A Wall Street bank just put a price tag on racism in America, and it’s a steep one. New York-based megabank Citigroup found that the US economy has lost out on $16 trillion in growth over the last 20 years because of discriminatory policies in wage growth, education access, homeownership, and lending to minority-owned businesses....
Note to nostalgia hounds: The banana clip is back. Fashionistas and hypebeasts have tunneled their way through early aughts and ’90s fashion trends over the past few years— think low-rise jeans, Paul Frank tees and platform slides. But now they’re starting to borrow from an earlier era: the 1980s. Shoulder pads, acid-wash denim — as...
Robert Cascalenda, who joined the force in 2008, says that he has a birth defect that makes him prone to getting pancreatitis when he takes prescription drugs.
The collection includes several pricy sheep sculptures.
Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham, Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez all trust their faces to Hollywood dermatologist Dr. Harold Lancer.
A black Los Angeles police officer remained calm and composed while a group of angry protesters taunted him with racial slurs — coming within inches of his face, video shows. The stoic cop, wearing glasses and a helmet, remains stone-faced as at least three protesters — two of them wearing costume masks — yell at...
They have all taken turns as NBA playoff heroes in the Orlando bubble: the Heat’s Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo, Nuggets’ Jamal Murray and Lakers’ Anthony Davis. They have three things in common. The four players are still in the NBA’s Final Four. Each once wore Kentucky blue. And all graduated from Kenny Payne University....
The sharp coronavirus-related decline in passenger volume across North American airports has “been a boon” for traveler satisfaction, according to a new J.D. Power survey. Results of the 2020 North America Airport Satisfaction Study indicate that satisfaction within such airports has “risen sharply” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, J.D. Power said Wednesday. In...
Air travelers coming to New York from Europe will be required to fill out state-issued COVID-19 contact tracing forms after the CDC nixed its own screenings earlier this month.
Taco Bell saved Steve Smith’s life. As a wide receiver at Santa Monica City College in the late 1990s, the future five-time Pro Bowler worked at the fast food restaurant. If not for the job he initially took to help him pay for a homecoming dance, Smith said he likely would have been shot by...
The state Health Department would finally have to reveal how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19 after being sent to hospitals, under a pair of bills introduced in the state Senate on Thursday. Separate pieces of legislation from both sides of the aisle aim to close a loophole through which only fatalities that actually...
B&G Foods said Thursday it would drop an image of a black chef from the packaging of its Cream of Wheat cereal mix, the latest company to make changes to branding widely considered as racially insensitive. Companies including Mars and PepsiCo are changing names and branding of some of their products that are rooted in...
After witnessing what was probably the worst season of “The Bachelor” ever, ABC is wiping away the stain of Juan Pablo Galavis by giving fans exactly what they want – a new season of “The Bachelorette,” of course. The tenth installment of the reality smash, which is set to bow on May 19 at 9...
Enceladus, Saturn’s mysterious moon that could support life, could be more geologically active than previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published in the scientific journal Icarus, looked at new images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and found the northern hemisphere of Enceladus has been resurfaced with ice. In 2005, Cassini observed that the...
Chloe Dygert’s individual time trial at the cycling world championships went horribly wrong. The 10-time world champion and 2016 Olympic silver medalist was in pole position for another title with less than half of her run in Imola, Italy remaining. But as Dygert rounded a turn, she lost control of her bike and hit a...
A female pickup-truck driver revved her engine before racing through a group of Breonna Taylor protesters in upstate New York — peeling away after hitting a cyclist, according to video and reports. The Dodge truck was caught in numerous videos revving its engines as it drove toward dozens of demonstrators who were blocking traffic outside...
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A Brooklyn deli owner was stabbed three times in the neck by robbers Thursday, police sources said. The 44-year-old deli owner was behind the counter at Friendship Deli at 5 Bradford Street in Cypress Hills around 2:45 p.m. when the man and woman came behind the counter and stabbed him, the sources said. The two...
If the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement are not met, the Antarctic ice sheet will melt, resulting in global sea levels rising to the point where humanity will have to “give up … New York,” according to a new study. The research, published in Nature, notes that if temperatures rise 35.6 degrees Farenheit,...
A Japanese artist designed a "ramen mask" so his glasses stop fogging up because of his face mask.
Clarke Schmidt is being lined up to start the Yankees’ season finale and that could be an audition for him being part of the postseason roster if the Yanks advance beyond the first round. Schmidt would start Sunday against the Marlins. If that goes well, the Yankees would think about adding him to the roster...
WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday rebuked the “appalling” booing of President Trump by mourners as he paid his respects to late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I think the chants were appalling but certainly to be expected when you’re in the heart of the swamp,” press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters during a White...
A leading Republican congressman demanded Thursday that the FBI reveal whether it’s investigating allegations of “potential criminal activity” by the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. In a two-page letter, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to write back regarding what he called the “explosive report”...
The FBI issued a warning to “raise awareness” of the threat posed by disinformation in the wake of the 2020 elections. The goal of foreign interlopers and cybercriminals would be to use bogus websites and social media “in an attempt to discredit the electoral process and undermine confidence in U.S. democratic institutions,” the FBI and...
>A federal judge on Thursday tossed a lawsuit filed by former Playboy model Karen McDougal that claimed she was defamed by Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s comments about her alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006. Carlson had accused McDougal of shaking down Trump for $150,000 in exchange for her silence about an alleged 10-month...
