Gov. Cuomo approved a new law Monday to aid responders stricken with 9-11 health-related illnesses. Cuomo took a break from his annual motorcycle ride to Ground Zero on Monday to sign the legislation, which provides line-of-duty sick leave to those with conditions related to their response to the World Trade Center attacks. The measure, passed...
There’s not a cloud in the sky on Wall Street. Markets hit new records on Monday after a rapidly weakening Hurricane Irma delivered far less damage to Florida than feared. The S&P 500 Index, a broad measure of US companies, closed at an all-time high of 2,486.34, after surging 24.91 points, its second-biggest gain of...
Startling photos from space show the devastating carnage of Hurricane Irma. NASA posted before-and-after satellite pictures of St Thomas, St, John, Tortola and Virgin Gorda islands, showing how their once lush-green tropics are now mud-covered disaster zones. The pre-Irma snap was taken Aug. 25, long before Irma, and the post-Irma on Sunday, immediately after the...
Angelina shows her kids who the "Breadwinner" is, Blac Chyna and Amber Rose BFF it up and more...
When a hot dog vendor in Berkeley received a citation for allegedly selling without a permit, one outraged customer, Martin Flores, stepped in and filmed the incident. The video went viral, and in roughly 24 hours, the crowdfunding page Flores started for Juan, the vendor, raised more than $36,000. Flores hopes to use the opportunity...
The White House spokeswoman on Monday said she is unaware of any conversations where former top strategist Steve Bannon warned President Trump that the firing of FBI Director James Comey was the “biggest mistake in modern political history.” Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president is confident in his firing of Comey, who was...
“Veep” creator Armando Iannucci has spent enough time sending up America’s politics, he told the Toronto International Film Festival audience at the premiere of his new satire. The new locale? Moscow circa 1953 for “The Death of Stalin,” a delicious black comedy based on a French graphic novel, with easily as much bite as his...
Follow your bliss to the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Minnesota is the happiest state of the union, according to a new ranking from WalletHub. The runners-up were Utah, Hawaii, California, Nebraska and New Jersey. The unhappiest was West Virginia, followed by Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi. New York sidled in at No. 22. The...
A TV reporter took a break from his duties Monday — to rescue two dolphins stranded on Florida shores in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Sunshine State-based NBC correspondent Kerry Sanders was looking over damage on Marco Island in southwest Florida when he came upon a baby dolphin. He and another good Samaritan slowly helped...
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe, has denied assaulting South African model Gabriella Engels with an electric cable in a Johannesburg hotel suite last month, saying an “intoxicated and unhinged” Engels attacked her with a knife. In a previously unreported Aug. 17 deposition seen exclusively by Reuters, Mugabe countered 20-year-old Engels’ version, portraying herself as...
A Colombian acid-attack victim who had scheduled her own death by euthanasia at the end of the month changed her mind when she met Pope Francis — who called her “very brave and very pretty,” according to a report. Consuela Cordoba, who is in her 50s and from Istmina in the northwestern Colombian department of...
Cheers! A posh Plaza Hotel penthouse is on the market for the first time since tequila tsar Juan Beckmann Vidal bought it from the sponsor for nearly $23 million in 2008. The three-bedroom, 3½-bathroom duplex on the 20th and 21st floors is 3,974 square feet and comes with a 590 square feet on the exterior....
These six-toed cats have nine lives, too! All of the famed feline descendants of Ernest Hemingway’s cats survived Hurricane Irma, said caretakers of the late writer’s Florida Keys home. The 54 six-toed cats and 10 employees of the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West are all accounted for and safe. “The cats are...
"My love life has just imploded," she lamented.
A citywide alert went out for pet owners in Alameda, California, after a devastated couple shared a harrowing tale about their 2-year-old rescue dog who died after getting into the garbage. Zac Bowling and his fiancé said their schnauzer-terrier mix named Benny accidentally ate a cupcake that was made with xylitol, a popular sugar substitute....
WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be removed from the Russian investigation because of unethical grand jury leaks and for appointing Democrat donors to his legal team, according a complaint filed Monday by a conservative watchdog. Larry Klayman, founder of the right-ring Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, filed a lengthy letter with the U.S....
DULUTH, Minn. — Authorities say a 14-year-old girl has died after falling from a cliff on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Lake County sheriff’s officials say they girl was visiting Palisade Head near Silver Bay with friends on Sunday when she fell from the top of the cliff. The high point is more than...
Despite the age-old question over whether there are more grains of sand or stars in the sky, there is not an infinite amount of sand. The unregulated, over-mining of sand is ruining the environment, leaving low-income communities more vulnerable to natural disasters and sparking violent conflicts around the world, according to a new study. The...
A Pennsylvania mom faces charges after she allegedly impaled her newborn’s eye with a knife. Tanishia Fielder, 33, told police that “God told her to do it” during her arrest Friday at her Swissvale home, news station WTAE reported. She was booked on charges that include aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child....
NORWOOD, Colo. — A fifth suspect has surrendered to authorities after the child abuse deaths of two young girls whose bodies were found on a southwestern Colorado farm. San Miguel County officials said four people were arrested Friday after the bodies of the girls were found on a farm outside Norwood, about 30 miles west...
There was a foul pop in a Saturday night Mets-Reds game at Citi Field that bore the dreaded label of “meaningless.” But Mets building block first baseman Dominic Smith ran to the wall with little regard for his body and made the catch. To Smith, it was just what you do. “Just doing what you...
A Maryland woman who was seven months pregnant was forced to deliver her baby after she was set on fire by her boyfriend, according to reports. Andrea Grinage, 31, was critically burned Friday when she was doused with gasoline on Friday in the bathtub of her apartment in Capitol Heights, outside Washington, Fox 5 DC...
More than two dozen lawsuits have been filed in the United States against Equifax after the credit reporting company said thieves may have stolen personal information for 143 million Americans in one of the largest hackings ever. At least 24 federal lawsuits had been filed by Sunday in connection with the breach, which Equifax had...
The Giants are adamant they are not a one-man team. They had better hope they are right, and that they are not a one-man team, or, at the very least, a one-man offense, featuring Odell Beckham Jr. and a bunch of support personnel. The 11 players on the field getting paid on the offensive side...
A 91-year-old woman was beaten and robbed in her Upper East Side apartment over the weekend, police sources said Monday. The victim was found face up the floor of her home after a neighbor called 311 to report a “female screaming for help,” sources said. Cops found the elderly woman with injuries to her face...
