Новости за 28.10.2020

Puerto Rico’s health department scrapped a safe sex campaign urging people to masturbate to avoid contracting the coronavirus — after conservative critics said the message rubbed them the wrong way. The public service announcement, which launched on social media Tuesday, featured an image of a thumb fondling a grapefruit along next to a statement proclaiming...

A former MTA subway conductor pocketed $114,000 in disability payments — despite holding multiple law enforcement jobs in Florida and Pennsylvania, prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Giovanni Seminerio, 48, claimed to have been be injured on the job on Dec. 8, 2015 — the same day he was told he’d be fired for “disciplinary charges related to...

Ocasio-Cortez dropped the foul language while speaking with reporter Michelle Ruiz soon after the New York Times published a series of stories about Trump's recent tax returns.

"Do not put your ballots in the mail any more," the singer tweeted.

As of Tuesday, more than 66 million votes have been cast in the 2020 general election. And thanks to the work of voting assistance officers across U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, new soldiers currently at basic combat training are having their absentee ballots counted too. According to TRADOC estimates, more than 15,000 trainees are...

Nurses comprised the highest percentage of coronavirus hospitalizations over other types of health care personnel, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency assessed data from the COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET). Of over 6,000 adults who were hospitalized with coronavirus between March to late May, 5.9% were...

Privately, a number of Big East coaches weren’t thrilled about the league adding UConn, a publicly-funded state school unlike the other 10 members. On Wednesday, Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard didn’t hide his feelings during the league’s virtual media day, half-jokingly saying he was against the move. “It sucks for us, to be honest with...

Despite several deals securing more than 1 billion doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine, government officials do not expect to be able to vaccinate the full European Union population until 2022, officials reportedly said at a meeting on Monday. “There will not be sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the entire population before the end...

This guy should just get an E-Z Pass. A huge “8-point buck” belonging to a Staten Island group paid millions to perform deer vasectomies was spotted swimming across state lines Tuesday — in Newark Bay. The splashing stag was caught on video paddling within sight of docked cargo ships in the waters off of Bayonne,...

Now that the model's secret is out, she's done hiding her tummy.

A Taliban terrorist accused of abducting an American journalist in Afghanistan and holding him hostage for more than seven months was busted by federal authorities this week — 12 years after the incident. Afghan national Haji Najibullah, 42, was arrested in Ukraine and flown back to the US on Tuesday. He is in custody awaiting...

They are "totally over," a source told us.

The Pennsylvania city has been rocked by looting and mass protests after cops shot and killed 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr. whose family said was experiencing "mental health problems."

Justin Turner’s decision to celebrate on the field after the Dodgers clinched the World Series despite having learned during the game he’d tested positive for COVID-19 could cost the third baseman. MLB announced Wednesday the commissioner’s office had begun a full investigation into Turner’s actions after he “chose to disregard the agreed-upon joint protocols and...

US scientists have created the world’s whitest shade of white paint — and it could help combat global warming, the researchers claim. Engineers at Purdue University in Indiana developed an ultra-white paint they say reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight to keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their surroundings. The team hopes the...

A former NYPD sergeant is the private eye busted in a Chinese government plot known as “Operation Fox Hunt,” according to his online resume. Michael McMahon, 53, is accused of participating in a multi-year scheme to “threaten, harass, surveil and intimidate” a former Chinese government official living in New Jersey into returning to China to...

Germany will be plunged back into lockdown with restaurants, bars and theaters closed for a month to stop the rapid spread of COVID-19, officials announced Wednesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 state governors said the partial shutdown will go into force Monday, saying it’s needed after a recent surge in new infections. “We...

Yes, we said rotating. (Really!)

The former New York senator won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College to Trump in 2016, and supports abolishing the institution.

Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski and stars Baker Mayfield and Jarvis Landry are strongly pushing back on suggestions their offense will be “better off” without seriously injured wideout Odell Beckham Jr. Stefanski said Wednesday that he’s been “sick” about losing Beckham since the former Giants star suffered a torn ACL in his left knee...

Big Tech executives were forced to defend themselves and their platforms in a contentious Senate hearing on Wednesday — with most of the passion relating to the suppression of this newspaper’s Twitter feed over the past two weeks. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained with an eerie calm that The Post can regain access to its...

The head of Philadelphia’s police union said Wednesday that cops had “no choice” but to shoot the knife-wielding black man whose death has sparked widespread unrest in the Pennsylvania city. John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, told a local radio show host that 27-year-old Walter Wallace “was a problem in...

Former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor on Wednesday revealed himself as “Anonymous,” the author of an op-ed vowing resistance to President Trump. Taylor — who previously denied he was “Anonymous” — triggered intense speculation about the identity of the disgruntled staffer in September 2018 when he wrote of “working diligently from within to...

A 12-year-old tourist from Ukraine lost an arm and his guide a leg in a rare shark attack in Egypt, officials said. The boy and his mother were snorkeling with their tour guide Sunday when they encountered a 6-foot Oceanic Whitetip Shark in a marine reserve near the Red Sea Resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, the...

The death of a man whose scorched body was discovered, with his hands tied behind his back, inside an under-construction Queens home ravaged by a fire earlier this year has been ruled a homicide, cops said Wednesday. Firefighters found the still-unidentified man’s body Jan. 20 on the first floor of the two-story colonial home on...