Новости за 15.08.2020

Roving gangs of Antifa rioters spent Friday evening rampaging through the streets of Seattle — with police often nowhere to be found, video and eyewitness accounts show. Video shared by journalist Andy Ngo shows mobs of individuals clad in black destroying property, smashing windows and spray painting anything in sight, all with impunity. “Marauding Antifa...

A fan who raised $60K for the couple's charities is linked to an account posting vile attacks on Prince William, Kate Middleton and the Queen.

Facing mounting outrage over its decision to cancel the Tribute in Light, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum has backed down and agreed to stage the beloved display on the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. “In the last 24 hours we’ve had conversations with many interested parties and believe we will be able to stage...

It will be a UFC Heavyweight Championship trilogy clash between current two-time champion Stipe Miocic and former champion Daniel Cormier at Saturday’s UFC 252 in Las Vegas. The pairing first met at UFC 226 in July 2018, when Cormier, then the light heavyweight champion, returned to heavyweight and captured the title in a first-round KO...

There was a light rain falling at the Polo Grounds just past 3 o’clock that muggy Monday afternoon, 88 degrees and humid, but the clouds weren’t threatening. There were 21,000 people in the stands, and there were two pennant contenders eager to face off with each other. It never occurred to home plate umpire Tommy...

Protesters gathered at the home of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Saturday to demand his resignation — a significant escalation of public pressure amid a pitched battle over mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election. About 100 demonstrators gathered outside DeJoy’s home in the wealthy Washington D.C. enclave of Kalorama. The crowd banged drums and...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Poland’s minister of defense in Warsaw Saturday to ink a new military pact with the strategically crucial Eastern European country. The deal will allow up to 5,500 members of the US military to be based in Poland — an increase over the 4,500 stationed there today. That number...

Cancel culture ‘barbarians’ are at the gates. Twitter is raging over a supposed call to “cancel” Ghengis Khan — all prompted by a woman who had merely pointed out that the fearless, 12th Century Mongol conqueror had also killed an awful lot of people. “Ghengis Khan did to central Asia what Islamic invaders did to...

President Trump on Saturday mocked what he described as the media’s kid-glove treatment of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “Very strange. Sleepy Joe never takes questions,” Trump tweeted over a video clip showing Biden campaign aides shooing reporters away from him and his new running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California). The brush-off happened Friday, after...

Firefighters battling the massive Lake Fire north of Los Angeles had another dangerous thing to contend with —  a raging bull. A video posted Friday on Twitter shows three firefighters sprinting down a hill — just a few steps ahead of a bull with long, sharp horns. Journalist Amy Lanski shot the footage from safe...

Four people — including a city Correction officer — were killed and at least 11 were shot overnight as deadly gunplay continues to ravage New York City. The latest fatality occurred shortly after 6:30 a.m. Saturday in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, when police from the 67th Precinct responded to reports of a person shot at the...

Inside the life of NYC's most eligible woman: David Koch's widow Julia Flesher Koch, who is "fighting off gold diggers" with $44 billion in the bank

Even the bears are trying to escape California’s scorching heat. Two cubs dropped by a house in Lake Tahoe for a dip in an inflatable kiddie pool. They startled the woman who lives there, but not enough to keep her from recording their antics. In her 30-second video, posted to ViralHog, the woman explains how...

There is likely no organization in sports that respects tradition more than the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club that conducts the annual Wimbledon championships. We can all agree on that, correct? So two years ago in 2018, both semifinals in the men’s singles went five sets. They were marathons. Kevin Anderson defeated John...

How a mysterious papyrus note 'proving Jesus was married' led to the downfall of a Harvard professor — and the rise of a 'hot wife' pornographer

A cable company’s temporary fix to a power outage is sparking fear and anger among some Queens’ residents. Spectrum Cable has precariously mounted a generator on top of power lines following Tropical Storm Isaias in order to address a loss of power in Richmond Hill, and the device will likely remain in the same spot...

Rapper Cardi B is encouraging fellow Bronx, New York native, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to run for President once the 30-year-old meets the minimum age requirement.

Hester Ford waved at the steady stream of folks who drove by her house Saturday to wish her a happy birthday — her 115th or maybe 116th — but who’s counting? Either way, the North Carolina great-great-grandmother is the oldest living American, based on data compiled by the Gerontology Research Group, and she certainly has...

Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier 3 headlines UFC 252!

Legend has it, when Don King was asked about the allegations filed against him, he said, “Allegations? I don’t even know the alligators!” That’s why I can’t figure exactly what distinguishes a “social activist” from a social inactivist, other that inactivist is not a word. But I’ve come to learn what it now takes to...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization Saturday for a saliva-based COVID-19 test funded by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that is a fraction of the price of the current exam for the virus. Known as SalivaDirect and developed by scientists at Yale University, the test will cost between...

Portland police once again tangled with protesters Friday night with officers ordering certain groups to disperse, claiming they were throwing objects at cops, several news outlets reported. Paint bombs and other projectiles were being aimed at police, officers said. So cops blocked a crowd of marchers in North Portland and declared it an unlawful assembly,...

The coronavirus may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 — deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats. Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson, both of the non-profit Bioscience Resource Project in...

Heated and close to violent confrontations between armed right-wing militia members and black-masked counter-demonstrators were captured on video Saturday at Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia. Rows of neatly black clad Antifa protesters lined up versus right wing militia in camo overalls. “Motherf–king Nazi!” yelled one militia member to a member of what appeared to...