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http://youtu.be/Z95PiVUIRzw Scientists at the Chinese lab eyed as a possible source of the coronavirus pandemic were previously filmed getting bitten and spattered with blood while handling bats without protection, according to reports. The state-run TV footage showed researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) disregarding gloves, masks and other PPE while handling bats and collecting feces in the field, Taiwan News first noted. In one section, virus expert Cui Jie related how a bat’s fangs once went right through his glove, describing it as feeling “like being jabbed with a needle,” the outlet noted. The video — first broadcast in China on Dec. 29, 2017 — then cut to a person’s limb badly swollen from an apparent bat bite. Scientists also admitted getting spattered with bloo...

http://youtu.be/sUugyozN1H4 The American labor movement as we know it today in fact rose from the ashes of a New York City garment factory fire that killed 146 workers more than a century ago. The Asche building at 23 Washington Place in downtown Manhattan — known then as the Triangle Waist Company headquarters — was home to one of the most successful clothing companies of the day. “At the time, a job at Triangle was considered a really good job,” Gina DeAngelis, author of “The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of 1911,” told Post Video. The factory boasted big windows with lots of light and airflow — a luxury for the mostly immigrant working class — and electricity, which meant they could produce more, faster than most family-owned garment shops. Read more: https://nypost.com/2021/05/...

http://youtu.be/eKcMB0mnoaU Chad Daybell, the husband of “doomsday” mom Lori Vallow, laughed and smiled during his first court appearance Wednesday since being charged with murdering his stepchildren and his ex-wife. Dressed in a white button-down shirt and a red tie, Daybell, 52, had a slight smile on his face when the virtual court appearance kicked off at 11 a.m. local time in Fremont County, Idaho. When Judge Faren Eddins asked if Daybell could hear him, he broke out into a toothy grin and appeared to laugh before leaning forward and answering, “Yes.” As Eddins then read out the eight charges against Daybell — which include raps of first-degree murder for the death of Vallow’s two kids, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and ex Tammy Daybell — the prolific do...

http://youtu.be/SB1kVPnS_hs A UK activist known as the “Black Panther of Oxford” is fighting for her life after being shot in the head following “numerous death threats,” according to her political party. “It is with great sadness that we inform you that our own Sasha Johnson has sustained a gunshot wound to her head. She is currently hospitalized and in a critical condition,” the Taking The Initiative Party wrote Sunday about the attack in south London. “The incident happened in the early hours of this morning, following numerous death threats,” the party said of the Black Lives Matter leader who made headlines last year for wanting to create an official registry of racists. #BLM #SashaJohnson The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, ...

http://youtu.be/5pr3_ixwZCU The BBC is reportedly investigating one of its Palestinian journalists for once tweeting that “Hitler was right” while comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. Digital journalist Tala Halawa is a Palestine specialist for the corporation’s BBC Monitoring service and has reported on the recent deadly hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the Spectator noted. “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler!” she wrote on her since-deleted Twitter account during previous hostilities in 2014, according to the UK publication. “Oh, #HitlerWasRight – IDF go to hell #PrayForGaza,” she wrote. In other posts, she shared a graphic of a child being burned on a menorah, as well as a meme claiming that a “solution for Israel-Palestine conflict” would be to “relocate Israel into United States...

http://youtu.be/GsCheAsh2BY An Associated Press reporter has been fired over pro-Palestinian tweets she posted while in college – and now she insists she’s a victim of “cancel culture.” Emily Wilder, a former Arizona Republic intern, started as an AP news associate in Phoenix on May 3, but learned just 16 days later that her time at the 174-year-old news agency would abruptly end due to the “clear bias” it says she showed in her social media posts, the Washington Post reported Thursday. “It’s really devastating,” Wilder told the newspaper of her termination, adding that she wasn’t informed exactly which posts led to her dismissal. #AssociatedPress #EmilyWilder #Gaza The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real ...

http://youtu.be/B2jSvUKhkjo Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters clashed and fireworks sent people running near Times Square Thursday as tensions in the region spilled into the streets of Manhattan, videos showed. Skirmishes between the groups erupted in the Midtown tourist hub as Israel and Hamas hoped a cease-fire in Gaza would end more than 10 days of devastating hostilities. #Israel #Palestine #TimesSquare The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/nypost Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NYPost

http://youtu.be/V9hJmZSKx2U CNN anchor Chris Cuomo advised his big brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and senior members of his staff on how to handle mounting sexual harassment allegations — and told him to not wind up another victim of “cancel culture,” it was revealed Thursday. Chris Cuomo, one of the network’s top stars, who regularly interviewed his brother at the height of the pandemic in 2020, was part of a series of conference calls held earlier this year, according to the Washington Post. According to four people familiar with the calls, the governor’s top aide, communications team, lawyers and outside advisers were all part of the strategy sessions and two of those sources said Chris Cuomo used the term “cancel culture” as a reason to not resign amid the allegations. The calls wer...

http://youtu.be/G3gy7coMdUY In a rare moment of public emotion, President Biden on Thursday grew visibly angry when discussing racial discrimination before signing a new federal hate crimes bill designed to launch a federal crackdown. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support. It was prompted by a rise in hate crimes against Asians during the pandemic, which started in China. “We’re unique among all nations in that we are uniquely a product of a document, not an ethnicity, not a religion, not a geography — a document,” Biden said in the White House East Room. “Think about this, I’m being literal — uniquely a product of a document that says, ‘We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creato...

http://youtu.be/uMqEkLGJbDM President Biden’s jokes fell flat at the US Coast Guard Academy’s graduation ceremony Wednesday leading him to call the grads a “dull class” while boasting of his own college exploits including a fire-extinguisher assault on his dorm’s RA. Biden attempted to earn laughs at the expense of the US Navy, and like a bad stand-up whose set is dying, when the cadets didn’t respond, he turned on them. “I can only assume that you will enjoy educating your family about how the Coast Guard is quote, ‘the hard nucleus around [which] the Navy forms in times of war,'” Biden said, to crickets, at the outdoor event in New London, Conn. Biden then jeered his crowd: “You are a — you are a really dull class. I mean, come on, man, is the sun getting to you? I would think you wo...

http://youtu.be/ZqV2MQP6M3w President Biden is being ripped for joking about running down a reporter rather than answer a question about the ongoing deadly conflict in Gaza. Biden made the questionable quip Tuesday from behind the wheel of the new F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck when a reporter asked if she could ask “a quick question on Israel … since it’s so important?” “No, you can’t,” Biden replied bluntly. “Not unless you get in front of the car as I step on it.” The car-loving commander-in-chief insisted he was “only teasing” — but still raced away on a Michigan race track rather than accept a question on the ongoing conflict. #Biden #Israel #Gaza The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate...

http://youtu.be/g1mof0gJSHo Vice President Kamala Harris keeps track of journalists and political players she feels don’t “appreciate her life experience” — and the feeling is mutual — as television producers have become hesitant to book her because she is “so uninteresting,” according to a report. Harris and her team, according to a profile of the VP published by The Atlantic, typically “dismiss” reporters and “tracks political players and reporters whom she thinks don’t fully understand her or appreciate her life experience.” She also takes particular issue with the word “cautious” being used to describe her, and aides “look out for” synonyms like “careful, guarded and hesitant,” which “don’t go over well.” #KamalaHarris #Reporters The New York Post is your source for breaking news,...

http://youtu.be/PoHmlSyiKeA A group of young Brooklyn men ripped off $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds by submitting fraudulent unemployment claims — and then stupidly posted pictures of themselves with their ill-gotten cash, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Six of the eight defendants — ranging in age from 18 to 25 — were charged in Brooklyn federal court, documents show. Two of the suspects — Armani Miller, 24, and Johan Santos, 19 — are still at large. Four of the alleged thieves foolishly flaunted their fortunes on social media, posting pictures of themselves with large piles of cash, according to the court documents. #CovidRelief #Thieves #Fraud The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, ...

http://youtu.be/1cK3L_hqYYA ​The Pentagon is running a 60,000-strong secret army made up of soldiers, civilians and contractors, who travel the world under false identities embedded in consultancies and name-brand companies — without the knowledge of the American people or most of Congress — according to a report. The top-secret army was created by the Pentagon over the past 10 years as part of a program called “signature reduction,” and operates both domestically and internationally using a low-profile force of clandestine warriors who sometimes wear civilian clothes as they carry out their assignments, Newsweek reported. The force is 10 times the size of the covert elements of the CIA, comes with a cost of more than $900 million, and engages about 130 private companies in operations...

http://youtu.be/xLlXdG7EI24 It was on shaky ground. A Chinese skyscraper had to be evacuated Tuesday afternoon after it began inexplicably swaying on its foundation, prompting scores of bystanders to flee in terror, as seen in a series of viral videos circulating social media. The shaky incident occurred around 1 p.m. at Shenzhen’s SEG Electronics Building, which is one of China’s tallest structures in the city at a whopping 980 feet tall. “The people in the building and downstairs fled for their lives!” read the caption to one of the Twitter clips, which depicts petrified shoppers stampeding across a plaza like scene out of a monster movie. A follow-up clip posted by local media shows the top of the 73-story structure, on which two white conductor poles can be seen wobbling precariou...

http://youtu.be/X2Y09HR2O9o No one is laughing at “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah — who is being ripped for suggesting that Israel should limit the intensity of its response to rocket attacks by Hamas. “Israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world,” Noah said Tuesday. “They could crush Gaza like that … and I know, I know that this is contentious, and I know that people are gonna hate me for this, but I just want to ask an honest question: If you’re in a fight where the other person cannot beat you, how hard should you retaliate when they try to hurt you?” Noah then compared the deadly conflict to a scrap between himself and his little brother. “As a person who has immensely more power, I had to ask myself whether my response to this child was just or necessary,” he sai...

http://youtu.be/OInpDrxhNLQ Dr. Anthony Fauci finally encouraged vaccinated Americans to ditch their masks outside — more than two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the green light that it was safe. “If you are vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask outside. We’ve got to make that transition,” the White House chief medical adviser told “CBS This Morning” on Thursday. “It would be a very unusual situation, if you were going into a completely crowded situation where people are essentially falling all over each other, then you wear a mask. But any other time, if you’re vaccinated and you’re outside, put aside your mask. You don’t have to wear it.” Fauci had argued last month that vaccinated people should stick to wearing masks outdoors, saying it was stil...

http://youtu.be/7YAtAbXhY4s Fresh off her ouster from House Republican leadership, Rep. Liz Cheney is maintaining her crusade to do “whatever it takes” to oppose former President Donald Trump. Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was removed Wednesday morning from her position as House Republican Conference chair for her focus on criticizing Trump, made the comments in an interview with NBC’s “Today” after being asked three times about mounting her own 2024 run. “Right now, I am very focused on making sure that our party becomes again a party that stands for truth and stands for fundamental principles that are conservative and mostly stands for the Constitution,” the Wyoming lawmaker replied after repeatedly dodging the question. #LizCheney #Trump The New York Post is your source for breaking news, ...

http://youtu.be/iWEABYXDtM4 A married NYPD sergeant knocked up his rookie cop driver — while his own wife was pregnant — but the fling didn’t violate any departmental regulations, The Post has learned. Sgt. Marcy Velez, 44, of the Bronx’s 45th Precinct had the affair with his subordinate officer starting in 2019 when she was in her early 20s, fresh out of the academy and selected to work as his driver, sources familiar with the matter said. She eventually wanted to break it off, but Velez wouldn’t allow it, sources said — and a complaint was filed with the Internal Affairs Bureau alleging she felt trapped in the relationship. During IAB’s probe in early 2020, the female officer became pregnant with Velez’s child — and then denied everything when investigators approached her. The cop’s...

http://youtu.be/zq6ROeqjjAM Democratic mayoral contender Andrew Yang backtracked on his support for Israel amid the latest battle in its ongoing conflict with Palestinian militants — after critics on the left, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, blasted his remarks. Yang posted an apology on Twitter Wednesday following a discussion with longtime volunteers who were upset by an earlier post that said he stood with “the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists.” His first tweet, published Monday night, continued, “The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.” On Wednesday, he backtracked, saying his volunteers “felt that my tweet was overly simplistic in my treatm...

http://youtu.be/aNC6FxvZLaA Terrifying video captured the moment a Malibu beach house balcony packed with partygoers collapsed onto the sand and rocks below — injuring nearly a dozen people, two critically, according to reports. The Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to the scene along the Pacific Coast Highway shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday, KABC reported. Witnesses told the news outlet that they had gathered for a birthday party when the accident occurred. “(There were) probably like 10 people on the back deck and we heard a crack and I literally saw all of my best friends and my girlfriend fall 15 feet to the rocks,” one man told KABC. “It was a freak accident. I don’t know how that happens … the deck literally just gave out.” #Malibu #FreakAccidents The New York Post is ...

http://youtu.be/85eQVmBh2cc The 13-year-old Florida cheerleader who was found dead Sunday in a remote wooded area of the state was stabbed a “horrific” amount of times, a new report said. St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick shared the revelation in a Tuesday interview with WJXT, where he also characterized the death of Tristyn Bailey as a “cold-blooded murder.” Aiden Fucci, 14, a seventh-grade classmate of Bailey’s, has been busted for her slaying. Details surrounding Bailey’s death had been scarce, but earlier Tuesday, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said the medical examiner ruled it a homicide caused by “sharp force trauma by stabbing,” the report said. “That being said, I don’t wanna mention the number of times, but it is horrific. It is horrible,” Hardwick told the news o...

http://youtu.be/lKzy2mQkGdU The disgraced NYPD cop charged with murdering his 8-year-old son wiped away tears in a Long Island courtroom Tuesday as prosecutors played the chilling 911 call he placed the day of the boy’s death. A weathered-looking Michael Valva and his fiancée, Angela Pollina, got choked up as they sat at opposite ends of a table in Suffolk County Supreme Court when the call was played at a pre-trial hearing. During the Jan. 17, 2020, call, Valva could be heard telling an operator that his son Thomas had “stopped breathing.” “He fell down and banged his head,” Valva said during the call. “I don’t know if he’s breathing or not … His heart stopped. He banged his head pretty good.” #NYPD #MichaelValva #911 The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about ...

http://youtu.be/q79P3qlnrXs A young British mom was murdered in front of her baby daughter in Greece on Tuesday as she tried to hide from burglars who tied up her husband and hanged their dog outside their house, according to police. In an abhorrent crime that has shocked the Mediterranean country, the 20-year-old mom — named by local media as UK passport-holder Caroline Crouch — was found beaten and strangled in her attic beside her 11-month-old daughter, police said. Her husband, identified as 32-year-old pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos, told police three hooded men had burst into their house in the Athens neighborhood of Glyka Nera at 5 a.m. and tied him to a chair while demanding money, the Greek Reporter said. #Greece #Crime #Caroline Crouch The New York Post is your source for break...

http://youtu.be/P3RfhmodcFY Bill Gates has hired the legal firm started by Warren Buffett’s right-hand man to help lead his $130 billion divorce from wife Melinda. Munger, Tolles & Olson is listed as one of three firms representing the Microsoft co-founder after Gates’ wife of 27 years filed for divorce on Monday, according to documents shared by TMZ. The law firm was founded in 1962 by Charles Munger, who has long been indispensable to Buffett after meeting him in 1959. Munger — now 97 and worth $2.2 billion, according to Forbes — is not listed as one of the lawyers in the case. However, he is known to have a close working relationship with Gates, who until last year had been on the board of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s investment company, of which Munger is vice chairman. #Bil...

http://youtu.be/4g6XPPYTMEI Cornell University is defending a new rock-climbing class offered to minority groups. Among the Ivy League school’s Outdoor Education offerings for the spring 2021 semester was a course called “BIPOC Rock Climbing.” The course description, according to the Cornell Daily Sun, specified that the class was “for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color.” #RockClimbing #BIPOC #Cornell The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/nypost Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NYPost

http://youtu.be/ORxL1rbMy6I Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld the company’s decision to block former President Donald Trump from its platforms, it announced Wednesday. The ruling means Trump will continue to be blocked from Facebook and Instagram. But the board said an indefinite suspension of Trump’s account was inappropriate and the company has six months to lay out new penalties. “However, it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension,” the board said in a statement explaining its decision. “Facebook’s normal penalties include removing the violating content, imposing a time-bound period of suspension, or permanently disabling the page and account.” Facebook has 30 days to respond publicly, according to the Overs...

http://youtu.be/Zni9JMfRTCA A woman who went missing nearly six months ago was found living in a tent in a national forest in Utah, subsisting on a diet including grass and moss — after a drone that was searching for her crashed nearby, authorities said. The 47-year-old, who wasn’t publicly identified, was discovered Sunday in a remote campground of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “This woman… had lost a significant amount of weight and was weak, but she was apparently also resourceful,” the statement said. Authorities believe the woman voluntarily chose to move to Diamond Fork Canyon — and had been surviving on a small amount of food she brought with her, as well as grass and moss. She also had access to water from a nearb...

http://youtu.be/8d2T0ikJ2Hk New York City schools have canceled the Columbus Day holiday, replacing it with an Indigenous Peoples’ Day, while also making Juneteenth a school holiday and getting rid of snow days altogether. The city Department of Education called Oct. 11 “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” in the 2021-2022 calendar it posted on its website Tuesday, flagging the beginning and end dates for the school year as well as winter and spring recesses but not the big changes within in a tweet. The move, which was announced, however, in a press release to education beat reporters, officially cancels for school kid recognition what remains a federal, state and city holiday on the second Monday in October — although the Indigenous Peoples’ holiday will give students and teachers the same day o...

http://youtu.be/-rvhofezPDE Shock waves were sent around the world when the most powerful philanthropic couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, announced they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage. Following their announcement, unusual details about their marriage from a 1997 Time magazine profile resurfaced. Gates, now 65, revealed a questionable “arrangement” he had with his ex-girlfriend, Ann Winblad, while married to Melinda. Each spring, Gates and his former gal pal spent “a long weekend” together at her Outer Banks, North Carolina, beach residence, enjoying several activities including long walks on the beach. “We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology,” Gates said of his yearly trip, which he had done for decades. The Post obtained photos of their secluded Outer Banks hid...