Новости за 12.02.2020

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The New Jersey property where accused Sarah Lawrence College cult leader Larry Ray was arrested has become a compound with several mysterious new buildings and a scantily clad woman doing landscaping work at all hours since Ray moved in, neighbors said Wednesday. Ray is accused of using psychological threats and coercion to enslave his daughter’s...

"I don't need any fake-ass legislators who are allowing fear-mongering to try and go after our people," said Assemblyman Michael Blake (D-The Bronx).

An Iranian woman has died of a suspected coronavirus infection, local media reported. The 61-year-old woman, who wasn’t identified, died Monday in a Tehran hospital, according to Reuters, which cited a report from the state daily newspaper IRAN. An investigation has been ordered to officially determine the cause of the woman’s death, the newspaper said....

No skin is off limits these days.

Novak Djokovic’s wife Jelena would choose her happiness over the public’s insatiable appetite for information any day of the week. “I am aware that as a wife of a popular athlete I might be interesting for the tabloids, that is why I try not to give them much material to write about me,” Jelena said...

“It’s been really hard for them, they’ve tried to kind of jump back into the life they had [and] they couldn't,” Chicago defense attorney Gloria Schmidt said.

Since the creation of the atom bomb, the threat of nuclear war has loomed. Endless films and books have dealt with the nuclear apocalypse and its aftermath, but what would a nuclear apocalypse really look like? Rutgers University Professor Alan Robock spoke with Fox News about the Armageddon and his team’s new study regarding a...

A former nanny of the 8-year-old boy allegedly left to freeze to death by his NYPD officer dad said in a TV interview Wednesday that she hopes the cop and his fiancée suffer a similar “torture.” Amanda Wildman worked for officer Michael Valva, 40, and his fiancée, Angela Pollina, 42, from 2017 until 2018 —...

Hockey analyst Jeremy Roenick is out at NBC. Roenick, who was suspended indefinitely without pay over a month ago for making inappropriate comments about his co-workers on Barstool Sports’ Spittin’ Chiclets podcast, made the announcement himself in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday afternoon. “I’m very disappointed and angry today. I will not be returning...

"I just want her and other actresses to walk the walk."

Do you ever catch yourself getting a bit too heated when “hanger” strikes? According to a new survey of 2,000 Americans, hanger leads to an average of four arguments per week. From waiting too long to eat to not eating enough — respondents even felt hanger strike because they didn’t like what they were eating....

An Israeli drone defense system fit for “Star Wars” has shot down multiple maneuvering targets with a high-powered laser beam, according to reports. “The system achieved 100 percent success in all test scenarios,” defense technology company Rafael said in a statement about its Drone Dome C-UAS, or Counter-Unmanned Aerial System, the Times of Israel reported....

Bob Huggins and Bill Self have met many times before, but Wednesday’s matchup in Morgantown, W.Va., might have a different look to it with both teams playing different styles than in seasons past. For Kansas, 7-footer Udoka Azubuike is the low-post centerpiece and leads all of college basketball among qualifying players in field-goal shooting percentage...

The coronavirus has a new victim: the world’s largest phone show. Mobile World Congress (MWC) — the annual convention where smartphone makers from around the world come to hawk their wares — was scheduled to take place in Barcelona on Feb. 24, but was canceled due to fears surrounding the viral epidemic. In a statement...

At least Knicks branding consultant Steve Stoute did some good on his infamous ESPN appearance on Tuesday. Stoute confirmed a Post report from Jan. 26 that his intention is to get Charles Oakley back to the Garden and end his feud with James Dolan. “Charles Oakley is a very dear friend of mine,” Stoute said...

Carlos Beltran may have been “the godfather” of the Astros’ sign-stealing system that helped them win the World Series in 2017, but it didn’t do much for his own game. Houston’s director of advance information Tom Koch-Weser sent an email to Astros personnel in late August of 2017 regarding the team’s “dark arts, sign-stealing department,”...

An accused Long Island bank robber who was cut loose under the state’s new bail reforms — only to cut off his court-ordered ankle monitor and go on the lam — was arrested for allegedly robbing two more banks. Romell Nellis, 40, who was already linked to two bank heists over the past three months,...

The average woman will spend $20,466.72 on skincare in her adult lifetime, according to new research. Within the span of a month a woman will spend $27.96 on skincare — or $335.52 every year. A study of 1,000 general population women and 1,000 women of color explored the seemingly never-ending journey for the perfect skincare...

Joel Benjamin, 38, was arrested in Bedford Stuyvesant at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday after allegations of abuse were reported by his wife, according to police.

This brings new meaning to “catfishing.” An 80-year-old Oregon widower lost his life savings to a swindler who posed as a woman in love with him and convinced him to spend a whopping $200,000 to ship a massive lion sculpture from China. The long-distance-romance scheme began when the unnamed scammer stole a Florida woman’s identity...

These ivory miners will either get rich — or die trying. The race is on for “white gold” — that’s ivory — harvested “ethically” from the fossils of prehistoric woolly mammoths, which are buried deep underground in Yakutia, Siberia. One carved tusk could be worth between $34,000 and $1 million. Russian tusk miners, or “tuskers,”...

Racy lesbian sex scenes put the French movie “Blue Is the Warmest Color” on the map back in 2013. The director of a new French film, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” would like you to know the “Blue” eroticism was mostly nonsense. “That is a film made by a straight man with straight women,”...

QAMISHLI, Syria – In northeastern Syria, prisons and detention camps hold thousands of men, women and children whose lives are in limbo nearly a year after the final defeat of Islamic State to which they once belonged. The area around Qamishli city is mainly controlled by Kurdish fighters who helped defeat the Islamist militant group....

A solid majority of Americans say they are better off than they were three years ago, a factor that could help boost President Trump’s re-election bid, a new Gallup poll released Wednesday reveals. The 61 percent “better off” rating is the highest percentage recorded during the re-election year of any incumbent president since Gallup first...