The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a one-week government funding bill to allow COVID-19 relief talks to continue until Dec. 18. All Democrats and most Republicans supported the measure. Sixty-six Republicans and Libertarian Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan voting against it. The Senate is expected to consider the legislation Thursday ahead of a...
Here's the story behind Mary's unconventional marriage.
An eccentric man builds his own island and proclaims sovereignty, much to the chagrin of tight-sphinctered officials.
If you’re still looking to secure a last-minute gift for someone special on your list, a quick browse through Nordstrom Rack’s gifting options will certainly help you lock down the perfect present. The Rack has savings on a variety of goodies everyone on your list will want. From designer bags to fabulous footwear and even...
Power couple Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are selling their Tribeca home for $40 million, The Post has learned. “They are in contract to sell and the deal is expected to close soon,” a source said. The buyer, we hear, is a New York and Connecticut-based financier. And they are making a killing on the sale...
WASHINGTON — Seventeen states on Wednesday filed a brief with the Supreme Court siding with a Texas lawsuit against four battleground states Joe Biden won — charging that they acted unlawfully by changing their election laws. President Trump’s campaign also announced that the commander-in-chief was joining the suit, alleging that his “rights as a candidate”...
SINGAPORE – A Royal Caribbean “cruise-to-nowhere” from Singapore began disembarking its nearly 1,700 passengers who were confined to their cabins for more than 16 hours on Wednesday after a COVID-19 case was detected onboard, forcing the ship back to port. All passengers aboard the Quantum of the Seas had cleared a mandatory polymerase chain reaction...
Muriel Soenens calls the Long Island Rail Road her "WeWork on wheels."
Collins and Cevey continue to battle it out.
Six people were injured when a van and a school bus crashed in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, officials said. Four of the injured people were taken to an area hospital and two were treated on the scene after the crash at 3:08 p.m. at Flushing and Lee avenues in Williamsburg, an NYPD spokesman said. The cause...
Swing and a miss! Manny Ramirez’s season as a player-coach with the Australian Baseball League’s Sydney Blue Sox is getting started, though it seems Manny being Manny isn’t something that translates down under. In a video posted by Yankees hitting coach Rachel Balkovec — working with the Blue Sox this season — Ramirez shows being...
"I was trying too hard to lose the weight quickly and probably wasn’t taking care of myself.”
The founder of a thriving British tech firm has doled out more than $1 billion to lucky employees in the past decade, making dozens of them millionaires, according to a report. Matt Moulding, who founded Manchester-based The Hut Group in 2004, said roughly 430 employees at the e-commerce company have received free shares in the...
A key City Council committee easily signed off on plans Wednesday for a dramatic redevelopment of the Queens waterfront in Flushing, potentially bringing more than a dozen high rises with apartments and hotel rooms to land currently used for storage and parking lots. The vote came after the project’s developers struck a deal with two...
Not even a deadly global pandemic could keep millions of people from travelling to celebrate America’s favorite holiday. Eighty percent of the nation’s counties saw more travel than last year, Bloomberg reported Wednesday — despite pleas from the CDC to stay home amid rising rates of COVID-19. The cellphone location data compiled by SafeGraph shows...
The hedge fund tied to a billionaire who last year got caught on a viral video bragging to a New York City cabby about his wealth just got slammed with a massive fine for two-timing its investors. BlueCrest Capital Management — co-founded by Michael Platt, a UK-based hedge-fund manager who in a December 2019 video...
A billionaire who last year got caught on a viral video bragging to a New York City cabbie about his wealth just got slammed with a massive fine for cheating his investors. Michael Platt — a UK-based hedge fund manager who, in a December 2019 video boasted to his taxi driver that he was “the...
Canada’s health regulator on Wednesday approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it the third country to authorize the use of the shot – as the green-lighting of the vaccine in the US is still at least another day away. Health Canada announced that the vaccine made by the US drugmaker in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech has...
Coach K isn’t sure about this. On the heels of his Duke squad’s second loss in three games (83-68 to Illinois) — and the other half of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge (Virginia-Michigan State) being called off, Mike Krzyzewski called into question the absurdity of the ongoing college basketball season. “I would just like for the...
A federal judge ordered the release of millionaire pharmaceutical executive Gigi Jordan to home confinement Wednesday after tossing her conviction for killing her 8-year-old autistic son with a fatal dose of pills. US Magistrate Judge Sarah Cave said Jordan, 60, would be sprung on a $250,000 bond after she’s outfitted with an electronic ankle monitor...
A Hawaiian Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing on Monday morning, the airline confirmed to Fox News. The flight departed from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 9:44 a.m. on Monday headed to Kahului Airport on the island of Maui. About 20 minutes into the flight, the engines malfunctioned, Hawaiian said in a statement emailed...
Chris Flexen, the former Mets draft pick who spent the 2020 season in Korea, will return to the major leagues on a two-year, $4.75-million deal with the Mariners, The Post has learned. Michael Mayer of Metsmerized first reported that Flexen would sign with the Mariners. The 26-year-old, selected by the Mets in the 14th round...
This decision will fuel conspiracy theories that the Big Ten put 14 teams through a football season previously considered too risky for players’ health just to get Ohio State into the College Football Playoff. The conference voted Wednesday to eliminate the six-game minimum requirement for participation in the Big Ten championship game, meaning Ohio State...
Any way you cut it, Joe Biden looks to have picked a real winner for agriculture secretary. Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, whose name has been reported as Biden’s likely agro pick, hit the lottery for $150,000 earlier this year. He matched five of the six numbers in the Jan. 22 Powerball drawing. Vilsack bought...
