NYU Langone files plans to complete Long Island Community Hospital merger NYU Langone is asking state officials to greenlight the completion of its merger with Long Island Community Hospital in Suffolk County, finalizing a deal that’s been in the works for the last three ... 05/5/2024 - 6:33 pm | View Link
Ryan Clifford, Cristin Delaney-Guille run to Long Island Marathon wins Clifford, a 27-year-old Seaford native and Westbury resident, has now won every marathon he has ever run, both this year. Delaney-Guille, a 43-year-old Floral Park native and Long Beach resident, has ... 05/5/2024 - 4:47 pm | View Link
Family's Long Island Marathon weekend a race for others' lives For one family, the Long Island Marathon weekend meant running and raising money for a nonprofit that helps in the caring of children with life-threatening illnesses. 05/5/2024 - 12:20 pm | View Link
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Long Island Expressway Full Closures Planned In Huntington Drivers were warned of possible delays and reminded that fines are doubled for speeding in a work zone.You can find the latest travel information by calling 511 or visiting 511ny.org. 05/4/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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