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- Supreme Court sinks wrongful death suit against Andrew Cuomo for COVID nursing home fatalities — Fox News
- Teotihuacán Pyramids Shooting: Gunman Carried Notes on U.S. Mass Shootings — nyt News
- Amazon launches GLP-1 weight loss program, promising 'fast, convenient' access — CNBC
Supreme Court sinks wrongful death suit against Andrew Cuomo for COVID nursing home fatalities
Source: Fox News • Published: 4/22/2026, 12:01:10 AM
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s camp responded defiantly Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to hear a wrongful death case brought on appeal by a Brooklyn man who blamed the Democrat’s COVID-era nursing home orders for his father’s 2020 death.
Cuomo was one of several Democratic COVID-era governors, including Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf and California’s Gavin Newsom, who came under intense scrutiny for their lockdown procedures and policies that required nursing homes to accept returning hospital patients regardless of their coronavirus infection status.
A Cuomo spokesman told Fox News Digital that the high court was the latest to absolve the former governor of alleged wrongdoing, while the plaintiff told New York media he was "disappointed" by the decision.
"For six long years, families have had to deal with unimaginable losses of loved ones from COVID and it doesn’t get easier, especially when that pain was manipulated and politicized," said Rich Azzopardi, Cuomo’s longtime ombudsman.
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo cheers along with supporters while campaigning in New York on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Seth Wenig/AP)
"Every investigation and every court to examine these claims has reached the same conclusion: there was no wrongdoing by Governor Cuomo or his administration," Azzopardi said.
"Today, the Supreme Court joins that list."
The plaintiff, Daniel Arbeeny of Brooklyn, sued Cuomo and his then-health commissioner Howard Zucker under federal law covering deprivation of rights and a state wrongful death statute, according to court documents from the Manhattan-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
A district court previously dismissed the suit on qualified immunity grounds, which generally state that public officials cannot be prosecuted for actions taken in their official capacity. Police have similar protections.
Arbeeny’s father Norman died at 89 after being released from a Cobble Hill nursing home where COVID patients were housed.
When Cuomo was running for mayor in 2025, a bipartisan group, including Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, current Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Brooklyn State Sen. Zellnor Myrie, made the issue a focal point and protested together to demand accountability from the New York political scion.
"You need to face us and apologize. If you are going to lead you are going to lead for all of us," Norman’s other son Peter Arbeeny told Brooklyn Paper.
Cuomo’s policy, like that of other Democratic governors, aimed to assuage fears that COVID-related hospitalizations would overwhelm capacity and led to a ban on nursing homes denying admission solely based on a COVID diagnosis.
"The Supreme Court doesn’t erase what was done and the truth of what happened. Nine thousand COVID-positive patients were forced into nursing homes with deadly consequences," Daniel Arbeeny added Tuesday to the New York Post, a corporate cousin of Fox News Digital.
In remarks to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, Azzopardi said that independent reviews, including those from the DOJ, the New York County district attorney’s office, and the New York State attorney general’s office, found Cuomo’s nursing home guidance consistent with federal policy at the time.
"[It] aligned with actions taken on Democratic and Republican states across the country during a once-in-a-century pandemic," Azzopardi said. "The facts are settled and the highest court has spoken."
He also cited a New York State Department of Health report cited in a legal memo that stated the Cobble Hill nursing home the elder Arbeeny was a patient at had its first COVID-positive-testing patient admitted days after the man was discharged.
While the case was being litigated, Cuomo said via a court filing that the purposes of his mandates were clearly aimed at freeing up hospital beds for "patients with more acute needs" and meant to send "individuals… who were no longer contagious back to facilities who could provide them with adequate care."
In a Fox & Friends interview after the New York County District Attorney's office closed its 2022 probe into the nursing home deaths, New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim, D-Flushing, said Cuomo's lawyers and "PR team" want the public to believe he had been "absolved."
Fox News chief meteorologist Janice Dean, whose in-laws died in a nursing home, said that news suggested a political "deal" between Albany and top prosecutors.
New York Department of Health records obtained by Fox News showed Cuomo reported 8,505 deaths through January 2021 with the actual figure topping 12,000.
Daniel Arbeeny told Fox News at the time that Norman's death was preventable because "the governor decided to lie about it."
The Supreme Court did not issue a reason for its decision not to hear the case.
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Teotihuacán Pyramids Shooting: Gunman Carried Notes on U.S. Mass Shootings
Source: nyt News • Published: 4/22/2026, 12:00:06 AM
On Sunday, Julio César Jasso Ramírez checked into a hotel near one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations, the Teotihuacán pyramids, Mexican officials said on Tuesday. The next morning, he took an Uber to the archaeological site, climbed up the Pyramid of the Moon, which in ancient times was used as a stage for performing ritual sacrifices, and opened fire.
Mexican officials are still trying to piece together what led Mr. Jasso, 27, to shoot into a crowd of tourists, killing a Canadian woman and wounding several other foreign visitors.
But some details revealed by the authorities on Tuesday point to a troubled man who may have drawn inspiration from the perpetrators of previous massacres in the United States.
“He acquired weapons, knives, backpacks, gloves, goggles — all the equipment he thought would be useful for carrying out his objective,” José Luis Cervantes Martínez, the attorney general of the State of Mexico, said at a news conference.
After security forces responded to emergency calls and set up a perimeter around the Pyramid of the Moon, Mr. Jasso fired down at the soldiers from above. Two Mexican National Guardsmen and a municipal police officer maneuvered to the sides and back of the pyramid “to bravely and riskily climb” the structure, said Guillermo Briseño Lobera, the commander of the National Guard.
As the soldiers and officer reached the gunman on the pyramid’s second tier, he climbed even higher up the steep stone steps. A National Guardsmen then shot him in the leg, Mr. Briseño said, immobilizing him.
Mr. Jasso, a Mexican citizen from Guerrero state, then grabbed his handgun, a .38-caliber revolver, and took his own life.
In his backpack, which he carried with him during the attack, the authorities found literature, photos and notes on scraps of paper “allegedly related to violent events that are believed to have occurred in the United States in April of 1999,” Mr. Cervantes said. He did not provide further details, saying that the content of the messages was part of the investigation.
The notes may have been a reference to the Columbine High School massacre, in which 12 students and one teacher were killed on April 20, 1999, exactly 27 years earlier. But according to data compiled by the Violence Prevention Project Research Center, another U.S. shooting also took place in April 1999. In that one, two people were killed in Salt Lake City.
“The evidence gathered so far suggests a psychopathic profile of the aggressor,” Mr. Cervantes said, “characterized by a tendency to copy situations that occurred elsewhere, at other times and involving other individuals.”
Preliminary evidence, including the notes in the backpack, suggested that Mr. Jasso worked alone to carry out the shooting and that he planned extensively for it, visiting the pyramids multiple times before the attack, the authorities said.
Authorities said they were investigating how the shooter obtained the gun and the bullets he used during the attack, noting there were more than 50 unfired rounds found in his bag.
The cartridges used in the attack were made by a Mexican manufacturer, which produces them for the exclusive use of the Mexican military and the police, according to Mr. Cervantes. The gunman could have acquired them in a number of ways, he added, including on the black market.
A video circulating on social media, which was verified by The New York Times, captured the audio as some of the tourists on the Pyramid of the Moon were crying and lying on the ground while Mr. Jasso threatened them.
“If you move, I will sacrifice you,” he said, using several expletives and speaking in a distinctive Peninsular Spanish common in Spain. “This was built for sacrifice, not for you to come and take your little photos.”
A woman is heard whispering, “Don’t turn around, don’t turn around.”
Mr. Jasso then addressed a tourist, telling him to leave and tell the authorities that he had hostages on the pyramid. “And if they try to come up,” he said, “I’ll kill them.”
The Mexican authorities said that 13 people, including six Americans, were injured during the episode. Seven of them sustained gunshot wounds, including two minors from Colombia and Brazil. The Canadian Embassy in Mexico City said that it could not share any personal information about the woman who was killed because of the country’s privacy laws.
The shooting at the Teotihuacán pyramids, which last year drew 1.8 million visitors, is believed to have been the first such violence at any major Mexican archaeological site in modern history.
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico said on Tuesday that the authorities were still trying to understand Mr. Jasso’s motives, but that he had been influenced by events beyond Mexico.
“We’d never seen anything like this in Mexico,” she said. “This is not something linked to organized crime, but rather the act of an individual who made this decision.”
Mass shootings not related to cartel violence are uncommon in Mexico, where gun laws are very restrictive and where there are only two legal gun shops, both operated by the military. The latest example occurred late last month, when a 15-year-old student in Michoacán state, in western Mexico, took an AR-15-style rifle to his high school and opened fire, killing two teachers.
Since 2000, there have been at least 143 incidents involving firearms in schools across Mexico, according to Víctor Sánchez, a Mexican security researcher. Twelve people were killed during that period.
Arijeta Lajka contributed reporting.
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega is a reporter and researcher for The Times based in Mexico City, covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
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Amazon launches GLP-1 weight loss program, promising 'fast, convenient' access
Source: CNBC • Published: 4/21/2026, 11:57:58 PM
Amazon is pushing deeper into the booming weight loss market, unveiling Tuesday a new program that aims to simplify access to popular GLP-1 treatments.
The company said its primary care arm, Amazon One Medical, is launching a GLP-1 management program that integrates obesity treatment into routine care. The offering combines virtual and in-person visits, prescription management and pharmacy fulfillment, positioning weight management as a long-term chronic condition rather than a one-off prescription.
"Providing customers with fast, convenient medication access and clear, transparent pricing is integral to how Amazon Pharmacy is transforming the pharmacy experience," said Tanvi Patel, vice president and general manager of Amazon Pharmacy, in the company's press release.
"By expanding access to the latest GLP-1 medications with upfront, clear pricing, we're making it easier for customers to get the treatments their health care providers prescribe and to stay on those medications because they are delivered reliably directly to patients," Patel said.
Through Amazon Pharmacy, patients will be able to access medications including Novo Nordisk's Wegovy as well as newer oral GLP-1 options. Insured pricing will start as low as $25 per month, Amazon said. For cash-paying patients, oral drugs start at $149 per month, it said.
Injectable treatments, including Wegovy shots and Eli Lilly's Zepbound, begin at $299 per month when paid for without insurance, Amazon said.
Those prices are roughly in line with much of the current market.
But Amazon's edge is in same-day delivery and convenience as it looks to leverage its logistics network and consumer reach into another corner of the medical system.
The company also said it will offer on-demand prescription renewals, starting at $29 for message consultation and $49 for video care. Amazon plans to expand its same-day drug delivery offering to 4,500 cities by the end of 2026.
Shares of several companies tied to the obesity drug boom moved lower following Amazon's Tuesday announcement, including Hims & Hers Health, Viking Therapeutics, Amgen and Septerna.
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