The number of NYPD members who have contracted the coronavirus has actually topped 4,000 — far more than what has been publicized, The Post has learned. A total of 4,080 members of the NYPD — 3,350 uniformed officers and 730 civilian employees — have tested positive for the pandemic COVID-19 since the outbreak hit New...
WASHINGTON — Top business executives on Wednesday cautioned President Trump to dramatically expand the number of coronavirus tests in the U.S. before he reopens the economy, according to a report. In the call with banking and financial services executives — the first meeting of Trump’s new coronavirus economic task force — the president was told...
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The state must protect essential businesses from being hit with coronavirus-related lawsuits, a legal reform group says. Albany has already passed laws to protect doctors and medical workers from litigation as they treat patients with COVID-19. But the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and top legislators recommending...
The number of new coronavirus deaths and cases in Italy fell again Wednesday, continuing a downward trend in the hard-hit nation. The country’s death toll rose by 578, which was down from 602 the day before, according to the Civil Protection Agency. Meanwhile, the number of new cases was 2,667, down from 2,972 the day...
The Raiders aren’t looking back after missing out on NFL free agency’s biggest prize. General manager Mike Mayock told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday that the team feels, “really good about the quarterback position,” entering its inaugural season in Las Vegas. “We love what we have in Derek Carr,” Mayock said. Some speculated...
Renere Hightower, 35, was allegedly caught on camera on the night of Sept. 11, 2019 beating his girlfriend on a Bedford-Stuyvesant sidewalk -- shoving her to the ground and pointing a .22 caliber pistol in her face
Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder shot down a request by the Legal Aid Society to release Christopher Ransom, 28, who is charged with murder in the Feb. 11 friendly-fire shooting death of Detective Brian Simonsen during a Queens robbery.
In the first full ratings book of the second Mike Francesa semi-retirement era, the story stayed the same in sports radio afternoons. ESPN New York’s “The Michael Kay Show” remained the king, while WFAN’s new drive-time program, “Joe & Evan,” along with Francesa’s half hour, were looking way up for the completed three-month winter book,...
For astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, the coronavirus pandemic is like a wild horror movie playing out below their feet. They can rest easy knowing that the virus isn’t present aboard the space station, but being so far removed from family and friends could take its toll on anyone, especially when a global...
The voice on the other end of a cell phone in Newport Beach, Calif. was a little thinner than it usually is because Reggie Jackson was talking about his relationship with Hank Steinbrenner. A friendship that began when Jackson was a Yankee from 1977 to 1981 and Steinbrenner was the 20-year-old son of team owner...
The CEO of a New Jersey addiction clinic sexually assaulted a recovering alcoholic he employed when she relapsed and was in “a drunken stupor,” a new lawsuit alleges. Andrea Pierce, a director at the Recovery Centers for America in South Amboy, claims CEO James Haggerty preyed on her as she struggled with her sobriety, according...
Coronavirus could push back the creation and release of new emojis for your phone. According to the Unicode Consortium, essentially the emoji HQ, COVID-19 has been causing issues for emoji creators. President of the Consortium, Mark Davis, said: “Under the current circumstances we’ve heard that our contributors have a lot on their plates at the...
A Florida woman says she went to the ATM to withdraw her stimulus check, only to find a multi-million dollar deposit in her account, according to a report. Diana Lagulli, who is retired, said she discovered an unexpected balance of $8.5 million when she went to take out cash at a Wawa in Sanford following...
A Hungarian couple has probably devised the most inventive way yet to stay sane while under coronavirus quarantine — recreating iconic movie scenes at home using toilet paper, eggs and other household items. In one of their homemade spinoffs, Fanni and Norbert — their last names were withheld — parrot a famous shot of “Star...
From gun-toting rappers to sleazy politicians, criminals all over the world are using the coronavirus pandemic as way to weasel out of prison time. Celebrity jailbirds from New York City to England — including Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, disgraced comic Bill Cosby and accused document-leaking spy Julian Assange — are demanding to be sprung due...
Damaso Garcia, a two-time All-Star and former Yankees second baseman, died Wednesday at 63, in his native Dominican Republic. Garcia, who was signed by the Yankees in 1975 as an amateur free agent and began his 11-year major league career began in The Bronx in 1978, played in just 29 games with the Yankees before...
Volunteers at the Friends of Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control erupted in joyful celebration over a completely empty kennel. The milestone happened at the West Palm Beach, Florida, shelter’s stray housing and adoption overflow kennel, where all of the dogs were happily adopted. Many shelters have been reporting an increase in animal adoptions,...
The millions of bits of cellphone data tracked by analytics firm Unacast show the economic impact of the coronavirus spreading across the US like a deep freeze — long-distance travel was hit early on, but eventually overall retail foot traffic slowed to a crawl, too. As the US started shutting down to fight the coronavirus...
A US military reconnaissance jet was reportedly spotted flying near Taiwan’s airspace — the 12th time in the past three weeks that American military planes had been detected near the area. Citing flight data posted on Twitter by a military air movement tracker, the Taipei Times reported that a RC-135W Rivet Joint flew over the...
New Yorkers found a way to fill the silence with dropped Rs and a tough attitude.
"For Harry and Meghan to be making demands, there was a bit of below-stairs chatter."
Shares of Elon Musk’s electric car company popped Wednesday after Goldman Sachs resumed coverage of the company and slapped it with a “buy” rating. Tesla’s shares jumped more than 5 percent Wednesday morning before losing some ground in the afternoon, up 3.3 percent to $733.49, after analyst Mark Delaney gave the automaker’s stock a $864...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will “swiftly” challenge what she called President Trump’s “senseless” and “illegal” suspension of US funding to the World Health Organization. Trump stopped the funding on Tuesday, saying the WHO needs “meaningful reforms” after failing to report accurate coronavirus data from China, worsening the pandemic’s punch to the US. But...