Новости за 14.10.2020

New York’s hospitals “were never overwhelmed” at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo claimed Wednesday, continuing his apparent rewrite of history in defense of a state Health Department mandate that barred nursing homes from turning away sickly seniors. Cuomo made the claim during an interview on CNN promoting his new memoir “American...

They're trading two bedrooms for four in the historic loft building.

CHICAGO — Social media influencers, partisan news outlets and even President Donald Trump’s son are driving the spread of online misinformation swirling around the U.S. vote, casting doubt on this year’s election and prematurely raising suspicions about the accuracy of its results. Legitimate U.S. social media accounts are sharing false claims of voter fraud, misleading...

"Joe Allen has to survive," actor Nathan Lane, who likes to nosh on Joe's comfort food between shows on matinee days, told The Post. "It's too important a landmark."

There will probably be blood.

The late actress' British godson has put the Midtown condo on the market for $1.35 million.

The seller is interior designer Garrow Kedigian, who gave the rundown apartment a dramatic renovation.

Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the media Wednesday for the ongoing decrease in the number of families opting for classroom instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. De Blasio complained that what he calls “good news stories” about the quality of in-person instruction are “often not going to be spread in the mainstream media.” “They’ll spread at...

The co-founder of ex-wife Tory Burch's clothing empire paid just $8.55 million for the estate.

Both Twitter and Facebook took extraordinary censorship measures against The Post on Wednesday over its exposés about Hunter Biden’s emails — with Twitter baselessly charging that “hacked materials” were used. The suppression effort came despite presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign merely denying that he had anything on his “official schedules” about meeting a Ukrainian energy...

Massive government spending to battle the coronavirus pandemic will push public debt to a record of nearly 100 percent of global economic output this year, but the run-up may be a one-off event if growth rebounds next year, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. The Fund said in its latest Fiscal Monitor that it expects...

When it comes to Halloween, fire is probably considered more “terrifying” than “spooky.” It’s not unusual to hear stories about people calling the police over somebody taking their Halloween decorations too far. Typically, however, these incidents revolve around displays that are too gory or offensive. For one household in California, however, their neighbors were simply...

Fans didn't appreciate his com-meh-moration.

A group of 25 state attorneys general oppose a settlement of opioid probes being negotiated with Purdue Pharma and members of the wealthy Sackler family who own it, arguing the deal would improperly entangle state and local officials with future sales of the company’s addictive pain drug OxyContin. In a letter to US Attorney General...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in deep space that ripped apart a star millions of light-years from Earth. The process, known as “spaghettification,” saw the black hole create a blast of light seen 215 million light-years from Earth, the “closest such flare recorded to date,” the researchers said in a statement. A light-year, which...

Romain Réa CEO, Antiquorum My first watch: A self-winding chronograph with a black dial and no brand name, but I loved it. Actually, I still have it. Why wearing a great watch still matters: A watch remains a strong social marker. Mastering time is what makes mankind rise. Advice for first-time buyers: Price is hardly the...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to yank state funding for New York City public and private religious schools on Wednesday after television cameras busted yeshivas operating in the southern Brooklyn coronavirus “red zone” in violation of new shutdown orders. “If these schools are operating, it’s easy enough to find out — N.J. Burkett [of WABC-TV, Channel...

Raoul Gelabert trained generations of top ballet dancers in his Upper West Side duplex.

The stars of TV show “American Chopper” gave a New York City pro-cop group a new ride to roll up to events in — a donation that the customer motorcycle-maker hopes will rev up police morale. Paul Teutul Sr., the fiery star of the show, handed over the handmade chopper — which was built by...

The U.S. saw 20% more deaths than expected from March to August, 67% of which were attributed to COVID-19, according to new research. Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Yale University published findings on Tuesday in JAMA, in which they analyzed death data from the National Center for Health Statistics and US Census Bureau....

China is now offering an experimental “emergency-use” coronavirus vaccine that has yet to pass standard testing to students heading overseas to study, according to reports. The state-owned China National Biotec Group Co. made the offer on its website to administer the unproven shot for free — with many students already taking up the offer, according...

Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral hopeful Eric Adams took to the subways on Wednesday to urge New Yorkers to return to their old commutes and offices, which have been mostly empty since March. “We need New York to work and that starts with dispelling the rumors loud and clear — our subways are safe,” the...

Gifford has dated a few men in the past year, but none of them were the one.

Steve Sax has watched Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve “standing alone on an island” during the ALCS, and it breaks his heart. Sax overcame one of baseball’s most pronounced cases of the throwing yips with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1980s, and the former NL Rookie of the Year is “reliving that nightmare”...

Following the discovery of phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus last month, raising the prospects of life, a spacecraft is set to fly by the second planet in the solar system Wednesday. The craft, known as BepiColombo, is set to fly past the planet Wednesday night, reaching its closest point at 11:58 p.m. EST,...