We’ve all been there — reaching into the backs of our pantries and cabinets for something, anything that could constitute a balanced meal. Too tired to go to the store, you scan your kitchen and spot a head of garlic, canned tomatoes, dried seasoning and some vegetable scraps. You’re smartly stocked-up on wine — to...
Like everyone else, Gary Cohen doesn’t know if there will be a baseball season. The novel coronavirus has postponed it for now, along with all the other professional sports. But the Mets’ SNY play-by-play announcer believes MLB should hold out as long as possible, even if it means starting as late as September, before canceling...
More than a dozen attorneys general from across the country are urging President Trump to order more companies to ramp up production of protective gear and testing supplies — as he has done with face masks and ventilators. The group, including New York AG Letitia James, asked the president in a letter to invoke the...
Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy. Then he was first-overall pick in the NFL Draft. Then he was the Rookie of the Year. Then he was the MVP, starting in the Super Bowl. Now, the soon-to-be 31-year-old quarterback is grappling with the reality of being unwanted for the first time in his career after being...
WARSAW, Poland — Polish lawmakers voted late Monday to conduct the country’s forthcoming presidential elections exclusively through postal voting due to the lockdown imposed for the coronavirus pandemic. Parliament also empowered house speaker Elzbieta Witek to push back the date of the election, if necessary. Both decisions by parliament require approval from the Senate and...
Formula One has put almost half its staff on furlough until the end of May due to the novel coronavirus with chairman Chase Carey and senior management also taking a pay cut.
As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation — and we all stay home to prevent the spread — independent fashion companies are struggling to stay afloat. The best way to help local brands survive the crisis (and treat yourself for being a good social-distancer) is by shopping online. Here are six of our favorite NYC-based...
TOKYO – A Japanese sake brewery has warned against binge drinking at home as more Japanese are expected to hunker down indoors after the government stepped up calls for people to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Asahi Shuzo, whose premium Dassai is served in high-end restaurants worldwide, said imbibing at...
A Virginia pastor who criticized the “mass hysteria” surrounding the coronavirus pandemic has died of the illness, according to new reports. Landon Spradlin, of Gretna — a small town halfway between Lynchburg and Danville — started to feel sick while in New Orleans, where he went to preach to the crowds gathered for Mardi Gras...
Police found 56-year-old Yon Chang's, 56 body near the intersection of East 77th Street and Park Avenue around 6 a.m. Monday, sources said.
A Nigerian actress who fronted a national campaign about social distancing during the coronavirus lockdown has been arrested — for throwing a wild party packed with revelers, according to police. Funke Akindele-Bello, 42, fronted a campaign for the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in which she filmed PSA’s urging people to remain apart, saying,...
Time to cut up that old T-shirt. Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley shows us how to make a DIY face mask with items from your closet. For this tutorial, you’ll need a needle and thread, soft material such as a cotton shirt or leggings, a mask pattern, scissors and a Sharpie. While these stylish masks aren’t...
US Surgeon General Jerome Adams had good and bad news Tuesday on the coronavirus pandemic, saying that initial death estimates could be too high but that African-Americans were at greater risk of contracting the potentially deadly illness. “I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America,” Adams said on CBS “This Morning.”...
Dylan Howard, the National Enquirer editor who was caught in a hush-money scheme to silence women who claimed they had affairs with President Trump, has reportedly left the supermarket tabloid’s parent company, American Media Inc. Howard — an 11-year veteran at American Media who in 2014 was promoted to chief content officer, the top editorial...
The Yankees are stuck at home, like most of us. So, they’re working like many of us do. With players, coaches, training and medical staff spread all around the country, the team is keeping track of its pitchers’ indefinite offseason preparations via Google Docs. “Whatever you’re doing, whatever you threw that day or whatever you...
An elderly Mississippi couple died from the coronavirus just minutes apart while holding hands — after they contracted the deadly illness on a cruise ship, their pastor said. Jerry Austin Williamson and his wife, Frances Jewel Bond Williamson, both 72, died hand-in-hand on Wednesday just six minutes apart, North Long Beach Baptist Church Pastor Rick...
Doctors in China say they have preliminary but promising evidence that blood plasma taken from recovered coronavirus patients can be injected into those who are more seriously ill — and aid remarkably in their recovery. The pilot studies involved two small sets of severely ailing coronavirus patients in different hospitals, the Guardian reported. In one...
She recently underwent brain surgery.
HELSINKI – Finland will start tracking the spread of the new coronavirus in its population with randomized antibody tests, its public health authority said on Tuesday. The main hospitals will mail invitation letters to randomly chosen citizens of all ages to be tested for the antibodies which patients suffering from COVID-19 develop, including those who...
"We just run our lives so differently, you know. We’re, we’re totally different women."
A New York state-record 731 coronavirus deaths were reported Tuesday, running the total toll to 5,489 — a grim twist following a two-day dip that led officials to believe the disease may have hit its apex. “Behind every one of those numbers is an individual,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his daily Albany press briefing....
The city logged three murders over a 24-hour period — a stark turn-around from the relative peace Gotham has seen as residents isolate to stanch the spread of coronavirus. By contrast, just eight murders were reported across the Big Apple for the four weeks between March 16 and April 5, according to public data. The streak...
HUANGPI, China — Stuck in the same bind as many other Chinese farmers whose crops are rotting in their fields, Jiang Yuewu is preparing to throw out a 500-ton harvest of lotus root because anti-coronavirus controls are preventing traders from getting to his farm near Wuhan, where the global pandemic started. Chinese leaders are eager...
Australian researchers say they could soon have a blood test that will predict which coronavirus patients are going to need the most intensive care — so front-line doctors can make faster, more accurate decisions about who should get desperately needed resources. “It’s not enough just to know that they are infected. We need to know...
Few were thrilled about being told to isolate inside via apocalyptic movie alarm.
