Новости за 29.05.2020

A SpaceX launch vehicle prototype burst into flames during a test at a Texas launchpad Friday afternoon — a day before the company hopes to send two NASA astronauts into space on another craft in Florida, according to reports and footage of the explosion. The vehicle erupted soon after a trial known as a static...

When the coronavirus hit, Cat Marnell was in Cairo.

Former New York City chief medical examiner Michael Baden will conduct an independent autopsy on George Floyd following his death after being pinned by a Minneapolis police officer. Dr. Michael Baden, who previously conducted an independent autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, will do the examination after the family takes Floyd’s body back from the state, their...

It was used by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley in 1967 and again the following year by segregationist presidential candidate George Wallace, NPR reported Friday.

Tiramisu is involved.

A Minneapolis cop kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck for nearly three minutes while the handcuffed man was “non-responsive” — and the “inherently dangerous” move likely helped kill him, according to court papers filed Friday. The criminal complaint against since-fired cop Derek Chauvin also says that another cop checked Floyd’s right wrist for a...

Kulick was an accomplished session guitarist and producer who played with Lou Reed, Meat Loaf and Diana Ross.

The Knicks finally opened their training facility in Tarrytown on Friday but that does not mean they will be part of the season’s restart. According to an NBA source, commissioner Adam Silver’s Board of Governor’s conference call with owners left the impressions that bringing back all 30 teams was unlikely. However, a return-to-play scenario that...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday announced sweeping changes to the US relationship with Hong Kong, declaring the region would no longer be viewed as autonomous from China or given preferential treatment. In the consequential declaration from the Rose Garden, Trump announced the policy change would apply to most agreements the US has with Hong...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged Friday that the Fed faces a major challenge with the launch in the coming days of a program that will lend to companies other than banks for the first time since the Great Depression. The Fed’s Main Street Lending is geared toward medium-sized companies that are too large for...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has to respond by early June to a federal lawsuit by a Long Island strip club that has sought to reopen amid the coronavirus outbreak, a judge ruled Friday. The owner of Blush Gentleman’s Club in Suffolk County has sought a temporary restraining order from Cuomo’s executive orders that forced his...

Los Angeles can reopen its restaurants, barbershops and hair salons for sit-down service, California officials said Friday — even though the county is still the epicenter of the state’s coronavirus outbreak. The move by Gov. Gavin Newsom lets LA join the vast majority of California’s other counties, where restaurants and hair salons have already reopened...

MTA Chairman Pat Foye on Friday blasted a new CDC guidance that businesses encourage employees to avoid mass transit. “The CDC’s latest guidance marks yet another confounding recommendation from the nation’s top health authority,” Foye said in a statement. “Encouraging people, especially those without cars and in congested areas like New York, not to take...

US health regulators are telling five drugmakers to recall their versions of a widely used diabetes medication after laboratory tests found elevated levels of a contaminant linked to cancer. The Food and Drug Administration said late Thursday that several batches of the drug metformin tested positive for unsafe levels of N-Nitrosodimethylamine, a possible cancer-causing chemical...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday announced he is suspending the United States’ relationship with the World Health Organization — accusing the global body of covering up the coronavirus crisis with China. At a press conference in the White House’s Rose Garden, Trump accused the United Nations organization of being under the control of the...

Watch the heart-stopping rescue of an Ohio woman who reported her car wouldn’t slow down on a busy highway. A 911 dispatcher worked in tandem with Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers as they followed the out-of-control Dodge Journey crossover SUV on Interstate 77 near Cambridge, Ohio. The driver, a distraught 20-year-old named Emma, was instructed...

President Trump says Twitter employees misunderstood his intent when deciding to censor a Friday morning tweet that said looting may lead to shooting in Minnesota. Trump tweeted Friday afternoon that he was stating “as a fact” that looting could lead to violence, rather than advocating for it. “Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a...

The NBA is next in line for a comeback. Days after the NHL announced its plan for a 24-team playoff tournament, NBA commissioner Adam Silver informed the board of governors that the league is targeting resuming play on July 31, according to The Athletic. The NBA, which was the first major sports league to suspend...

Amid an odd NFL offseason where Tom Brady joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Roger Goodell announced draft picks slumped over in a chair in his basement, one storyline remains unsolved: the continued unemployment of Cam Newton. Despite also-ran quarterbacks such as Case Keenum, Marcus Mariota and Chase Daniel signing multi-year deals, the former MVP...

“Enough is enough,” Cuomo said during his daily coronavirus press briefing in New Rochelle, explaining that the Monday death of Floyd -- which has sparked national outrage -- “is not an isolated incident.”

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Distraught public housing residents plan to sue the New York City Housing Authority after 1241 tenants died of COVID-19 and thousands more were sickened because the buildings were not properly sanitized, their lawyer said Friday. “These are the people who need to be protected the most and when you talk about the government’s function to...

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The family of the Long Island public defender found strangled to death at Club Med on Turks and Caicos two years ago has filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit, according to a new report. The son and husband of Marie Kuhnla, 61, of Wantagh, filed the lawsuit after hiring private investigator Eddie Dowd —...

Kerron Johnson is trapped half a world away, fearful he will miss the birth of his first born. The former Belmont basketball star — and brother of Lions running back Kerryon Johnson — who plays professionally in Europe, has been unable to get a flight out of Romania for two months due to COVID-19 travel...