White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday called on China to prove that a Wuhan laboratory played no role in the coronavirus pandemic — and accused the nation of hoarding personal protective equipment and profiting off the outbreak. Navarro took aim at China on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” accusing the country of taking...
ENFIELD, Nova Scotia — A Canadian police officer is dead and another injured after a shooting rampage Sunday in Nova Scotia, a senior police official said. Brian Sauvé, President of National Police Federation, confirmed the death and the injured officer. A man identified by police as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman was arrested by the Royal Canadian...
Beefed-up unemployment benefits that the US government is doling out in the coronavirus crisis are so generous they’re encouraging many recipients to stay home from work, The Post has learned. The emergency legislation, the CARES Act, which was passed last month, is aimed at helping businesses and workers hurt by coronavirus shutdowns, including through $600...
Guess who’s coming to self-quarantine. Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a detour during his daily coronavirus update to regale New Yorkers with tales of meeting his daughter’s boyfriend and holding Sunday dinner in the time of a pandemic. “I started my tomato sauce before I left,” Cuomo volunteered during a Manhasset, Long Island press briefing. “We’re...
A Queens woman who previously received a heart transplant and survived breast cancer has now beaten the coronavirus. Footage shows Oumou Barry being discharged Thursday to roaring applause from staffers at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Mt. Sinai cardiologist Dr. Anu Lala said it was a “scary process but we are really overjoyed to be sending...
Italy could lose one-sixth of its beloved bars and restaurants to the coronavirus crisis — with a staggering 50,000 predicted to have to close for good, according to reports. The startling economic toll is being projected by Fipe, an Italian lobbying group for bar and restaurants in Italy — the first European nation to be...
President Trump on Sunday declared that the US is the “King of Ventilators” and said he is “right on testing” the way he was “right” about the breathing devices. “Just like I was right on Ventilators (our Country is now the ‘King of Ventilators’, other countries are calling asking for help-we will!), I am right...
Long before he was an electee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, Mike Breen was an intimidated 18-year-old freshman attending a workshop at Fordham’s renowned college radio station, WFUV, in the fall of 1979. Breen felt sheepish next to the juniors and seniors leading the seminar and contemplated delaying the start of his broadcasting training....
The body of a man believed to be famed photographer Peter Beard has been found on Long Island, authorities said Sunday.
City transit employees say they deserve the same preferential treatment as cops and doctors when it comes to shopping — including being allowed to skip lines and avoid product limits, given their “front-line” work. “As far as first-responders go, we’re taking them to work — and we’re not being afforded any form of courtesy or...
California has acquired over 15,000 hotel rooms to shelter homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday. Newsom said a new agreement with the Motel 6 hotel chain will provide an additional 5,025 hotel rooms at 47 locations in 19 counties. “Today marks an important milestone for our efforts to protect very vulnerable homeless individuals from COVID-19, and to protect...
Joe Burrow is getting a head start on his rookie year by learning from one of the best — and statistically worst — to ever do it. The presumptive No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft, which begins Thursday with the first round, recently called Peyton Manning to pick his brain about being a rookie...
Dozens of inmates freed from city jails over fears they were vulnerable to the coronavirus have wasted no time plaguing the city with new crimes, The Post has learned. At least 50 of the 1,500 inmates cut loose amid fears of the spread of COVID-19 behind bars in recent weeks have already landed back in...
President Trump predicted that “Nervous Nancy” will be “overthrown” after the House speaker appeared on a Fox News show and criticized his “weak” leadership during the coronavirus crisis. “Nervous Nancy is an inherently ‘dumb’ person. She wasted all of her time on the Impeachment Hoax. She will be overthrown, either by inside or out, just...
Nearly 130,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus have now been documented in the five boroughs of New York, city statistics revealed on Sunday. An additional 3,420 diagnoses were made between 2 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, raising the total number to 129,788 — up from 126,368. The tally of confirmed coronavirus fatalities, meanwhile, rose...
Empire State schools could be staring down a nearly 50-percent cut in funding unless the federal government helps prop up New York’s coronavirus-hobbled economy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “If you don’t help the state government and local government, then how are we supposed to have the finances to re-open?” Cuomo rhetorically asked of the...
The coronavirus may not be killed by high temperatures, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Aix-Marseille in France were unable to nuke the virus by placing infected African green monkey kidney cells in a 140-degree Fahrenheit room, according to a study on the pre-print server bioRxiv that has not been peer-reviewed....
The Federal Trade Commission has paved the way for PepsiCo to buy drink company Rockstar Energy for $3.85 billion, The Post has learned. The regulator approved the deal — announced last month during the coronavirus pandemic — on Friday and the company is expected to close on it in the coming days, sources said. Regulators...
The normal days of extravagant suits never seemed so simple. NFL prospects will be watching the draft from the comfort of their own homes this year, but not necessarily in the comfort of whatever clothes they want. The NFL issued a memo to the 58 players who will participate in the virtual draft, and it...
Dozens of revelers were hit with summonses and two were arrested on firearms charges after cops broke up a raucous party at a Brooklyn barbershop during the coronavirus lockdown. The defiant partiers began filing in the eNVee Barbershop in Canarsie around 6 p.m. Saturday for a rap music video shoot that quickly turned into a...
Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, said testing needs to get down to a “community by community” level to determine whether it’s safe to begin easing lock-downs and reopen businesses. “What we’re trying to do is look at this in a very data-driven, granular scientific methodologies to predict community...
A former California insurance executive jailed in the college admissions scandal will be freed early after a federal judge ruled his two-week coronavirus quarantine was just as bad as two more months in prison, according to a new report. Toby MacFarlane, 57, who was hit with a six-month jail sentence for paying $450,000 to get...
The worst of the coronavirus’ tear through the Empire State appears to have passed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday — but there’s one big ‘if,’ he stressed, as another 507 New Yorkers have died. The total number of hospitalizations continued its steady decline in the 24-hour period ending at midnight Sunday, sitting at 16,213, as...
Cordero had been treated with blood thinners to help with clotting in his leg, but his doctors had to stop the treatment because it was causing internal bleeding.
There’s another team looking to move up in NFL Draft 2020, but this one already has its quarterback. Instead, the Broncos may be looking to crash the top 10 in order to get a shiny new toy — Alabama wide receiver Jerry Jeudy — for second-year quarterback Drew Lock, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette’s...
