Новости за 04.08.2020

Left watch: Woke Women Are the New Enemy “Torch-carrying neo-Nazis in Charlottesville were the face of white ­supremacy in 2017,” recalls RealClearPolitics’ J. Peder Zane, but in 2020, it’s “Nice White Parents” — the title of a New York Times-distributed podcast that argues that it’s because this group won’t send their kids to “truly integrated...

The Nets were supposed to get a one-sided caning. What they got — no make that earned — was the biggest NBA upset win in over a quarter-century. Facing the league’s winningest team in the league — and doing it without arguably their top nine rotation players — the Nets scrapped their way to a...

Giovanni Cianci has been let go from the company after a woman accused him of sexual misconduct in a 2010 incident.

An off-duty Staten Island cop on his way to work became a homegrown hero Saturday after saving the life of an emotionally disturbed woman. Joseph Everett, 34, a 4-year veteran assigned to the borough’s 120th Precinct, was on his way to work early Saturday morning when he saw what appeared to be a routine car...

After 129 straight games, Henrik Lundqvist’s postseason reign came to an end Tuesday night. Rookie Igor Shesterkin, after being deemed unfit to play for the first two games of the Stanley Cup qualifiers, finally returned to the nets for Game 3 against the Hurricanes, trying to save the Rangers’ season. Shesterkin had watched the first...

Hersch Meilich Grossman, of Borough Park, Brooklyn, died in an outdoor pool at Sahara Sam's Oasis Water Park in West Berlin, N.J.

The Department of Veterans Affairs surpassed 40,000 coronavirus cases on Monday, but the number of active cases within the health system continued to decline since hitting a peak in late July. The total number of cases among the veterans health system’s patients has grown by more than 10,000 in the last 19 days alone, as...

“There is no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be,” against the novel coronavirus, warned World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebrevesus during a virtual media briefing on Monday. Though the leader of the WHO said there is some progress being made with possible treatments, and noted that “a number of vaccines...

They’re no spring chickens, but they’re landing chicks.

Tropical Storm Isaias claimed at least one New Yorker on Tuesday and critically injured another, authorities said. A man was killed in Queens when a tree wrenched loose by the storm’s powerful winds smashed into his car Tuesday afternoon and a woman was critically injured by a flying branch in Brooklyn, authorities said. The 60-year-old man...

NAIROBI – Stylist Julia Wanja picks her way delicately through piles of food waste, discarded masks, rubber gloves and other rubbish at Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, looking for used hair extensions she can clean and resell to customers. The pandemic means fewer clients with less money and she is cutting down on costs by cleaning and...

Above-ground subway service was suspended Tuesday afternoon as Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through New York City, downing trees and sending debris flying onto the tracks. The MTA said at around 1:15 p.m. that it would be running trains underground only until the heavy winds died down. Transit officials also shut down LIRR service due to...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Kodak’s handling of material information about the startup pharmaceutical business it’s launching with the help of Uncle Sam.  According to the Wall Street Journal, the regulator is examining whether Kodak jumped the gun on a July 28 announcement that it had received a $765 million federal loan to...

A flood of 911 calls has overwhelmed emergency call centers as Tropical Storm Isaias rolled into New York City on Tuesday. A spokesman for the mayor’s office said there were “no technical issues with 911. “Call volume is high due to the storm and downed trees,” City Hall rep Bill Neidhardt wrote on Twitter. “New...

The CEO of TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, said he believes the United States is trying to kill the wildly popular app as President Trump presses for a sale and a cut of the proceeds from it. In a leaked e-mail to Chinese employees on Monday, CEO Zhang Yiming — who has been criticized in...

Pennsylvania has recorded no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 for the first time since late March, health officials reported. On Monday, the death toll remained at 7,209, while public health officials noted there’s often a lag in reporting of cases and deaths from the weekend. Deaths have been trending down in Pennsylvania since mid-May, while...

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Powerful winds from Tropical Storm Isaias battered New York City and the surrounding areas Tuesday afternoon, downing trees that killed one person, sending debris flying through city streets and knocking out power for tens of thousands of New Yorkers and more than a million New Jersey residents. The winds picked up in the city soon...

It's a new kind of dung beetle.

Two in three Americans said their imperfect skin is holding them back from feeling confident, according to new research. In an attempt to gain confidence through clearer skin, respondents are using their time at home to care for their skin. Forty-six percent have used the extra time to care for their skin and 91 percent...

Think before you click. People who get their news from social-media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19, according to new study led by researchers at McGill University in Montreal. “Those that consume more traditional news media have fewer misperceptions and are more likely to follow public health recommendations...

Another top city specialized high school is losing its leader. The principal of Bronx Science High School, Jean Donahue, announced her retirement in a letter to parents and staff Tuesday just weeks before the new academic year. “I will be retiring at the end of August,” Donahue wrote. “It has been my great pleasure and...

Apple is putting its longtime marketing boss out to pasture. Phil Schiller, who has been with the company since 1987 and was a trusted lieutenant of Steve Jobs, is departing his role as senior vice president of worldwide marketing and will instead be an “Apple Fellow,” the company said in a blog post. Schiller will...

"Zoom was a nice play on words and fitting, given our new reality."

The top two floors of a three-story Brooklyn building collapsed into a busy shopping corridor Tuesday morning, the FDNY said. The front of the structure on Bedford Avenue between North Fifth and North Sixth streets in Williamsburg came down at about 12:45 p.m., according to the fire department. No injuries were immediately reported after the...