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Gov. Hochul on Friday signed into law a bill that provides a legal shield for licensed New York medical care providers who send abortion pills to states where abortion is banned. Chastising lawmakers in other states who have sought to limit abortion medication access as “extremists,” Hochul said New York State would refuse to assist out-of-state authorities in the prosecution of New York

Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered an emergency expansion of the state’s polio vaccination efforts Friday after scientists detected the crippling and potentially deadly virus in Long Island wastewater.

The latest test results, announced on Friday, add Nassau County to the list of locales on alert for the potential spread of the crippling disease amid a resurgence enabled by low vaccination rates

New York State Police questioned a person of interest who made threats of a mass shooting and other threats of violence against Jewish students at Cornell University in Ithaca. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and a Cornell spokesperson said Tuesday that a suspect was in custody but did not say if an arrest was made. "Law enforcement has identified a person of interest in relation to threats of a

An independent party will review antisemitism policies at the City University of New York, the nation's largest urban public university system, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday, as protests about the war between Israel and Hamas roil college campuses across the country. Hochul, a Democrat, said the review will assess how the college system handles antisemitism complaints and will make