse McKinley and Dana Rubinstein for The New York Times 8 hours ago)
  Governor Cuomo said on Sunday that he may have been “insensitive or too personal, and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended.”
  
  

• Full Text of Cuomo’s Statement in Response to Harassment Accusations

  (by for The New York Times 9 hours ago)
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a statement on Sunday in response to accusations of sexual harassment.
  

• He Won a Varsity Letter at 16. He Finally Got It When He Was 79.

  (by Carol Pogash for The New York Times 1 day ago)
  Tom Ammiano, a well-known gay leader in San Francisco, believed his effeminate mannerisms led his New Jersey high school to deny him his letter.
  
  

• Second Former Aide Accuses Cuomo of Sexual Harassment

  (by Jesse McKinley for The New York Times 1 day, 8 hours ago)
  The woman, 25, said that when they were alone in his office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked if she “had ever been with an older man.”
  
  

• Second Former Aide Accuses Cuomo of Sexual Harassment

  (by Jesse McKinley for The New York Times 1 day, 8 hours ago)
  The woman, 25, said that when they were alone in his office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked if she “had ever been with an older man.”
  
  

• Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State

  (by Ben Mauk for The New Yorker 2 days, 23 hours ago)
  Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.
  

• The Good, the Bad, and the Embarrassing in America’s COVID-19 Response

  (by Benjamin Wallace-Wells for The New Yorker 3 days, 23 hours ago)
  Were Americans too unruly, or did elected officials expect too little of them?
  

• Why Won’t Amnesty International Call Alexey Navalny a Prisoner of Conscience?

  (by Masha Gessen for The New Yorker 4 days, 11 hours ago)
  The Russian regime has used both its vast media infrastructure and its judicial system to vilify its opponents.