ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul proposes to restrict wearing masks in public in a move that could help deter crime in subways, but also raises civil rights concerns for protesters of the Israel-Hamas war ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push to restrict wearing facemasks in public is encountering stiff resistance from her fellow Democrats as they negotiate a new state budget, lawmakers and officials told ...

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — When Idaho Gov. Brad Little left the state for a day in 2021, his lieutenant governor signed an executive order to ban mask mandates. It brought to a head months of simmering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Kathy Hochul has started pushing a statewide crackdown on masked protesters in her closed-door negotiations with Albany ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed public masking ban could be in jeopardy. Her plan has divided Democrats, with supporters seeing their elimination as a crime-fighting issue and others saying a ban would ...

Masks stockpiled by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic are facing large-scale disposal as their expiration dates approach. According to data received by Rep. Park Sung-hoon of the People ...

The legal battle over Modesto’s ban on masks at protests moved to the federal stage as the American Civil Liberties Union of ...