CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Who wants to be an astronaut? More than 12,000 people do, resulting in NASA’s second-largest group of astronaut hopefuls. NASA said Wednesday that Americans from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and four US territories applied to be part of the space agency’s next astronaut class. The monthlong application period...
Celebrities like Dax Shepard and Jared Leto are clamoring to play “Tiger King’s” Joe Exotic in a biopic based on the hit Netflix docuseries. Online betters, with sports to wager on, are putting their money on Kevin Bacon in the titular role. But now, Joe himself has offered an opinion on who should play the...
Bell said she didn't exactly know what to think of such comments.
A Missouri man intentionally coughed on fellow shoppers at a store and scrawled “COVID” on a cooler door, police said. John Swaller, 33, of Cuba, about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis, was arrested Tuesday after an employee at a Dollar Tree called cops to report a man was “purposely coughing toward other customers” and...
Norwich defender Timm Klose shared an Instagram story — with a Pornhub tab open on his browser. The Canaries ace posted an Instagram story of himself watching Netflix but eagle-eyed fans spotted that he also had an X-rated tab up on his MacBook. With the Premier League suspended until April 30 due to the coronavirus...
A German mayor said he got infected with coronavirus “almost on purpose” from his partner, in hopes of developing immunity — and learned that the bug was “a lot worse” than he ever thought, according to a new report. Stephan von Dassel, 53, district mayor of Mitte, Berlin’s central borough, told public broadcaster RBB that...
People who receive Social Security benefits and are eligible will receive the $1,200 payment, "as a direct deposit or by paper check, just as they would normally receive their benefits."
Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey is in hospice care after being diagnosed with coronavirus, relatives said. Dempsey, who once held the NFL record for booting a field goal 63 yards when he played with the Saints, began receiving hospice care Wednesday after contracting the virus last month during an outbreak at a senior living center...
America’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was queried about his own health on Thursday as he croaked his way through an interview about the coronavirus crisis. “Are you OK? Your voice does not sound great,” Savannah Guthrie asked the hoarse-sounding doctor who serves on the White House coronavirus task force as he spoke...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned troublemakers who violate coronavirus lockdown rules and abuse medical workers that they would be shot dead.
You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Rangers. Do you think the Jets will still try to pry Trent Williams from the Redskins (for less than...
Domestic violence victims stuck at home amid the coronavirus pandemic and facing economic burdens that the crisis brings with it could experience increased abuse, experts warn. “Something that might have been emotional or financial might turn into physical [abuse],” Crystal Justice, chief development and marketing officer for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, told Axios in...
The Chinese Communist Party disputed the American intelligence community’s conclusion that Beijing hid the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, saying its response was “open and transparent” and accusing the US of fumbling its handling of the pandemic, according to a report. “Some US officials just want to shift the blame,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying...
Nearly 10 million Americans have been put out of work in the past two weeks as the coronavirus pandemic delivered a gut punch to the US economy, new data shows. More than 6.6 million Americans filed initial applications for unemployment benefits last week, nearly doubling the prior week’s record-shattering revised total of 3.3 million, the...
The US Air Force Academy has eased coronavirus social-distancing restrictions after it reported back-to-back suicide deaths of two cadets, according to a report. Some people complained that the rules made the Colorado Springs academy prison-like for the nearly 1,000 seniors who remain on the campus while others complete the year online, according to The Gazette,...
A “healthy and strong” family of four all died of COVID-19 in the same Italian hospital within the same week, according to reports. Blacksmith Alfredo Bertucci, 86, was killed by the disease last Friday — with sons Daniele, 54, and Claudio, 46, also succumbing soon after, Italian daily newspaper il Fatto Quotidiano said. The family’s...
Federal officials have sued to undo tobacco giant Altria's $12.8 billion investment in Juul over concerns that the two companies illegally quashed competition in the e-cigarette industry.
The epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak may return back to its starting point in East Asia, a Singaporean public health expert said Thursday. Although the US is now considered the epicenter of the pandemic — with more than 200,000 cases — “in a month’s time, the epicenter will shift,” Teo Yik Ying, dean of the...
Appleman also talks about saying goodbye to the Syfy show.
The Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen has become the first city in the country to ban the sale and consumption of cat and dog meat amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Armed with prayer books and face masks, New York City hospital chaplains are adapting to their new normal during the coronavirus crisis — “more death” than they have ever seen, and the grim realization that the worst is yet to come. Isolation units are taking over the normally bustling hospital lobbies and waiting rooms, turning...
The New England Patriots' team plane went to China to pick up more than a million N95 medical masks -- with at least 300,000 coming to New York's coronavirus-stricken hospitals
The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine has shown promise in treating the coronavirus – helping to speed up the recovery of a small number of patients suffering a mild form of the illness, according to a report. In a study published online this week, Chinese researchers found that patients who were administered the drug saw their cough,...
Every day is Mother’s Day in this house. Watch as the Lake family cheers on their mom when she gets home from work at the end of each day. The hardworking nurse has been going through stress treating coronavirus patients in Ewloe, Wales, and says she appreciates her family showing her such love in a...
Celebs including Irina Shayk, Wayne Brady and Cara Delevigne make for interesting pairings during the coronavirus pandemic. Kim Kardashian has a new respect for teachers after homeschooling her kids. And Joe Jonas goes “psycho” while isolating according to Sophie Turner — by wearing jeans around the house. Here’s a closer look at today’s stories: Irina...