SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are setting up a task force to study and make recommendations for reparations to African Americans, particularly the descendants of slaves, as the nation struggles again with civil rights and unrest following the latest shooting…
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Venus Williams entered the USTA National Tennis Center on Saturday through the subway-station entrance with one coach and nobody shouting her name or asking for a selfie or autograph. On what was supposed to be Arthur Ashe Kids Day, a…
Derick Brassard. Otherwise known as “The Notorious BGB.” It was 1-1, Islanders-Flyers, with time ticking down in the second period when Ivan Provorov attempted to move the puck up the middle out of the zone. But the puck was deflected…
You can almost smell the sweat. The Democrats and their media handmaidens are starting to panic about Joe Biden’s prospects. The proof comes in their efforts to wish away the wave of crime and violence engulfing many American cities. Their…
For a guy who has pushed massive deregulation, President Trump certainly likes to insert himself into the business world on a granular basis. He ridicules Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos as “Jeff Bozo” and threatens the company’s contracts with the federal…
Former Jets coach Pete Carroll — now head coach for the Seattle Seahawks — got political on Saturday, delivering an impassioned plea against racism. Carroll, 68, called on other coaches to use their platforms to speak out against social justice…
Mayor de Blasio is set to send out layoff notices Monday, but trimming the city workforce won’t come close to addressing the ginormous fiscal and economic challenges ahead. Consider the July jobless figures out last week: 15.9 percent statewide, 20…
Author Jeff Benedict explores the greatest contemporary sports dynasty of our time, the New England Patriots, in his upcoming book “The Dynasty,” which releases Tuesday. This excerpt is from Chapter 42, “Threading the Needle,” which highlights QB Tom Brady’s hand…
Gov. Cuomo is going to have to find some new tricks to plug the projected $14.5 billion hole in the state budget: The $60 billion he’s begging Congress for is unlikely to materialize any time soon. One example of the…
Don’t turn the other cheek! The NYPD is looking for ass-istance in identifying a moped-riding perv who likes to smack or grab women’s buttocks. The weirdo struck three times in Brooklyn within two hours on Aug. 22, police said. The…
Fans traded favorite “Black Panther” clips and photos, sending them viral. Stars and dignitaries — a former president, media moguls and a who’s who of A-list entertainment luminaries — posted heartfelt RIPs. And even across the Atlantic, a British soccer…
John Carlos — who authored the most famous protest in sports history — became a hero for human rights. Now, almost 52 years after his transformative moment, Carlos has new heroes of his own: NBA players boycotting playoff games over…
The Russian Navy conducted its biggest war games since Soviet times off the coast of Alaska this week, with more than 50 warships and 40 aircraft taking part in the exercises in the Bering Sea. Among the warships was the…
Sloths, unite! A German university is offering scholarships to three people who would have to do…“absolutely nothing.” University of Fine Arts in Hamburg is accepting applications for the “Scholarships for Doing Nothing” until Sept. 15. “The world we are living…
YouTube star and young father Landon Clifford hanged himself after struggling with depression and drug addiction for years, his heartbroken wife told their nearly 1.4 million subscribers. Camryn Clifford, 19, talks about her husband’s death in a 36-minute video that…