Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that both his Press Secretary Freddi Goldstein and Communications Director Wiley Norvell are leaving City Hall. Bill Neidhardt, spokesman for former presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will be taking Goldstein’s place later this month. “I’ve watched Freddi and Wiley rise through the ranks, lead their teams and...
"It's like a glory hole for your hands."
Campus beat: Research Isn’t Advocacy Michigan State University leaders forced physics professor Stephen Hsu to give up his position as vice president of research and innovation after he touted an MSU study that found police aren’t more likely to shoot African-Americans, reports Brittany Slaughter at The College Fix. Pressure came from MSU President Samuel Stanley...
One AFC East coach doesn’t expect to spend much time game-planning for Cam Newton. Even though the Patriots just signed Newton — a former league MVP, No. 1 overall pick, Heisman Trophy winner and quarterback of the NFC champion Panthers less than five years ago — one rival coach believes Bill Belichick will still opt...
Here’s something worth drinking to. A recently published study shows that while drinking alcohol isn’t necessarily healthy, there are some benefits associated with low to moderate drinking. That doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t any risks associated with drinking, even if it isn’t heavy or regular. The study, conducted by researchers from the University of...
This will really boost spirits in Iowa! The Hawkeye State has become the first in the nation to permanently allow bars to sell booze to-go — a popular service that was supposed to be temporary to help watering holes survive the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Monday that she’d signed a bill allowing bars...
Tesla’s market value sped past Toyota’s on Wednesday, making Elon Musk’s electric car company the most valuable automaker on earth. Tesla’s stock, which has been surging all year, climbed 4 percent ahead of its upcoming second quarter delivery numbers and hit an all-time high of $1,135.33. The spike brings its market cap just shy of...
Fyre Festival 2.0? MLS is set to hold a tournament next week inside a bubble-like atmosphere at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. but players on site are already complaining about their inclusive $65 lunch meals. Toronto FC players Omar Gonzalez shared an image of a sandwich, banana and an unknown side Wednesday, and the pictured...
Prague went off-menu for this celebration. People in the Czech capital broke bread together around a 1,600-foot table on Tuesday night to give the coronavirus pandemic a “symbolic farewell.” Residents gathered at the massive table — set up along the famed 14th-century Charles Bridge — after the government eased restrictions on large gatherings. “The bridge...
An Oklahoma police officer died this week — and another is in critical condition — after they were shot multiple times while conducting a traffic stop, according to a new report. Sgt. Craig Johnson, 45, a 15-year-veteran of the Tulsa Police Department, and Officer Aurash Zarkeshan, a 26-year-old rookie who only began patrol six weeks...
Cops were guarding City Hall — and she was working the “beat.” A protester gave police officers an energetic dance show at the Occupy City Hall demonstration Tuesday night — twerking to live drum beats in front of cops guarding the building, video shows. The dancer is shown booty-poppin’ and busting out other New Orleans-style...
Chad Daybell, the husband of doomsday-obsessed cult mom Lori Vallow, is facing upgraded charges after the mangled remains of his two stepchildren were found buried in his Idaho backyard, officials said Wednesday. Daybell was charged with two felony counts of conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence late Tuesday, shortly after Vallow appeared...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo went on a rant about President Trump Wednesday, saying the commander-in-chief has been “in denial” of coronavirus since the outbreak in the US began — and that it’s time for him to “change course,” “tell the truth” and “put a mask on it.” “He was in denial of the COVID...
However, the president stopped short of supporting a nationwide order to make them mandatory in public because there are "many places in the country where people stay very long distance."
Let’s take a snapshot of roughly 60 games from last year. The 68 days from May 9 to July 16, a period that covered the All-Star break. Narrow it further to just the AL West. If that period were the whole season, the A’s (38-23) and Astros (37-22) would have tied for the division title...
The unnerving incident sent homeowners running out of the Tinton Falls abode just before 11 a.m., ABC reports.
A coronavirus patient in France suffered a four-hour erection due to a blood clot that may have been triggered by the illness, doctors have warned. The 62-year-old man experienced the painful condition known as priapism while in the intensive care unit at a Le Chesnay hospital, according to a case report in The American Journal...
The coronavirus appears to have been circulating at low levels in the Big Apple since early February — about a month before the first case was confirmed in the city, new research reveals. A study published this week, based on more than 5,000 plasma samples collected from patients at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital, revealed that...
Whenever I go back home to Missouri, family and friends ask me, “What do you like most about New York?” The list is lengthy, I reply. Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is up there, of course, and nothing beats that magical feel of Manhattan around Christmastime. But near the top would be the men and women of...
A mayor in Colombia has turned in his own son to the police for breaking a statewide curfew and liquor ban to slow the spread of coronavirus. Carlos Higgins Villanueva, the mayor of the small town of Juan de Acosta in the northern state of Atlantico, said he personally led his son, his nephew and...
MOSCOW — Russian voters approved changes to the constitution that will allow President Vladimir Putin to hold power until 2036, but the weeklong plebiscite that concluded Wednesday was tarnished by widespread reports of pressure on voters and other irregularities. With the nation’s polls closed and 30% of all precincts counted, 74% voted for the constitutional...
The new version of the venerable true-crime docuseries doesn't have a host and looks more like a lot of Netflix's other true-crime shows. But that doesn't mean it's not worth watching.
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday approved an amendment to ban the display of the Confederate battle flag on all Defense Department property. The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act was introduced by Democratic Maryland Rep. Anthony Brown, an Iraq War vet, and includes exceptions for museum exhibits, state-approved license plates and the...
“Yeah, we put a wet spaghetti noodle on the toilet once a night.”
