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Al Sharpton, the original racial grievance merchant, has chimed in on the Claudine Gay firing — and is getting slapped for his trouble by sports media legend Sage Steele. “This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass ceiling,” blathered Sharpton. He blatantly ignored the fact that Gay was caught red-handed engaged in serial plagiarism, including of an acknowledgments section. And of course Sharpton, who infamously led an antisemitic march during the Crown Heights pogrom of 1991, couldn’t spare a word for Gay’s passive and cowardly backing of antisemitic thugs at...

Mask mandates are back in Big Apple hospitals and other health facilities as cases of COVID and the flu have jumped in recent weeks, the city’s health department confirmed Wednesday. The requirement applies to all 11 hospitals across the five boroughs under the umbrella of New York City’s Health and Hospitals and went into effect just after Christmas. “As we’ve seen an increase in COVID, flu, and RSV, our priority is to protect our patients, staff, and the community,” a NYCH+H spokesperson told The Post Wednesday. “This applies to clinical settings such as our hospitals, community health centers, and nursing...

PARIS (Reuters) -Carrefour is telling customers in four European countries it will no longer sell products, such as Pepsi, Lay's crisps and 7up because they have become too costly, in the latest tug-of-war over prices between retailers and global food giants. From Thursday, shelves for PepsiCo products at Carrefour stores in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium will carry signs saying the store will no longer be stocking the brands "due to unacceptable price increases", a spokesperson for the French supermarket giant said. Carrefour's move impacts more than 9,000 stores across the four countries, amounting to two-thirds of the retailer's global...

In 2022, 817,000 Californians moved to other states. California also lost a net of 407,000 residents to other states between July 2021 and July 2022.

Having triumphed in the global conflicts of the 20th century, liberal democracies entered the new millennium with every expectation that the wins would keep on coming. Europe would continue to integrate and strengthen its liberal supranational institutions, as expanding the European Union, the eurozone, and NATO had no downsides. Participation in the global economy would force China to democratize as its growing middle class demanded greater freedoms. Growing prosperity would also strengthen young democracies in India, South America, and post-Soviet Russia. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would stabilize the Middle East and pave the way for reform in...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was ripped by her chief competitor and Iowa leaders Thursday after telling an audience of New Hampshire voters that they would “correct” the results of the Hawkeye State’s caucuses. “We have an opportunity to get this right, and I know we’ll get it right. I trust you,” Haley, 51, said during a town hall event in Milford Wednesday. “You know Iowa starts it. You know that you correct it … you know that my sweet state of South Carolina brings it home,” she added after pausing for laughter from the audience.

Are we okay? I mean as a society. Like, are we good? Cuz this whole Stanley cup thing is getting a little out of hand. Stanley just released a Valentine's Day edition of their extremely popular insulated cup and people went absolutely nuts over it. The special edition cup, which, like all Stanley cups, keeps your beverage either hot or cold and can apparently survive a fire, cost a whopping $45, and is now going for upwards of $200 on eBay. Not joking. Although the holiday is over a month away, the double-wall vacuum-insulated tumblers priced at $45 have sold...

Trunp challenged forty-four minutes after nomination petitions were filed for the March 19, 2024 Illinois Primary Election

Trunp challenged forty-four minutes after nomination petitions were filed for the March 19, 2024 Illinois Primary Election

As migrants pour into the U.S. illegally, Mexican cartels are using smartphones to facilitate their smuggling, making payments to drivers and manipulating the Customs and Border Protection app to get more people in. The CBP One app allows entrants to the United States to schedule appointments to appear at U.S. ports of entry. Ostensibly, its users must be in northern Mexico to schedule an appointment, though reporting from the Washington Examiner suggested that users have turned to virtual private networks (VPN) to evade the geographic requirements. House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, R-Tenn., confirmed to the outlet...

The number of German women who've been raped by migrants is staggering.. Some years ago, during a Sky News investigation near Johannesburg, South Africa, an unscientific survey was conducted that included 38 African men. Astonishingly, 28 of these men openly confessed to raping a woman. The Sky News reporter could not contain his shock, as these men flippantly described their attacks on women, completely unable to comprehend what “rape trauma” was. ... Regrettably, both the US and Europe are welcoming this type of danger into their countries through mass migration and illegal wide-open border policies. ... Below is another example...

A person is only about 20% responsible for their own relative healthiness, MSNBC guest Dr. Uché Blackstock told host Charles Coleman Jr. on Saturday’s Velshi. The rest of what affects an individual’s health is decided by systemic factors such as the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Dr. Blackstock joined Dr. L. Ebony Boulware on for a discussion Saturday on Boulware’s recently published study on the “strong link between racism and chronic poor health conditions for Black and Brown communities in America.” “This study, it defines structural racism as the means by which societies perpetuate discrimination through interconnected systems,” said...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stepped back from the spotlight when she announced she would no longer be a part of the House Democrats’ formal leadership team last year, but she’s not shying away from jumping into the 2024 presidential campaign. Pelosi provided some pointed advice for longtime ally President Biden, who is seeking a second term. “I think it’s time to get out there. We’ve had our holidays — the campaigns are beginning now; this is when people will pay attention,” Pelosi said in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday. “People don’t vote for you because...

Glynis Johns, most known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in the 1964 film "Mary Poppins" has died. She was 100. Her publicist Mitch Clem told Eyewitness News she died Thursday from natural causes. Glynis earned an Oscar nomination for "The Sundowners" and won a Tony award for "A Little Night Music."

Perplexity, a startup going after Google’s dominant position in web search, has won backing from Jeff Bezos and venture capitalists betting that artificial intelligence will upend the way people find information online. Started less than two years ago, Perplexity has fewer than 40 employees and is based out of a San Francisco co-working space. The company’s product, which it calls an answer engine, is used by about 10 million people monthly. Those ingredients were enough to persuade Institutional Venture Partners, Bezos and other tech executives to invest $74 million in the company, the largest sum raised by an internet search...

With state and federal money, University of Alaska researchers plan to explore the viability of a new coal plant in the Susitna River valley that would inject its carbon emissions underground...

During Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) derided the Biden administration for its lackluster handling of border security at the U.S.-Mexico border. Johnson accused the Biden administration of rolling out the welcome mat for illegal immigrants by abandoning the policies of President Joe Biden’s predecessor, former President Donald Trump. “The argument is that there’s only so much a president can do,” CNN host Jake Tapper said. “Even Donald Trump could not seal the border. Even when the remain-in-Mexico policy was in place in 2019, there was still a migrant crisis. There was still a crisis...

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has rejected US criticism of proposals to resettle Palestinians in territories outside of Gaza, saying in a message posted on social media that Israel is “not another star on the American flag.” Ben-Gvir, along with Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have in recent days advocated plans for the post-war “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from the blockaded Gaza enclave. Israeli officials have conducted secret talks with representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and other African nations, over the possible resettlement of Palestinians once the war with Hamas has concluded, the Times of Israel said...

A man is comforted as he sits next to the covered body of a loved one who was killed in the explosions in the city of Kerman on January 3. The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a pair of explosions in Iran that killed at least 84 people during commemorations for a former Iranian commander slain four years ago in a U.S. airstrike. The commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) dismissed reports in Iranian media and echoed by an international news agency that shooting broke out in Kerman on January 4. Earlier on January...

Explanation: Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstellar bow wave or bow shock seen in this stunning infrared portrait. In the false-color view, bluish Zeta Oph, a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun, lies near the center of the frame, moving toward the left at 24 kilometers per second. Its strong stellar wind precedes it, compressing and heating the dusty interstellar material and shaping the curved shock front. What set this star in motion? Zeta Oph was likely once a member of a binary star system, its companion star...