Новости за 07.09.2020

Tom Brady’s decision to spend the next years of his football life in Tampa Bay sent shock waves through the NFL. When a sport’s biggest star, and perhaps its all-time best player, changes teams, it’s always big news, even if that player just turned 43. A ton of speculation arose not only as to why...

The 62-year-old Bay Ridge man gunned down while walking his dog Monday morning was a beloved perfume salesman who doted over both his close friends and his Cocker Spaniels — which he named after the Three Stooges, friends and neighbors said. Michael Scully, who was shot outside his Brooklyn home shortly before 7 a.m., was...

Andy Greene wasn’t going to leave the team he had been with for 14 seasons, and captain of for five years, unless it was the right fit. So when the Islanders acquired Greene from the New Jersey Devils in February, it was on the 37-year-old defenseman’s terms. But neither Greene nor the Islanders could have...

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney tweeted out a cutting remark at Dem House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday. The Utah pol posted a photo of himself getting a haircut from his wife at home — and included a dig at Pelosi over her beauty-salon debacle amid the coronavirus crackdown. “Getting cleaned up for resumption of the Senate....

Some coaches may miss real fans more than others. Kyle Shanahan appears to be one of the former. The 49ers coach had his team practice with fake crowd noise piped in recently at Levi’s Stadium and he was clearly not a fan. “Oh my god … that really is a form of human torture,” Shanahan...

An assistant district attorney in the Kings County prosecutor’s office was hit and killed by a bus while riding her bike in Brooklyn early Monday, authorities said. Sarah Pitts, 35, was hit by the charter bus in the intersection of Williamsburg Street and Wythe Avenue at about 12:35 a.m. in Williamsburg, police said. She was...

A Colorado school suspended a pre-teen and sent authorities to his family’s home — for waving a toy gun on screen during a virtual class, according to reports. Isaiah Elliott, 12, was taking an online art class through his Colorado Springs grade school on August 27 when he flashed the green-and-black mock gun, which bore...

More than 700 airline passengers have been banned from flying on US airlines for refusing to wear masks, according to a report. Delta Air Lines has been the strictest, putting 270 passengers on its “no fly” list for flouting its mask policy, the Los Angeles Times said — famously including the ex-Navy SEAL who killed...

Sad man meets octopus. Octopus changes man. We cry.

Five teachers have sued the city seeking to work from home in the upcoming school year because of health concerns posed by the coronavirus pandemic, new court papers show.

Hailey Baldwin, Vanessa Hudgens and Nina Dobrev are all obsessed.

California’s El Dorado Fire isn’t the first blaze to be sparked by a gender reveal party that went horribly awry. In 2017, a dad-to-be in Arizona packed a target with the highly explosive substance Tannerite and blasted it with a powerful rifle, revealing his yet-to-be-born son’s gender for family and friends with a fiery cloud...

The Chinese Communist Party is delaying the renewal of press credentials for some journalists working at American media outlets, amid a conflict over the renewal of Chinese reporters’ visas in the US. Wall Street Journal reporter Jeremy Page, who is British, as well as American CNN reporter David Culver and two non-American Bloomberg journalists, received...

New York City's traffic may feel as slow as ever -- but streets are actually still seeing less driving than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest data.

President Trump is touting a top aide to former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who said in an interview that he never heard the commander-in-chief refer to America’s war dead as “losers” during a trip two years ago to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. “Exclusive: Zach Fuentes,...

The Pakistan pachyderm dubbed “the world’s loneliest elephant’’ was nursed back to health — by a veterinarian who soothed him by singing Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” “So I am not a good singer, but I started to take him behind and to train him and to sing to him so that he would accommodate me...

Serena Williams is known as one of tennis’ all-time revenge players. If an opponent beats her, look out next time. Just two weeks after losing to Greece’s Maria Sakkari in three sets on these same grounds in the Western Southern Open, Williams reversed the decision, also needing three taut sets to do so. After dropping...

Cam Heyward is getting his wish. The veteran All-Pro defensive tackle is set to be a Pittsburgh Steeler for life. The Steelers signed Heyward to a five-year contract on Monday worth around $75 million. The 31-year-old was entering the final season of a six-year deal he signed in 2015. Heyward, whose father Craig starred as...

And they’re off — to getting a temporary bump in their take-home pay. The Nassau County Off-Tracking Betting Corporation has taken up President Trump’s call and is giving workers a pause in paying the 6.2 percent payroll tax, which funds Social Security. The move will provide OTB employees more take-home pay in the short term...

President Trump on Monday vowed to “decouple” the US economy from China and blasted his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, for being a “stupid person” whose “economic treachery” allowed the authoritarian nation’s economic rise. Trump spoke to reporters on Labor Day from the North Portico of the White House — a rare venue for a presidential...

A raucous contingent of Black Lives Matter protesters harassed white diners over the weekend in Pittsburgh, hurling insults before one demonstrator stole a drink off one pair’s table. Cellphone footage posted on Twitter shows the protesters converge on a restaurant’s outdoor dining area Saturday in the Steel City. “F–k the white people that built the...

The first sequel series for Starz's most successful franchise picks up where Power left off, with Tasha covering for Tariq while he starts life in college.

Shocking video shows Hong Kong police tackle a 12-year-old girl to the ground near a pro-democracy protest. The girl, who is only being identified as Pamela, said she was out buying art supplies with her brother Sunday afternoon when she got caught in the protest crowds in the Mong Kok area, the BBC reported. “The...

President Trump on Monday teased that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by next month, as he demanded an apology for “reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric” by Democratic running mates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. “We’ve done an incredible job, and in speed like nobody’s ever seen before,” said Trump during a kitchen-sink press conference from the...

Julian Assange was re-arrested in a UK court’s cells Monday to be hit with new hacking charges — just moments before losing his bid to delay an extradition hearing trying to get him to face espionage charges in the US. The 49-year-old WikiLeaks founder, clean-shaven and wearing a suit, was re-arrested in the cells of...