Biden says GOP’s ‘fear’ of Trump may be reason COVID-19 talks failed
Biden, a longtime former senator, said he believes the Senate may be more willing to pass another pandemic package once Trump is gone.
Biden, a longtime former senator, said he believes the Senate may be more willing to pass another pandemic package once Trump is gone.
A construction worker who died after plunging from a 10-foot ladder in Croatia was actually killed by the coronavirus, doctors said in a report. The unnamed 51-year-old man fell into a yard while building a home earlier this year and suffered cuts and bruises to his head, according to the Journal of Forensic Pathology. The...
Jacksonville fans are organizing to vote former Jaguars edge rusher Yannick Ngakoue into the Pro Bowl, but it’s not out of any sense of nostalgia. Ngakoue was traded from Jacksonville to Minnesota to Baltimore over the past three months, but the Jags will receive an upgrade in draft-pick compensation from a 2021 fifth-rounder to a...
The National Rifle Association agreed to a five-year suspension of its insurance business in New York state and will pay a $2.5 million civil fine to settle charges it offered insurance to members without a license and concealed how it routinely kept some premiums for itself. New York’s Department of Financial Services announced the settlement...
Robinson Cano’s time with the Mets keeps getting worse. The second baseman received a 162-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance, the commissioner’s office announced Wednesday. Cano tested positive for Stanozolol and will forfeit his $24 million salary for next season. Cano will still have two years and $48 million remaining on his...
The Colorado Bureau of Investigations launched a probe Tuesday into potential serial killings after human remains were discovered at two separate properties near a rural town in San Luis Valley. The remains were recovered and are currently being analyzed as part of the identification process, according to CBI. They were found at two sites within...
Megyn Kelly said she yanked her two young sons out of their “woke” Upper West Side private school — where a letter allegedly circulated accusing white people of “reveling in state-sanctioned depravity” and comparing white children to “killer cops.” The offending letter made its rounds among the school’s “diversity group,” which included Kelly and other...
The wife of the first MTA worker to have died of COVID-19 is suing the agency -- claiming the transit authority didn't properly respond to the pandemic, new court papers show.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo quickly unraveled during a press briefing Wednesday, scolding a veteran reporter for what he described was an “obnoxious” and “offensive” tone — and that was just the first question. The governor got heated after Wall Street Journal reporter Jimmy Vielkind asked Cuomo during an afternoon Albany press briefing whether New York City...
A partially blind, elderly woman was mugged while sitting on a park bench in Lower Manhattan Wednesday afternoon, police said. The 85-year-old was sitting on a bench in the Lower East Side at the intersection of Madison and Gouverneur streets just after 1:50 p.m., cops said. The mugger grabbed the woman’s bag and pushed her...
Former Miami Dolphins safety Reshad Jones was arrested early Wednesday in Davie, Fla., for carrying a concealed firearm after police found him smelling of alcohol with a fully loaded handgun in his possession. Police were called shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday after the two-time Pro Bowler was seen walking near a gas station while brandishing...
Goldman Sachs on Wednesday maintained its “overweight” recommendations for commodities in 2021, reasoning the sector was possibly the best hedge against likely inflation and poised for another bull market. The bank forecast a return of about 27 percent over a 12-month period on the S&P/Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, with a 19.2 percent return for precious...
Police arrested three former Hong Kong opposition lawmakers Wednesday for disrupting legislative meetings earlier this year, as China continues to dismantle the city’s guarantees of political autonomy. Eddie Chu, Raymond Chan and Ted Hui were each arrested by Hong Kong police Wednesday morning for splashing pungent liquids and other items during meetings in Hong Kong’s...
A Utah lawmaker wants to clear drivers of criminal liability if they accidentally injure or kill protesters during a riot under certain conditions. The proposed legislation by Republican state Rep. Jon Hawkins “eliminates criminal responsibility” of a motorist for injuring or fatally wounding someone during a riot if the driver feared for their life and...
The original sin of the Brodie Van Wagenen administration or, perhaps more correctly, the final years of the House of Wilpon, was trading Jarred Kelenic for Edwin Diaz, Robinson Cano and the final five years of Cano’s contract. That trade looked all the worse Wednesday when MLB announced Cano had been suspended for the entire...
A missing 9-year-old boy has been found safe after he got lost for two days in the woods in Tennessee without a jacket or shoes, authorities said. Jordan Gorman had been missing since Sunday from his home in Ashland City, around 23 miles from Nashville, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. When he left...
Tens of thousands of employees in the industry are set to benefit from an arbitrator's September ruling, which forces roughly 75 hotel owners to cough up severance and health care benefits to their workers.
Frustrated Democrats are venting to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over the party’s failure to retake the majority in the November elections. Schumer was on the receiving end of an extended gripe-fest in two conference calls over the disappointing results in which the Democrats picked up only one seat when Joe Biden won the presidency...
Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion allegedly got into a tiff while driving in an SUV.
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Scores of President Trump’s supporters rallied outside the Georgia Capitol building on Wednesday ahead of a late-night deadline to recount ballots that are projected to show him losing the state to Joe Biden. The protesters waved American and Trump campaign flags and signs with messages that included “STOP THE STEAL,” according to video clips posted...
Reading the tea leaves at Northern Illinois can lead to one conclusion — the Huskies are in trouble. Two games, two lopsided losses already in 2020, continuing a troubling downturn for the program that can be traced to last year’s hire of coach Thomas Hammock. Oddsmakers are noticing the same thing, a main reason Ball...
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Four people were shot in three separate incidents across the city on Tuesday, with no additional gun violence reported so far Wednesday, according to cops. In the most recent incident, around 5 p.m., a 41-year-old man was shot once in the left leg and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx by private means,...