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May 16, 2024: Morning Headlines
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12 minutes
Released:
May 16, 2024
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Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: Lawyers for New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez tell jurors they can explain the discovery of gold bars, $400,000, and a Mercedes Benz during the raid on his home. Meanwhile, the Palestinian-American Medical Association reports that approximately 20 American health workers are stranded at a Gaza hospital after Israel closed the Rafah border crossing. In other news, the New York City Fire Museum in Manhattan remains indefinitely closed after an emergency evacuation last weekend. Plus, as Election Day nears, WNYC is turning metro area laundromats into hubs of civic dialogue. WNYC's George Bodarky shares what he’s been hearing from people between wash cycles.
Released:
May 16, 2024
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
August 18, 2023: Midday News: Mayor Eric Adams is proposing to house migrants in the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. It's the same facility where convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life. Meanwhile, police are investigating a potential hate crime in Borough Park after a man had his yarmulke snatched off his head. And in the latest installment of our series "I Tried It", WNYC's Ramsey Khalifeh dives into the pulsating beats of Basement, a much-revered techno club in Queens. by NYC NOW