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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…

Democratic impeachment managers continued to make their case during Trump's second impeachment trial.  Impeachment managers shared previously-unseen security footage of the insurrection. After the videos, senators from across the aisle offered emotional reactions to the scenes. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. During the second day of…

Rawiri Waititi, a Maori politician in New Zealand, was kicked out of Parliament for refusing to wear a tie as a marker of Indigenous resistance. Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of the Maori Party, in Wellington, New Zealand, on Tuesday. He was ejected from Parliament because he wore a traditional Maori pendant…

MIAMI (AP) — A Heat-Knicks game, down to the wire, just like old times. Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo made sure it wouldn’t get away from Miami. The duo did all of Miami’s scoring for much of the second half, Butler finishing with a game-high 26 points, and the Heat…