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For Touro’s complete Non-Discrimination Statement, please visit: www.touro.edu METRO.US 2 NEWS TUESDAY , JANUARY 17 , 2017 WIFE OF ORLANDO NIGHT- CHINA WILL ACT IF TRUMP WELCOME TO CLUB GUNMAN ARRESTED CONTINUES ON TAIWAN METRO.US! 1 2 Authorities have arrested Times reported, C hina will “take off the negotiable. Trump broke with de- JPEHNILNLIYF EFREA LTOUGRUEES, ENDAITTIOORNAL TV EDITOR/ the wife of the gunman citing an un- gloves” and take strong cades of precedent last month by who killed 49 people at an named law action if Donald Trump taking a congratulatory telephone HBO premiered its newest Orlando gay nightclub last year, enforcement of- continues to provoke Beijing over call from Taiwan President Tsai original series, “The Young the U.S. attorney general said fi cial. She faces Taiwan once he assumes offi ce, Ing-wen, angering Beijing which Pope,” on Sunday night, on Monday. The arrest of Noor federal charges two leading state-run newspapers sees Taiwan as part of China. “If starring Hollywood megastars Salman came seven months of obstruction of justice, and said. In an interview with The Wall Trump is determined to use this Jude Law and Diane Keaton. after her husband Omar Mateen aiding and abetting the at- Street Journal published on Friday, gambit in taking offi ce, a period Even with a solid cast and went on the rampage and was tempted provision of material Trump said the “One China” policy of fi erce, damaging interactions over-the-top set design, killed by police while holed up support to a foreign terror- was up for negotiation. China’s will be unavoidable, as Beijing will however, the much-hyped in the Florida club. Salman was ist organization, ABC News foreign ministry, in response, said have no choice but to take off the show falls fl at. Find out why 5 arrested at her home outside reported, citing the FBI and her “One China” was the foundation gloves,” the English-language in our review. San Francisco, the New York lawyer. REUTERS of China-U.S. ties and was non- China Daily said. REUTERS metro.us/TV GETTY IMAGES TURKISH CARGO JET CRASHES INTO KYRGYZ VILLAGE, 37 KILLED 5 A Turkish cargo jet smashed THINGS YOU into a village in Kyrgyzstan on Monday as it tried to land at a nearby airport in dense fog, NEED TO KNOW killing at least 37 people, Kyrgyz offi cials and the airline said. REUTERS VIDEO OF MASSIVE GATOR LAST PERSON TO WALK IN FLA. NATURE RESERVE ON THE MOON DIES AT 82 PLAY TO WIN $100! 4 Former U.S. astronaut Eu- tion said in a statement without gene Cernan, who became giving details. Cernan and fellow the last astronaut to walk Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison on the moon in an experience Schmitt became members of that he said made him one with the most exclusive club in the KIM JOINER/ the universe, died on Monday at universe on Dec. 11, 1972, when LAKELAND POLICE 82, the U.S. space agency they stepped from their lunar Take our daily news quiz FACEBOOK 3 said. Cernan, who also landing module onto the to test your knowledge! A massive alligator was Lakeland Police told NBC 6 that was one of the fi rst men moon’s surface. Only 10 spotted walking across an the gator is real. The big gator is to go on a spacewalk, died other people — all Ameri- metro.us/quiz open pathway a few feet seen lumbering across a grassy surrounded by his family, can astronauts — had away from visitors at Circle B path as spectators take photos. the National Aeronautics done so before and none Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Florida. METRO and Space Administra- since. REUTERS metro.us w. 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Adriano Espaillat and wage increases, be accommodated within Rep. Jerrold Nadler announced union offi cials said. our financial plan.” this week they will not attend The tentative agree- the event in Washington, citing ment provides for a Trump’s rhetoric and actions as AMANDA MIKELBERG 28-month contract that their reasons. @MetroNewYork reportedly includes two Nadler issued a statement [email protected] 2.5 percent wage increas- Monday that Trump’s words and es over the first 26 months actions “have been so far beyond Transit workers gained and a $500 bonus in the the pale.” their desired wage hike in last two months. Espaillat invoked Dr. Martin Lu- a tentative contract agree- Articulated bus drivers ther King Jr.’s words in a Facebook ment reached Monday — the accordion buses — post over the weekend ahead of with the MTA, their union will receive an additional the national day of service Monday president announced. dollar per hour, ABC7 dedicated to the civil rights activist: The contract for 38,000 New York reported. “Many have given their lives and union transit workers Better shoes and boots, dedicated their lives to working to and another 6,000 oth- as well as improved fa- fulfi ll Dr. King’s dream and make ers expired at midnight MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast, left, shaking hands with John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers cilities for the 5,000 or so it a reality, and it is up to us to pre- Jan. 15, after two months Union Local 100 on Monday. MTA/TWITTER female transit workers, serve his legacy and the legacy of of negotiations that be- were also approved. President Barack Obama to ensure gan with a rally outside projections. dent John Samuelsen said be ratified by the union “We waged a multifac- that we do not go back in time!” MTA headquarters in No- “We won a tentative in a statement. “That was and approved by the MTA eted campaign that raised Espaillat and Nadler join three vember. The Transport contract with solid raises our goal. We achieved it.” Board. the awareness about the other New York State politicians Workers Union Local 100 and other strong econom- Samuelsen shook “We’re pleased to re- value transit workers have — Rep. Jose Serrano, Rep. Yvette pursued more than a 2 ic gains, moving transit hands with outgoing MTA port that a tentative deal to this city, the dangerous Clarke and Rep. 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Daryl Campbell, aka Taxtone, Rugged New Yorkers 31, was arrested in Brooklyn in con- that we are, we face our Wednesday: Variable nection with the May 25 shooting winters head-on. With clouds, spotty showers, at the Manhattan hall before a rap studied resolve, we forge mild; low 43, high 51. concert by T.I. The violence left one on, cocooned in all man- man dead and the rapper Troy Ave ner of stuffed nylon and Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a gunshot wound to the leg. wool, commiserating, becoming mild; low 36, Troy Ave, born Roland Collins, slogging through our days high 51. was arrested immediately fol- and commutes. lowing the shooting and charged But through our Friday: Clouding up late, with attempted murder, criminal strength, we’re philo- light rain at night; low 34, possession of a weapon and reck- sophical about nature’s high 46. less endangerment. He pleaded visitations upon our city. not guilty and was released on So how about this Janu- Saturday: Mostly cloudy, $500,000 bail. ary? Where is it on the light rain; low 36, high 44. Collins’ bodyguard, Ronald “grumble meter”? Does GETTY IMAGES McPhatter, 33, died in a hospital it get a pass? I think it Sunday: Partly sunny; from his gunshot wounds. should! With dry streets, around for the rest of the erased by two days of — dubbed an “inside run- low 33, high 46. The shooting happened in a many mild days, we’ve month. 60-degree warmth, ner” because it tracks “in- green room shortly after 10 p.m. barely made our January In January 2015, we including a record of 66 side,” to our west, instead when a fi stfi ght escalated into gun- average for snow in endured 17 inches of degrees last Thursday! of out over the sea — will between the Gulf and shots. Collins claimed he wrestled Central Park, with little snow, nearly 10 inches in Not bad! mean rain showers today Caribbean, helping to the gun away from the man who hope for much more. one storm; in 2014, more This week, yet again, into tonight and possibly deflect the coldest of the killed McPhatter and fi red back in Last January, we got than a foot and a half, a storm born in Texas on Wednesday. arctic air … for now. self-defense, authorities said. walloped with the single- with nearly a foot from with Pacific jet stream We’ll enjoy a nice Friedmann is a Some reports indicated that day record snowfall in one storm. help and Gulf of Mexico January thaw all week: meteorologist with WRNN- Campbell, who hosts a podcast the park, 27.3 inches! The This month, all traces moisture will head we can thank a stub- TV/FiOS1 News. 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MKT 17.005 8 NEW YORK METRO.US TUESDAY , JANUARY 17 , 2017 New exhibition protest photos The exhibit Trump administration,” features the work of said co-curator Tamar Car- roll, an assistant professor 38 photographers. of history at the Roches- ter Institute of Technol- WENDY JOAN ogy. “There are already BIDDLECOMBE @MetroNewYork large protests planned [email protected] for Inauguration Day, and we’re likely to see more As many New Yorkers demonstrations.” Onlookers check out photos displayed outside the Bronx Documentary Center. prepare to participate Carroll and co-curator, in a massive demonstra- Meg Handler, a photog- tion in Washington dur- rapher and former photo ing the inauguration of editor at the Village Voice, NOW is the time to take Donald Trump and dur- started working on the ing the Women’s March show in 2015 before a the following day, orga- wave of protests began nizers of a new photo after Michael Brown and care of YOUR BODY! exhibition in the Bronx other black men were are showcasing the city’s killed by the police. rich history of protest “This project was con- and activism. ceived before the Black The exhibition, Lives Matter movement “Whose Streets? Our had taken off and raised Streets!: New York City important questions 1980-2000,” features about police brutal- Varicose Veins Heaviness the work of 38 photog- ity,” Carroll said. “I’m raphers who have cap- amazed at how relevant Leg Ulcers Swelling tured street protests of the issues of the show the generation after the still are today.” Spider Veins Itching Vietnam War and before There are pictures 9/11 and the rise of digi- from well-known clash- Pain/Burning Fatigue tal photography and so- es, such as the three-day cial media. Crown Heights race riots Restlessness Cramping “I think protest is in 1991, police evicting likely to increase in num- squatters from Tomp- ber and intensity under a kins Square Park in 1988 Frustrated with previous treatments, services and poor results? Trust the doctor that cares about you! 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Comfort Eltosam and her 3-month-old, Elijah, view the new exhibition at the Bronx METRO.US NEW YORK 9 TUESDAY , JANUARY 17 , 2017 highlights NYC 1980 to 2000 and protests follow- “Those photographs ing the police-shooting help make tangible how death of Amadou Diallo racist some New Yorkers in 1999. Other photos were and still are,” Car- are less familiar, and roll said. “A lot of people “not all progressive,” in the Northeast project Handler said. racism on the South. Carroll [But] rac- pointed to “Those ism is a one pho- problem tograph photographs in New Co-curators Meg Handler, left, and Tamar Carroll assembled the works of 38 photographers for the exhibit. taken in help make Y o r k , May 1990 too, and by Ricky tangible how that can Flores, help ac- who grew racist some New count for up in the Trump’s S o u t h Yorkers were election, Bronx. It when you and still are.” depicts a realize the white man extent and holding up Tamar Carroll deepness a water- of those melon in Bensonhurst. feelings.” She explained that The photos also ex- the image was taken tend beyond the Bronx at a neighborhood coun- Documentary Center terprotest against the gallery. Pictures have Rev. Al Sharpton, who been wheat-pasted on had organized a pro- outdoor walls near the test after one of the gallery with captions white men accused of written in English and shooting and killing a Spanish so that neigh- 16-year-old black teen borhood residents can named Yusuf Hawkins experience the exhibi- was acquitted on a mur- tion even if they don’t der charge. go inside. ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ “Whose Streets? Our Streets?” is free and runs through March 5 at the Bronx Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Ave. (at 151st Street). More information at Whosestreets.photo. The Bronx Documen- tary Center is a nonprofi t organization that photo- journalist Mike Kamber started in 2011 as a way to provide media education to the underserved and growing South Bronx community. Documentary Center. ALL IMAGES WENDY JOAN BIDDLECOMBE