LONDON — The partner of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday his life is in danger while he is held in a London prison during the coronavirus lockdown. Assange is fighting a request by the United States to extradite him to stand trial for conspiring to hack government computers and espionage, but hearings scheduled...
RIO DE JANEIRO -— In Brazil’s bustling Amazon city of Manaus, so many people have died within days in the coronavirus pandemic that coffins had to be stacked on top of each other in long, hastily dug trenches in a city cemetery. Some despairing relatives reluctantly chose cremation for loved ones to avoid burying them...
Sixth in a series analyzing the New York Mets. Michael Conforto appeared to finally have it all figured out late in the 2017 season. Fresh off his first All-Star appearance, after an inexplicable sophomore slump that bounced him between Triple-A Las Vegas and Citi Field, the Mets outfielder was on his way to greatness. Nobody...
WASHINGTON — A spokesman for a key House panel said Friday that the White House has blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying next week at a hearing on the coronavirus outbreak. House Appropriations Committee spokesman Evan Hollander said the panel sought Fauci — the highly respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Sorry: The coronavirus cannot and should not be an excuse to give up on teaching New York’s kids. Yet the city Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers are treating it as just that. As Selim Algar reported in Friday’s Post, many parents are learning that their children’s teachers have given up on...
The next COVID-19 outbreak will come, but if New Yorkers adhere to these tactics, we can contain the next outbreak. We have to: The future of our city depends on it, writes NYC Council Member Stephen Levin and Speaker Corey Johnson.
“While front-line workers are sacrificing their own lives for us … the least we can do to slow the spread of this virus is wear a mandatory mask."
Time for reopening? Let’s reframe the question. Time for what to reopen? With what precautions? In which states and counties? And who really decides? Governors, mayors, the president? Business owners or consumers? Any effort to address questions yields the lesson that one-size-fits-all answers are ill-suited for a nation of 329 million people, half in million-plus...
The New York City region’s transit system is facing its worst crisis since the 1970s. As the recovery begins, reliable and safe public transit must be front and center. Because of the COVID-19 crisis, ridership has plunged by 93 percent on the subways and even more on the LIRR and Metro-North. For the Metropolitan Transportation...
The NHL’s focus has returned squarely on its four-arena plan following a flirtation with the concept of resuming the 2019-20 season in teams’ home cities, sources have told The Post. The notion of playing in each team’s home rink, albeit without fans in attendance, was considered in the aftermath of Wednesday’s virtual meeting of the...
Lloyd was first diagnosed in January 2019, shortly after the birth of his first child.
On March 12, the sports world stopped. The NCAA Tournament was canceled. The NBA, NHL, MLS and PGA all suspended play. MLB pushed back Opening Day indefinitely. The unthinkable occurrence in sports caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will result in a loss of at least $12 billion across the country — and more than double...
The Jets exited the 2019 NFL Draft with just their own seven picks. Over the course of a year, the Jets, led by general manager Joe Douglas, would turn those seven picks, plus a 2021 pick, into 13 players through seven trades. Douglas (with an assist from head coach Adam Gase) managed to acquire more...
Legal take: Dismiss the Case vs. Michael Flynn “Previously undisclosed documents” in the case against ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn offer a “chilling blueprint” on how top FBI officials tried to “entrap” him on “blatantly unconstitutional and manufactured grounds,” fumes law professor Jonathan Turley at The Hill. For starters, the Justice Department dredged up “the...
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday implored reporters to cover revelations about the FBI’s “partisan pursuit” of Mike Flynn. McEnany said the FBI’s targeting of President Trump’s former national security adviser is a “very scary story” and a “case of injustice.” “What we’ve all learned from that should scare every American citizen,” McEnany...
Some 3,000 people held a raucus May Day demonstration at Huntington Beach Friday, protesting the closure of California beaches and the state’s stay-at-home mandate. The protesters — many wearing no masks and some carrying surfboards and American flags — massed in throngs despite Gov. Gavin Newsom directing all state and local beaches to close Friday...
The coronavirus is bringing even more pain to the nation’s hobbled airlines as American Airlines informed its New York-based flight crews they will be grounded for at least another month as the carrier slashes its June schedule. “We’re announcing the difficult decision to extend temporary pause done by LGA-based [LaGuardia Airport] flight attendants. While we...
Gov. Cuomo has quietly begun recruiting grocery stores in a bid to widen the state’s coronavirus testing program, The Post has learned. Tests for the deadly bug — a key tool for pinpointing infection hotspots as officials look to ease lockdowns — are now being administered at an undisclosed number of supermarkets statewide as officials...
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday evening asked US Senate officials to help locate and release any complaint filed by his former Senate aide Tara Reade alleging sexual assault or harassment. Biden made the request after repeatedly rebuffing an MSNBC host’s suggestion in a Friday morning interview that he allow a broad search...
"That's bulls--t about wearing a mask, and the social distancing," Goetz told a New York Post photographer, as squirrels ate peanuts from his hand in the park.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo doubled down on his “eligibility” Friday, reminding New Yorkers that he is indeed in the market for love. The governor told WAMC Radio Roundtable host Alan Chartock that he is still “eligible” and not in a serious relationship — then quickly pivoted to how he’s really too busy for romance. ‘I’m working,...
Remember “Believe All Women”? The rallying cry for Democrats and their allies in their bid to derail Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is out the window now, not two years later. They insist that Tara Reade’s charge that her then-boss sexually assaulted her is not to be believed because — in Nancy Pelosi’s phrase —...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have declined to pick up the fifth-year option in running back Leonard Fournette’s rookie contract. The decision Friday was no surprise because the team tried to trade Fournette over the last month. General manager Dave Caldwell had conversations with Tampa Bay and Miami, but neither made a worthwhile offer....
Casey Anthony, the Florida woman who was accused of murdering her toddler daughter, pleaded guilty to a traffic violation after being busted zooming nearly 20 miles over the speed limit, according to a report Friday. Anthony — who was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee — was cruising 69 mph in...
Novice directors don’t usually get advice from David Lynch.