Gov. Kathy Hochul is floating including legislation around mask-wearing in public in this year’s state budget deal. Zuma / ...

A day after pushing for a partial ban on face coverings, Gov. Kathy Hochul said she favored a less stringent proposal that ...

Columbia’s interim president privately assured faculty there was no mask ban in place despite telling the Trump ...

Update, March 21: Columbia University claims its mask ban allows for “medical exemptions”; it remains unclear whether such ...

The governor has expressed support for restrictions in protest settings, while many protesters say they need to conceal their ...

Columbia University has announced a new mask ban, the hiring of special officers and other new policies in response to the ...

Columbia’s interim president was reportedly pushed by the Trump administration to publicly double down on her commitment to ...

Columbia agreed to implement a mask ban, give campus security the power of arrest and apply oversight of Middle Eastern ...

This proposal is not about health or safety, but instead, it aims to prevent criminals from using masks to hide their ...

Columbia University’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, resigned after facing pressure from the Trump administration to ...

As budget negotiations continued at the state Capitol, Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul now wants to use the deal to pass a statewide ...

THE MASK DEBATE: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s eleventh-hour request for a mask crackdown in the state budget has ripped apart Democrats — dividing lawmakers of color who worry about aggressive policing ...