Maysoon Khan, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Ga., Nov. 3, 2019. Well-wishes and fond remembrances for the former president continued to roll in Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, a day after he entered hospice care at his home in Georgia. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

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Tributes flow as Carter enters hospice

by Jeff Martin Associated Press, and Maysoon Khan Associated PressFebruary 19, 2023

ATLANTA — Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, a day after he entered…

FILE - A clock at the entrance to JFK Airport in New York is pictured on Aug. 15, 2003. Officials are investigating a close call at the New York airport that happened Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, between a plane that was crossing a runway and another that was preparing for takeoff. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

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Agencies probe near miss at JFK Airport

by Maysoon Khan Associated Press/Report for AmericaJanuary 16, 2023

FILE - Members of the New York Assembly debate legislation to approve a legislative pay raise during a special legislative session in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2022. New York lawmakers are now the highest paid legislators in the nation under a bill signed Saturday, Dec. 31. Members of both houses will make a base salary of $142,000 starting Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, under the pay raise bill they passed during a special session in late December....

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Pay raise makes NY lawmakers best-paid

by Maysoon Khan Associated Press/Report for AmericaJanuary 1, 2023

FILE - Residents of the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York register to vote at a voter registration event on Sept. 29, 2021. New York's governor has signed a law intended to prevent local officials from enacting rules that might suppress people's voting rights because of their race. The law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, Monday, June 20, 2022, will make New York one of the first states to bring back a version of a process known as "preclearance." (AP Photo/Mary...

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New York passes landmark voting rights legislation

by Maysoon Khan Associated Press/Report for AmericaJune 20, 2022

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a package of bills to strengthen gun laws, Monday, June 6, 2022, in New York. New York has strengthened gun laws as part of a series of laws signed this week by Gov. Kathy Hochul with the hope to lessen gun violence and gun-related deaths. Hochul, a Democrat, signed 10 gun-related bills Monday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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NY governor signs law raising age to own semiautomatic rifle

by Maysoon Khan Associated PressJune 6, 2022