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Dwayne Johnson is still considering running for president in 2024—if the people want it, he says. Interestingly, that puts The Rock on par with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in terms of bookmakers betting odds for who will be the next commander in chief. Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. Representative from New York's 14th congressional…

Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press Sure, the New York Mets could trade for Kris Bryant. But since such a move wouldn't put them on the same level as the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Mets would be better off trying to do, well, better. For instance, Matt Chapman. Last Thursday, Craig Carton of…

Elinor Aspegren   | USA TODAY COVID-19 cases in the United States have been dropping since a peak several weeks ago, with 83,321 reported new cases on Saturday – the first time since Nov. 2 the country had reported less than 1 new case every second. And on Sunday, Johns Hopkins…

February 15, 2021 | 1:00am | Updated February 15, 2021 | 1:01am Enlarge Image Between Jan. 2018 and March 2020, the MTA worker took approximately 70 days of leave. Christopher Sadowski His luck ran out. An MTA worker was fired after abusing paid sick leave over several years to spend…

Jill Abramson, who was the first female executive editor in the history of the New York Times, believes the paper has done its readers a disservice by ousting reporter Donald McNeil Jr. this week over his use of the N-word during a 2019 trip with high school students. McNeil left…

My smartphone is an iPhone XR, and over the past year or so I’ve gravitated to some new apps that I’ve come to rely on more than others, especially thanks to conditions stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. These apps include everything from Flipboard to HBO Max, which carries my favorite…

Literary giant and elder statesman, Prof Niyi Osundare, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari’s approach to the ongoing herdsmen’s violence across the country, saying his handling of the matter is “amateurish, pedestrian and dangerously incompetent.” Osundare asked Buhari how he was ”trifling away the crisis in Aso Rock while the Nigeria…

Convener of Concerned Nigerians Group, Deji Adeyanju, has said immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, and other service chiefs will answer for 'their crimes against humanity and the genocidal acts they committed.' The group had in January petitioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged human rights violations…

A grand jury has declined to indict two New York police officers who were recorded in a video last year during a clash with a 75-year-old man involved in a Black Lives Matter protest, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn announced on Feb. 11. Buffalo officers Robert McCabe, 32, and Aaron Torgalski, 39,…

Recently released records from the New York Department of Health have revealed that a March 25, 2020 directive issued by Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resulted in 9,056 hospital patients recovering from COVID-19 being placed into nursing homes, a number that was 40 percent higher than what the state…