Mitch Trubisky may never bring the Bears to a Super Bowl, but at least he can help lead Chicago to safety. A Chicago restaurant called Chip Monks is humorously highlighting the struggles of the maligned former No. 2 overall pick as a method for measuring the appropriate amount of social distancing with a sign inside...
Drugmaker Pfizer said Thursday that it is working on a promising treatment for coronavirus, as well as a vaccine. The drugmaker said preclinical studies showed that an unspecified compound that was originally used to treat SARS — a different coronavirus — has shown potential in battling the dangerous illness. Pfizer research chief Mikael Dolsten said...
Spiteful inmates are coughing and spitting on correction officers as the pandemic COVID-19 has become potentially weaponized in city jails, The Post has learned. “I got the virus, I don’t give a f–k. I got ‘rona, suck my d–k,” one inmate snarled before spewing on the guards, one source recalled. More than 400 corrections officers...
Billionaire investor Cliff Asness has spent his quarantine watching $43 billion disappear. Asness’ AQR Capital — which managed $186 billion at the end of 2019 — has updated its Web site to reflect that its assets under management as of March 31 now stand at $143 billion. It’s unclear how much of the massive 23...
Coronavirus was detected in Massachusetts sewage at higher levels than expected, suggesting there are many more undiagnosed patients than previously known, according to a new study. Researchers from biotech startup Biobot Analytics collected samples from a wastewater facility for an unnamed metropolitan area in late March, according to a report Tuesday on medRxiv. Eric Alm,...
Ava DuVernay, Tyler Perry, Viola Davis, Lee Daniels and many more industry luminaries today paid tribute to Charles Gregory Ross after the Emmy-nominated hairstylist lost his battle with the coronavirus yesterday. “God bless you and keep you in His Kingdom forever,” DuVernay said of Ross, who she most recently worked with on her HBO Max...
New York state officials are revamping and rebooting the website for unemployment-insurance applications on Thursday in their latest bid to handle the flood of coronavirus-related benefit applications that have overwhelmed the system. The Department of Labor will shut down its online application portal at 5 p.m. and plans to reopen it with a new, “streamlined”...
Mayor Bill de Blasio said earlier this week that the city was considering temporary burial of the pandemic's dead on Hart Island, but shied away from making a firm commitment.
Is it Saturday yet? The creators of “Saturday Night Live” have announced that the sketch show will return with fresh material this weekend, Deadline reports, despite social distancing orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Exactly how producer Lorne Michaels, the show’s 17 cast members and dozens of crew members plan to pull this off has...
A judge Thursday sprang another 28 Rikers Island inmates who were supposed to be transferred to state corrections department drug treatment programs, according to the Legal Aid Society. The 28 inmates had violated the terms of their parole and were granted admission to either a 90-day or 45-day drug treatment program at a Department of...
Up to 150 members of the Saudi Arabian royal family have been infected with the coronavirus — striking fear into the hearts of the authoritarian kingdom’s powerful rulers, according to a report Thursday. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman — the 34-year-old heir widely considered the real power behind the throne — and his ministers have...
It's quite the eggs-rated display.
As she nears turning 50 next month, Campbell has been having a moment.
Omertà doesn’t mean anything to these former mob households. In “Families of the Mafia,” a new docuseries premiering Thursday at 9 p.m. on MTV, four Staten Island broads formerly associated with La Cosa Nostra attempt to stop their children from making the same mistakes they did. Cameras followed the wiseguys over two years, which will air...
A Polish priest has become a real holy roller — by offering drive-thru confession in his church parking lot during the coronavirus lockdown. Sitting on a small chair and wearing a face mask, Father Mateusz Kielarski waits for his faithful to drive up outside his large Warsaw church and confess their sins through their open...
Even the victors of the Tom Brady free-agency sweepstakes didn’t believe he would leave New England until the ink was dry. NFL insider Jay Glazer, who has a “very tight” relationship with Bruce Arians, described the the Buccaneers head coach’s paranoia that the six-time Super Bowl Champion would jilt them in the 11th-hour. “Believe it...
Facebook on Tuesday announced 400 local news organizations that are receiving grants to bolster their coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. The Facebook Journalism Project, launched in January 2017 to bolster the industry, chose local outlets in North America for this round of $5,000 grants. The grants amount to $2 million total and are part of...
After hacking jobs, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has sidelined its remaining print reporters. The paper, founded in 1842, hacked 22 editorial jobs last week, reducing the number of reporters in the newsroom to only 14. Now, survivors say they are being yanked off their beats covering the city proper — a job that has been...
The man fatally shot on a quiet Staten Island street Wednesday night was an off-duty Triborough Bridge and Tunnel cop killed just steps from home, police sources said Thursday. The 48-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld pending family notification, was shot on Bradley Avenue in the Meiers Corners section of the borough at around 10:30...
When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way.
The "Pose" star is urging his fans to get creative during quarantine.
What did film envision for us in 2020, specifically?
A panel of lawmakers in Kansas has overturned an executive order by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly that banned religious services of more than 10 people during the coronavirus outbreak. The move on Wednesday came after House and Senate Republicans in the state blasted Kelly’s order as an unconstitutional overreach, the Wichita Eagle reports. Senate President...
The number of newly hospitalized coronavirus patients has dipped to its lowest level since New York state was all but shut down last month — but residents can’t “relax” yet, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. “We had 200 net increases in hospitalizations which is, as we see, the lowest number we’ve had since this nightmare...
A heartless crook knocked a 75-year-old man to the floor and swiped $150 from him inside a Manhattan bank, cops said Thursday. The septuagenarian was withdrawing cash inside a Citibank at Park Avenue South and 25th Street at 9:45 a.m. Saturday when the thief came up behind him, brandished an unknown object and demanded money,...
