New year, new you? Not if you’re going to the same old gym. New York has an abundance of top-notch fitness studios from gritty old boxing gyms to gimmicky gym-bar hybrids. The newest crop to open in the city offers unique workouts (trampoline, anyone?), remixed old favorites (treadmills with a twist), and cool design aesthetics...
A female sports radio host took to Twitter to share the creepy messages she said she received from a male colleague. Jasmyn Fritz, who’s based in Raleigh, N.C., hosts The Sports Shop Radio Show, as well as the podcast Topics & Takes, according to her Twitter bio. She tweeted a screenshot of the harassing messages...
President Trump on Friday said that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani had to be taken out to protect American lives — and that the US took action to prevent a war, not start one. “Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated...
"You are the best thing that has ever happened to me," Chigvintsev told his fiancée.
Mexico’s former security chief was hauled before a judge in a Brooklyn Friday on charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes from Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel to help it sidestep law enforcement and gain a leg up over other drug-trafficking outfits. Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, pleaded not guilty to charges of...
Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Jason Bateman, Jason Momoa and Jennifer Lopez were also added to the growing list.
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A well-known mommy blogger in China is being slammed after leaving her 6-year-old daughter home alone while the rest of their family went to an amusement park. Zou Yue claimed her intention was to teach her daughter a lesson about finishing homework on time. Now, the mother of three from Guangzhou, also known as Zhou...
This will be the second game between the Capitals and Hurricanes in less than a week. Carolina won 6-4 at home Saturday night, and they will meet at the same venue Friday. The Hurricanes also knocked off Washington in the first round of the playoffs last season in a seven-game series. Carolina is getting monster...
Eye on 2020: Biden Looks Like a Hillary Rerun “Joe Biden is an institution in Washington. He is a known commodity, comfortable and familiar with the inner workings of a city built upon customs and norms,” writes Michael Starr Hopkins at The Hill. Supporters “argue that his experience, combined with his appeal” across the aisle,...
Leading linguists gather on Friday to decide whether Americans over the past decade were most affected by movements to end racial or sexual violence, cultivate respect for gender fluidity or some other change – and how to sum it all up in one word or phrase. The American Dialect Society picks the “Word of the...
The site, GirlsDoPorn, was sued by nearly two dozen women who claimed they were deceived and coerced into making sex videos without knowing the footage would be posted on the internet.
The New York Times published a mysteriously prescient op-ed Thursday that cited an attack on Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani as a possible scenario hours before the US took him out in a similar way. The op-ed, “Hypersonic Missiles Are a Game Changer,” by Quincy Institute analyst and former National Security Council big Steve Simon, speculated...
A mysterious outbreak of viral pneumonia that’s been linked to a food market in central China has sickened at least 44, according to health authorities, with at least 11 of the cases considered critical.
Nightmare at 18,000 feet. A military flight exercise in Oregon turned disastrous after a student pilot blacked out during a maneuver. Fortunately, he was able to wake up from the flightmare and guide the plane to safety — but not before causing some serious damage to his aircraft. The harrowing near-miss occurred this past March...
An alleged Brooklyn package thief was caught in the act and stopped by neighborhood residents, police said Friday. Daron Ware, 46, was confronted by a 31-year-old man who noticed him picking up Amazon packages outside 1504 President Street in Crown Heights on Thursday at around 4:30 p.m., cops said. Video posted to the @NYCScanner Twitter...
The United Methodist Church plans to split into two denominations later this year, church officials said on Friday, a schism that follows years of contention over whether the church should end its ban on gay marriage and ordination of gay clergy. The plan, if approved at the church’s worldwide conference in Minneapolis in May, would...
He wants him to be a part of it — the Redskins organization, that is. Presumptive No. 2 draft pick Chase Young announced his plans to enter the 2020 NFL Draft on Friday, and it didn’t take long for his former (and potentially future) teammate Dwayne Haskins to welcome him. “See you soon,” the Washington...
A retired New York state trooper died on New Year’s Day from 9/11-related cancer, officials announced this week. Investigator Ryan Fortini, 42, passed away Wednesday “from cancer stemming from his assignment to the World Trade Center site” following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett said. In the aftermath of the...
The University of Missouri mishandled its sexual misconduct investigation of former basketball player Terrence Phillips, a new lawsuit claims. The suit, filed Monday in US District Court in Missouri, alleges that Phillips – a “known predator on campus” – was never held accountable on allegations including rape and stalking due to the university’s failure to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Trump on Friday for approving the strike that killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani after cutting short a visit to Greece to monitor the situation from Jerusalem. “President Trump is worthy of full appreciation for acting swiftly, forcefully and decisively,” he told reporters before departing Greece to head...
A twin-engine plane slid off the runway at Utah’s Heber City Municipal Airport on Thursday morning, prompting the facility to close for the remainder of the day. Local officials and emergency personnel responded at the scene shortly after 10 a.m. Wasatch County Fire initially blamed the incident on “a patch of ice” on the runway....
A 33-year-old Queens man has been arrested for gunning down another man in Rockaway Beach back in December, police said Friday. Michael Hall was arrested on Thursday and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon for shooting Dion Gumby, 45, to death on Dec. 18 in front of a Key Food grocery store,...
The raging bushfires that have destroyed millions of acres of Australian land, killed “thousands of koalas” and perhaps as many as 500 million animals are so devastating they can be seen from space. The Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration posted this image to its website showing the...
"There was a moment in my life when my friends, who were also dancers, told me about making thousands of dollars at clubs in New Jersey."
