The US will need to scale up to 20 million coronavirus tests per day by mid-summer in order to safely lift lockdowns, according to a Harvard panel of experts in health, science and economics. The new report released from Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics said that an approach that gradually ramps up testing...
Fido may get frantic when the coronavirus quarantining ends.
Video-game sales exploded last month as the coronavirus forced millions worldwide to hunker down at home looking for something to do. March spending on video game hardware, software and accessories jumped 35 percent from a year earlier to $1.6 billion — reversing a seven-month streak of declines to hit the highest March total since 2008,...
An alleged meth dealer who was spared from jail in March because of coronavirus concerns — but blew the opportunity by cutting off his ankle monitor — is getting another shot at freedom. Rasedur Raihan, 22, was granted release from a federal lockup in Queens on Tuesday on a $100,000 bond and will again be...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he pressed President Trump on testing during a "productive" Oval Office meeting on Tuesday afternoon, just days after they had an enormous row on Twitter and national television.
New Yorkers have been playing golf again since Gov. Andrew Cuomo relaxed the restrictions last Friday and made it possible for courses to reopen. Many Connecticut golf courses have been open during the entire coronavirus crisis. New Jersey golf courses, which have been closed down for the past couple of weeks since Gov. Phil Murphy...
Two Queens natives had a face-to-face at the White House on Tuesday — President Trump and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The pair met for a rare sit-down in the Oval Office to discuss coronavirus testing. The governor has asked Trump for more help from the feds on testing, seen as the next big step...
It's about time.
The venerable improv comedy troupe, founded in 1990 by a group including future "Saturday Night Live" stand-out Amy Poehler, reportedly announced Tuesday that both its Hell's Kitchen theater and its 8th Avenue training center have closed for good.
The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic expected this winter could be deadlier than the current pandemic — even as more states push to reopen their economies and lift their stay-at-home orders. “There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus...
On the day of his introductory press conference, Jets general manager Joe Douglas laid out what he is looking for in players. “We’re going to find passionate people that love the game of football, that hate losing more than they love winning, that love to prepare, that love to practice, that love to compete,” Douglas...
The $484 billion bill is the fourth large coronavirus deal since last month — and comes after a political standoff caused a lapse last week in the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program, which gives businesses loans that will be forgiven if they don't lay off workers.
As the streaming wars kick it up to the next level with Peacock and soon HBO Max on the battlefield, a surging Netflix made it very apparent who is still king, in no small part thanks to the success of “Tiger King” and the return of “Money Heist.” In an investor letter released today for...
Parents are dueling over how city kids will be graded this year with schools upended by the coronavirus crisis. Some are calling for the Department of Education to pass all students regardless of performance and to suspend grades completely. Natasha Capers of the Coalition for Educational Justice said that students have been subjected to unprecedented...
Layoffs have come to New York City’s largest charter school operator. Success Academy has let 105 staffers go due to the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, according to Eva Moskowitz, the network’s CEO. The layoffs were handed out to employees in “non-core positions,” which exclude teachers, and represent 4 percent of the network’s roughly...
Chipotle is paying a record $25 million fine to settle criminal charges that its burrito joints sickened more than 1,100 people over a three-year period because of lax food-safety practices, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. The fast-food chain made headlines repeatedly between 2015 and 2018 for multi-state food-borne illness outbreaks — including one that...
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Lucky fans of "Friends" will have the opportunity to attend the upcoming reunion special for the iconic NBC sitcom.
The 400-year-old San Fermín festival in Pamplona won't take place in July as planned.