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When Hudson Yards opened in 2019 as the largest private development in American history, it aspired to transform Manhattan’s Far West Side with a sleek spread of ultraluxury condominiums, office towers for powerhouse companies like Facebook, and a mall with coveted international brands and restaurants by celebrity chefs like José Andrés. All of it surrounded a copper-colored sculpture that would be to New York what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. But the pandemic has ravaged New York City’s real estate market and its premier, $25 billion development, raising significant questions about the future of Hudson Yards. Hundreds of condominiums...

Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned. The stunning admission of a cover-up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to...

[Catholic Caucus] Ash Wednesday: Cardinal Implores Faithful NOT to Attend ChurchAsh Wednesday is the doorway into Lent, the season of renewal, but don’t go to church on that day, Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols writes in a February 13/14 Pastoral Letter.He protests that, “our churches are safe if the protective measures are fulfilled but we must all be very careful about travelling too far.”Nichols asked his priests, not to make "extra provision" for Ash Wednesday. His focus is on the coronavirus, “We must be so careful and cooperative in the measures we must take, to protect ourselves and to protect others.”Receiving...

DOOCY: “What does President Biden think about the Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban decided to indefinitely stop playing the national anthem before his National Basketball Association games?” PSAKI: “Well, I — I haven’t spoken with the President about the decision by Mark Cuban on the Dallas Mavericks, or I should say the national anthem, but I know that he is incredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem and all that it represents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform around the world. He’d also say that of course, that part of the...

Twitter says that disgraced Lincoln Project cofounder John Weaver did not violate its rules on unwanted sexual advances when he allegedly used the platform’s direct messaging system to sexually proposition young men.Twitter’s rules against unwanted sexual advances prohibit:unwanted sexual discussion of someone’s body solicitation of sexual act; and any other content that otherwise sexualizes an individual without their consent. A Twitter spokesman told Breitbart News that the platform had looked into the matter and found no violations of its policies.Over twenty young men have said John Weaver, who still has an active account on the platform, used Twitter’s direct messages...

Early last month, I received a piece of mail from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services providing a personal identification number to access my unemployment account. But I’m not unemployed. Nowhere did the notice say I had made an unemployment claim, however. When I first looked at it, I thought that maybe Ohio, having been wracked by complaints about its mismanagement of the unemployment system, was sending PINs to everyone in the state to smooth out the process. I pretty quickly concluded, though, that someone had made a fraudulent claim in my name. I mentioned it to my...

Democrats make the case against themselves. Video at link, very good! Better than Trump lawyers!!!

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Explanation: In brush strokes of interstellar dust and glowing gas, this beautiful skyscape is painted across the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy near the northern end of the Great Rift and the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Composed over a decade with 400 hours of image data, the broad mosaic spans an impressive 28x18 degrees across the sky. Alpha star of Cygnus, bright, hot, supergiant Deneb lies at the left. Crowded with stars and luminous gas clouds Cygnus is also home to the dark, obscuring Northern Coal Sack Nebula and the star forming emission regions NGC 7000, the North America...

I am not a fan of Disney, or Star Wars, and had never seen The Mandalorian or heard the name Gina Carano before yesterday. What I learned about Ms. Carano, from reading mainstream media headlines, and sifting through some of the tweets under the Fire Gina Carano hashtag, is that she is a bigot, a psychopath, a transphobe, an anti-Semite, and a danger to herself and others. I learned that she has now been booted from her role on The Mandalorian and fired by Disney after an Instagram post that amounted to the final straw in a whole series of...

A group described by Reuters as “former Republican officials,” numbering as many as “dozens,” is reportedly seeking to form a new, “center-right” alternative to the current Republican Party — one without the influence of Donald Trump. Reuters reported Wednesday: Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters. The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi interrupted a reporter on Thursday and said she won’t answer questions regarding former President Donald Trump’s impeachment. A reporter began asking Pelosi about the impeachment trial in the Senate during Pelosi’s press conference before she interrupted him, video shows. “May I just, may I just, before you spend any more time on it, I have not said anything, you haven’t heard me talk about impeachment in the past weeks leading up to this,” Pelosi said, interrupting the reporter. “They are making the case.” “I’m not going to be responding to what happened yesterday or what might...

A Louisiana man who thought “Gorilla Glue Girl” Tessica Brown was “lying” ended up in the emergency room himself after he applied the powerful adhesive to his lip. Len Martin, 37, said he tried out the Gorilla Glue challenge for himself after Brown to prove that it was “not as serious as she was trying to make it,” news station WKBN reported.

As House Democrats lay out their impeachment case against President Trump before the U.S. Senate, critics say their accusations ring hollow. That's because Democratic lawmakers, including several members of the impeachment team, have used similar rhetoric in the past, including the phrase "fight like hell". One House Democrat actually vowed to "fight like hell" against Trump during the House's impeachment hearing. Others even called previous elections stolen, which is one of the points they've attempted to make against Trump. For example, House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin issued a challenge against certifying President Trump's 2016 electoral win. Sen. Rand Paul of...

Acknowledging the growing anxiety many seniors have had in getting COVID-19 vaccines, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is directing more resources to help older residents make appointments and get transportation. In a news conference Thursday, Wolf and Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Robert Torres said state agencies are working on solutions to help seniors get vaccinated. Seniors are most at risk for serious complications from the coronavirus. The PA Link to Aging and Disability Resources is deploying more staff to help seniors with scheduling appointments for vaccines or finding transportation. The PA Link hotline: 1-800-753-8827. The state’s PACE program, which helps...

I just signed up for KlowdTV in order to watch OANN. Tonight OANN is airing the expanded 3-hour Mike Lindell documentary "Absolute Truth" from 7-10 Central. Question, does anyone know if can watch KlowdTV simultaneously on devices?

CNN will likely stop counting, so the Free Beacon is picking up the slack. 67,727 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office. Updated Feb. 11, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.

On December 29, Harris County (TX) physician Hasan Gokal decided not to waste ten vaccine doses for the Wuhan virus. Nationwide, tens of thousands of doses of the vaccine have been lost; 1,200 are known to have been wasted in Western Massachusetts alone. In a sane part of the country, his initiative would have been applauded. Once a vial of vaccine is punctured, medical staff have a matter of a few hours to use it, or it must be thrown away. Unfortunately for Dr. Sokal, he was in Harris County, TX. For his efforts, he was arrested, lost his job,...

LEVIN: We are watching one of the stupidest events by some of the stupidest people in American history. We have a man who slept with a Chinese spy as one of the House Democrat managers. We have Raskin, who was one of the most-loud opponents in one of the recent past elections of certifying the electors. We have a political party that cheered on Antifa and Black Lives Matter and called federal law enforcement storm troopers. Where is the video of Trump over and over again supporting law enforcement, law and order, videos of the police groups endorsing Trump for...

Donald Trump liked to say that he only hires the best people, but that’s doing a disservice to Democrats. Because they’re clearly just as adept as he is when it comes to judging their people’s competence: