On Sept. 22, CNN triumphantly announced that 200,000 people had died from COVID-19 in the United States. CNN tried various ways of rubbing in the 200,000 figure. Their best effort was an infographic blaring, “US COVID-19 deaths are equal to having the 9/11 attacks every day for 66 days.” Here’s a less biased, but less...
In “1984,” George Orwell introduced the term “doublespeak.” In the Amy Coney Barrett hearings, Democrats have perfected it. The Democrats are in a bad way, and two things stand immediately in the path of their political agenda: the Supreme Court and the English language. To destroy one, they must destroy the other. The first words...
The symbolic gesture of lowering the American flag to half-staff has been historically reserved to recognize military line-of-duty deaths, first responder line-of-duty deaths or in special circumstances, to recognize the death of a notable public servant — as it was recently for Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On April 8, Gov. Cuomo ordered...
Why a growing number of Americans say they’ll refuse to take a COVID vaccine — and scientists are worried.
Odell Beckham Jr. has been cleared for liftoff. The Browns wide receiver returned another negative COVID-19 test Saturday, according to multiple reports, giving him the green light to play Sunday against the Steelers after being sent home on Thursday feeling sick. Due to feeling ill, Beckham needed to test negative for the virus twice in...
Joe Biden: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.” … President Trump: “If you vote Republican, we will create three million new jobs for the Black community.” … With 17 days to go, BET founder Robert Johnson, not buying any of it, put American politics...
"I am not ok," tweeted Edmund O'Leary, a trustee of a mental health non-profit in Epsom, near London. "Feeling rock bottom. Please take a few seconds to say hello if you see this tweet."
Uptown, downtown, all around the town — nobody wants a homeless shelter full of former drug addicts in their front yards. But to woker-than-thou hypocrites, homeless shelters in somebody else’s front yards are just fine. An uncivil war has convulsed the Upper West Side since last summer, when the city, without advance notice, moved nearly...
A team of paleontology summer interns from various universities recently found evidence of a new species of a 220 million-year-old burrowing reptile in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Fossils found at the park reveal a new type of drepanosaur, dubbed Skybalonyx skapter. The discovery of the fossils, which were analyzed by a team of researchers...
“I got a call from my Mom. ‘Your dad died.’ My knees buckled. I couldn’t believe it. He was my dad. Nobody or nothing could kill him. Except mom."
The second season will provide a glimpse into America’s obsession with true crime podcasts.
The mystery of how a Queens deli worker came to inherit a Manhattan art dealer's fortune.
Grieving family members who lost loved ones in New York nursing homes due to COVID-19 plan to stage a “funeral” for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “leadership and integrity.” The relatives will stand outside of Brownstone Brooklyn’s coronavirus-ravaged Cobble Hill Health Center on Sunday at noon — and demand that Cuomo apologize for what they call his...
Jane Lynch narrates this look at the residents of Chimp Haven, a 200-acre chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana.
The 18-year-old who beheaded a history teacher outside the school in France where he taught asked students in the street to point out his victim before the gruesome slaying, a French prosecutor said Saturday. The Russian-born attacker also posted a photograph of the teacher’s body on Twitter, accompanied by a message saying he had carried...
Not too much longer, Mets fans. By next month, Steve Cohen’s purchase of the team should become official, and then you can start debating legitimately whether you’d rather sign J.T. Realmuto or George Springer. (Probably not both. Sorry.) Yet as we prepare for this long-awaited new era, there’s one upcoming checkpoint that intrigues me the...
It was easy to envy — even hate — Richard Avedon. The legendary photographer, who died in 2004, traveled around the world shooting the most fabulous fashions, the most magnificent models, the most scintillating stars. He hobnobbed with Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Hutton. His artistic peers — shutterbugs like Robert Frank and...
If Barrett is confirmed, Maher noted, seven of the court’s nine justices would be Catholics.
Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson can play her own defense. Benson was in her parked car last Saturday in New Orleans when a man allegedly tried to steal it, but she screamed for him to get out and did so successfully as she came away from the incident unharmed, police and Saints officials said,...
Fetty Wap is asking for respect from his fans as he mourns the loss of his brother, who was fatally shot earlier this week.
What? I'm a sucker for a ballad about chocolate babka.
Is there a more feckless leadership in sports than the one headed by Roger Goodell, the guy who keeps strangling the golden goose? What would the condition of the NFL be if Goodell actually took good, tough-love care of the league? On Oct. 4, Rams defensive back Jalen Ramsey, a career malcontent who forced a...
Wilson Tang gave up his finance job to run Nom Wah Tea Parlor — and it might not have survived 2020 without him.
A plan to take New York City classrooms to the streets hit a road block. City officials turned down 63% of public school requests to close a street and move instruction outdoors. A total of 233 public schools applied to use an adjacent street for al fresco instruction, but only 86 — or 37% —...
Deanna Hair wasn’t supposed to live, let alone go back home. But the 67-year-old Michigan woman finally went through her front door — with a walker — after battling COVID-19 for more than six months in the hospital. Hair, of Ann Arbor, left the hospital Thursday after 196 days, nearly triple the time that the...