Newsday's Mark Chiusano joined 89-year-old Joan Rauch as she got the second dose of her COVID-19 shot. The retired guidance counselor who now lives at a continuing care retirement community in Port Washington talked about her family and how eager she is to travel again once this is all over. 


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His response to an antisemitic chant wasn't good enough.

A bob and weave by Mayor Mamdani fails

"I'm on a journey, I don't know where that path will end," Blakeman said.

An oath in Nassau, a mission in Albany

The protests have been unprecedented in scale.

U.S. lacks moral authority in Iranian dissidents' fight

It is capable of an astonishing variety of tasks.

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It's also easy to imagine how countries and companies could game the system.

The push for lower U.S. drug prices uses bad logic

The tariffs have hit small businesses and consumers particularly hard.

Cooling inflation doesn't mean tariffs were harmless

Higher reading and math test results are clouded by a decades-old issue.

Struggling districts need new approach

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Trump's broad and indiscriminate tariffs confound domestic manufacturing.

America's manufacturing renaissance is missing in action

In this contest of visions, I am rooting for the American leader in the Vatican.

The pope and the president offer competing Americanisms

Watching a young Islanders player emerge reminds us what first pulled us into sports.

Islanders' Schaefer gives us fans a rare joy

Seeing the tragedy, my mind conjured up the founder of modern policing.

ICE didn't use rational tactics with Renee Good

The numbers are all pointing in the right directions for the first year.

NYC congestion pricing working

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Trump pardon recipient with LI ties running for governor

Only a few people with access to Starlink internet have managed to send images.

Behind the blackout, Iran is drowning in blood

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'Save the whales' worked for decades, but now gray whales are starving

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