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Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue unveiled in Brooklyn honors Women s History Month, 88th birthday Dustin Barnes, USA TODAY
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A statue of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was erected in her hometown of Brooklyn Friday morning, just three days before her 88th birthday.
The unveiling also comes in the middle of Women s History Month as another way to honor Ginsburg s legacy and her fight for women s rights.
The statue of Ginsburg was installed in downtown Brooklyn outside a multi-use development called City Point.
Ginsburg died Sept. 18, 2020, following her announcement earlier in July that she suffered a recurrence of cancer and that lesions had been found on her liver. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009 and 2019, as well as lung cancer in 2018 and colon cancer in 1999.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could spend nearly seven years in prison after a federal judge sentenced him Wednesday to three and one-half more years, rejecting his appeal for no additional time and rebuking him for his crimes and years of lies. Gus Rosendale reports. attorney Dec 5, 2018
Julie Globus is now owning the name: LostMessiah. For two and a half years, the Rockland County resident a wife, mother and attorney wrote an anonymous blog under that name. The blog’s stated purpose: “To uncover crimes, misdeeds and abuses within segments of the Jewish community in the hopes of effectuating change.”
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The family of a man shot and killed by police during a traffic stop in the Bronx is demanding answers because they don’t accept the police account of what happened, and for the bodycam footage be released. Their lawyer is also asking for the drugs allegedly found at the scene be shown. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports. driver Oct 18, 2019
A New York City police officer has died after being shot in the Bronx early Wednesday in what police described as an “unprovoked attack.” The officer, identified as 48-year-old Miosotis Familia, was sitting in a marked NYPD command vehicle in Fordham around 12:30 a.m. when she was shot, Commissioner James P. O’Neill said at a Wednesday morning news conference. O’Neill. Jul 5, 2017