A driver has been charged with murder in the UK because a woman he allegedly ran over died almost three months later — after getting infected with the coronavirus in her hospital bed, according to reports. Robert Barrow, 54, was initially released on bail soon after his arrest for allegedly knocking down Tahereh Pirali-Dashti, 40,...
The head of the FDNY EMS union blasted Mayor Bill de Blasio for promising first responders a ticker-tape parade to celebrate their heroic efforts to combat the coronavirus without pledging to increase their pay. “A parade does not put a roof over the heads of our men and women,” said Oren Barzilay, president of Local...
A lack of homegrown talent is one of the first problems general manager Dave Gettleman identifies when he looks at how far the Giants defense has fallen since the last Super Bowl win. Spending $80 million in free agency over the life of four contracts, as the Giants did last month, will plug some holes,...
While Boston mayor Marty Walsh looks to keep his city safe during the coronavirus pandemic, he is also challenged with keeping his city sane amid the dismantling of the New England Patriots. After losing franchise quarterback Tom Brady to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the end of March, April hasn’t been any more kind to...
Former Jets receiver Percy Harvin is eyeing another return to the league. “I’m ready to return to the NFL,” the free-agent wide receiver, who hasn’t played since 2016, told ESPN Wednesday. “I thought I was done, but that itch came back. I’ve been training with a former Olympian. My body is feeling good. Mentally I’m...
A 7-year-old Colorado boy who found a shotgun in his home accidentally opened fire on his 3-year-old sister, killing her, police said.
A Democratic state representative in Georgia announced he will not complete his current term a week after he got blowback for endorsing President Trump, saying he is “leaving the plantation,” an expression popularized by African American conservatives and independents. “I’m sick and tired of me and my family being attacked and harassed by the Democrat...
NYPD officers lined the streets and applauded Wednesday as hundreds of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who traveled from out of state to treat the city’s coronavirus patients left for their final shifts before going home. The front-line workers filed out of the Park Central Hotel in Midtown just after 6 a.m., as mask-wearing...
LIMA – Peru’s hospitals are straining to deal with a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 infections, with bodies being kept in hallways, masks being repeatedly reused and protests breaking out amongst medical workers concerned over their safety. Peru has the second-highest number of cases in South America after Brazil, despite a tough lockdown...
Streaming giant Netflix gave its top brass a hefty pay day in 2019. Netflix founder and chief executive Reed Hastings saw his compensation jump 7 percent to $38.6 million last year, versus pay of $36.1 million in 2018, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. Hastings’ No. 2, Ted Sarandos, the company’s chief content officer, got...
Romania has made millions in handing out strict fines over the past month to people who failed to comply with coronavirus restrictions. Citizens of the southeastern European country must fill out an official form before they leave home explaining why they have gone out, which has to be presented with an identification card if stopped...
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. on Tuesday reported revenue that demolished Wall Street's expectations as millions of hunkered-down users stared at its app amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Sandy Alderson’s Tim Tebow signing as Mets general manager was deemed by some as purely a publicity stunt. But that doesn’t come close to another move Alderson tried to make that didn’t come to fruition. With Michael Jordan a constant topic these days as ESPN airs “The Last Dance” documentary about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls,...
“This was not somebody off the street, this was Daymond John"
And then there was one. Julian Edelman remains on the Patriots roster as of Wednesday, following Tuesday’s shocking trade of Rob Gronkowski to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where the once-retired tight end will reunite with former quarterback Tom Brady. Brady first reacted to the news on social media and it seems Edelman did, too. As...
US stocks and oil prices rebounded Wednesday as the US government and several states unleashed fresh initiatives to combat the coronavirus fallout, including nearly $500 billion in federal stimulus. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 475.73 points, or 2 percent, to 23,494.61 in early trading after shedding more than 1,200 points in...
"It's been really funny having both my parents at the house where they like raised us," she said.
Projected top-10 NFL Draft 2020 pick Tua Tagovailoa, who has drawn concerns due to his durability, has two members of the media in a serious feud. The Athletic’s Mike Lombardi reported in early April that the Alabama quarterback had failed two physicals from teams and had broken his wrist the first day of spring practice...
Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed Wednesday that the city’s annual Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show “will go on” — despite suggesting a day earlier that the blowout in New York Harbor may not happen because of the coronavirus crisis. “There’s a lot of things were going to have to work through, but what we...
Stephen Hawking’s family has donated the famed physicist’s ventilator to a hospital in Cambridge to help treat coronavirus patients, according to a report. Hawking’s daughter Lucy said the Royal Papworth Hospital was “incredibly important” to her father, who had often been treated there before dying of motor neurone disease in 2018 at the age of...
There is “no chance” former First Lady Michelle Obama will be Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, according to a top Obama adviser and friend of the family. Former Obama White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Tuesday that Obama would not consider being Biden’s vice president in an interview with The Hill, telling...
A veteran Detroit nurse was fired for speaking out on staffing ratios and poor conditions at a hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic, a new lawsuit claims. In court papers filed Monday, Kenisa Barkai, 38, alleges her March 27 termination from Detroit Medical Center’s Sinai-Grace Hospital was retaliation for airing her concerns beginning a month earlier...