Новости за 13.06.2020

Extremely private slugger is 'quiet quiet.'

She's added furniture, beverages, air conditioning and even music.

The night before he left to play for Team USA in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, Marcus Stroman was involved in a police-related encounter that “still haunts me until this day,” the Mets right-hander said. Stroman revealed his own experience while retweeting a link to a story about Jay Pharoah, in which the former “Saturday...

Prince Andrew knows he screwed up.

A day before Flag Day, two city employees were spotted using the Stars and Stripes to mop the floor of a filthy Coney Island restroom, a witness told The Post. Jose Gonzalez, a Guardian Angel who was on patrol on the boardwalk Saturday afternoon, said he saw two employees from the Parks Department wiping down...

You’d think that, given their workplace of Texas, the Astros players would know the difference between a smoking gun and a hand-sized water pistol. Alas, those from the defending American League champions who took to social media on Saturday — in the wake of a titillating story that tied the Yankees to illegal sign-stealing —...

Chicago prosecutors dropped the first set of charges against Smollett.

The US Military Academy paid a touching tribute to fallen cadet Christopher “C.J.” Morgan Saturday at what would have been his commencement ceremony. A white folding chair in the front row was set aside for the 22-year-old wrestling standout who was killed in a training exercise in 2019. A framed photo of the young man...

So it appears the Rangers and Islanders will be Vegas-bound when and if the competition begins in late July or early August. Multiple sources have confirmed the NHL has settled on Vegas as one of its two hub cities to host the tournament. As the league previously has indicated it would not allow a team...

The recall vote for the mayor of Taipei got more interesting when councilor Chiu Wei-chieh pledged to “snap one chopstick in two with his buttocks."

One of the nation’s largest Catholic dioceses is threatening bankruptcy if a Long Island judge doesn’t pause the nearly 100 child sex-abuse lawsuits it faces. The Diocese of Rockville Centre, which serves more than 1.4 million Catholics in Nassau and Suffolk counties, claims it’s in an “ever-more serious financial situation,” straining under the legal costs...

While MLB and the Players Association squabble over money and the 2020 season, the league has consummated a new billion-dollar deal with Turner Sports to keep a playoff package that includes one of the league championship series on the network, The Post has learned. The exact new contract terms are not yet known, but a...

Nick Cordero continues to fight an uphill battle against coronavirus.

An evangelical pastor is defying Argentina’s ban on church services for over 10 people by turning his church into a bar. Bar tables were set up inside the Comunidad Redentor evangelical church in the city of San Lorenzo, and pastors, who were dressed as waiters, would carry bibles on their trays in a mock service...

In a jaw-dropping interview, Belgian Prince Laurent, the brother of King Philippe, attempted to defend his colonialist grandfather King Leopold II — who turned the Congo into a slave state — after statues of the man were torn down and defaced this week. “He never himself went to Congo — so I do not see...

The party is over for a Secaucus employee of Party City after she was caught in a racist rant online. The balloon and costume supplier terminated Jacqueline Michele DeLuca after Twitter user @IzzyNice posted a sick ranting video DeLuca had recorded after a car cut her off at a light. DeLuca uses multiple offensive terms...

Karen strikes again! A white couple in San Francisco questioned a man of color Friday for stenciling “Black Lives Matter” – on his own property. Twitter user @Jaimetoons posted a video of a self-righteous couple accosting him for stenciling in chalk Black Lives Matter on the side of his own building. “A white couple call...

As players mull skipping the NBA’s return, the league’s restart plan has a very important backer. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on coronavirus, called the NBA’s bubble plan at Disney’s Wide World of Sport complex in Orlando “quite creative” and one that could be the framework for how sports can move forward during...

Don’t toady up to these critters because they can kill a dog or cat in 15 minutes flat. Florida officials are telling residents to kill the poisonous cane toad whenever they see one because it secretes a milky white toxin that is fatal to house pets. The warty amphibian, also called the bufo toad, produces...

Four men face life in prison for killing Uganda’s most beloved gorilla, Rafiki. The 25-year-old endangered silverback was one of only 1,004 mountain gorillas left in the wild and headed up a human-habituated family of 17 in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. He went missing on June 1 and his body was found a day...

"Before becoming one of the world's most important and influential pop legends, Britney Spears was living life in a small southern town by the name of Kentwood, Louisiana," the petition reads.

With horse racing having gotten back on track after being shut down by the pandemic, two-time Kentucky Derby- and Belmont Stakes-winning jockey John Velazquez gallops through some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: How do you feel about the protests in this country? A: I don’t want to get political, but what’s wrong is...

Humans may not be enjoying lockdown — but animals sure are. A zoo in the West Bank is experiencing an unprecedented baby boom — from baboons to peacocks. Fifteen babies were born in the two months that Qalqilya Zoo shut its doors to visitors — three times more than usual, Reuters reported. “The coronavirus spread...

As many Democrats demand police de-funding, an ex-cop has emerged on Joe Biden’s shortlist of veep contenders — troubling some activists. Val Demings, 63, a two-term Florida congresswoman, has seen her star rise dramatically in recent weeks as riots flared around the country following George Floyd’s death and the Biden campaign gave new weight to...