New York Headlines

• Israeli-Palestinian Strife Widens as Frantic Calls for Calm Go Unheeded

  (by Vivian Yee for The New York Times 47 minutes ago)
  While Israel and Hamas signaled willingness to consider a cease-fire, worries grew about further fracturing in one of the Middle East’s most intractable struggles.
  
  

• $250K legal contract for Cuomo impeachment probe isn’t nearly enough, critics say

  (by Bernadette Hogan, Bruce Golding for The New York Post an hour ago)
  The state Assembly has so far allocated just $250,000 for its sprawling impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo -- enough for barely three weeks of full-time work by its team of outside lawyers, according to a contract made public Friday.
  
  

• Scores Dead as Violence Rocks Gaza, Israel and West Bank

  (by The New York Times for The New York Times an hour ago)
  Israeli forces bombarded Gaza with artillery. The conflict “will continue as long as it takes,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Here’s the latest on the crisis.
  
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• A Press Corps Deceived, and the Gaza Invasion That Wasn’t

  (by David M. Halbfinger for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  A spokesman led the international media to believe that Israeli forces had entered Gaza. They hadn’t. But the army wanted Hamas to think they had.
  
  

• N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Keep Focus on Crime After a Feisty Debate

  (by Andy Newman and Jonah E. Bromwich for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Back on the campaign trail, the leading Democrats traded barbs over their competing visions for public safety.
  
  

• Fight over Gov. Cuomo ended Elise Stefanik and Melissa DeRosa’s 20-year friendship

  (by Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile, Bruce Golding for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  Rep. Elise Stefanik and Gov. Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa attended Albany Academy for Girls together and were on the student council. A call last year ended their friendship.
  
  

• Cuomo, de Blasio’s refusal to adopt new CDC mask guidance sparks confusion

  (by Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile, Steven Nelson, Julia Marsh, Natalie O'Neill for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  The New York lawmakers said they need more time to review the new guidelines.
  
  

• Losers, Lovers, Strivers: The 60-Second Novelist Is Ready to Listen

  (by Dan Hurley for The New York Times 15 hours ago)
  After a year of isolation, a writer of speedy life stories takes to the street to commune with strangers again, plying the form he came up with nearly 40 years ago.
  
  

• Why It’s So Important That Twelve-Year-Olds Can Now Get a COVID-19 Vaccine

  (by Amy Davidson Sorkin for The New Yorker 1 day, 2 hours ago)
  We are in a pandemic from which, as much as one might wish it, children have never been exempt.
  

• Somebody Should Tell Kevin McCarthy That Trump Is Still Lying About the 2020 Election

  (by Susan B. Glasser for The New Yorker 1 day, 2 hours ago)
  What the House Minority Leader’s role in ousting Liz Cheney tells us about the troubled future of the Republic.
  

• The Rise of the Thielists

  (by Benjamin Wallace-Wells for The New Yorker 1 day, 3 hours ago)
  Has the Republican Party found its post-Trump ideology?
  

• Reimagining the Justice System, From Inside the Mayor’s Office

  (by Ted Alcorn for The New York Times 1 day, 16 hours ago)
  Eric Cumberbatch has been on a mission to curb violence through community outreach.