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It’s a blustery day in the New York city neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, where the mayoral candidate Dianne Morales is due to speak to the crowd. By the time she arrives, the pitching of Morales’ tent, branded in her colors of purple, pink and orange, has already been abandoned due…

Last year, my first in medical school at Columbia University, I used a bone saw to slice through the top half of a cadaver’s skull, revealing a gray brain lined with purple blood vessels. This was Clinical Gross Anatomy, the first-year course that has fascinated or devastated (or both) every…

Based on the works of journalist Maury Terry, Netflix's The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness looks beyond David Berkowitz for the shooting murders that unfolded from 1976 to 1977 in New York City. Per the title, Terry's theory was that there wasn't just one Son of Sam, but…

Neowiz has released its new 1v1 competitive sports game, Golf Impact, for iOS and Android devices. Golf Impact has an easy to learn, hard to master approach to its gameplay, where you begin a world tour across locations like New York, Paris, the Maldives and Fiji to become a master…

Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images It didn't take long for the New York Mets to make some major changes following their 11-12 start to the 2021 campaign. According to Tim Britton of The Athletic, the National League East team fired hitting coaches Chili Davis and Tom Slater following…

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New York Knicks forward Julius Randle (30) shoots the ball as Houston Rockets forward Kelly Olynyk (41) defends during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Houston, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (Troy Taormina/Pool Photo via AP) New York Knicks forward Julius Randle (30) shoots the ball as Houston…

The revered and famously reclusive Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder granted his first major interview after leaving the show almost twenty years ago. In an exclusive interview published today by the New Yorker, Swartzwelder gave an inside look into his early career and his time writing on the iconic animated Fox sitcom.…

Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), are currently attacking Rann, headquarters of Kala Balge Local Government Area of Born State. SaharaReporters gathered that the insurgents invaded the town after iftar, the meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during Ramadan, shooting…