Новости за 16.09.2020

The union leaders have criticized Democrats for passing a series of laws during their two-year tenure in charge of the Senate that are criminal-friendly and anti-cop.

Forty streets in Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens will be closed to traffic on weekdays to facilitate outdoor dining, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday. The “open streets” program where restaurants can put tables and chairs in roadways to increase outdoor dining capacity during the coronavirus pandemic was previously confined to weekends. The program...

Bracco will take viewers on her home improvement journey in My Big Italian Adventure, premiering Oct. 30.

The president of Local 372 — which represents some of the lowest-paid city staffers — has drained the group’s coffers on salary hikes, unnecessary decorating and a $10 million Manhattan office space, two members allege in a new lawsuit. Union members Paul Brathwaite, who is running for president, and Anthony Gordon, who is running for...

MEMPHIS, Egypt – Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry. The Great Pyramids, Egypt’s top tourist destination, are the sole survivor of the seven wonders of the ancient world and the plateau is a UNESCO world...

China is treating tens of thousands of its citizens with experimental coronavirus vaccines that have not had completed standard testing — raising concerns about safety. In July, China launched a vaccine emergency use program offering three experimental shots developed by a unit of state pharmaceutical giant China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) and biopharmaceutical company Sinovac...

"One of the major arguments [in the paper] is that [the virus] is so unique, it can't have been generated naturally, the only explanation is that it's man-made," virologist Dr. Gary Whittaker said.

Vanessa Bryant slammed Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva for challenging NBA star LeBron James this week to match and double the reward money offered for information on the gunman responsible for the ambush shooting of two deputies in Compton. In no-longer-visible Instagram story posts, Bryant spotlighted a series of tweets and articles calling out...

The serious side effects that prompted AstraZeneca to pause its coronavirus vaccine trial likely weren’t caused by the shot itself, according to documents posted online by the Oxford University. Safety reviews were conducted when volunteers in the British drugmaker’s global vaccine trials — which it is developing with researchers at Oxford — developed unexplained neurological...

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Wednesday said the US was in a “deep review process” of a deal Oracle struck with the popular video-sharing app TikTok’s Chinese parent company. Kudlow says “security and ownership” were important to President Trump in the review process. Earlier Wednesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the...

The four-part docuseries examines the lives of the seven crew members that perished, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, and the safety issues NASA knew about before the flight.

The tiny debt, which homeowner Glen Kristi Goldenthal neglected to pay on her 2019 taxes, then accrued to more than $300 in interest by last week.

At every pediatrician appointment for the last several years, I’ve been asked about how much “screen time” my kids are getting. I’m reminded by the doctor that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends children younger than two avoid digital media other than video chatting. And for children ages 2 to 5, the limit is...

Jeffrey Epstein was a multi-tasking pervert who watched porn while working out on an exercise bicycle on his private “Orgy Island,” according to a report. A source who spent time on Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands recalled how the late financier would spend an hour a day pedaling the bike as “Girls...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have a controversy on their hands and it has nothing to do with what happened on the field. The team voted to wear the name of Antwon Rose Jr., — a black teenager killed by police in Pittsburgh in 2018 — on the back of their helmets during each game this season....

During the coronavirus pandemic, sexually transmitted disease cases dropped due to individuals “sexually distancing” and decreased testing and reporting, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said during the STD Prevention Conference this week. The CDC said in a roundtable discussion Monday that it estimated that tens of thousands of cases of chlamydia and...

A Texas cardiologist claimed his daughter and her boyfriend were attacked by Black Lives Matter protesters in Baltimore — but the young couple told cops they were actually accosted by young squeegee washers, bodycam footage shows. Dr. Andrea Natale, executive director of the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, took...

Wild dashcam footage shows a large tree crash down on to an Oregon trooper’s car as he answers an emergency call in an area that should’ve been evacuated because of the wildfires. The footage shows the officer driving with emergency lights on, the images blurred by smoke and the dark orange sky. As the car...

Fallon faced backlash this summer when a 2000 SNL sketch resurfaced showing the comedian in blackface impersonating Rock.

A pair of maskless cops inside a subway stop snapped back at a New Yorker who questioned why they weren’t covering their faces — calling the straphanger a “male version of Karen,” a new clip shows. The back-and-forth comes just days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo tapped the NYPD and MTA police to hand out $50...

A potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus has been detected in Michigan, officials said. State health officials announced Tuesday that a Barry County resident is suspected of having the rare virus Eastern equine encephalitis, also commonly known as EEE, the Detroit Free Press reported. If tests come back positive, the patient will be the first case in...

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates pinned near zero on Wednesday and promised to keep them there until inflation is on track to “moderately exceed” the US central bank’s 2 percent inflation target “for some time.” The change in guidance is part of a monetary policy shift announced by the Fed last month that is...

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday said Nancy Pelosi doesn’t actually want to pass a COVID-19 stimulus bill, citing the House speaker’s rejection of a centrist compromise. Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday the House would remain in session until a deal passes, but McEnany noted that Democratic leaders denounced a proposal from the bipartisan...

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine described the planet Venus as “one stop in our search for life.” “Today, we are on the cusp of amazing discoveries that could tell us more about the possibility of life off the Earth,” he said, in a statement. Astrobiology, which includes the search for life elsewhere, is a key priority...

"It's absolutely unacceptable," said Lisa Rodgers, who heads the education department for Western Australia, according to the outlet.