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- Restaurants in New York outside of NYC will be allowed to serve indoor diners at 75% capacity, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday. NYC indoor dining will remain at 35%.
- Here's a helpful pie chart explaining the American Rescue Plan that Senate Democrats passed on Saturday.
- Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall is facing a backlash after tweeting praise for a book by right-wing troll Andy Ngo.
- Police arrested two homeless men suspected of killing a homeless teenage girl in an encampment within the abandoned Manhattan Fulton Fish Market.
- NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wants Biden to solve America's public restroom problem.
- The New Yorker considers how worried we should be about the COVID-19 variants prolonging the pandemic: "The fact that different variants have independently hit on the same mutations suggests we’re already seeing the limits of where the virus can go," one biologist explains.
- On this day one year ago, then-president Donald Trump explained how great he was at understanding the COVID-19 pandemic.
- This week's weather forecast is looking pretty, pretty good.
- Hey here's a pretty friendly cardinal up close and personal:
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