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Hazy skies will linger tonight as low temperatures stay near 70.
It will be a touch more humid on Wednesday.
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Today’s Big Stories
1. Small earthquake shakes New York City area for second time in days
A small earthquake shook the New York City area for the second time in less than a week today, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.
The 2.7 magnitude quake hit 2 kilometers southwest of Hillsdale, New Jersey — about 30 miles from Midtown Manhattan — at 12:11 p.m., according to USGS.
2. Brooklyn Heights subway station reopens after awning collapse
Subway service has resumed at the Clark Street station in Brooklyn Heights, two days after a concrete awning collapsed outside its entrance.
The Department of Buildings lifted its vacate order for the station’s Clark Street entrance this morning, saying contractors hired by the property owner installed shoring under the awning overnight.
3. Weekend service changes on tap for 4, 5 and 6 train riders
For two weekends in August, 4, 5 and 6 train riders will see service suspensions along swaths of the three subway lines.
The MTA said it plans to carry out track replacement work along the lines the weekends of Friday Aug. 15 to Monday, Aug. 18 and Friday, Aug. 22 to Monday, Aug. 25. Here’s what you need to know about the service changes.
4. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for George Santos’ 7-year sentence to be commuted
It might be hard to find someone to have your back in politics if you get caught lying about your life story, become one of a handful of people ever expelled from Congress and then are thrown into federal prison. But George Santos is no ordinary former politician.
In a letter Monday, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene formally came to the aid of the disgraced ex-congressman with a request that his seven-year prison sentence be commuted, arguing that the length of the term represented “a grave injustice.”
5. House committee issues subpoenas for Epstein files, depositions with Clintons and other officials
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department today for files in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation and is seeking depositions with the Clintons and former law enforcement officials, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and former top officials.
Meanwhile, Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, wants to keep grand jury records secret in the sex trafficking case that sent her to prison, her lawyers said today as prosecutors continued urging a court to release some of those records in the criminal case-turned-political fireball.
6. Trump says tariffs on pharma, chips to be announced in ‘next week or so’
Tariffs on pharmaceutical and chip imports are on the horizon, President Donald Trump said this morning.
Taxes on medicine made outside the United States could rise as high as 250%, Trump told the anchors of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” during a nearly 40-minute interview in which he also hinted at raising the tariff rate for goods imported from India and at meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to hash out a trade deal before the end of the year.
7. Celebrity softball game in Brooklyn to raise money for Maimonides Breast Center
Celebrities will take to the baseball field to compete against some of the city’s top physicians. It’s part of the “Battle for Brooklyn” charity softball game to raise money for Maimonides Breast Center.
Dolores Catania, TV personality and captain of the celebrity squad, and Dr. Joshua Feinberg, breast surgeon and oncologist at Maimonides Cancer Center, joined “News All Day” today to discuss the event.