Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pledging to push through tighter gun legislation following the country’s deadliest mass shooting. As the death toll in the Nova Scotia massacre over the weekend continued to rise — it has grown to at least 23 fatalities — Trudeau promised new bans on “assault-style weapons.” “I can say that...
Carl Banks, the last linebacker the Giants drafted in the first round 36 long years ago, would embrace Dave Gettleman ending the streak with Clemson’s Isaiah Simmons … but he recognizes the need to keep Daniel Jones safe and sound at the same time with one of the elite offensive tackles. “I think they have...
The NewsGuild said Sports Illustrated’s management at the Maven agreed to voluntarily recognize the union — but there is still resentment within the editorial ranks over the recent downsizing that was further stoked by the April 10 firing of veteran soccer writer Grant Wahl. That suggests negotiations could be tense. “We are please[d] that Maven...
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Nylon, a cutting-edge pop culture and fashion magazine at its launch over 20 years ago, has scaled back on its ambitious plans to relaunch in print. But it’s nevertheless coming back from the dead this week as a digital edition through new owner Bustle Digital Group. It’s debuting with a music issue that has Maya...
Small business workers in Georgia — including hair stylists — should get “creative” in order to safety operate when they are allowed to reopen on Friday, Dr. Deborah Birx said Tuesday. Birx, a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, was asked by a reporter at the daily press briefing how to practice proper...
J-ROD as the royal couple of Flushing? Embrace the potential thrill ride, Mets fans. Just root for some guardrails. Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez seem to be putting together a legitimate bid to buy the Mets, baseball’s most distressed asset, with The Post’s Thornton McEnery reporting the three-time Most Valuable Player A-Rod and three-time MTV...
She was saved by silicon. A woman survived a close-range gunshot thanks to her silicone breast implants, doctors have discovered. Researchers detailed how a silicone breast implant deflected the bullet from nipping the 30-year-old woman’s vital organs in a new study published in the SAGE medical journal. “The implant caused the change in the trajectory...
The drugs used for executions are the same used to sedate and immobilize people put on ventilators and to treat their pain -- sedatives, pain killers and, occasionally, paralytics.
“I don’t think I’ve paid for marijuana in 50 years … I can afford to give it away.”
Baseball, football, basketball and hockey all face common obstacles as these respective sports leagues spitball plans that would allow for either the 2020 opening of MLB and the NFL or the 2020-21 resumption of the NBA and NHL. But there is a distinction that the NHL will have to address if it does indeed become...
Breakfast is proving the rare bright spot in the coronavirus advertising slump. Companies that help provide the first meal of the day, like cereal makers, upped their ad spending more than 13 percent from February to March as more quarantined Americans suddenly find the time they need to eat breakfast, according to a new report....
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that President Trump pledged to help New York double its coronavirus testing capacity to 40,000 a day. The president committed to making the federal government responsible for sourcing the testing materials during the pair’s Oval Office meeting earlier in the day, Cuomo said. The Empire State, meanwhile, will focus on...
The novel coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different genetic variations, according to a new study in China. The results showed that medical officials have vastly underestimated the overall ability of the virus to mutate, in finding that different strains have affected different parts of the world, leading to potential difficulties in finding an overall...
"If you could handle a locked skirt you can handle a locked-down country.”
If you thought the pandemic would see Mayor Bill de Blasio show a more unifying, dignified side of himself, well, you thought wrong. Witness his call for New Yorkers to report alleged lockdown violations. Rather than inspiring people to come together against a common foe, Hizzoner’s approach and tone would turn us all into grade-school...
Owners of many shuttered Big Apple restaurants are less worried about making rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic than they are about customer-density rules likely to be put in place once they reopen. Le Bernardin chef and co-owner Eric Ripert is hopeful that he can work with his landlord to keep the great, three-Michelin-star seafood...
Howie Rose can’t swear that Cardozo High gave the students the day off on April 22, 1970 in order to celebrate the first-ever Earth Day, which will celebrate its golden anniversary Wednesday. But there was a terrible overcrowding problem that spring at many of the city’s schools. Many were divided into two sessions; Rose was...
MONT SAINT-MICHEL, France — The sound of prayer flowed around the centuries-old abbey atop the Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal islet amidst vast sandbanks off France’s northwest coast, drifting down towards its deserted alleyways and past empty restaurants. In normal times, the mount draws more than 2 million visitors a year. Now it lies empty except...
Many working people are expecting greatly reduced or no wages in 2020. The US Treasury wisely extended the tax-payment deadline to July, but that only solved half the problem. Now, millions of households and small businesses will owe taxes on their 2019 income at exactly the time when they can least afford it: when the...
The coronavirus outbreak in Los Angeles County is believed to have infected at least 200,000 people by early April, which would far surpass the number of officially confirmed cases, according to a report on Monday. A large scale study by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health found...
It’s been over a month since the Defense Department instituted a travel ban and issued new policy requiring social distancing wherever possible throughout the force, but the spread of coronavirus among troops continues unabated. Since late March, the services have averaged between 100 and 200 new cases daily among service members. The most recent count,...
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it’s “an interesting debate” whether large firms should get small-business coronavirus relief loans. “The main purpose obviously of this small business program was small businesses,” McConnell said Tuesday. “On the other hand, you could make an argument that if my job was lost, the size of my...