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Chinese hosts share the Lunar New Year with Olympic athletes, personnel and media

Chinese Lunar New Year is being celebrated even within the tightly controlled Beijing Winter Olympics bubble.

Lawmakers Push for $5 Billion Toward Universal Child Care Access in New York

“This is not a strong start, and does not come close to universal child care."

SRO Productions presents a musical based on a beloved children's book

A dilemma confronts a teenage girl in SRO Productions' performances of the musical based on the acclaimed children's book Tuck Everlasting. Director Scott…

Bowie, MD - November, 17: Family photo of Harry T. Moore, right, and wife Harriette, Ft. lauderdale, late 40's. Their daughter Evangeline Moore, 81, is still seeking justice for the murder of her parents in Florida by a bombing in 1951. (Photo by HANDOUT/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Remembering the man who 'laid the groundwork for the modern civil rights movement'

Seventy years ago, Florida civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, were killed in a bombing at their home on Christmas Day. No one was charged with their murders.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - DECEMBER 05: Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers leaves the field after a win against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 05, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images)

Tom Brady announces his retirement from the NFL

Widely regarded as the greatest football player of all time, the quarterback is finally calling an end to his history-making 22-year career.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul at a vaccination site in Johnson City. (V

Hochul says New York's health care workforce needs to grow by 20%

Governor Kathy Hochul said New York’s health care workforce was short-handed before the pandemic, and now it’s even worse.

FILE - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection says it has “no choice” but to move forward with contempt charges against former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt, sending a criminal referral to DOJ

The vote now leaves it up to the Justice Department to decide whether it will pursue criminal charges against the former White House chief of staff.

Incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell arrive for a ceremony in which she will be announced as the first ever female NYPD Commissioner, in Queensbridge Houses, Queens, New York City, U.S., December 15, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

New York mayor-elect taps Keechant Sewell to be the NYPD's first female commissioner

Keechant Sewell, who is originally from Queens, has worked in the Nassau County Police Department for 23 years, most recently as chief of detectives.

Colleges go back to drawing board — again — to fight COVID

Many colleges are telling students to prepare for another term of masking, testing and, if cases get bad, limits around social life.

St. Stanislaus HIgh School seniors Dayton Hall (L) and Jackson Mountjoy use calipers to measure a tiny baby oyster at the school's oyster garden in Bay St. Louis, Miss., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. The school is among more than 50 locations in Mississippi and more than 1,000 nationwide -- most of them private docks -- where people raise oysters to help build reefs off their states' coasts. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)

Volunteers are growing oyster gardens to help restore reefs

There are more than 1,000 oyster gardens in the coastal waters of Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama as volunteers try to restore a keystone of coastal ecosystems.

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