CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 as the virus surges to record levels in the state and across the U.S. The 66-year-old Democrat is the fifth governor to report testing positive for the coronavirus this year. Three governors, two Republicans in Missouri and Oklahoma,...
Here’s something you probably won’t hear from either the left or the right: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is a much more important and influential Democrat than New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Just this week, Manchin did something far more consequential than anything AOC has done in her entire career. Yet everybody is paying more...
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A steady stream of MSNBC contributors is going to work for Joe Biden — a neat reminder of the left’s hypocrisy in complaining that conservative news organizations are “propaganda outlets.” The outrage only runs in one direction. This year, MSNBC was basically nonstop free advertising for the Biden campaign. (And, before that, a prime shill...
It’s a good thing he wasn’t a civics coach. Alabama Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville — a former Auburn University football coach — committed a series of major fumbles while discussing American government and history with a local newspaper. The Republican misidentified the three branches of government when asked by the Alabama Daily News if Democrats and...
Mayor de Blasio and I go to the same barber, but we’ll soon have to stop: After 74 years, Astor Place Hairstylists is closing. When a New York institution like CBGB or Ratner’s closes, there’s real loss and sadness. Change is a constant fact of life in this city, and it’s good to make peace...
Here we go again — putting kids last. On Friday, Mayor de Blasio warned parents to prepare for schools to close beginning Monday. We’re inching closer to the magical 3 percent positive number, which, for reasons unclear to anyone, means schools can’t stay open. Observers noted that the city had blown past the 2 percent...
FREEHOLD, N.J. — Former New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden has been sentenced to a year of probation in connection with a drug arrest in New Jersey in 2019. Gooden appeared before a judge in a virtual proceeding on Thursday. He had pleaded guilty in August 2019 to one count of cocaine possession stemming from...
A British recycling plant finally admitted Friday it was responsible for the death of a man who was crushed inside its facility in 2017 — and a judge ripped into officials for the tragedy. Dale McClelland, 23, died after climbing in a compactor that his co-worker accidentally switched on in southern England, according to TooFab....
A foul odor from a clothing donation bin led cops in Maryland to make a horrific discovery — a decomposing body. The call came in to Riverdale Park Police at 12:30 p.m. Friday, cops there tweeted. “Death Investigation,” the tweet was labeled. “At approximately 12:30 p.m., Riverdale Park Police received a call from a concerned...
A billionaire scientist behind Pfizer and BioNTech’s breakthrough COVID-19 vaccine says he expects it to “bash the virus over the head” and ultimately end the pandemic, according to a report. Following an announcement this week that the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in trials, Uğur Şahin — the 55-year-old CEO of BioNTech —...
The rhymster has never been registered to vote in his home state of Florida.
Hollywood newcomer Marcel Spears is a standout on the CBS sitcom “The Neighborhood.”
USA Today’s parent company Gannett, the nation’s biggest newspaper chain, reportedly will see 500 employees take voluntary buyouts that were offered to the company’s 21,000 workers in October. Over 40 percent of the buyouts, or some 214 staffers, are from the editorial side, according to Poynter.org, which obtained a list of all the jobs on...
Like all Classic Albums episodes, it's well done and enjoyable and wisely emphasizes the work itself over pontification about its meaning.
Cops investigating the fatal stairwell stabbing of a 20-year-old Bronx woman had help from an unlikely source — the teen suspect’s parents, who made him turn himself in Friday. Jaden Davis, 17, of The Bronx, is now charged with criminally negligent homicide in the Nov. 2 revenge slay of Nyla Bond, law enforcement sources said....
"Brad Pitt ignored all [my problems [for] a year and a half," Kelli Christina says of her ordeal with a scammer.
Coronavirus testing lines swelled as swaths of the country battled spikes in infections and hospitalizations in recent weeks, new photos and videos show. In Newark, NJ — where Mayor Ray Baraka on Thursday imposed more restrictive measures in an attempt to stem the tide — dozens of drivers lined up at a testing site as...
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McDonald’s is upping its inspections in hopes of warding off “Covid fatigue,” The Post has learned. The Golden Arches in a memo Friday told its franchisees that it will be conducting new safety inspections of its 14,000 US eateries as the number of Covid-19 cases soar across the country — raising fears of a second...
Beleaguered attorney Michael Avenatti asked a federal judge Friday to delay his sentencing for trying to extort nearly $25 million from Nike due to the national spike in COVID-19 infections. Lawyer Scott Srebnick asked US District Judge Paul Gardephe to push back the Dec. 9 proceeding by 60 days given the cumbersome protocols instituted in...
An abandoned pup was on death row at the Brooklyn pound despite three willing foster families ready to rescue him — but he narrowly escaped euthanasia at the eleventh hour when The Post started asking questions. Blue, a two-year-old mutt, was living as a guard dog on Staten Island but was relegated to a cold shed...
A fiend suspected in three Queens attempted rapes was busted Friday morning — after his own stepdad saw his image on the news called cops, officials said. “I say this all the time, but in order for us to keep the city safe we need the public’s help, I think that is so big,” Chief...
Olivia Colman narrates a series that follows 100 kids from zero to five years old as they discover and navigate the world around them.