In memoriam: The Woman Who Beat the Studios Olivia de Havilland, who died this week at age 104, “was the last great living female star of the movies’ golden age,” mourns Todd Purdum at The Atlantic. Her “radiant visage and sinuous voice” in such classics as “Gone With the Wind” (1939) and “The Adventures of...
PHILADELPHIA — Anthony Santella, a public health scientist and health services researcher specializing in infectious disease prevention and control, recalled his reaction upon hearing of organized sports’ plans to return to action. “I was like, ‘We’re moving too fast,’” Dr. Santella, who teaches at Hofstra University, said in a telephone interview Monday. “…It was inevitable...
Arizona State swimmers have chosen to redshirt rather than compete during the 2020-21 school year, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “With all the uncertainty going on around everything, it just makes sense to me that we could give everybody a year to rebuild, get into a training mode, focus on preparing for next summer’s...
The star reportedly welcomed a baby girl named Willa with husband Joe Jonas on July 22.
Who, at long last, is behind all the witchy Satanic sacrificial infanticide in smalltown Spain?
So much for Democratic enthusiasm for Joe Biden. A co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign vividly described how she feels about choosing between Biden and President Trump — likening it to only having to eat half a bowl of excrement. “It’s like saying to somebody, ‘You have a bowl of s–t in front of you,...
This mailman delivered some smiles. A family in England wanted to see what would happen if they left a hopscotch game drawn on the sidewalk leading up to their house. Fortunately for them, one of the neighborhood mailmen was in a playful mood. Jessica Hamersteen said the mailman who hopscotched his way up to the...
A Manhattan congressman is urging the state to pull Revel scooters off the streets — after reading The Post’s coverage of a near-fatal collision involving one of the rental mopeds in his district over the weekend. “A situation like this could have easily turned fatal,” Rep. Adriano Espaillat said in a letter Monday to state...
Mayor Bill de Blasio tanked at a city pool Monday — when a female swimmer shouted at him, “We love you, Cuomo!” Making the situation even more sticky for Hizzoner, when he told the woman his name wasn’t Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she replied, “Oh. What is it?’’ The embarrassing incident unfolded as de Blasio, who...
Ford’s latest 4×4 can go places even the new Bronco can’t reach. The automaker is using a robot “dog’ built by Boston Dynamics to help update its Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich. “Fluffy” has been equipped with a four-camera scanning device that will create a 3D map of the facility and all...
A newlywed couple and at least eight other people who attended their wedding in San Francisco contracted COVID-19, even though they tied the knot on Zoom without their guests after the church was ordered to stop the proceedings, according to a report.
More money, more problems.
A second teen died Monday after being hit by gunfire in a drive-by shooting while playing basketball on a Brooklyn court over the weekend, police said. The senseless violence broke out just after 6:40 p.m. when a gunman popped out of the sunroof of a dark-colored Honda SUV and opened fire into the George Walker...
However, HBO Max doesn’t provide numbers to back up that claim.
A shark of “significant size” was spotted off Hempstead, LI, on Monday — prompting local beach closures, officials said. The town tweeted out an alert in the early afternoon saying, “A significant size shark was spotted offshore of Lido West Beach. “The shark was spotted by a Town of Hempstead lifeguard on a surfboard. Due...
New York Attorney General Letitia James went back on her word when she approved a much-criticized class-action settlement between Harvey Weinstein and a number of his accusers, a lawyer for one of his other victims claims.
This is the shocking moment the hand of a 7-year-old boy Chinese boy who was sucked into a cave while swimming in a river popped out of the ground and grabbed by his grandfather, according to a report. The youngster was feared to have died after being swept underground as he swam in the fast-moving...
Fresh off their first practice in Toronto, Islanders players say they are confident in the bubble system the NHL has set up, even as they watch Major League Baseball’s coronavirus struggles from afar. “They’ve been doing such a good job throughout the league … you see all the precautions that we’ve been going through,” said...
Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon let his musical alter ego rip over the weekend after finally settling long-running fraud claims against his firm for $3.9 billion. Solomon dropped his beats for a field of well-heeled Hamptonites in Water Mill, NY, on Saturday, where his electronic dance music persona, DJ D-Sol, performed for a drive-in...
Pasta facade cabinets and giant pens and bowls of billiard balls, oh my!
Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving is making sure WNBA players who opted out will have some income despite not receiving their salary. Irving on Monday launched the $1.5 million KAI Empowerment Initiative, which will be supplementing the income of players choosing to opt out either because of coronavirus concerns or social justice issues in a...
The four-night broadcast event will be July 30 through Aug. 2.
That’s one way to stay active during a pandemic. An English man took a picture of himself “playing” badminton with the NEOWISE comet above the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England, British news agency SWNS reports. Laurence Douglas-Greene said he wanted to create an image no one had seen yet, despite the comet having been visible...
Seasons are visibly changing on the famous ringed planet.
