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Nurses make their calls for clear on the picket line exterior Mount Sinai on Jan. 12, 2026. Photograph by Dean Moses The biggest nurses strike in NYC historical past entered its twenty fourth day on Wednesday with almost 15,000 caretakers nonetheless off the job. Members of the NYC Council’s Progressive Caucus, together with Tiffany Cabán, Alexa Avilés and Sandy Nurse, supported the nurses on the picket line exterior NewYork-Presbyterian, one of many three non-public hospitals concerned within the strike, of their combat for safer staffing. Staffing requirements have been a sticking level in contract negotiations between the nurses’ union and…
Candidate Adrienne Adams speaks throughout a Democratic mayoral main debate, June 4, 2025, in New York, U.S. Yuki Iwamura/Pool by way of REUTERS Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday introduced she has chosen former Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as her operating mate, deciding on the Queens Democrat to function New York’s subsequent lieutenant governor. Adams, a reasonable Democrat, beforehand represented components of southeast Queens, an space with a large Black middle-class voters. She served on the Metropolis Council from 2017 by way of the tip of 2025, leaving workplace attributable to time period limits. She made a late bid to…