Celeb ‘Tiger King’ fans fighting over roles in future movie
Who will be Joe Exotic?
Who will be Joe Exotic?
ALBANY — New York’s correctional officers union is begging Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state prison system to outfit all prison and jail guards with personal protective equipment to help stifle the potential spread of coronavirus between inmates and employees working in close quarters. Fifty-six officers and sergeants tested positive for the virus as of...
An NYPD school safety agent from Queens became the latest casualty of the coronavirus among New York’s Finest, sources said Monday. Sabrina Jefferson, 63, of Jamaica, died from the deadly COVID-19 bug, the fourth employee of the department to die from the virus in recent days. Nearly 14 percent of the police force, or close...
USA Today publisher Gannett announced a series of pay cuts and mandatory furloughs on Monday in the latest economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis. Gannett executives will take a 25 percent pay cut and CEO Paul Bascobert will forgo his salary entirely until the pay reductions and furloughs cease and the coronavirus pandemic has subsided,...
New York Knicks owner James Dolan and Charles Oakley will no longer be required to appear for phone mediation talks slated for Tuesday morning, according to an appellate court order from Monday. The 56-year-old former Knicks star sued Madison Square Garden and Dolan for defamation, assault and false imprisonment over a February 2017 scuffle Oakley...
With most of its ventilators already attached to COVID-19 patients, a top New York hospital system is repurposing its anesthetics-dispensing devices and other equipment into makeshift breathing machines. The Northwell hospital system that runs the Lenox Hill, Long Island Jewish and Staten Island University hospitals says 75 percent of its ventilators are already occupied —...
Somber times call for threads of hope. Even if you’re trapped inside, sporting the same old pair of sweats, remember that sunnier days — and breezier frocks — lie ahead. Here are a few of 2020’s best summer dresses to gift yourself now and enjoy later. Sugar rush This ombre cotton-candy creation will be a...
A docuseries about big cats has opened a can of worms.
More than 100 homeless New Yorkers have tested positive for the coronavirus as the disease hits New York’s most vulnerable, new tallies released Monday show. The Department of Homeless Services said that 109 homeless New Yorkers have contracted the frightening illness, with 99 cases in the city’s sprawling shelter system as of Sunday. DHS counted...
"I want my babies here.”
Long Island mom Diana Berrent, 45, has chronicled for The Post her entire ordeal since testing positive for the coronavirus. Today, in her last installment, she’s finally out of isolation and donating her blood and plasma to potentially help other victims. Never in my wildest imagination did I think that I would be one of...
An emergency room doctor has spoken out about the mental strain of dealing with COVID-19 patients as the global pandemic continues to rage.
To listen to Nancy Pelosi, you might get the idea that President Trump personally hatched the coronavirus in the basement of the White House and then secretly unleashed it on Americans. OK, she didn’t go quite that far, but her mere linking him to the growing number of COVID-19 deaths is (even for the hyper-partisan...
This is just one more reason why this month has gone to the birds. A wildlife photographer in Canada captured incredible images of a young eagle attempting to eat a plastic duck before realizing it wasn’t food, British news agency SWNS reports. Fifty-two-year-old David Howells took the photos of the eagle in St. John’s, Newfoundland...
A Brooklyn judge has tossed out assault charges against two nail salon workers arrested for bashing customers with broomsticks during a 2018 melee over a botched eyebrow wax job that was captured in a viral video. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Hecht said prosecutors did not have sufficient evidence to continue pursuing charges against Huiyue...
Disney’s executive chairman Bob Iger said Monday he will give up his salary amid the coronavirus outbreak, although the sacrifice will make a relatively small dent in his total compensation. One of media’s highest-paid execs, Iger is taking his pay cut just days after Disney said it would shutter Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., and...
US new vehicle sales likely drove off a cliff in March as the coronavirus pandemic pounded consumer confidence and shuttered dealerships across much of the country, and sales are likely to take a further beating in April as social distancing guidelines remain in place. “When you look at March, we basically lost half the month,”...
WASHINGTON — New York Rep. Nydia Velázquez has been diagnosed with coronavirus, just days after she shared a speaking lectern and microphone with dozens of House colleagues. The Brooklyn Democrat placed an open palm on a shared microphone’s foam Friday morning during debate on the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill, moving the device closer to...
Arizona has not rolled out any statewide coronavirus lockdown measures in what some panicked residents are slamming as a “huge, sick experiment,” according to a report. The Grand Canyon State is among 10 states that have no shelter-in-place measures on the state, county or municipal level, the Guardian reported. “It’s really disconcerting because you just...
The final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade has been identified after painstaking research. Matilda McCrear was just two years old when she was captured by slave traders in West Africa and transport to the U.S. on the Clotilda, the last American slave ship. The Clotilda docked in Mobile, Alabama in July 1860. McCrear died...
The city at the center of China’s virus outbreak was reopening for business Monday after authorities lifted more of the controls that locked downs tens of millions of people for two months. “I want to revenge shop,” one excited customer declared as she traversed one of Wuhan’s major shopping streets, Customers were still scarce, though,...
The “Tiger King” is the Meme King. If there was ever a person who lends himself to be immortalized in meme form, it’s Joe Exotic — aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage, nee Joseph Schreibvogel — of Netflix’s absurd docuseries, “Tiger King.” The series follows the ferocious feud between “big cat” enthusiasts and its spiral into a bungled...
The body of a 5-year-old boy was found in Alaskan woodland three days after his mother left him to get help after they got lost on a hike, according to authorities. Jaxson Brown and his mom Jennifer Treat, 36, got lost last Wednesday in Lunch Creek Trail close to their home in Ketchikan after they...
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Monday urging him to release “as many prisoners as possible” from federal facilities who are at high risk of becoming dangerously ill with the coronavirus. The letter called on the Justice Department and the federal Bureau of Prisons to use...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday a $100 million commitment to support local news outlets, committing $25 million for emergency grant funding through the Facebook Journalism Project and $75 million in marketing to support journalists amid the coronavirus pandemic. “As part of our efforts to support the news ecosystem and make sure everyone has...