Новости за 23.05.2020

One of the richest men in France claims to be a former spy who once hacked former President Francois Mitterrand. The billionaire co-owner of Le Monde newspaper, Xavier Niel, 52, told the Parliamentary Channel that as a teen in the 1980s he worked undercover for the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance after he was caught hacking...

This was at Port St. Lucie, years ago, after an especially sweaty day under the spring-training sun. Mike Piazza was in his chest protector and his shin guards, but he was trying to accommodate a couple of hundred kids with baseballs and hats and scraps of paper, trying to scribble his name with a Sharpie...

Hints of summer are on the horizon.

While Chancellor Richard Carranza plans to cut hundreds of millions from NYC classrooms, his little-known yoga czar — the school system’s first “Director of Mindfulness” — makes nearly $200,000 a year while organizing retreats for educrats in the Berkshires. Barnaby Spring, the Department of Education’s chief yogi, is trying to expand yoga and meditation for...

Maybe Horace Grant was right when he called “The Last Dance” a work of fiction. Sam Smith, the author of “The Jordan Rules” and the former Chicago Tribune writer, poked some holes in the Michael Jordan documentary, as well. He said the notion Grant was his only source in the book was false and also...

After two months holed up in our tiny Manhattan apartment, my fiancé and I decided to rent a car and skip town for a remote corner of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. What we found was a different world where sweet normalities have been preserved — or returned. Never before have I felt like...

Greedy retailers attempting to profit off the pandemic by overcharging customers for hot coronavirus commodities have racked up a hefty bill with the city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the agency said. From March 5 through Wednesday, inspectors issued 7,600 price-gouging violations in stores from Manhattan to Queens selling goods like cleaning spray, cold...

Eighty-four people died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, down from 109 the previous day -- and the lowest total since March 24.

Wanda Cooper-Jones led a silent march of hundreds of people in Brunswick, Ga. with Arbery’s father. She said that walking 2.23 miles mirrored some of the effort she’s had to go through to get justice for Ahmaud.

The group arrived in Germany on March 10 expecting to perform at the MaerzMusik festival — the same day Germany announced its ban on large gatherings, swiftly followed by a full country lockdown.

"The Democratic House of Representatives has essentially put itself on paid leave for months,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Thursday. "At this point, I’m wondering if we should send senators over there to collect their newspaper and water the plants."

The NBA and Mickey Mouse are moving closer to a July marriage. The league on Saturday confirmed a report from earlier this week that Disney World is on track to become the sole site for the NBA’s fan-less resumption to the season, likely in late July. The venue would be the ESPN’s Wide World of...

"Left-wing bias in the tech world is a con­cern that definitely needs to be addressed," a White House official said.

The Chinese Communist Party's proposal to enact tighter security laws came just before the annual meeting of China's legislature which is expected to greenlight the plan. The new laws will allow Beijing to crush protests in Hong Kong against mainland China's growing influence.

The federal government is warning that essential workers and authority figures — public and private — are at the highest risk of being attacked by stay-at-home resisters as the coronavirus pandemic drags on. Counterterrorism analysts at the Department of Homeland Security notified law enforcement officials and government leaders of their findings Thursday, according to ABC...

That was the message directed to foreign travelers from Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday, UK's The Sun reported.

"F--K 2020. F--k everything about it, f--k the world. God, f--k you too!"

Post-pandemic travel in Europe is shaping up as the battle of the quarantines with France imposing two-week reciprocal lockdowns on its neighbors when travel resumes next month. Travelers to France from the UK will have to self-isolate for 14 days from June 8, the French government said last week. The announcement came on the heels...

These workers offer contact-free food delivery, but have plenty of contact with one another. A cluster of deliverymen, many carrying red and black Grubhub bags, are packing into a tiny West Village square to await their next run, sitting shoulder to shoulder — some without masks — and often bantering loudly or arguing. Some residents...

I was busted for porn Friday. And I blame Roger Goodell. As my wife passed by the computer in my office, she stopped to glare at the screen then issued a scold: “Very, nice. You’ve got porn on your screen.” Huh? What? “Yeah, that stripper’s rear end.” Huh? What? Turns out the shots she pointed...

“Sexual assault allegations against Ron Jeremy are under review by our office. No filing decision has been made,” Greg Risling, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office told The Daily Beast.

Before the office closed in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, it issued upwards of 200 licenses a day, which had to be obtained in person.

The Department of Justice moved to intervene in an Illinois lawsuit challenging the state’s right to extend COVID-19 lockdowns. The agency filed a statement of interest Friday on behalf of the complaint by state Rep. Darren Bailey, who says lockdowns imposed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker have gone too far. State law allows lockdowns to...

She also had a thing for leather jackets and tight jeans.

The 751-bed nursing home has to submit a correction plan to be reviewed by the DOH. It could face fines ranging up to $10,000 if any violation directly resulted in patient harm, the DOH said.