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NYC reverses course, says COVID vax no longer required for proms
The Department of Education says it has come to a point where events like proms can be held safely.
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Dick Brennan joined CBS Bews New York in 2012 as an anchor and reporter.
Brennan previously worked as an anchor/reporter at Fox 5 in New York.
He is an Emmy-award winning journalist who has spent years following politics in New York. Brennan has also covered national conventions and campaigns, traveled to the Vatican to chronicle Papal transitions, and gone to the Middle East to report on continuing conflicts.
Brennan grew up in Queens and graduated from Fordham University in the Bronx.
He has played the role of a reporter in several television shows, including episodes of "Sex and the City" and "24."
Brennan lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.
The Department of Education says it has come to a point where events like proms can be held safely.
Letitia James announced a plan to send $50 million in state funds to abortion providers across New York.
New data from the White House indicates 100 million Americans could get infected during a fall and winter COVID surge.
The high court ruled it's OK to exclude U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico from the Supplemental Security Income program.
Many in the Garden State have been waiting a long time to legally buy weed.
In almost every state, the old laws about marijuana are being rewritten.
The Transportation Security Administration will no longer enforce face coverings in airports and on planes.
Just because Monday is the deadline for filing your returns, it doesn't mean the IRS is ready to handle the workload.
New York has licensed 52 suppliers to begin growing product on farms.
The NYPD, the FBI and the ATF worked around the clock for 30 hours to bring the 62-year-old into custody after Tuesday's mass shooting. James will face terror-related charges.
The deadly stabbing happened minutes after a celebration of Mount Vernon's state champion basketball team.
The 29-year-old mother says the boy went out a window that had an air conditioner in it, but no window guard.
Prosecutors say he preyed on his young victims' insecurities, threatening and extorting them out of thousands of dollars.
Some officials are urging New Yorkers to get another booster, and the city's controversial mask mandate for kids under five years old, which was set to be lifted Monday, is staying in place.
New York's Democrat-controlled legislature has been ordered to redraw them.