Jets defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson fired back at a published report that he is out of shape. Wilkerson posted a video on his Instagram account to answer the report that quoted anonymous scouts saying Wilkerson looked out of shape earlier this month while attending Temple’s pro day. In the video, Wilkerson appears to be at...
It takes the city’s Human Rights Commission more than a year — 375 days — to resolve the average complaint, officials disclosed Wednesday. That’s a sharp increase from 297 days in 2014. The longer waits stem in part from a 46 percent increase in claims having to do with race, religion and citizen status, according...
The friends that analyze together, stay together. In their new book, “Friendship Matters,” (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, out now) clinical psychologists Sanda Neshin Bernstein and Wendy Satin Rapaport lay out ways to improve adult friendships using common therapeutic practices. Their authority on the matter? The co-authors, both 69, have been best friends for nearly 50...
People with a strong sense of smell during middle and old age may live longer than those without sensitive schnozes, a new study found. Researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden followed 1,774 people for 10 years and found that people who lose their sense of smell were closer to death than those who did not,...
Amid an outcry of fans calling for shorter games, the NFL is implementing a plan to address those complaints. Without actually making games shorter. Commissioner Roger Goodell soon will be rolling out widespread changes to NFL broadcasts — from replays to timing to commercials — in an attempt to make games seem tighter next season. Last one...
Students can prepare for New York’s annual math and English tests by practicing the following essential skills and strategies. These tips, endorsed by local tutors, are important for kids in every grade – whether they are taking the Grades 3-8 Common Core tests or the high school Regents exams. Learn them to build an academic...
This beautiful collection showcases some of Europe's most stunning churches - years after they've been abandoned. The gorgeous buildings are now strewn with rubble, have dusty pews and weeds are sprouting where the aisles once were. The urban photographer, called Roman, visited several European countries including France, Italy and Belgium over three years as part...
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Maps users will soon be able to broadcast their movements to friends and family via the app — the latest test of how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in an era of rampant sharing. The location-monitoring feature will begin rolling out Wednesday in an update to the Google Maps...
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — For some juvenile offenders, their choice is straight out of Hamlet: to act or not to act. Shakespeare & Company, a theater company in Lenox, Massachusetts, works with the courts to get youngsters who run afoul of the law sentenced to perform works of Shakespeare onstage as an alternative to community service...
A porn website has revealed women’s most lusted-after body types — and six packs are not top of the list. According to Pornhub, the male body types most women hankered after are “hairy” and “daddy.” Ripped physiques were not what ladies searched for the most, a spokesman for the site told the Daily Star. Many women...
Scientists have issued a warning over “bubbles” popping up on the Earth’s surface – threatening to burst and spew toxic gas. Shocking aerial footage revealed that 7,000 methane-filled craters were set to pop. The bumps in the Arctic regions of Siberia are thought to be caused by eruptions from methane gas. Most lay hidden in...
The Department of Homeland Security banned passengers from carrying most electronics larger than a smartphone on flights arriving from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, citing “evaluated intelligence.” Travelers on U.S. flights, however, might want to be extra careful when flying from American airports this year because guns...
A report that identified the knife-wielding attacker who killed at least three people during a rampage in central London as Abu Izzadeen has been withdrawn. The UK’s Channel 4 News and The Independent initially named Izaadeen as the suspect, but several sources told BBC News that the radical Muslim cleric is still in jail and...
Anyone who has ever been a bridesmaid knows just how much work it is. The dress fittings, the invitation send-outs, going to wedding fairs, the bachelorette party planning, the rehearsals, the speech-writing, the hair and makeup trials, the staying in constant radio contact whenever the bride has a question that needs answering. Bridesmaids are an...
The gap in men’s and women’s pay is so large in 13 states, that a girl born today won’t see it close in her entire working life. That’s according to an analysis of data on the year-round earnings of men and women who work full-time, released Wednesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Researcher, a...
The Secret Service has requested an additional $60 million to protect President Trump and his family, it was reported Wednesday. The agency said it needs $26.8 million to cover the high cost of securing the Trump family and Trump Tower in Manhattan and $33 million to cover bills associated with “the president, vice president and...
Exxon Mobil admitted in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday that it lost a year’s worth of emails from the alias account used by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he was the company’s CEO. Tillerson — whose middle name is Wayne and went by the alias “Wayne Tracker” in the sensitive emails to company board members...
Johnson teamed up with TLC's "Say Yes to the Prom" initiative to give nearly 100 underserved and academically high-achieving students head-to-toe looks for prom.
President Trump’s oldest son blasted the mayor of London on Wednesday — hours after a terrorist killed three people outside Parliament — twisting several comments the mayor made six months ago that such attacks should be expected. Terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city,” Mayor Sadiq Khan said to the...
The controversial actor also revealed which Hollywood couple tried to lure him into Scientology.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Pharmacies and beauty stores across Puerto Rico are running out of hair dye as a growing number of men go blond in support of the island’s baseball players who bleached their hair as a bonding ritual ahead of the World Baseball Classic. What began as a joke among team members...
Yeun and wife Joana Pak welcomed a baby boy on St. Patrick's Day.
Support among American voters for the Republican health care plan is falling as the measure comes up for a key vote in the House, a poll released Wednesday shows. Thirty-seven percent disapprove of the American Health Care Act – a 2 percentage point increase from the last poll – and 40 percent approve of the...
That’s one top dog. An abused shelter dog with a “sixth sense” left quite the impression on her new owners after finding a naked toddler in a ditch in Michigan last week, prompting the removal of two girls from their “unsafe and unsanitary” home. The dog, Petunia, was dropped off at the Delta Animal Shelter...
An elderly man was busted after he checked himself out of a Long Island hospital — and stole an ambulance from the parking lot, authorities said Wednesday. Donald Winkler, 83, was admitted to Nassau University Medical Center Tuesday but decided to leave when he became upset with the the care he was receiving from doctors...
