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NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals ended a three-day strike Thursday after reaching a tentative contract agreement that union officials said offers better working conditions, in addition to pay raises.

The tentative deals at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Manhattan, and Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, include raises totaling 19% over three years. Nurses began returning to work at both hospitals Thursday morning, with Gov. Kathy Hochul greeting returning nurses at Mount Sinai just before dawn.

NEW YORK, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed New York to enforce a Democratic-backed gun control law adopted after the justices last year struck down the state's limits on carrying concealed handguns outside the home in a landmark ruling that expanded gun rights.

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of flight delays and cancellations rippled across the U.S. early Wednesday after computer outage led to a grounding order for all departing aircraft by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The FAA is working to restore what is known as the Notice to Air Missions System.

NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A longtime executive for Donald Trump is expected to be sent to New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after being sentenced on Tuesday for helping engineer a 15-year tax fraud scheme at the former president's real estate company.

Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's former chief financial officer, pleaded guilty in August, admitting that from 2005 to 2017 he and other executives received bonuses and perks that saved the company and themselves money.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to keep a key border crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries for another six months. Syria’s ally Russia — in a surprise move — supported the resolution.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said after the vote that cross-border aid remains “an indispensable lifeline for 4.1 million people in northwest Syria.”

Jan 9 (Reuters) - The Nasdaq rose more than 2% on Monday with Big Tech and growth stocks spearheading gains as recent signs of a cooling labor market supported bets of a slower pace of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

Megacap growth stocks Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) gained over 2% each as U.S. Treasury yields declined.

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) rose 3.4% after Jefferies said it saw cost pressures easing for the e-commerce giant in the second half of the year.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 08 (APP): Pakistan, speaking for the OIC group at the United Nations, has condemned the visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israel’s new far-right security minister, after a UN Security Council meeting at which the 15-member body’s members called for preserving the historic status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites.

THE UNITED NATIONS, January 7. /TASS/: The UN Security Council will hold a meeting devoted to Ukraine on January 13, according to next week’s program of Japan’s chairmanship at the Council made public on Saturday.

The session is scheduled for 23:00 Moscow time. The specific subject has not yet been indicated.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 06 (APP): The United Nations Thursday denounced as “despicable” the gun-and-grenade attack on a police van guarding polio workers in Dera Ismail Khan, a district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in which five policemen were reportedly injured.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- There is no alternative to dialogue and negotiation in resolving the Syrian chemical weapons issue, said a Chinese envoy on Thursday.

The Syrian government and the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) should strengthen engagement and communication, and meet each other half-way to settle outstanding issues promptly, said Minister-Counselor Sun Zhiqiang of the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations.