Month: June 2019

It’s a blast that may have been more than 70 years in the making. A huge crater in the middle of a cornfield in rural Germany is believed to have been made by a buried World War II bomb. Locals in Limburg say they heard a loud explosion in the middle of the night —Read moreRead more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reignited her Twitter feud with Rep. Liz Cheney on Monday, claiming it was the Wyoming congresswoman who “directly and explicitly compared concentration camps on our border to the Holocaust” — and that Republicans pushed the idea “for the explicit purpose of eliciting and manipulating pain for political fear.” “If you doubt it,Read moreRead more

Deepfake technology has been getting insanely good, with just the last few days and weeks chock-a-block with examples of everything from the Mona Lisa being animated to life to photos of dead celebrities and notables like Albert Einstein seeming to come to life with realistic speech and facial movements. The implications are particularly ominous forRead moreRead more

All her life, Christina Giuffrida dealt with annoying medical problems, from headaches and hearing problems to ear infections. But they never seemed that serious. “Kids get ear infections all the time,” the 19-year-old Yonkers resident reasoned when she had two such infections this year within months of each other. And her near-constant migraines? Her doctorsRead moreRead more

Millions of New Yorkers pay dearly to keep a roof over their heads, which hurts them in many ways. That’s the warning of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli in a new report released this month. The report, “Housing Affordability in New York State,” said many pay half or more of their income for housing. That affectsRead moreRead more

Here is something that will make baseball purists puke. When the Yankees visit Dodger Stadium for three games in August they won’t be wearing their road gray uniforms. Instead, for Players Weekend the Yankees will tuck themselves into black uniforms Aug. 23-25. While the Yankees will wear their iconic pinstripes for the two games inRead moreRead more

Monday night marked the deadline for TV academy members to fill out their ballots for September’s Emmy Awards. With 2,300 submissions in the acting category and 732 programs (165 drama series alone) it’s easy to see why the exhausted Emmy voter would just vote for the people they voted for last year. Maybe this explainsRead moreRead more

WASHINGTON — A trove of vetting documents leaked to the news organization Axios on HBO shows “red flags” the administration uncovered as President Trump put together his cabinet and the top levels of government following his shock White House win and his decision to fire transition director Chris Christie. With Christie’s departure, much of theRead moreRead more

Dear John: I love your column and the manner in which you try to help people. Perhaps you can help me as well.  I’m on Social Security Disability for Stage D emphysema and received $1,076 a month up until December 2018.  Then the Social Security Administration informed me that it would begin deducting $134 aRead moreRead more

A former Playboy Playmate was arrested for meth possession in Louisiana, according to police. Valerie Mason — who appeared on five episodes of “The Girls Next Door” — didn’t actually have any drugs on her, but was riding in a car that contained 2 grams of suspected methamphetamine, the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office reports. CopsRead moreRead more