Tennessee, Mississippi and Montana are set to lift some coronavirus lockdown restrictions Monday, with certain businesses that can practice social distancing allowed to welcome customers again. Tennesse’s Gov. Bill Lee gave eateries and shops in the majority of counties the green light to conduct business again this week with reduced service and more strict hygiene...
Some Americans could be suffering from “quarantine fatigue” and leaving home to go out more frequently, according to a new report. A study by the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland showed a subtle shift toward people making more outdoor trips — ones expected to rise with some states starting to reopen, according...
WASHINGTON – The US government will cap how much each bank can lend under the emergency loan program designed to keep workers on payrolls amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a memo seen by Reuters hours ahead of the reopening of the lending program. The Small Business Administration (SBA) will impose a maximum dollar amount...
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Residents in the North Korean capital have resorted to panic-buying amid reports that controversial leader Kim Jong Un is gravely ill or dead, according to a report. Store shelves in Pyongyang were being cleaned out of everything from liquor to laundry detergent, canned fish to cigarettes in recent days — as conflicting reports continue to...
The USNS Comfort’s last patient was discharged on Sunday, as the Navy hospital ship prepared to head home, officials said. Roughly 184 people were treated aboard the 1,000-bed vessel since it docked off Manhattan’s West Side on March 30 to aid in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a spokesman for Northwell Health, which is providing...
President Trump ripped into the media Sunday in response to a report about his work schedule, saying that he toils from morning until night in a series of tweets. “The people that know me and know the history of our Country say that I am the hardest working President in history. I don’t know about...
More than 400 Big Apple residents succumbed to confirmed or suspected cases of the coronavirus Saturday into Sunday, raising the combined death toll to nearly 17,000, City Hall statistics show. A total of 16,673 New Yorkers have now been lost as of 2 p.m. Sunday, a jump of 403 from the last update at 1:30...
NFL Draft 2020 is freshly in the books, though there’s no telling when exactly the new draft class will be able to put on the pads and start contributing to wins and losses on the field. In the meantime — understanding that the full evaluation of this year’s picks won’t be done until a few...
Tenants who are out of work amid the COVID-19 crisis may have trouble paying their monthly rent, but simply canceling their payments, even just temporarily, doesn’t solve the problem. It just dumps it onto landlords. Housing advocates don’t care. They’re pushing a statewide “rent strike” on May 1. Several officials want to suspend or even...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo doubled-down Sunday on the state’s controversial directive ordering nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients. The governor — who has called nursing homes a “feeding frenzy” for the deadly coronavirus — said last week that the facilities can’t challenge the regulation forcing them to admit patients with the contagion. But he added that...
China lied, people died: There’s no question that Beijing’s early cover-up of its coronavirus crisis led to the deaths of thousands of people around the world. And it’s still lying, blatantly. After weeks of pressure, it finally upped its official count of coronavirus deaths in Wuhan, where the pandemic started, from 2,579 to 3,869 —...
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that Chinese students should be banned from studying technology and science in the US — and said he has “little doubt” that Beijing is trying to steal a coronavirus vaccine from America. “In the middle of a pandemic, what’s the most valuable intellectual property in the world? It’s the research...
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Just in time for a pandemic keeping millions of New Yorkers at home, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that the massive rehabilitation project of the L train tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn has been completed ahead of schedule. “The tunnel is now done, better than before,” Cuomo crowed during an Albany press briefing. “It opens...
Not all quarantine workouts are created equal. Over the weekend, UFC star Paige VanZant documented another at-home exercise regimen, which featured a series of grueling moves per round. “I am about to die…. I already regret this. Tomorrow will suck. Lol,” VanZant posted to her Instagram story. In a separate story, VanZant’s husband, Austin Vanderford,...
Bootleg coronavirus home testing kits are flooding the internet — posing a potential “disaster” in the fight to stem the pandemic, Sen. Chuck Schumer warned Sunday. “While the coronavirus itself continues to risk infecting people, varying at-home test kits for the virus’s antibodies, and even the disease itself, are now infecting the internet and the...
I work in a grocery store and one of my co-workers steals food. I don’t want to rat him out but I also don’t want to be guilty by association if he gets caught. Could I lose my job for not reporting him if the company finds out that I knew and didn’t say anything?...
College internship experience is indispensable, so with the coronavirus putting these valuable opportunities to gain skills, network and grow professionally in peril, it’s no surprise that students are panicking. Take Rhonda (real name withheld), a 21-year-old at Chapman University in California, who was in the middle of applying to marketing and ad agencies in NYC...
The Jets are adding Lamar Jackson to their team. No, not that one. This is Lamar Jackson, a cornerback from Nebraska. He is one of three undrafted cornerbacks that the Jets have agreed to terms with as a free agent, according to a source. Jets general manager Joe Douglas chose Virginia cornerback Bryce Hall in...
A four-year-old Staten Island boy kicks off his quarantine routine each day leading the Pledge of Allegiance on Zoom to a group that includes frontline workers, according to a report. “What started out as two people on FaceTime, three weeks later has become 50-plus people,” CJ Tardy’s mom, Kellyanne Tardy, told the Staten Island Advance....
HARLINGEN, Netherlands — Greeted by relieved parents, pet dogs, flares and a cloud of orange smoke, a group of 25 Dutch high school students with very little sailing experience ended a trans-Atlantic voyage Sunday that was forced on them by coronavirus restrictions. The children, ages 14 to 17, watched over by 12 experienced crew members...
A speeding Mercedes-Benz driver lost control while changing lanes in the Bronx and smashed into a support pillar Sunday morning, killing himself and one of two young women in the car with him, cops said. Gasper Vallejo, 32, crashed his 2016 Mercedes Benz C26 into the pillar in front of 523 Bruckner Blvd. in Hunts...
The New England Patriots didn’t select a quarterback during NFL Draft 2020, but they’ve added yet another signal-caller to their roster since it ended. As the Patriots move on from the 20-year Tom Brady era, they signed on Sunday undrafted free agent Brian Lewerke out of Michigan State, his agent Mike McCartney announced. Lewerke, 23,...
From 3,000 miles away, Michael Peters was glued to the screen, watching helplessly as his home state was slammed by the coronavirus. “One or two days was eternity when this was happening,” the New York native and pulmonary critical care doctor, now based in San Francisco, told The Post, his voice breaking. Peters, who grew...
