Новости за 31.08.2020

Highlights from Monday’s Giants practice: Good You can see why Colt McCoy has lasted so long in the NFL. The ball comes out quick — really quick — when McCoy is running the offense. He made a nifty back-shoulder throw to TE Eric Tomlinson, who barely beat safety Sean Chandler, for a touchdown. McCoy is...

Zimbabwe has launched an investigation after a group of elephants were found mysteriously dead in a forest, officials said. Samples have been taken to a lab to determine the cause of death after the 11 elephants were discovered Friday in Pandamasue Forest, according to the National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority. The carcasses were found...

Labor Day is September 7 — and we know you’re ready for all the great deals. Wayfair is already kicking off its sale for the holiday, meaning you can score some amazing home good savings. You’ll find markdowns of up to 70% off on all the best furniture, lighting and storage. Whether you’re looking for...

City teachers won’t return to their buildings without a mandatory testing program in place, United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew stressed Monday. The union boss said that his organization could move towards a strike in the coming days if Mayor Bill de Blasio does not meet that demand in short order. “We’ll know shortly...

An elderly man riding on a No. 2 subway in Manhattan was attacked by two strangers who left him with facial fractures and bleeding on the brain, police and police sources said Monday. The 67-year-old told cops the duo approached him around 7:30 p.m. Sunday while he was on the southbound train around West 135th...

A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled that the House of Representatives can’t use courts to enforce subpoenas for testimony, giving a win to the Trump administration in a standoff with Democrats. The decision is a blow to House Judiciary Committee Democrats seeking to force testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn, originally...

This is bananas. US researchers working frantically to test potential COVID-19 vaccines are facing a critical shortage of one essential resource — monkeys. “Nationally, there is basically a big shortage,” Koen Van Rompay, an infectious-disease scientist at the California National Primate Research Center, told The Atlantic. Primate research in the country was already pricey and...

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Advancements in robots have already changed our lives in many ways. Most of the time you don’t even notice it, but automated robotic systems have added efficiency and speed to countless industries. Now, as engineers continue to advance work on smaller and smaller robots, the possibility of microscopic machines one day traveling through our bodies...

Welcome to Camalot. A scion of the Kennedy family running for US Senate in Massachusetts is getting mocked for a campaign ad that committed a cardinal sin — misspelling the name of a prominent city two days before his primary election. The Rep. Joe Kennedy III Sunday newspaper ad financed by Local 103 IBEW union...

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With the COVID-19 pandemic still going as the country enters flu season, public health experts are urging Americans to get the flu vaccine — with some precautions. Doctors say getting the shot is safe so long as people follow protocols to prevent exposure to the coronavirus while they’re out getting it. “The precautions people should...

Todd Frazier is returning to Queens. The Mets acquired the veteran infielder from the Texas Rangers on Monday in a flurry of moves before the 4 p.m. trade deadline, The Post’s Joel Sherman reported. They also dealt for righty reliever Miguel Castro from the Orioles and backup catcher Robinson Chirinos from the Rangers. It was...

Wormholes that let humans travel through space and time could be possible, scientists have proposed. Physics supports the concept of wormholes but until now most scientists agreed they would be too small and unstable for a person to travel through. Physicists at Princeton University in the US have used quantum mechanics to find a mathematical...

A 7-year-old boy set up a heartbreaking Avengers-themed memorial for Chadwick Boseman, the actor who played the Black Panther — his favorite superhero — in front of his Missouri home. Kian Westbrook, from the city of Florissant, placed his Black Panther toy in a shoe box wrapped in black silk, a now-viral photo posted by...

A Queens restaurant is losing business to Long Island eateries just a block away — all because diners are allowed to feast indoors on the island but not in the city, a new lawsuit says. Little Neck’s Il Bacco — which borders Nassau towns Great Neck and Lake Success — says its unfair that the...

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A pregnant woman was shot and killed while sleeping in her boyfriend’s Connecticut home early Monday, according to police and news reports. Karla Bermudez, 22, who was six-months pregnant, was hit by multiple shots fired into the Bridgeport home around 5:30 a.m., and her 23-year-old boyfriend was wounded while sleeping next to her, News12 Connecticut...

More than 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered so far by astronomers. Now, artificial intelligence has discovered an additional 50, thanks to old data from NASA. Researchers built the algorithm to comb through old data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, which was retired in October 2018. The AI was trained to look for signs of real...

A wild new video shows an unhinged man creep up and bash a stranger in the back of the head with a bottle in broad daylight while the victim is minding his own business walking on a Harlem street, police said. The violent encounter unfolded around 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 23 as the unsuspecting man...

After the Yankees dropped both games of the doubleheader to the Mets Friday to make it seven straight, it turned around for them on Saturday and Sunday. The Bronx Bombers won in walk-off fashion on Saturday, again in walk-off fashion in extra innings in Game 1 on Sunday and once again in extra innings in...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday rejected growing calls to allow indoor dining at hard-hit New York City restaurants — even as neighboring New Jersey plans to permit reduced-capacity seating later this week. State Budget Director Rob Mujica also admitted that officials had “no specific metric” to decide when Big Apple eateries can reopen their doors....

The Giants have secured their secondary savior. They signed free-agent defensive back Logan Ryan on Monday to a one-year, $7.5 million contract, according to NFL Network. Ryan, the 29-year-old New Jersey native, recently changed agents and appeared set to lower his asking price as his free agency lingered to within two weeks of the start...

The shock of Chadwick Boseman’s death from colon cancer — a rare disease in someone so young — is compounded by another rarity: He kept his suffering secret. He had dignity. The latter is nearly extinct in our culture of physical, emotional and psychological oversharing, where everything from nude selfies to sexual peccadilloes to medical...

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes has slammed Chairman Adam Schiff’s probe into how the Department of Homeland Security responded to racial injustice protests, which many times turned into riots. Speaking to Breitbart News on its SiriusXM channel over the weekend, Nunes (R-Calif.) decried the investigation launched by the California Democrat earlier this month,...