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The illegal sign-stealing drama that rocked MLB before the pandemic might not be over — and this time it involves the Yankees. A letter from commissioner Rob Manfred to the Yankees detailing the findings of a 2017 investigation into the ball club’s alleged sign-stealing program should be unsealed, a judge ruled Friday, according to The …
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Two Catholic priests and three Orthodox Jewish congregants have filed a lawsuit against New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio in federal court, alleging that the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic violated the constitutional rights of religious New Yorkers. Catholic priests Steven Soos and Nicholas Stamos, from upstate …
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Two states are pausing their reopening processes as coronavirus cases spike within their borders, the governors of Oregon and Utah announced Thursday. New cases of the virus in Oregon hit their highest level ever at 178 on Thursday. The state has seen more than 5,200 cases of the coronavirus and 171 deaths since the outbreak hit …
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Boston mayor Marty Walsh declared racism a “public health crisis” on Friday, and announced a proposal to transfer funds from the police department’s overtime budget to social services. Walsh said $3 million would be immediately transferred from overtime for city police to the Boston Public Health Commission. The mayor will also propose that the City …
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Kyrie Irving was a very vocal proponent of players not reporting to Orlando when the NBA season resumes because of nationwide unrest centering on social injustice and racism. The Athletic reported the Nets guard — who is one of the player association’s vice presidents — led a call with more than 80 players, including union …
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They don’t negotiate. This is e-mail bargaining. One side sends an offer, the other rejects it and makes a counter-proposal. All done electronically. Perhaps this is how you find a date in 2020. But is this really how talks to restart the national pastime within a pandemic should be handled? Because this isn’t Tinder as …
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One of the most treasured cafés in Shelter Island is under threat of closure amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The owner of Marie Eiffel Market — which draws both locals and celebrity fans including Jessica Chastain and Charlotte Gainsbourg — tells Page Six that she even called her landlord to give up the market’s lease. But …
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US stocks rebounded Friday after fears about a new crop of coronavirus cases sparked the market’s worst selloff in three months. The Dow Jones industrial average had by 3 p.m. climbed 319.87 points, or 1.27 percent, to 25,448.04, clawing back some of Thursday’s nearly 7 percent loss. The S&P 500 also jumped as much as …
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A large number of small US businesses could fail during the coronavirus recession, the Federal Reserve said on Friday, slowing recovery and creating lasting damage to the world’s largest economy. “The nature of the economic recovery that follows the COVID-19 crisis will depend in part on the survival of small businesses,” the Fed said in …
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US property and casualty insurers have cast the coronavirus pandemic as an unprecedented event whose massive cost to small businesses they are neither able nor required to cover. The industry has warned it could cost them $255 billion to $431 billion a month if they are required, as some states are proposing, to compensate firms …
The illegal sign-stealing drama that rocked MLB before the pandemic might not be over — and this time it involves the Yankees. A letter from commissioner Rob Manfred to the Yankees detailing the findings of a 2017 investigation into the ball club’s alleged sign-stealing program should be unsealed, a judge ruled Friday, according to The …
