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• New York Today: Offbeat Museums

  • Derfner Judaica Museum and the Art Collection, the BronxIt might be too cold to visit the sculpture garden overlooking the Hudson here, but the collection of Jewish ceremonial artifacts is all indoors.What are the lesser-known museums you like? Tell us about them in the comments.Here’s what else is happening:Weather A cold, windy day is in the forecast. Today’s high: 52.On Saturday, pull out the rain boots, or winter boots — whatever you have to keep your feet dry as rain and snow could ..

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• Donald Trump's Health Care Ideas Bewilder Republican Experts

  

  Asked if Mr. Trump’s plan would insure all those who have gained coverage under the health law, Mr. Clovis said: “That might be correct, but we really don’t know that. A lot of it depends on what initiatives we can get through Congress.”Mr. Trump’s health policy can be pieced together from speeches, television interviews, Twitter posts and a seven-point plan, titled “Health Care Reform to Make America Great Again.” He says Congress should encourage the sale of health insurance across state line..

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• US Presses Bid to Force Apple to Unlock iPhone in New York

  

  WASHINGTON — In the next battleground in the Justice Department’s fight to unlock some of Apple’s well-encrypted iPhones, the department on Friday pressed ahead with its efforts to get access to a locked phone linked to a methamphetamine ring in Brooklyn.Although the F.B.I. unlocked a phone last month, ending its prominent legal battle with Apple in the case involving the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., the Justice Department on Friday told a federal judge in the Eastern District of Ne..

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• New York is “real” America: Cruz's “New York values” insult exposes ...

  

  Few things are more satisfying in the world of politics than watching chickens come home to roost. And so it is with Ted Cruz and his swipe about “New York values” from all the way back in January, which was roughly 6.85 years ago in primary season time. It was during a CNN debate, and with a satisfied smirk that suggested he had just consumed a live kitten, he rolled out this attack about Trump having “New York values,” full with the you-know-what-I-mean eyebrow action going on.But just in cas..

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• Swim. Bike. Cheat?

  

  “They’re emotionally and financially invested in this sport,” Empfield said of triathletes. “When someone cuts a course, they feel highly violated. From their point of view, it’s tearing at the fabric of trust required to have a sport at all.”Since Ruiz, there have been other prominent examples of athletes cheating their way through races. In Britain, for instance, the man who took third place in the 2011 Kielder Marathon, Rob Sloan, did not run the entire distance, but took the bus part of the..

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• Essential Politics: A brawl in New York as a crucial primary draws ...

  

  No one ever said a New York primary would be sedate.With both Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders feeling intense pressure to win the April 19 primary, tempers have flared, rhetoric has escalated and New York's tabloid press is having a great time. Meantime, over on the Republican side, Sen. Ted Cruz is stealing convention delegates from under Donald Trump's nose, and the GOP front-runner is only now saying that he's preparing to mount a serious delegate effort.Good afternoon, I'm David Lau..

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• New York's top state cop resigns abruptly

  

  New York’s top state cop, Joseph A. D’Amico, has abruptly resigned, The Post has learned. D’Amico, 56, tendered his resignation as superintendent of the New York State Police to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday morning, a source close to the matter said. The three-decade veteran of law enforcement for the NYPD and in Albany had not been asked to resign, said the source, who declined to give further details. In January, D’Amico came under fire for helping void a traffic ticket issued by a trooper to ..

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• Candidates embarrassingly bumble their way through NYC

  

  If they can’t fake it here, they can’t fake it anywhere — and these presidential candidates are fooling no one. Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and John Kasich bumbled across the city on Thursday like so many fish-out-of-water sightseers, marveling like rubes at New York staples. Matzo! Mozzarella! MetroCards! With New York’s pivotal primaries just 12 days away, on April 19, the candidates indulged in that obligatory rite of campaigning: the New York Cliche Photo Op. Like fanny-pack-strapped touris..

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• Why New York is So Hard to Predict

  

  With the race turning to New York, Republican candidates are focusing their efforts on the state’s confusing delegate rules, which awards its 95 delegates by a complicated, but important formula. The 14 statewide delegates are awarded proportionally to candidates reaching at least 20% of the statewide vote, but go entirely to the first-place finisher if that candidate tops 50%. The 81 remaining delegates—three per congressional district—are awarded based on the outcome at the district level,..

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• Bruce Springsteen Cancels North Carolina Concert Over Bias Law

  

  Photo Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing in 2012. Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times Bruce Springsteen has canceled a concert in North Carolina this weekend in protest of the state’s new law on gay and transgender rights, becoming perhaps the most prominent cultural figure to speak out against it.Mr. Springsteen, who is on tour with the E Street Band, was scheduled to play at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C., on Sunday. But in a statement..

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