Новости за 23.12.2020

TV crime queen Nancy Grace hailed a “Christmas miracle” as her 89-year-old mother was discharged from an Atlanta hospital where she’d been seriously ill with COVID-19 after it sickened the whole family. “The good news is, my mother turned 89 in the COVID ward — but we just brought her home,” the 61-year-old host of...

Who’s king of the jungle now? A pair of wildlife researchers fought off a starving lion who attacked one of them in Africa — by punching the predator in the face and hurling elephant poop at it, according to wild reports. Gotz Neef, 32, was snoozing in a tent in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana...

A woman in Michigan has warmed hearts with her creative and heartfelt tribute to her late husband. Christy Critchett Hester shared a Christmas craft project she worked on, which involved turning her husband’s eyeglasses into a festive ornament, and tens of thousands of Facebook users have been moved by the gesture, iHeartRadio reports. “My husband passed away this year, and I...

The MTA has finally finished installing federally mandated, live-saving technology on the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North, officials said Wednesday. The technology, called Positive Train Control, automatically stops trains before they crash or derail. Federal officials mandated the tech’s installation way back in 2008. “The completion of PTC marks the end of literally...

A New York man terrorized a Maryland woman who rebuffed his romantic advances online — and sought others to rape, murder and decapitate her in exchange for bitcoin, federal prosecutors said. Desmond Babloo Singh, 19, was arrested Tuesday in New York on federal charges including cyberstalking, aggravated identity theft, emailing a hoax bomb threat and...

President Trump on Wednesday vetoed a $740 billion defense bill over provisions that would halt his drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and force the renaming of 10 military bases that honor Confederates. Trump had threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act over those provisions and because it did not repeal Section 230 of the Communications...

Turkish police seized 2.5 kilograms of cocaine at Istanbul airport nested in portraits of world soccer great Diego Armando Maradona who had struggled with cocaine addiction for years before passing away in late November, Turkey’s Directorate of Customs said in a written statement on Wednesday (December 23). It said a 72-year old drug trafficker, a...

A lost German artillery gun from the First World War has been uncovered by stunned Canadian builders, an estimated 4,000 miles from where it was last fired. A construction crew unearthed the Feldkanone 96 beneath the pitcher’s mount of a former baseball field in Amherstburg, Ontario, on the planned site of a new school. Now...

Rachel Griffiths co-created and stars in this series, which also stars Deborah Mailman as the viral hero-turned-senator.

Lucky dog. Dramatic first-person footage shows the moment a firefighter broke down a window to save an adorable pooch from a burning barn in Pennsylvania. In the daring rescue Saturday, firefighter Ryan Balmer’s helmet camera captures the dog — which appears to be a black lab — frantically barking and trapped in the flame-engulfed building...

It's over for Carly Waddell and Evan Bass.

"Is Kourtney photoshopped in?" one fan asked.

A Manhattan gynecologist accused of sexually abusing dozens of pregnant patients won’t get a free lawyer, a federal judge said Wednesday — pointing out that he made the request after transferring $1.25 million to family members. Ex-Columbia University Dr. Robert Hadden, 63, asked for a court-appointed attorney in October in a handwritten affidavit stating he...

Miguel Cardona, President-elect Joe Biden’s education secretary nominee, recently oversaw the creation of soon-to-be mandated critical race theory courses for high schoolers in Connecticut. Cardona, in his capacity as education commissioner, made Connecticut the first state in the nation to require all high schools to offer courses on African American, black, Puerto Rican and Latino...

Julius Michael wants you to feel like a "Housewife" for the holidays.

Bill Belichick is evidently missing the days when there wasn’t a question who the Patriots’ starting quarterback was. After having Tom Brady as the de facto starting QB for 20 seasons, Belichick is still adjusting to constant scrutiny about his decisions at quarterback. Asked again Wednesday if the team was going to stick with Cam...

The families of victims killed in two crashes by Boeing’s 737 MAX want US regulators to rescind approval for the planes to fly again, following a Senate report that raised concerns about the re-approval process. The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its 20-month safety ban of the 737 MAX on Nov. 18 after green-lighting design changes...

Washington Football Team quarterback Dwayne Haskins was stripped of his captaincy and fined $40,000 by the team for violating COVID-19 protocol when he partied with strippers without a mask this past weekend, according to multiple reports. This is the largest known fine for a player’s COVID-19 violation, equaling more than half of Haskins’ weekly paycheck,...

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, may face questions about possible conflicts of interest due to donations to his 2020 presidential campaign, according to a report. Many people and businesses who did public works projects in South Bend, Indiana, while Buttigieg was mayor later donated to his 2020 campaign, according to CNBC....

Love-sick British Romeo Dale McLaughlin has been released from jail in time for Christmas — but he won’t be able to spend the holiday with his sweetheart, according to a report. “I’m overjoyed to be out,” he told the Daily Mail after being sprung about a week into a 28-day jail stint for breaking lockdown...

​A number of House Democrats want President-elect Joe Biden’s defense secretary nominee to commit to ensuring civilian control of the military as the retired Army general seeks an exemption to take the post, according to a report. The law requires defense secretaries who have served in the military to be out of it for at...

The Giants hope and expect to get Daniel Jones back as their starting quarterback for Sunday’s game in Baltimore and are looking no further than this week’s practice as they evaluate his health coming off two injuries. Still, there is a season beyond this one, and Jones has struggled in Year 2 after a promising...

Merry Metsmas! With Christmas a few days away, special guest Pete Alonso, the face of the Mets, joins us for a 40-minute conversation. And with the Mets seemingly interested in many free agents, what better time to talk offseason and what moves may come next for Steve Cohen’s team on a brand new episode of...

The best catcher on the market has an offer. In an offseason moving at a snail’s pace, that counts as progress. The Phillies have offered J.T. Realmuto a contract, according to Jon Heyman. Heyman also reported that there are other offers out there for Realmuto, though the teams that made them are unknown. The Mets...

The Florida couple that used the emergency slide to bolt from a Delta flight at LaGuardia Airport with their Great Dane puppy in tow were handed the dog back Wednesday morning from a Brooklyn animal shelter.  Antonio Murdock, 31, and 23-year-old gal pal 23-year-old Brianna Greco walked out of the Animal Care Centers of NYC...