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NYSUT President Melinda J. Person issued the following statement in response to Thursday's Orange County bus crash. The bus was carrying students and educators from the Farmingdale school district.

The state Health Department has asked a Nassau judge to appoint an emergency caretaker to operate Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation in Woodbury, Long Island's second-largest nursing home, as the state seeks to revoke its operating permit, citing conditions that are “danger

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — President Joe Biden grabbed a bullhorn on the picket line Tuesday and urged striking auto workers to “stick with it” in an unparalleled show of support for organized labor by a modern president.

WASHINGTON — John Hubert, an airport security officer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, recalls helping fellow Transportation Security Administration workers get essentials from food banks when they worked without pay during the last government shutdown.

“We're not going to keep waiting around forever while they drag this out ... and we’re not messing around," Fain said in announcing the noon Eastern time Friday deadline for escalating the strike unless there is “serious progress” in the talks.

Today’s calamity, global climate change, should have special resonance for Long Island. Our trademark sea-splashed geography and low-lying beach topography place Nassau and Suffolk in the path of rising sea levels.