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• Aaron Judge’s league-leading 31st home run helps power Yankees over Blue Jays to earn series split

  30-06-2024 23:08 via amny.com
  
  Whatever anxiety the Yankees and their fans may have felt heading into Sunday’s series finale with the Toronto Blue Jays quickly dissolved with the swing of Aaron Judge’s mighty bat.
  Judge hit his major league-leading 31st home run in the first off Jays hurler Kevin Gausman, plating both himself and Juan Soto, who returned to the lineup after sitting out Saturday’s loss with a bruised right hand.
  Soto had singled off Gausman in the first before Judge sent a 423-foot drive over
  
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• Op-ed | Where the MTA goes from here, with congestion pricing on ice

  30-06-2024 16:00 via amny.com
  
  This was supposed to be the week we turned on the congestion pricing system. As we all know, that’s no longer happening – at least for the moment.
  A few weeks ago, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered a temporary pause on tolling, and last week the MTA Board acknowledged the State’s decision, while also directing MTA staff to keep the machinery of congestion pricing in good operating order until that pause is lifted. In the meantime, we are reprioritizing and re-sequencing the MTA Capital
  
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• Bronx double shooting leaves two men wounded, suspect at large: cops

  30-06-2024 15:25 via amny.com
  
  Two young men in the Bronx were wounded in a double shooting on Sunday morning, and cops are still looking for the suspect responsible, police reported.
  Officers from the 40th Precinct were made aware of the shooting by Lincoln Hospital staff after the two victims walked into the medical center seeking treatment at about 6:32 a.m. on June 30.
  Upon further investigation, police learned that the victims, both 19-year-old men, had been wounded in the area of 910 East 132nd St., amid an industrial s
  
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