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2 days ago | newsday.com | Neil Best

Gerry Philbin, a defensive pillar of the Jets’ lone Super Bowl-winning team, has died at age 83, the team announced on its website on Wednesday. The report did not specify an exact date or cause of death. A third-round AFL Draft pick by the Jets out of the University at Buffalo in 1964, Philbin spent nine seasons with the team, including 1968, then they won their only Super Bowl, a 16-7 upset of the Colts.

2 days ago | newsday.com | Dan Janison

The morning-after story of New York City’s dramatic mayoral primary rightly remained about former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Considering the onetime heavy-handed boss threatened with impeachment by his own party was pronounced politically dead only four years ago, Cuomo did quite well with 36.4% against Assemb. Zohran Mamdani’s 43.5% in election-night counting.

2 days ago | newsday.com | Andrew Gross

LOS ANGELES – Co-owner Jon Ledecky, giving praise to the work new general manager Mathieu Darche has done in his one month on the job, believes “the future is now,” for the Islanders. He said it was at least a new motto for the organization. But it’s certainly apropos with the Islanders holding the first overall pick in the NHL Draft, starting Friday night at The Peacock Theater.

2 days ago | newsday.com | Verne Gay

DOCUMENTARY "My Mom Jayne"WHEN|WHERE Friday at  8 p.m. on HBO; also streaming on MaxWHAT IT'S ABOUT On the night of June 29, 1967, outside of Slidell, Louisiana, Jayne Mansfield — by then a fading Hollywood superstar and sex symbol — was killed in a car crash. Three of her children in the backseat survived, including her youngest daughter, Maria — now Mariska Hargitay — who was then 3. In this film, Hargitay ("Law & Order: SVU") says she spent "most of my life feeling ashamed of my mother ...

2 days ago | newsday.com | Lisa M. Jarvis

In the three years since the landmark Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions in the U.S. has steadily increased, according to new data from the Society of Family Planning. Those data reflect the monumental effort to maintain care — and the increasingly vital role of medication abortion and telehealth in the U.S.But make no mistake: Abortion access under the Trump administration is increasingly fragile.