Category: News

The Yemeni American Merchants Association launched a boycott of the New York Post Saturday to protest the newspaper’s incendiary front page that invoked 9/11 to attack Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). More than 1,000 bodegas and delis owned by Yemeni-Americans in New York represent an important portion of the newspaper’s market. Bodega owners backed by thousands of…

“Saturday Night Live” recreated its own version of “The View” with killer clones of Whoopi Goldberg (Leslie Jones), Joy Behar (Kate McKinnon), Meghan McCain (Aidy Bryant) — and Emma Stone as returning panelist Jenny McCarthy to complain about vaccinations. “Trump, Trump, what a chump. Trump, Trump, what a dump,” intones “Behar” as the women discuss…

The ease and openness with which Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg talks about his religious beliefs appears to be causing consternation among some conservative Christians.  Evangelical Christians have long seen themselves as the standard-bearers for faith and family values in American politics. Buttigieg, a gay Christian, is directly challenging that, driving some evangelical leaders to try…

What happens to your body after nearly a year in space? Plenty. Most things return to normal once you’re back on Earth ― but not all of them. That’s the extremely topline summary of NASA’s “Twins Study,” the results of which were published Friday in the journal Science. The study tracked the physiological and cognitive…

This is the worst.  Logan Paul, who infamously vlogged a dead body in Japan’s “suicide forest” and filmed videos blatantly disrespecting foreign cultures, invited notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who’s long harassed mass shooting survivors and victims’ families, onto his podcast, “Impaulsive.”  Jones, who’s been banned by YouTube for spreading hate speech following the Parkland,…

President Donald Trump considered naming his daughter Ivanka as head of the World Bank, he told The Atlantic in an interview published Friday. “She would’ve been great at that because she’s very good with numbers,” he said. The head of the World Bank has far less work doing number calculations than understanding economic development and how…

While much has been speculated about Ivanka Trump’s relationship with her stepmother, first lady Melania Trump, Ivana Trump seemingly settled things once and for all in an interview with The Atlantic published Friday. Ivana said that the two get along fine “because [Melania] didn’t cause me to break up the marriage like the other one…

Three women in Florida are behind bars after lounging au naturel at a rest stop and then leading Pasco County officers on a high-speed chase that ended when one of them tried to attack officers with a pink baseball bat, authorities said. Someone reported seeing the women Wednesday morning in their birthday suits at a rest…

One father decided to kick the tires on his daughter’s desire to buy into a “ridiculous” fitness trend. Clare O’Connor, who is from Brooklyn, was toying with the idea of buying a Peloton Bike, a stationary bike complete with a touchscreen that allows consumers to stream live classes or access them on-demand in the comfort…

A father and son have been federally charged for allegedly selling body parts on the black market they knew were contaminated with infectious diseases. Donald Greene Sr. was charged with wire fraud in relation to a years-long operation that involved selling diseased cadavers to unwitting researchers, the Associated Press reports. His son, Donald Greene II,…