The mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday lifted a curfew he’d imposed a day earlier so that it would not interfere with President Trump’s campaign rally Saturday night in the city. “Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based...
A speeding truck tipped over on a woman riding a scooter across an intersection in Zhuji, China. Fortunately, she was wearing a helmet and only suffered minor injuries. Watch the crazy collision captured by surveillance camera here. Subscribe to our YouTube!
Sullivan died last month at the age of 42.
Pandemic journal: First Do Less Harm This “should be the harm reduction phase of the pandemic,” argues The Week’s Bonnie Kristian. Dining out, she “saw an older man with a disposable mask wrapped around his upper arm.” “They said I have to wear it,” he said. “They didn’t say where!” That’s “the attitude” of “a...
Payton's longest-running rivals are still in the picture.
Former New York Post staffer and regular contributor to the paper’s entertainment pages, Gregory E. Miller passed away June 7 in his home state of Virginia. He was 30.
A tiny police force down in West Virginia touted its new mine-resistant vehicle — amid nationwide calls to demilitarize the local law enforcement, according to reports. The Moundsville Police Department showed off the MRAP, a military vehicle designed to protect soldiers from roadside IEDs, on Thursday, telling local reporters the force could use it for...
We humans like to think we’re the cream of the crop when it comes to animal life on Earth, but the truth is we’re all a bunch of mutts. Many of our ancient ancestors mingled with Neanderthals, and the telltale signs of that “mingling” are still present in our DNA today. We didn’t know that...
In addition to the plate carrying nearly 11 million names, NASA is also sending a tribute to those fighting against COVID-19 to Mars on the Perseverance rover. Scheduled to launch July 20, the space agency said that it would put a small aluminum plate dedicated to those in the medical community as the world deals...
The 49ers are the latest pro team to encounter the COVID-19 pandemic. At least one player participating in a group workout in Nashville has tested positive for the virus, according to the NFL Network. The entire group of players who attended the workout, which included 49ers quarterbacks and various skill position players, was tested Friday...
A restraining order has been issued against David Ortiz by the mother of his son, according to a report in his native Dominican Republic. The Red Sox legend, who was severely wounded after being shot in his homeland one year ago, allegedly has “intimidated and threatened” his ex-partner, Fary Almanzar Fernandez, who filed the protective order...
Even Hill noted the strangeness of their alliance.
Startled residents of Carranza's Prospect Lefferts Garden building peered out of their windows as dozens of protesters amplified their position with the aid of a loudspeaker.
Social media giant Twitter permanently banned controversial British political commentator Katie Hopkins for violating the platform’s “hateful conduct” policy, a report said Friday. The conservative commentator, who has garnered more than a million followers on the platform — had recently lost her “verified” status on the website, the Guardian reported. “Keeping Twitter safe is a...
“It is not the duty of this Court to fashion rules or regulations where none exist,” the court wrote in a unanimous decision.
However, she thinks a male lead should've been chosen sooner.
In celebration of Juneteenth — marking the freeing of the last enslaved Americans, on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas — black artists have exercised their creative freedom with new music. And with June also being Black Music Month, it reminds us that music has always been an important part of the black experience in...
The stepmother of a former Atlanta police officer charged in the killing of Rayshard Brooks was fired from her job at a mortgage company for creating an “uncomfortable working environment,” a report said Friday. Melissa Rolfe, stepmother of former cop Garrett Rolfe, was canned from her job as the human resources director of Equity Prime...
If your house growing up had great snacks, board games and a trampoline – odds are you had the “cool house” on the block. A new study asked 2,000 Americans about their childhoods and what they thought the best houses were made of. For nearly half of respondents, as long as the pantry was stocked...
The white man pummeled to the ground in a viral video taken at a Macy’s in Michigan after allegedly using the N-word is an employee who was assaulted in an “unprovoked” attack, company officials said. Footage of the brutal beatdown Monday at a Macy’s in Flint Township showed a white man being knocked to the...
The popular internet trend is now a game show where teams compete to make it across an obstacle course in a gurgling, lava-filled room.
Celtics center Enes Kanter, a longtime critic of the Turkish government, announced Friday that his father had been freed after spending seven years as a political prisoner. “Wow! I could cry,” Kanter tweeted. “Today I found out that 7 years after arresting my dad, taking him through a Kangaroo court and accusing him of being...
The Buccaneers are the team the rest of the NFL can’t stop thinking about. Except for Jamal Adams. It took the disgruntled for-now Jets star a day to remember the Buccaneers, who were a strange omission from the list of seven teams Adams would welcome landing with now that he has requested a trade. But...
Protesters in Portland, Oregon wrapped a statue of George Washington in an American flag, lit it on fire — then pulled it down Thursday night, according to a report. The demonstrators toppled the towering bronze sculpture of the first US president — who owned slaves in the 1700s — during a protest on the eve...
This summer’s going to be a scorcher. Sweltering, hotter-than-normal temperatures are forecast through the end of August in the US as part of a long-term trend that some researchers say is due to climate change. The blistering heat is likely to hit Mid-Atlantic states — with an increase of up to 2.5 degrees on average...
