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Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a disaster emergency due to health care staffing shortages.
Nurses from five hospitals in New York walked off the job.
They want to preserve health care benefits, safer staffing, and protections from workplace violence.
A man with a sharp object barricaded himself in a hospital room in Brooklyn and was shot and killed by police last week.
Darla Joyner is on the picket lines.
She's been a nurse for 12 years and is part of the union's bargaining committee.
The strike comes during a terrible flu season.
Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a disaster emergency due to health care staffing shortages.
The court struck down the execution of people with intellectual disabilities in 2002.
Today, the justices are hearing arguments in an Alabama case that is focused on how intellectual disability is defined and whether IQ should play a role in that determination.
Joseph Clifton Smith confessed to a 1997 murder, but he argues his disability should spare his life.
But lawyers for the state point to Smith's borderline IQ scores and argue he's not intellectually disabled.
Advocates say, though, that determination should be holistic, not a single number.
The ruling could have implications on how courts in several states apply the death penalty.
The affected parks include some of the most visited, like the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite.
Tourists from other countries will have to pay a new $100 fee to enter, plus the regular entrance charge.
The Interior Department is also more than tripling the cost of an annual park pass for international visitors.