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Covering Ithaca and all of Tompkins County

Producers: Nick Polisi, Bec Legato, Connor Smith, Ally Mahoney, Liz Wiley, Inbaayini Anbarasan, Hannah Broxmeyer, Andrea Cheong

Newswatch 4/11/24

On tonight’s episode of Newswatch, we take a look at Harvard’s new standardized testing rules. Then a look at the TCAT bus system here in Ithaca as they pick between electric and diesel busses. Finally a look into the Masters and its contenders. All that and more, tonight on Newswatch.

Newswatch 4/4/24

Coming up tonight on Newswatch: President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister discuss the recent airstrike that killed seven aid workers. Judge Juan Merchan came to a decision on the prosecution for former President Trump’s hush money case. And will the CEO of Disney give into the pressure of active investors? All that and more,…
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Newswatch 4/2/24

On this episode of Newswatch, TCAT has announced that they plan to be emissions free by 2035, veterans and their families in New York State no longer have to pay to enter state parks due to the new Lifetime Liberty Pass, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a statement that shocked people on both sides…
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Newswatch 3/31/24

On this episode of Newswatch, President Joe Biden comes under fire from the Trump campaign for recognizing Easter Sunday as being transgender day of visibility, Baltimore officials begin to take off the first sections of twisted steel to allow small boats through the wreckage of Key Bridge and in Ithaca the driver that went into…
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Newswatch 3/28/24

On tonight’s episode of Newswatch, we take a look at the Baltimore Bridge disaster and its after effects. Then we take a look at President Joe Biden’s fundraiser, and a look at Ithaca’s Shortstop Deli, which has been the recipient of an accolade from State Senator Lea Webb. All that and more, tonight on Newswatch.

Newswatch 3/26/24

On this episode of Newswatch, the Supreme Court listens to debates on a crucial abortion pill case, a bridge in Baltimore collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship, and twenty four Cornell students have been arrested following a sit-in protest in front of Day Hall on Cornell’s campus. All that and more in this…
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Newswatch 3/24/24

On this episode of Newswatch, former President Donald Trump continues to delay posting a financial guarantee confirming that he is able to pay the verdict in the New York state civil fraud case, an attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday resulted in over a hundred people being killed and in Ithaca a man…
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Newswatch 3/19/24

On this episode of Newswatch, former White House official Peter Navarro was imprisoned after turning himself in, a former Ithaca police chief is suing Ithaca officials for alleged racial discrimination, and gunfire left one person dead and three injured in Jacksonville during spring break. All that and more in this episode of Newswatch.

Newswatch 3/7/24

On this episode of Newswatch, Sweden joins NATO after remaining impartial for nearly 75 years, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley withdraws her name from the ballot leaving former President Donald Trump unopposed in the republican primaries, and the men’s basketball team at Dartmouth college vote on a historic decision that could have widespread implications…
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Newswatch 3/5/24

On this episode of Newswatch, we have updates on the results of Super Tuesday voting, a protest was held in the commons by Cornell University movement Cornell Kills Palestinians, and the Supreme Court has reversed a ruling stating Donald Trump would be removed from the ballot. All that and more in this episode of Newswatch.