Новости за 13.08.2020

Brash sports blog owner Dave Portnoy lost a small fortune on the controversial stock that landed him into a bitter spat with a short-seller this week, he told The Post in an exclusive interview. The Barstool Sports founder, who recently boasted that he’s a better investor than Warren Buffett, said his bet on Remark Holdings...

Charles Morgan, 59, of Martha’s Vineyard, had stopped at the Rodeway Inn & Suites in Dania Beach when he was allegedly killed by Alphonso Washington.

The Mets turned to the bench for their catcher Thursday and ended up with Johnny Bench. Tomas Nido barely hit enough to stay in the major leagues last season, but a winter spent working with a private swing instructor may have been the best $25,000 the Mets backup catcher ever spent. Nido smashed two home...

Critics are having a cow.

The executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and their attorneys have belittled one of his victims and launched a concerted effort to delay her legal case against them, her attorney alleged in a new court filing. The accuser, who sued Epstein in January under the pseudonym Jane Doe, says she’s the only victim who has not...

The president of Taiwan praised the relationship between her country and Washington in the face of mounting threats from China, just days after Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest ranking US official to visit the island nation in four decades. “As effective our military is, we cannot stand alone without...

Your search for the perfect sheets is over now that we’ve found a set sure to meet all your bedding needs. The 1800 Collection set, created by Mellanni Fine Linens, is one the most highly rated sheet sets on Amazon. The bedding, which has received over 55,000 five-star ratings, is applauded for its extremely soft...

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Michael Bloomberg — who spent nearly $1 billion in a failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination — said he will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention next week, according to a report. The former three-term New York City Mayor announced his upcoming appearance in an email to supporters Thursday saying he plans to...

If dating during a global pandemic isn’t enough of a health risk already, now there’s a website dedicated to anti-maskers looking for love. A British dating forum for anti-mask-wearing singles called “Love in a Covid Climate” and hosted under a website called LockdownSceptics.org launched on Sunday. “We’ve introduced a dating forum at (Lockdown Sceptics), so...

“I went up to the casket to tell him, ‘I love you,’ before anybody came in and [I] was touching the wrong person, with [my] dad’s clothes," his daughter said.

Digital content is on track to equal half of Earth’s mass by 2245, according to new research. The research by Dr. Melvin Vopson, a senior lecturer at the U.K.’s University of Portsmouth, highlights the physics of information creation and the demands of storing vast quantities of digital data. “Assuming the current growth trends in digital...

NASA’s most powerful tool for spotting exoplanets is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The spacecraft scans the skies for tiny dips in star brightness that reveal the presence of distant planets, even if we can’t directly see them. Now, after two years, TESS has officially completed its primary mission, but like many of NASA’s...

Five people buy a money pit of a house together and become a family in the process.

The Greater Rochester International Airport will be rechristened in honor of African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, after a popular petition called for the air hub to change its name and pay homage to the author, orator and civil rights leader. On Tuesday night, local lawmakers voted to change the New York air hub’s name to...

Brooks Koepka regrets insulting “other” golfers, but not Dustin Johnson. As Koepka chased a fifth major title and assessed the field in front of him heading into the final round of last weekend’s PGA Championship, he seemingly insulted Johnson, then leading the pack, for having “only won one” major, as well as “other guys up...

"We thought about a surrogate, but I think we're going to hold off for right now."

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday called for an immediate nationwide mask mandate for the next three months, providing few specifics but saying the measure could save 40,000 people. “I hope we learned a lesson. Hope the president has learned the lesson. But again, this is not about Democrat, Republican or independent. This is...

The body was spotted in the Buttermilk Channel tidal strait between Pier 12 and Governors Island just after 1:30 p.m. today, according to police.

Lebanon saw a record number of new coronavirus infections last week — a week after the Beirut port explosion ravaged the capital city, killing at least 172 people and injuring thousands. The country reported 309 new cases — in addition to seven new deaths — on Monday, data from its Ministry of Public Health shows....

An Arizona woman sued to fight New York’s 14-day quarantine requirement for travelers from hot-spot coronavirus states — arguing that it unfairly stopped her from helping friends move house and going sightseeing with her pals. But a judge this week tossed the suit, ruling that the restrictions in the middle of a pandemic were not...

Police arrested a homeless man Thursday for pushing a 7-year-old girl on Staten Island because he didn’t like the look her mother gave him, police and sources said. “He didn’t like the way the mom looked at him,” a police source said. “That’s why he did that to the kid.” Vondell Cox, 20, was arrested...

Nightstream kicks off just in time for the spooky season, running Oct. 8 through Oct. 11.

American Airlines is planning to drop flights to up to 30 smaller US cities if a federal requirement to continue those flights expires at the end of next month, an airline official familiar with the matter said Thursday. American agreed to keep serving those smaller cities as a condition of receiving $5.8 billion in federal...

The state Department of Labor said that it identified and stopped more than 42,200 fraudulent unemployment benefit claims since COVID-19 hit the Empire State in March.