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Subway riders board a train during rush hour, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in New York. As subway ridership reaches an all-time record, police say reports of sex offenses underground are also on the rise, up nearly 57 percent from last year. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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NYC subway riders fight back at groping, grinding, lewd acts

by Michael Balsamo Associated PressJune 24, 2016

File-This Feb. 16, 1981, file photo shows Daniel Berrigan, ex-priest, now political activist on NBC-TV’s “Today” show in New York. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, File)

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Jesuit priest, peace activist Daniel Berrigan dies

by Michael Balsamo Associated PressMay 1, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., greets a CWA worker as he arrives to join a Verizon workers picket line, Wednesday, April 13, 2016, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Verizon strikers’ picketing includes Northampton

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Karen Matthews Associated PressApril 14, 2016

FILE - This April 7, 2013, file photo, shows the Verizon studio booth at MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, N.J. About 39,000 Verizon landline and cable workers in nine eastern states and Washington, D.C., are expected to walk off the job Wednesday, April 13, 2016, after working without a contract since August. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)Mel Evans

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East Coast Verizon workers on strike

by Michael Balsamo Associated PressApril 13, 2016

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2016, courtroom file sketch, Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, right, sits at the defense table with his attorney Zachary S. Taylor, during jury selection in a federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Pugh, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former airplane mechanic charged with trying to join the Islamic State group, was convicted by the jury Wednesday, March 9, 2016. It was the first verdict to result from more than 70 cases the government has brought against U.S. citizens accused of trying to support the militant group. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)

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Air Force vet guilty of trying to join Islamic State

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressMarch 9, 2016