The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doling out $10.25 billion to states and cities to ramp up coronavirus contact tracing efforts — with New York City getting $851.3 million, the largest piece of the pie. The latest batch of funds comes as states move to reopen — even as the pandemic continues to...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has fired the State Department’s inspector general, an Obama administration appointee whose office was critical of alleged political bias in the agency’s management. The ouster is the latest in a series of moves against independent executive branch watchdogs who have found fault with the Trump administration. A senior...
Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker is facing serious charges for armed robbery and aggravated assault stemming from an incident in the Miami area — charges that could land him in jail and end his football career. Baker’s attorney, though, says “we believe our client is innocent of any charges,’’ The Miramar Fla. Police Department issued an...
Participants followed the rules of the World Series Of Beer Pong from the comfort of their homes, in compliance with COVID-19 social-distancing guidelines.
“Grubman isn’t going to pay these cyber-terrorists a penny, so it is likely all his files will end up released by the hackers."
House Democrats passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Friday night despite Senate Republicans and President Trump declaring the so-called Heroes Act dead on arrival. Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California complained that the 1,800-page bill was “the largest bill in the history of Congress” — and that it was unfurled this...
Haskell says she was targeted by one pretending to be director Renny Harlin.
No one knows if the NFL preseason will go off as scheduled, but if it does, Joe Judge will make his head coaching debut with the Giants Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m. against the Jets in a game designated as a Giants road game at MetLife Stadium. Based on this date, the earliest the teams...
Andrew Saffir’s Cinema Society has sent advance digital links to a host of A-listers.
"This conversation will find its way to the bottom of the ocean along with Covid-19.”
The number of New York City cops who are calling in sick dropped Friday to pre-pandemic levels. On Friday, 1,157 uniformed members of the NYPD called out sick. That’s about 3.2% of the department’s workforce — a new low comparable to levels before the coronavirus began ravaging the Big Apple. Police, like other civil servants,...
"I like it full up to the top of a beautiful martini glass.”
Bobby Marks, ESPN’s cap guru, predicts NBA free agency this summer will “slow to a crawl” and all players with opt-outs in their contracts will choose to opt in. That’s one economic fallout from the potentially massive salary-cap reduction because of the season’s March 11 shutdown. If all players are forced to opt in, that...
Viral video of the shooting of unarmed Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery was first leaked to the press at the request of the dad now accused of his murder — because he thought it would make him and his son look better. The ironic shocker — that it was ex-cop Gregory McMichael who leaked the very...
Mayor Bill de Blasio says he hasn’t spoken to Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot for a couple of days but will chat this weekend about her comment that she doesn’t “give two rats’ asses about your cops.” Will he finish up with a pink slip? Barbot’s words about the men and women who keep our...
China’s rulers are pushing hard to get the rest of the world to stop asking questions about just how the coronavirus pandemic got started — even as Beijing relentlessly exploits the global disruption. It’s again arresting pro-democracy protesters and independent lawmakers in Hong Kong — and threatening US politicians. That’s right: The Global Times, a...
ᐧGov. Andrew Cuomo’s order that nursing homes test their staff twice a week is starting to look like pure butt-covering for his team’s disastrous earlier miscues. For starters, it seems the state Department of Health didn’t even consider if that level of testing is possible right now. Less than a week after the mandate came...
JCPenney filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, the latest among traditional brick-and-mortar retailers to crumble as prolonged store closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic deliver the final blow to troubled businesses. The department store chain, known for selling family apparel, cosmetics and jewelry at roughly 850 locations, said it reached an agreement with creditors for...
DeAndre Baker wasn’t the only one gambling. The Giants ignored red flags uncovered in scouting Baker and placed a bet on talent by selecting the cornerback in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft despite an organizational split on whether he was worth the risk. “There was a battle in our building on whether...
On Friday, parts of New York state began reopening. Yet aside from establishing a series of city task forces, Mayor Bill de Blasio has yet to lay out a clear plan, coordinated with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for the phased opening of nonessential businesses in the city’s five boroughs. With the pandemic appearing to have peaked,...
Six months before COVID-19 devastated New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council approved a plan to spend nearly $9 billion to build four jails — one each in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens — and close Rikers Island. The city would better serve inmates and taxpayers by building new jails at...
For his critics, Anthony Fauci cemented his status as the Rasputin of public health with his Senate testimony the other day. The National Institutes for Health official gently, but unmistakably, struck a different tone than President Trump, earning rebukes from radio talk-show hosts and Fox News anchors, as well as fueling the outrage of the...
A tiger running loose through a suburb of the Mexican city of Guadalajara was captured after it was lassoed by a man in a cowboy hat, video footage shows. A passing driver filmed the bizarre encounter and the footage was posted on the POLÍTICO México Twitter account Thursday. The video was captured by a driver...
The Democratic-held House on Friday authorized proxy voting for the first time in its history, due to the coronavirus pandemic — disregarding Republican claims that the change is unconstitutional and unwise. The reform was adopted in a near-party-line 217-189 vote, with all Republicans opposed and joined in their nay votes by three Democrats and Libertarian...
In a sad coda to the January helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, the Los Angeles medical examiner’s office has released the autopsy reports of the nine victims. The autopsies show the sole cause of death for all the victims was blunt force trauma. The office certified the...
