Nobody knows the steps Knicks president Leon Rose would have taken had the NBA season — and normal life — not been suspended by the coronavirus on March 11. For now, Rose is proceeding as status quo with an inherited front office in following an unofficial NBA hiring/firing stoppage with the world stopped cold. According...
"America cannot rely on a patchwork of uncoordinated voluntary efforts to combat the awful magnitude of this pandemic," Schumer wrote. "It is long past the time for your Administration to designate a senior military officer to fix this urgent problem."
BERLIN – Germany hopes to launch a smartphone app within weeks to help trace coronavirus infections after a broad political consensus emerged that adopting an approach pioneered by Singapore can be effective without invading people’s privacy. Germans are deeply suspicious of digital surveillance and the use of individual smartphone location data to track the spread...
A man broke into a Bronx recycling facility and made off with $30,000 in cash, cops said Thursday. The crook broke a window to sneak into the Alpha Recycling Company – which primarily reclaims cars’ catalytic converters – on East 233rd Street in Eastchester at around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, police said. Once inside, he...
The MTA and its largest union want bus riders to shield their mouths and noses to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has ravaged the agency’s workforce and led to severe service reductions and dangerous crowding. Bus riders should “cover their noses and mouths with bandanas or scarfs… if they do not have masks,”...
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden on Thursday called for America to ease sanctions on Iran, saying the US should offer relief to the Islamic Republic and other nations to help them deal with the coronavirus pandemic. “In times of global crisis, America should lead. We should be the first to offer help to people who...
Now that he’s a Florida man, it sounds like normally guarded Tom Brady is ready to make a few headlines and open up to the self-proclaimed King of all Media. The six-time Super Bowl champion is slated to appear on “The Howard Stern Show” on SiriusXM Radio next Wednesday, and one thing you can be...
Dozens of sex workers in one of Japan’s biggest red-light districts have been infected with the coronavirus — and are feared to be behind an explosion of cases that have left local hospitals “overwhelmed,” according to reports. Officials in Kabukicho say a sharp increase in infections appears linked to the adult entertainment area — with...
An Ohio woman says the coronavirus has “destroyed” her family — killing her parents and brother as her husband remains hospitalized on life support, according to reports. Kelly Conkey Billups, 54, said COVID-19 first claimed the life of her 51-year-old brother, David Conkey, on Sunday before her parents, Lewis and Judith Conkey, died just hours...
The Knicks Twitter account sent out a short but inspiring video with a message from brass and players saluting New Yorkers and health care workers for staying strong during the coronavirus crisis that has rocked New York most significantly. Knicks president Leon Rose starts out the video along with a bearded coach Mike Miller. The...
He's accused of being a virtual Meow Zedong.
The Grand Canyon closed Wednesday after local health officials raised concerns about its continued operations at a time when venues are closed and pressure mounts for national parks to halt operations to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The National Park Service said it closed the tourist hotspot until further notice after receiving a letter from officials...
Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun outlined a plan of voluntary layoffs for employees on Thursday, while warning that the coronavirus pandemic would have a lasting impact on the global aerospace industry. Under the plan, eligible employees who want to exit the company will be offered pay and benefits package, Calhoun said in a memo. “We’re...
It's certainly going to be kryptonite for some comic lover's wallet.
Gabe Vitalone remembers the thrill that filled his heart that sunny afternoon in February as he walked onto the field at Yankee Stadium, as he stared at the vast rows of seats, marveled at the famous frieze that rings the grandstand, shook his head at the utter enormity of it all. “This,” he says, “was...
He’s a doughnut, he’s a bobblehead, he could be the “Sexiest Man Alive.” Dr. Anthony Fauci has become an unlikely celebrity and hero during the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to his daily no-nonsense briefings and decadeslong career fighting infectious diseases. And his rise to fame has tongues wagging in more ways than one. An online petition...
A Michigan couple set to marry on Saturday have added a few last-minute guests to their wedding ceremony amid restrictions on large gatherings due to the coronavirus outbreak. With many of Dan Stuglik and Amy Simonson’s roughly 160 invited guests unable to attend because of the virus and social distancing concerns, the groom came up...
"I don’t believe he can unite the country because his base is toxic."
According to Zack Britton, if MLB decides to start the season without fans inside ballparks due to the coronavirus pandemic that is okay with him and other players. As is the possibility of teams playing games at a neutral site. “All on the same page to play as many games as we possibly can,” the...
It is the “cruelest irony” that the US has been forced to seek coronavirus supplies from China — where the disease first exploded in late 2019 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. “I don’t have a New York Defense Production Act,” Cuomo said during an Albany press briefing, referring to the law the president can...
Stocks rallied Thursday as rising oil prices overcame Wall Street’s worries about the coronavirus gutting the US labor market. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 534.26 points, or 2.5 percent, on hopes of a detente in the oil-price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia. The blue-chip index reversed the early losses it...
"She’s here. She’s home," the 32-year-old "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" star announced on social media.
"Can y'all just stay inside?," Jackson tweeted with a smiley face emoji.
Throngs of Hasidic Jews gathered in Brooklyn Wednesday for a local rabbi’s funeral, brazenly flouting social distancing orders amid the coronavirus pandemic pummeling the city, online video shows. In the 30-second clip, which has been circulating online, dozens of members of the Jewish community – some wearing protective facial masks — can be been seen...
“We are writing to call for a local COVID-19 testing site in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for first responders and frontline essential workers who are putting their health and lives on the line amid the current pandemic,” reads the bipartisan letter signed by eight pols representing the area.
