Joe Biden’s top advisers lowered expectations for widespread U.S. access to a coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after he predicted that any American who wanted a shot would soon be able to get one.

The New York State Assembly is poised to pass legislation that would allow part-time workers to collect unemployment insurance and put a stay on evictions and foreclosures for small businesses, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced Tuesday.

Velocity Financial Inc. is free of a would-be class suit alleging it misled investors about loan performance and the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the real estate market, after a federal judge in California dismissed the case.

New York City allegedly fired four director-level employees from its Civilian Complaint Review Board because they raised concerns over the handling of police misconduct complaints, access to body-camera footage, and other police oversight failures in the wake of racial justice protests, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan.

As hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 rise, governments are grappling with whether to prioritize getting a first shot of vaccine into as many arms as possible, or to take a slower approach that reserves some of the limited supply to deliver a second dose at the optimal interval to attain maximum protection. Some governments seem willing to accept the trade-off of lower immunity to inoculate more people. Some scientists have cautioned that untested timing regimens have the potential to undermine confidence in vaccines and, even worse, facilitate the emergence of dangerous new variants.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said he will consider easing Covid-19 restrictions if data continue to improve.