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The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, said on Wednesday that he intends to remain in office and will not resign in the wake of sexual assault allegations. In his first public appearance since the allegations surfaced, Cuomo offered an apology and said that he had learned "an important lesson" about his behavior around women. "I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional and I truly and deeply apologize for it," he said. Cuomo said that he would fully cooperate with an investigation into the matter by New York's attorney general. While the governor said he was embarrassed by his behavior, that his actions were unintentional and he would "learn" from the incident. He acknowledged that it was customary for him to hug and kiss people when he met them. He added that he hadn't touched anyone inappropriately. He addressed calls for his resignation and said that he wouldn't step aside. "I wasn't elected by politicians, I was elected … [Read more...] about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refuses to step down despite sexual harassment claims

With his administration already facing an investigation over claims it withheld data on COVID-related nursing home deaths, New York governor Andrew Cuomo 's fight for his political future got even tougher after a third woman accused him of making unwanted sexual advances. Cuomo, 63, who had brandished a national image that he was leading his state through the coronavirus pandemic, is now under scrutiny from the Democratic Party for allegedly hiding the real number of COVID-related deaths in state care homes. New York state attorney general, Letitia James, reported that Cuomo's administration had undercounted COVID-related deaths of state nursing home residents by the thousands. The New York Post reported that one of Cuomo's aides, Melissa DeRosa, admitted underreporting the death tolls to prevent the Justice Department (DOJ) from going after the governor's administration. Meanwhile, Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim, who has spearheaded the nursing homes claims and has … [Read more...] about Andrew Cuomo: The Allegations Against New York’s Governor so Far

NEW YORK: The New York Times has announced it will no longer include daily political cartoons in its international edition, weeks after apologising for publishing a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deemed anti-Semitic. The cartoon, published in April, depicted Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind Donald Trump - who was wearing a kippah, or a Jewish skullcap. It prompted an uproar within the Jewish community, with Israel's ambassador to the UN likening the drawing to the content of Nazi propaganda tabloid Der Sturmer. Editor James Bennet said the paper had planned for a year to cease running political cartoons in the international print version of the Times, in line with the US edition. The decision will come into effect on Jul 1, Bennet said in a Monday (Jun 10) statement. Patrick Chappatte, one of the paper's leading cartoonists, said the decision was directly related to the Netanyahu cartoon. He condemned … [Read more...] about New York Times to cease political cartoons after anti-Semitism row

One morning last month, still reeling from a weekend stuffed with international travelling on a private jet and a DJ gig at Coachella , fashion designer Virgil Abloh strode into the whirring basement workshop at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in New York . A team of collaborators quickly surrounded him on all sides, each with a notebook or laptop, as he investigated a metallic clothing rack with equal-parts curiosity and skepticism. READ > Louis Vuitton's Virgil Abloh can do no wrong – and that might be his superpower “I’d say this is a good start,” Abloh, the artistic director of menswear for Louis Vuitton and creator of the popular streetwear label Off-White , said while surveying the custom-numbered and monogrammed prototype. It was an object he had workshopped with the museum group over months: Eight racks would display clothing he’d designed over his career, and thread together the narrative for Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, the 38-year-old … [Read more...] about A three-month exhibition on the rise of Virgil Abloh opens in New York

The New York Times is imploding. Or, more precisely, it is engaged in an act of auto-cannibalization whereby reporters at the top of their fields are being summarily dispatched by an in-house mob that claims that the work of these colleagues is a threat to their personal safety. The latest target was Donald McNeil Jr., who started as a copy boy at the paper in 1976 and, until January 28, was the Times ' star COVID-19 reporter. That career came crashing down when the Daily Beast ran an article on January 28 accusing McNeil of "Using 'N-Word,' Making Other Racist Comments," as the headline declared. The reporter reached out to McNeil for comment, but McNeil was busy covering the pandemic, and didn't notice their email. When he did, his first reaction was to tell the Daily Beast "to f**k off," according to his account of the affair, published on Monday in Medium . His second impulse was to explain: On a trip to Peru in 2019, while working as an expert guide for a Times … [Read more...] about Kids and Cowards: What Really Happened to Donald McNeil at the New York Times