President Trump will sign an executive order to protect babies born prematurely or after surviving an abortion, he announced Wednesday. “Today, I am announcing that I will be signing the Born Alive Executive Order to ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve,” the commander-in-chief...
Ramsey Orta — a career criminal with more than 30 arrests under his belt — was pulled over around 2 a.m. in Williamsburg for overly tinted windows, according to police.
What is Alex Ring’s best position? It depends who you ask. His old coaches Patrick Vieira and Domenec Torrent often saw him as a holding midfielder — or a “No. 6” — and Ring was named to the 2018 All-Star team largely on the back of playing that role. From the 2017-18 season (Ring’s first...
Julian Assange is hearing voices and has already written suicide notes to his loved ones — putting him at “very high” risk of killing himself if extradited to the US, a psychiatrist told a UK court. Michael Kopelman, a professor of neuropsychiatry at King’s College London, said the Wikileaks founder has an “intense suicidal preoccupation”...
A group of parents held a registered sex offender accused of peeping under a bathroom stall at a South Carolina restaurant until cops arrived to arrest him, police said. Douglas Lee Lane, 53, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was prevented from leaving a Cracker Barrel in Duncan, South Carolina, by parents at the restaurant after a...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Wednesday said it’s “a gigantic mistake and abuse of power” for President Trump to replace liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. “We should go to the American people and make the case why this is a gigantic mistake and abuse of power,” the former vice president...
Angry protesters in Louisville, Kentucky, screamed and broke out into tears Wednesday upon learning of a grand jury’s decision to only indict one cop involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor — and not for her killing. Hordes of demonstrators had gathered in downtown Louisville ahead of the announcement of the much-anticipated findings in...
The Giants picked up Devonta Freeman because they believe he has enough left in his 28-year old legs to help in some way offset the staggering loss of Saquon Barkley for the remainder of the season. Freeman’s track record suggests he can help. Freeman’s arrival on Wednesday was not part of a Giants plan to...
LIMURU, Kenya – Rotten bananas? Mushy avocados? Pulped oranges? Talash Huijbers wants them all. The 25-year-old is the founder of Insectipro, a Kenyan farm rearing black soldier fly larvae for animal feed. In the 10 days it takes for them to grow, the larvae need to be fed too – and fruit waste from factories...
The Louisville police officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death “knocked and announced” themselves — and did not execute a “no-knock warrant” as previously believed, Kentucky’s attorney general said Wednesday. At a press conference, AG Daniel Cameron said a neighbor corroborated cops’ claims that they knocked on Taylor’s apartment door and announced themselves as police...
Shares of private equity-backed GoodRx Holdings surged 40 percent in their debut on the Nasdaq on Wednesday after the online prescription drug platform raised $1.14 billion in its initial public offering. The stock opened at $46, compared to the IPO price of $33 per share. At its opening price, the company is valued at nearly...
Kimberly Machleit, 35 and Donald Anderson, 37, were arrested Tuesday after a dive team discovered the remains at Blacklake Golf Course in Nipomo, news station KTLA reported.
The coronavirus keeps pummeling the already-hobbled film industry.
John Kerry “falsely claimed” that he didn’t know Joe Biden’s son was serving on the board of a controversial Ukrainian energy company when Kerry was secretary of state, US Senate Republicans alleged in a report released Wednesday. The report cites Kerry’s answers last year to a reporter’s questions about Hunter Biden and the Burisma natural...
Another day, another crisis for the Jets. Not only has Gang Green started the season off 0-2 and looking like the worst team in the NFL in the process, it now has players openly questioning the way the team is practicing. “It all goes back to practice,” safety Bradley McDougald told SNY after Sunday’s 31-13...
Frustrated business owners, including the woman who owns the salon where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got her hair done last month, rallied outside Fresno City Hall to demand that they be allowed to reopen. Erica Kious, owner of the San Francisco salon where Pelosi was caught on camera, was among the group of about 20...
No team in professional sports boasts the glorious history of the Yankees, winners of 27 World Series championships over the past century. Some might argue that having 21 retired numbers honoring 22 players and managers to don the pinstripes is excessive, but doesn’t it make sense that the organization with the most titles would have...
The NHL’s bubble plan is nearing its conclusion with the Stanley Cup Final between the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning playing Game 3 Wednesday night in Edmonton, and players are starting to reveal what it was like behind-the-scenes. ESPN spoke with several anonymous players on what life was really like inside the Toronto and...
DELFT – A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable “living coffin” made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants. The company, Loop, says its casket is made of mycelium, the underground root structure of mushrooms and filled with a bed of moss...
With some extra time on her hands, Chelsea Handler isn't settling for any ordinary sexy selfies.
A paraglider was found dead in the Nevada mountains after he vanished during a daring attempt to fly across the Silver State, authorities said. New Zealand native James Johnston was discovered Friday under a tree in the Fish Creek Mountains after a passerby noticed a parachute, according to the Eureka County Sheriff’s Office. “No foul...
An asteroid will have an “extremely close encounter” with Earth on Thursday, when it flies by the planet at a distance of fewer than 20,000 miles, according to the Virtual Telescope Project. Asteroid 2020 SW will safely fly past the planet at a distance of approximately 17,556 miles, according to EarthSky.org. It was first discovered...
More than a hundred former clerks to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were on hand as her casket arrived in Washington, DC, to lay in repose. Some of them served as pallbearers, bringing her American-flag draped casket up the steps of the Supreme Court building, as others lined the steps, standing guard, CNN...
CNN is shuttering Great Big Story, the streaming-video news hub it launched in 2015. The short-form video network was billed as a way for CNN to reach a younger generation and compete with digital rivals like Vice and Buzzfeed, which, at the time were grabbing a growing audience of millennials interested in mainstream news. “Challenging...
Walt Disney postponed the release of Marvel superhero movie “Black Widow” by six months until May 2021, the company said Wednesday. The movie studio also pushed the release date for the new movie version of “West Side Story” to December 2021 from its previous December 2020 date.