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A NYC crisis management consultant is suing a halal food trucker worker for $20 million after being falsely accused of pulling a gun on him and telling him to “go back to [his] country.” Eric Laptook, 70, was accused of harassing Mahmoud Ahmed near his building on West 115th Street where Ahmed operated a food … Read more

Former Late night funnyman David letterman will headline a fundraiser for President Biden in Martha’s Vineyard, even as a growing chorus of big donors and Democrats line up to push him out of the race for the White House. Letterman, who helmed CBS’ “Late Show” for 22 seasons, will attend the July 29 fundraiser, which … Read more

One Brooklyn mom is making sure summer goes swimmingly for her son and other neighborhood kids. In what’s become a summer tradition that started during the pandemic, Jasmina “Jazz” Jeter has set up a small swimming pool on the sidewalk across from her apartment in Bed-Stuy. This year, she added a second, shallower one for … Read more

All residents can return when an evacuation order is lifted at noon on Monday. WABUSH — Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey announced Saturday some Labrador City residents will be allowed to return home after a wildfire forced them to evacuate last week. Furey said essential workers will be allowed to return over the next … Read more

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was well known for conducting expirements that amplified the infectiousness of dangerous germs and pathogens. EPA In the darkly satiric Cold War film “Dr. Strangelove,” the renegade general Jack D. Ripper ignites a chain of events leading to the world’s thermonuclear destruction. The movie exposes the insanity … Read more

Congratulations to Jonathan Aldridge! (Picture: Chris Ratcliffe/National Lottery) A cancer survivor says he hopes his luck is on an upward trajectory after winning more than £100,000 in the National Lottery. Jonathan Aldridge was 17 when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, but thankfully after months of grueling radiotherapy he went into remission with no signs … Read more

A Palestinian baby boy, not yet named, who was delivered prematurely after his mother, Ola al Kurd, was killed in an Israeli strike, lies in an incubator at a hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip. (Abdel Kareem Hana / Associated Press) At least 13 people were killed in three Israeli airstrikes that hit refugee … Read more

The 17th king of Malaysia, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar lifts a ceremonial dagger as Queen Raja Zarith Sofiah looks on during his coronation at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday. (Hasnoor Hussain / Pool Photo via Associated Press) Malaysia’s billionaire king Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar was installed on Saturday, six months after he was … Read more

A new poll found that about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Vice President Kamala Harris would do a good job as president. She fares less well with a broader cross-section of Americans. (Joe Lamberti / Associated Press) As President Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, a majority of Democrats … Read more

She’s New York’s Brightest. A remarkable Washington Heights teenager was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools — along with all 20 other colleges and universities she applied to. “When I was about to open [an admissions] letter, I would prepare myself for it to be the first rejection letter. And then I would open … Read more