Article 5F88S Senators Schumer and Gillibrand urge Cuomo to resign amid sexual harassment allegations – as it happened

Senators Schumer and Gillibrand urge Cuomo to resign amid sexual harassment allegations – as it happened

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Gabrielle Canon (now) and Lauren Aratani and Marti
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1.25am GMT

That's it for me tonight! Thank you all for reading along. To recap, here's what we covered:

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12.53am GMT

Hundreds of immigrant children and teens, detained by border patrol in Texas, have been forced to sleep on the floor in dangerously crowded conditions, without access to regular showers or essential hygiene products such as soap and shampoo, according to the Associated Press.

Nonprofit lawyers who interviewed more than a dozen children this week in Donna, Texas, found that many had been detained for weeks and had not been allowed to contact their parents or relatives. The lawyers, who were denied entry by the Biden administration, were not able view conditions inside the tent facility where more than 1,000 people are being held.

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