Cops were called to Queensbridge Park Tuesday after dozens of people gathered for an impromptu vigil for a rapper. William Daniels, aka Kiing Shooter, died this week following medical issues while being hospitalized, cops said. Kiing Shooter had recently signed to rapper Nas’ label, Street Dreams Records, according to HipHopDX. The NYPD got the call...
Venerable US retailer Lord & Taylor plans to liquidate inventory in its 38 department stores once restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus are lifted as it braces for a bankruptcy process from which it does not expect to emerge, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Lord & Taylor’s preparations to liquidate its...
The vice president said Tuesday that his goal was to start handing responsibility back to various government agencies by the May 25 Memorial Day weekend as the administration looks to reopen the country.
The Tesla CEO confirmed the birth of his son on Monday.
When life hands you lemons, make lemon poppyseed muffins.
Quincy Enunwa’s season is over before it even got close to beginning. The Jets placed the injury-riddled wide receiver on the reserve/physically unable to perform list on Tuesday, meaning he will not play in 2020, a source confirmed. Enunwa missed all but the first game of the 2019 season with a neck injury, his second...
Mike Tyson still has it, even at the age of 53. Just ask the man who was catching the former champion’s punches in a recently released viral video. “I saw a guy with the same speed, same power as guys 21, 22 years old,” trainer Rafael Cordeiro told ESPN. Cordeiro, a trainer who specializes in...
Four months after Ben Smith left as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News to become a media columnist at the New York Times, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has found his replacement. Mark Schoofs, a well-respected investigative journalist who is currently a visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is returning to BuzzFeed, the...
The New York governor acknowledged simple physics will make it difficult to socially distance on subways and keep coronavirus from spreading again when the Big Apple comes back to life after the pandemic.
He’s alive! A former prominent soccer player has reappeared four years after being pronounced dead in a car accident, a report said. Hiannick Kamba’s former wife is being accused of fraud after she allegedly forged documents and collected a six-figure life insurance payment following the soccer player’s phony passing, German prosecutor Anette Milk told the...
Footage shows Luke Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41 with their hands up in the air in the port city of La Guaira, being walked to shore at gunpoint,according to the Daily Mail.
A top Swedish health official says it’s likely there were imported coronavirus cases as early as last year in the nation, according to a report. Anders Tegnell, chief epidemiologist at Sweden’s Public Health Agency, said that he believes the Scandinavian country will ultimately find that it had cases far back as November 2019, the Telegraph...
Airbnb is reportedly laying off nearly 2,000 employees due to the coronavirus pandemic — effectively slashing its headcount by 25 percent. The 1,900 workers axed by the home-sharing startup will receive a four-month pay package, as well as accelerated equity vesting and health insurance for a year, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. CEO Brian...
Indiana houses of worship will be allowed to hold services without an attendance cap as early as this Friday — serving as a “control group” of sorts while the economy gradually reopens, the state’s governor said. Under a plan announced late last week, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced that “for all 92 counties,” in-person church services...
"Love yourself first, chase your dreams, make mistakes..." she captioned a photo.
The US Justice Department on Tuesday brought its first criminal charges against people it accused of defrauding the $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program aimed at dulling the coronavirus pandemic’s heavy hit on the economy. The small-business loan program is part of an unprecedented $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic package meant to reimburse businesses and households for...
Two decomposed bodies were found inside a car connected to a newly engaged North Carolina couple who disappeared about three weeks ago, according to a report. Stephanie Mayorga, 27, and Paige Escalera, 25, were last seen in surveillance footage April 15 leaving their home in a 2013 Dodge Dart, news station WECT reported. The car was...
One of the most prominent veterans serving in Congress is pushing her colleagues to approve hazard pay for troops working on the front lines of the coronavirus response, arguing the risk warrants that designation. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and a retired lieutenant colonel from the Iowa National Guard who served in the Middle East during...
“Early, early tomorrow morning in New Yorkers will see subway stations closed, to allow for train cars and platforms to be disinfected in partnership with the MTA," Chief of Department Terrance Monahan told reporters Tuesday afternoon.
A zoo worker featured in the “Tiger King” documentary warns that many big cats are in danger of catching coronavirus since most zoos cannot protect their animals from outbreaks, according to a report. Saff Saffery, who worked at Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, said there are not sufficient safeguards for the animals at most zoos...
Vanessa Bryant celebrated her birthday Tuesday by opening a letter from her late husband. Before he and his daughter Gianna were among the nine killed in a January helicopter crash, Kobe Bryant had written his wife a letter that she didn’t find until Monday, Vanessa said on Instagram. She waited a day to open it...
NBCUniversal is slashing salaries because of the coronavirus, a day after the broadcasting giant’s surprise ouster of NBC News chairman Andy Lack. In response to the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, NBCU is cutting the pay of its senior management by 20 percent and rolling back pay increases for employees making more than $100,000,...
It could be ready for FDA approval as soon as October.
Nearly all of the US has been on lockdown to fight the spread of COVID-19, but newly published research by MIT economists argues that an “optimally targeted lockdown” might help protect the most vulnerable, while also protecting the economy. The working paper, which can be found in the National Bureau of Economic Research and has...
This was not the first-hand look at Gerrit Cole that Aaron Boone expected to see when the Yankees signed the right-hander to a nine-year, $324 million deal in December. Rather than seeing him on the mound in The Bronx or other stadiums, the manager is now Cole’s throwing partner and plays catch with his ace...
