SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Locked out of his home and with nowhere else to go, Wilfredo Ortiz Marrero rode out Hurricane Maria inside a Jeep, which was lifted off its wheels by floodwaters in the parking lot. He then endured days without enough food or running water. The lights are back on at his...
LONDON — Britain’s High Court has rejected a terminally ill man’s request to be killed with medical help. In a ruling on Thursday, three judges turned down Noel Conway’s request for assisted suicide. Conway, 67, has motor neurone disease and has been given less than six months to live. Conway had applied to the court...
Get busy. Nearly three in ten (29 percent) workers say that they don’t drink coffee at work because they are too busy or don’t have time to do it, according to a survey released last week of more than 8,000 workers conducted by polling organization YouGov. Though that study looked at European workers, you can...
Married couple Scott and Melanie McClure have a divine love life. “I can have an orgasm with a tree,” says nature lover Scott. He and his wife had a particularly gratifying experience while on a camping trip. “I start vibrating and I realize my booty is vibrating and jiggling a lot,” Melanie revealed to the...
First rule of staying alive on a remote, icy mountain: Be hot. Oh, I don’t mean your internal body temperature — that comes later. Step one is that you must be physically alluring. Gorgeous, really. Average Janes and Joes, prepare to meet your doom. Kate Winslet and Idris Elba prove this essential dictum in “The...
Nicole who? Nearly two-thirds of New York City voters say they don’t know enough about Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis to form an opinion — with just five weeks to go before Election Day, according to a new poll. A Quinnipiac University survey released on Thursday asked whether voters have a favorable view, unfavorable view...
As his recent big-screen megahit “It” shows, horror master Stephen King is often at his best probing life’s more realistic nightmares. (His shape-shifting killer clown is that movie’s least scary feature.) “Gerald’s Game,” a new Netflix film starring Carla Gugino as a woman for whom a little bondage goes very wrong, draws from the plausible-horror...
Quit the job to save the marriage. That’s the tough decision some couples have had to make when their livelihoods have threatened their love lives. Sharon Podobnik, 32, from Washington, DC quit her demanding job as an inner-city charter school academic director in July after work kept interrupting her honeymoon. “It was the defining moment...
Kushner Companies has dropped the price of a gut-renovated, single-family townhouse at 100 Pierrepont St. in Brooklyn Heights to $9.5 million, following a broker swap. It was asking $11.25 million last year. Jared Kushner, who’s in hot water for — in part — doing White House business through his private email, and for meeting with Kremlin-linked Russians...
A devastated mom has told of the moment she woke up to find her newborn baby dead in bed after accidentally falling asleep with him. Heartbroken Lauren Jordan, 23, said she had taken her son Harrison out of his crib and lay alongside him for a cuddle. She had intended to return him to his...
A woman who was dragged off a Southwest flight last month says she was booted because of her religion– not because she has a life-threatening allergy to dogs, as the airline contended. Footage of college professor, Anila Daulatzai, 46, emerged last week, showing her being pulled off a plane in Baltimore. “Professor Daulatzai was profiled,...
The movie mogul sexually harassed young female employees – but reached financial settlements with them to keep them quiet, according to a bombshell report.
Let’s take a closer look at the Jets opponent this week: Cleveland Browns Record: 0-4 Head coach: Hue Jackson (second year); Offensive coordinator: None; Defensive coordinator: Gregg Williams Overview: The Browns are off to an 0-4 start, searching for their first win. The team is 1-19 over the past two seasons under Jackson and the...
After Jeremy Lin – he of the ever-changing coiffure – switched to dreadlocks, the Nets guard wrote an essay in the Players Tribune explaining his initial trepidation over fears of cultural appropriation. Wednesday afternoon one former Nets player waded right into those waters with both feet, Kenyon Martin first ripping Lin’s hair and appropriation of...
DANDONG, China – Seated beneath tall windows and dressed simply in singlets and trousers, North Korean painters are hard at work. The artists staple canvases to frames or copy idyllic landscapes from laptop computers. One wears headphones as he brushes a group of running horses onto his canvas. The nine men have come to the...
I’m no stranger to supplements. Each morning I dutifully swallow a selection of pills on the orders of my GP, naturopath and yes, a few to remedy self-diagnosed deficiencies. In the mix there’s a multivitamin, a probiotic, magnesium, apple cider vinegar, Coenzyme Q10, Vitamin D and fish oil – and that’s just the morning lot....
Australian and American biomedical engineers have developed a stretchy surgical glue that rapidly heals wounds, a “breakthrough” that has the potential to save lives in emergencies, its designers say. The injectable glue, MeTro, is based on a naturally occurring protein called tropaelastin. It is applied directly to the wound and is then activated with UV...
"On a 1 to 10 [scale] her pain is about a 9," he shared.
The Mooch wants to be real paesans with Mario Cantone.
Ivana Trump, the first of the president’s three wives, says in a new interview that she encouraged her former hubby to take to Twitter to get his message out — a decision he has said fueled his improbable victory. The mother of the president’s three adult children told “CBS Sunday Morning” in an interview to...
Even the National Rifle Association is calling for beefed-up regulations on bump stocks. “The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” the gun group said in a statement Thursday, its first since a shooter used the controversial gun accessory to mow down...
Famed philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s mummified head is being displayed at University College London, finally rejoining his preserved body. Bentham had wanted his body preserved so that it could be displayed and wheeled out at parties, but a problem with the mummification process resulted in the head looking somewhat … unpleasant.
Actor/comedian Michael Rapaport was once a fixture on the Garden’s celebrity row, but now may have to think twice before asking for front-row comps. In his soon-to-be-released book, “The Book has Balls,” the lifelong Knicks diehard and New York native viciously attacks owner James Dolan, even making fun of his singing the blues. Rapaport takes...
Donatella Arpaia and Mark Geragos are being sued by a woman who claims she was "aggressively groped" while working at a pizzeria they co-own.
LeBron James is going to have to choose a side in the American League Division Series. The Yankees’ social media team trolled the Indians on Thursday with a photo of James from the last time these two teams met in the playoffs in 2007. The photo of James showing off his Yankees hat at Progressive...
