| 04.10.2023 06:15
ESPN launches show tackling 'how pervasive racism is in sports' as Disney boss tries to tone down culture wars
Iger reportedly told investors that his primary goal is to 'quiet the noise' around culture wars. Ibram X. Kendi, an anti-racist activist who founded the Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research, debuted a new ESPN series, "Skin in the Game," to dissect racism in sports as Disney boss Bob...
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| 04.10.2023 01:30
Teen indicted in death of lacrosse star Sadie Mauro months after Cape Cod boat crash
A 19-year-old man is facing a slew of charges in the death of Massachusetts high school lacrosse star Sadie Mauro who was killed when the boat she was in crashed into a jetty over the summer, prosecutors said Tuesday. David K. Sullivan, Medfield, Mass., has been accused of drunkenly steering the ve...
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| 03.10.2023 22:41
US passenger railroad Amtrak high-speed Acela program facing new delays
U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak's $2.3 billion plan to replace its high-speed Acela train cars is more than three years behind schedule and faces more likely price hikes and further delays, a government watchdog said on Tuesday. Amtrak, which contracted with Alstom (ALSO.PA) to develop and manufactu...
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| 03.10.2023 20:48
Rush lead singer Geddy Lee announces ‘My Effin Life' book tour. Get tickets
Geddy Lee is going to spill about his "effin' life" this fall. The 70-year-old Rush frontman and bassist just announced a 14-show book tour promoting his new memoir "My Effin' Life." Along the way, the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will drop into New York City's Beacon Theatre on Monday,...
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| 03.10.2023 19:21
We found all the best ticket prices for Kesha's ‘The Only Love Tour'
The wait is finally over. Five months after dropping her fifth studio album, "Gag Order," Kesha is going on a 22-concert tour this fall. From Oct. 15 through Nov. 18, the "TikTok" singer will perform at venues all over North America as part of her ‘The Only Love Tour' with special guest Jake Wesley...
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| 03.10.2023 17:45
Student loan borrowers are facing "nightmare" customer service issues, prompting outcry from states
As student loan repayment requirements resume this month , some borrowers are experiencing customer service issues with their loan servicers. The resulting chaos has prompted 19 state attorneys general to argue that consumers facing servicer difficulties shouldn't have to repay their debt until the...
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| 03.10.2023 16:56
Construction on lavish new mansion begins in place of Jeffrey Epstein's Florida sex den
Palm Beach's most notorious pervert has officially been pulverized. Construction is advancing on a new 10,000-square-foot mansion on the site of Jeffrey Epstein's now-demolished Florida estate - where authorities said the late financier abused dozens of underage girls during a decades-long reign of...
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| 03.10.2023 14:01
Supreme Court Skeptical of Argument That Could Hobble Consumer Watchdog
A majority of the justices at a Supreme Court argument on Tuesday seemed ready to reject a challenge to the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency set up during the Obama administration to crack down on abuses by banks and other financial services providers. The j...
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| 03.10.2023 12:30
New NBA season comes with fresh storylines to watch
More than three months have passed since Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets enjoyed their long-awaited coronation as first-time NBA champions. Another summer that had the potential for major trades involving big names didn't materialize for the Knicks, or perhaps more significantly, for the Heat team tha...
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| 03.10.2023 11:56
How Dave Portnoy Used Barstool Belligerence to Build a Pizza Empire
Tito Ibarra traveled from Clemson, S.C., to New York City with one mission: to eat a slice from all 35 pizzerias at the One Bite Pizza Festival. He was in the city for just about 12 hours: He landed in the morning, after driving two hours to Atlanta and taking a two-and-a-half-hour flight. Then, he...
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| 03.10.2023 11:18
Creating 'Fair and Appropriate Testing'
More from our inbox: Sorry Not Sorry: The Truth About Apologies Biden's Hubris TV and the Boomers To the Editor: Re " Timed Tests Are Biased Against Your Kids " (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 22): As a retired high school teacher who taught both general English and International Baccalaureate literatu...
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| 03.10.2023 07:56
A Plot to Oust the House Speaker Hits Weary Investors
A House mutiny messes up the markets Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida moved on Monday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, looking to exact punishment on the top House Republican for siding with Democrats to forge a short-term deal to avert a government shutdown. The extraordinary power play - ju...
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| 03.10.2023 06:21
Mark Wahlberg says family is 'happy' after leaving Los Angeles for Las Vegas
Wahlberg and family ditched Los Angeles for Las Vegas in fall 2022. Mark Wahlberg and his family have no regrets after they decided to move out of Los Angeles for Las Vegas about a year ago. "Everybody's adapted nicely. The kids are all out at school, and everybody's happy," the actor told People m...
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| 03.10.2023 03:16
Filip Chytil's injury could keep him out of Rangers' opener
Filip Chytil, who sustained an upper-body injury in practice a week ago, is still not skating with the Rangers as the Oct. 12 opening night in Buffalo steadily approaches. The Czech center has been classified as day-to-day , but Chytil has been skating by himself, according to head coach Peter Lavi...
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| 02.10.2023 23:39
Knicks banking on continuity while monitoring ways to add star power
There are compelling reasons for the Knicks to bank on continuity. Even if not terribly exciting, it's a refreshing change from the yesteryear failed strategies of turnover and dysfunction. And for an example of success through stability, look no further than the Denver Nuggets, who seemed to build...
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| 02.10.2023 23:37
Longtime ESPN MLB writer Jim Caple dead at 61
Prominent MLB writer Jim Caple has died at 61, his wife announced. Caple wrote for ESPN for 17 years, from 2001-17, and most recently was a features reporter for The Athletic. His wife, Vicki, announced Caple's passing on his Facebook account. "My person, best friend and husband died on Sunday afte...
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| 02.10.2023 23:09
NYC man, 32, fatally stabbed by unhinged suspect was do-gooder activist and poet
The 32-year-old Brooklyn man fatally stabbed by an unhinged suspect in a "horrific, brutal murder" Monday was remembered by friends as a big-hearted activist and talented poet - who once talked a mugger down from trying to rob him. Ryan Carson of Bedford-Stuyvesant was stabbed multiple times in the...
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| 02.10.2023 21:12
The simple Tom Thibodeau approach that offers the most Knicks hope
Tom Thibodeau turned 65 in January, an age when a man can look back, if he chooses, on the vast plane of his life and, if he chooses, opt to allow whatever successes he's already achieved serve as the pillars of his legacy. Thibodeau could do that. He's coached 834 games in the NBA across 11 season...
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| 02.10.2023 19:35
Pickleball is wreaking havoc across the US - and it's only going to get worse
There's a sour side to pickleball. The game's rapid rise - between 2020 and 2022, it saw a 113% increase in participation, according to a 2023 Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) report - has made for ugly turf wars, furious noise complaints, violence, lawsuits and even potential criminal...
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| 02.10.2023 17:23
Why you should wait a few days before taking an at-home COVID test if you're sick
The best time to take an at-home COVID-19 test may be on the fourth day of having symptoms, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases . Researchers looked at nearly 350 people and found that viral load peaked a few days after symptoms started. "Viral load just refer...
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| 02.10.2023 17:20
Sam Bankman-Fried set to face trial after spectacular crash of crypto exchange FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried's trial is set to kick off on Tuesday, with the founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX facing a potential prison term of more than a century if convicted of federal fraud and money-laundering charges. The case also thrusts the emerging crypto trading industry, tarnished by...
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| 02.10.2023 16:52
Why fish oil supplements are basically worthless: study
There's something fishy about fish oil. The wildly popular supplement - which is on track to reach an estimated $2.4 billion in worldwide sales by 2030 - might not provide any health benefit, according to scientists. But that hasn't stopped manufacturers from making outrageous claims on the packagi...
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| 02.10.2023 16:52
Jimmy Butler rocks ‘emo' look at Heat media day: ‘This is me'
Maybe losing in the NBA Finals, losing out on Damian Lillard to the Bucks and seeing Jrue Holiday go to the Celtics has Jimmy Butler feeling down. The Heat star showed up to media day Monday ready for Warped Tour, rocking an "emo" look with long, straightened hair, piercings and his fingernails pai...
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| 02.10.2023 16:38
Mariah Carey announces ‘Merry Christmas One and All!' Tour. Get tickets
Mariah Carey made our wish come true. The popular singer just announced her 13-concert ‘Merry Christmas One And All Tour' that will send her to 13 cities all over North America this November and December. That includes a huge show in the Big Apple, too. Carey, 54, will close the quick run at New Yo...
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| 02.10.2023 16:16
Knicks' Tom Thibodeau brings statistics to clap back at Evan Fournier over benching
Tom Thibodeau brought numbers to counter Evan Fournier's complaints . With Fournier reporting to camp Monday after a summer of expressing his discontent, Thibodeau said that the veteran guard's benching was simply a matter of winning over losing while touting the team's record without the Frenchman...
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| 02.10.2023 15:08
Foo Fighters announce 2024 ‘Everything or Nothing At All' Tour. Get tickets
After a huge 2023 where they've already performed at a whopping 20 (!) festivals all over the globe, Foo Fighters are taking off on a proper headlining North American tour next summer. Starting in mid-July, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers embark on their ‘Everything or Nothing At All Tour' with sp...
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| 02.10.2023 15:00
Giving Workers a Raise Is Not Going to Make Inflation Worse
As the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis expands and the union continues to hold out for big wage increases, some analysts are worrying that higher pay will be inflationary. The nightmare scenario is that wages drive up prices, which cause workers to deman...
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| 02.10.2023 12:22
Here's how much pizza the average person eats in one year
How much pizza do you estimate you can eat? The average American reveals they eat enough pizza per year to stuff a full-sized suitcase with cheesy 'za. A state-by-state poll of 5,000 US adults found the average person can eat over half (five slices) of an entire pizza by themselves in a single sitt...
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| 02.10.2023 11:55
New York Schools Weathered a Crisis. Now They Face a Fiscal Cliff.
Just a year ago, the outlook for New York City was bleak: The nation's largest school system had lost 120,000 children in five years, and Mayor Eric Adams warned gravely, "We're in a very dangerous place." But today, despite some continuing and intense struggles, the darkest projections seem to hav...
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| 02.10.2023 11:51
I'm a ‘rent-a-mom' for Gen Z college students - parents pay me $10K to cook, do laundry and bail them out of jail
Like any good mom, when one of her kids calls, Tammy Kumin comes running - no matter the time of day or night. The biological parent of three and grandmother of six from Boston does it all, even in her seventies - emergency grocery shopping , cooking, and laundry. She's even jumped on a plane in th...
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| 02.10.2023 09:41
He Announces Baseball Games in Spanish. It is Not His First Language.
Bill Kulik is a longtime Spanish language radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies. But listeners tuning in wouldn't always know that. Instead of calling baseball's championship by its Spanish name, "La Serie Mundial," he calls it the World Series. He recently described a player's up and dow...
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| 02.10.2023 05:25
Redfin, the Online Real Estate Broker, Leaves a Powerful Realtor Group
Redfin is cutting ties with the National Association of Realtors, one month after The New York Times published an article detailing a yearslong pattern of allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination and retribution that the organization did not address. The online brokerage, based in Seattle,...
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| 01.10.2023 21:10
Tim Wakefield's former Red Sox teammates pay tribute: ‘My heart is broken'
Tim Wakefield's former teammates took a moment to remember the beloved former knuckleballer, who died Sunday morning . He was 57. Wakefield battled brain cancer, though the diagnosis was revealed to the public without his permission by former Red Sox teammate Curt Schilling. "My heart is broken and...
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| 01.10.2023 19:10
Tim Wakefield, who revived his career and Red Sox trophy case with knuckleball, has died at 57
BOSTON (AP) - Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse-busting World Series title the following year, has died. He was 57. The Red Sox announce...
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| 01.10.2023 18:41
Tim Wakefield, Pitcher Who Helped Boston Break the Curse, Dies at 57
Tim Wakefield, a right-handed knuckleball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox who in 2004 played a critical late-innings relief role in the team's winning its first World Series championship in 86 years, died on Sunday. He was 57. The Red Sox announced his death and said the cause was brain cancer. "He...
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| 01.10.2023 16:40
Celtics Make Another Blockbuster Move, Acquire Jrue Holiday after Damian Lillard Trade
In a stunning turn of events, Jrue Holiday's desire to retire with the Milwaukee Bucks has been shattered as he finds himself traded to one of their top competitors in the Eastern Conference. Multiple reports confirm that the Portland Trail Blazers have agreed to send Holiday to the Boston Celtics,...
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| 01.10.2023 16:08
Blazers trading Jrue Holiday to Celtics days after Damian Lillard blockbuster
Jrue Holiday said he wanted to retire with the Bucks, but now he's with one of their top competitors in the Eastern Conference. The Trail Blazers are trading Holiday to the Celtics, according to multiple reports, just four days after Holiday was traded by the Bucks to the Blazers as part of a three...
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| 01.10.2023 16:04
Tim Wakefield, beloved Red Sox knuckleballer, dead at 57
BOSTON - Beloved former Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield died at the age of 57, the team announced on Sunday. The knuckleballer spent 29 years with the organization as a player, special assistant and broadcaster. Wakefield's health challenges came to light last week. "Tim's kindness and indomitable sp...
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| 01.10.2023 15:50
Tim Wakefield, Red Sox knuckleballer, passes away at 57
Beloved former Red Sox pitcher, Tim Wakefield, passed away at the age of 57, as announced by the team on Sunday. Wakefield, known for his knuckleball, had a long and successful career with the Red Sox spanning 17 seasons. He also spent time with the Pittsburgh Pirates before joining the Red Sox org...
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| 01.10.2023 15:25
Chicago housing hundreds of migrants at O'Hare airport, raising safety, public health concerns
CHICAGO - Hidden behind a heavy black curtain in one of the nation's busiest airports is Chicago's unsettling response to a growing population of asylum seekers arriving by plane. Hundreds of migrants, from babies to the elderly, live inside a shuttle bus center at O'Hare International Airport's Te...
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| 01.10.2023 14:45
Red Sox great Tim Wakefield dead at 57
Wakefield became known as a master knuckleball pitcher in his career. Tim Wakefield, one of the masters of the knuckleball pitch who won two World Series titles with the Boston Red Sox , has died. He was 57. It was revealed earlier in the week that Wakefield was battling brain cancer. "Our hearts a...
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| 01.10.2023 14:13
Celtics to acquire Jrue Holiday in latest blockbuster deal following Damian Lillard trade: reports
Holiday was included in the Bucks trade that saw Damian Lillard head to Milwaukee. The Portland Trail Blazers appeared to still be open for business days after the team dealt Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-team trade including the Phoenix Suns. The Trail Blazers reportedly agreed...
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| 01.10.2023 11:02
Chicago's O'Hare Airport Overflows with Migrants: Safety and Health Concerns Emerge
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has become an unsettling temporary shelter for hundreds of asylum seekers arriving by plane. Behind a heavy black curtain in Terminal 1, migrants of all ages, from babies to the elderly, live in cramped conditions. They sleep on cardboard pads on the floor and...
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| 01.10.2023 10:16
"Trust" author Hernan Diaz on his love for "the music of English"
Hernan Diaz writes in longhand, covering every square inch of every page in his notebooks. "I prefer to write with this pen," he said, "because if one can feel love for objects, I feel love for this pen. There is the sensual experience of writing longhand. There is something about the murmur of the...
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| 01.10.2023 08:00
Iconic southern accent is slowly disappearing with time, linguists say
Researchers at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology said Generation X is largely behind the change. An integral part of what makes the American South unique - its iconic drawl - is quickly fading in Georgia, according to collaborative research led by the University of G...
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| 01.10.2023 05:00
This day in sports history: First modern World Series, Kevin Garnett rewarded and more
Sports history from Oct. 1 over the years. October 1, 1903, is an important day in Major League Baseball history, recognized as the start of the modern World Series when Game 1 was played between the Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates. The American League and National League champions met each...
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| 01.10.2023 03:00
'Before Leaving Town, We Stopped to Get Sandwiches to Eat in the Car'
Cutting the Line Dear Diary: My wife and I were about to drive back to Ithaca after spending a weekend seeing shows in Manhattan. Before leaving town, we stopped to get sandwiches to eat in the car. When we got to the sandwich place, it wasn't open yet, so we took a place in the growing line. As we...
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| 01.10.2023 01:44
Chicago Keeps Hundreds of Migrants at Airports While Waiting on Shelters and Tents
CHICAGO - Hidden behind a heavy black curtain in one of the nation's busiest airports is Chicago's unsettling response to a growing population of asylum-seekers arriving by plane. Hundreds of migrants, from babies to the elderly, live inside a shuttle bus center at O'Hare International Airport's Te...
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| 30.09.2023 19:25
A Brief History of Consequential Deaths in Congress
Dianne Feinstein, who died on Thursday at 90, was the first senator to die in office since John McCain in 2018. But since the first Congress convened in 1789, deaths in office have been a fairly regular occurrence . "You look back in history, nearly one in 10 members of Congress have," Jane L. Camp...
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| 30.09.2023 19:15
NJ man who survived Andrea Doria sinking in 1956 donates life jacket to museum
A New Jersey man who survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956 donated his life jacket to a museum there. Vernon resident Alfonso Caliendo, 83, gave the orange jacket that saved his life 67 years ago to the New Jersey Maritime Museum on Long Beach Island. The doomed ship left Genoa, Italy en...
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