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Longtime Senator, Former VP Candidate Joe Lieberman Dies At Age 82 Longtime Senator, Former VP Candidate Joe Lieberman Dies At Age 82
Longtime Senator, Former VP Candidate Joe Lieberman Dies At Age 82 Joe Lieberman, who represented Connecticut in the US Senate for more than two decades and ran alongside Al Gore during his historically unsuccessful bid for the White House in 2000, has died at the age of 82. The Democrat-turned-Independent died Wednesday, March 27, in New York after suffering complications from a fall, according to NBC News. "Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest," the outlet quoted his family as saying. News of his death sparked a flood of tributes from across the political spectrum. A…
Rabbi Linked To Westchester Lawyer Tests Positive For Coronavirus Rabbi Linked To Westchester Lawyer Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Rabbi Linked To Westchester Lawyer Tests Positive For Coronavirus A Westchester County rabbi who has been in self-quarantine due to his connection with a New Rochelle lawyer hospitalized with the novel coronavirus has tested positive for the disease. Dr. Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, confirmed on Friday, March 6 that Reuven Fink, rabbi of the Young Israel of New Rochelle who also teaches two college classes in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, tested positive. Fink leads the congregation of the 50-year-old lawyer from New Rochelle who is being treated for the virus and which has spread to 18 people in Westchester connected t…
1,000 Who May Have Been Exposed To Coronavirus Are Quarantining In Westchester 1,000 Who May Have Been Exposed To Coronavirus Are Quarantining In Westchester
1,000 Who May Have Been Exposed To Coronavirus Are Quarantining In Westchester Click here for an updated story: Five New Cases Of Coronavirus Confirmed In Westchester, Bringing Total To 10 In County About  1,000 people in Westchester County who may have been exposed to the coronavirus are being quarantined or self-quarantined to combat the rapid spread of coronavirus after a 50-year-old attorney from New Rochelle was hospitalized with the virus. The quarantines are scheduled to last 14 days, and health department officials are monitoring those involved to make sure they are observing the quarantine. At a press briefing in White Plains on Wednesday afternoon…