“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words…People are suffering. People are dying.” Greta Thunberg’s impassioned speech at the UN’s Climate Action Summit was a remarkable act of courage. Scolding world leaders on an international stage would be a tall task for a seasoned politician, let alone a 16-year-old student-activist. However, emotion must not be confused with scientific credibility, and in this case, the “science” behind Thunberg’s pleas for help is (mostly) wrong, and her message dangerously misguided. First, the science: Despite the tearful claims of...…“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words…People are suffering. People are dying.” Greta Thunberg’s impassioned speech at the UN’s Climate Action Summit was a remarkable act of courage. Scolding world leaders on an international stage would be a tall task for a seasoned politician, let alone a 16-year-old student-activist. However, emotion must not be confused with scientific credibility, and in this case, the “science” behind Thunberg’s pleas for help is (mostly) wrong, and her message dangerously misguided. First, the science: Despite the tearful claims of...WW…

It was just about this time last year that I was lying in my cell’s upper bunk and asking my bunky if he ever entertained the fantasy that the president would somehow engineer a pardon and get him released early. This would have been a ridiculous question had my bunky been anyone other than Paul Manafort. His answer to my question: “I have a lot of fantasies.” To which I responded, “Do me a favor. Keep them in your lower bunk.” The conversation ended there. But at least one of my celly’s fantasies came true yesterday: Paulie was released with more than five years left on a...…It was just about this time last year that I was lying in my cell’s upper bunk and asking my bunky if he ever entertained the fantasy that the president would somehow engineer a pardon and get him released early. This would have been a ridiculous question had my bunky been anyone other than Paul Manafort. His answer to my question: “I have a lot of fantasies.” To which I responded, “Do me a favor. Keep them in your lower bunk.” The conversation ended there. But at least one of my celly’s fantasies came true yesterday: Paulie was released with more than five years left on a...WW…

Robert Redford chooses the veep over the creep. The Academy Award-winning director backed former vice president Joe Biden for president on Tuesday in a lengthy, impassioned essay. Advertisement The 83-year-old Hollywood heavyweight prefaced his endorsement by asserting that he prefers not to make public political proclamations, but felt compelled to in the Donald Trump era. “This November, unity and empathy are on the ballot. Experience and intelligence are on the ballot,” wrote Redford in an editorial published by . “Joe Biden is on the ballot, and I’m confident he will bring these...…Robert Redford chooses the veep over the creep. The Academy Award-winning director backed former vice president Joe Biden for president on Tuesday in a lengthy, impassioned essay. Advertisement The 83-year-old Hollywood heavyweight prefaced his endorsement by asserting that he prefers not to make public political proclamations, but felt compelled to in the Donald Trump era. “This November, unity and empathy are on the ballot. Experience and intelligence are on the ballot,” wrote Redford in an editorial published by . “Joe Biden is on the ballot, and I’m confident he will bring these...WW…

Well, we can guess which tree this apple falls from. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway may be one of President Trump’s biggest champions, but her 15-year-old daughter Claudia has gone viral for opposing the commander-in-chief. Advertisement On the social media platform TikTok, the tenacious teen has received an unexpected wave of support for posting videos that are considered anti-Trump and pro-Black Lives Matter. Her father, George Conway, is known as an outspoken critic of Trump, despite his wife’s high-ranking position within the administration. Advertisement One of the Conways’...…Well, we can guess which tree this apple falls from. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway may be one of President Trump’s biggest champions, but her 15-year-old daughter Claudia has gone viral for opposing the commander-in-chief. Advertisement On the social media platform TikTok, the tenacious teen has received an unexpected wave of support for posting videos that are considered anti-Trump and pro-Black Lives Matter. Her father, George Conway, is known as an outspoken critic of Trump, despite his wife’s high-ranking position within the administration. Advertisement One of the Conways’...WW…

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany struggled on Monday to explain why President Trump keeps calling the coronavirus the “kung flu,” at first claiming he didn’t use the offensive label at all and then arguing the phrase is about the pandemic’s “origin.” McEnany offered the mixed messages during an at times combative briefing at the White House, in which reporters grilled her over Trump using the “kung flu” moniker while ranting about the pandemic at his Saturday rally in Tulsa. Advertisement “He doesn’t,” McEnany said after a reporter asked why the president uses “racist”...…White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany struggled on Monday to explain why President Trump keeps calling the coronavirus the “kung flu,” at first claiming he didn’t use the offensive label at all and then arguing the phrase is about the pandemic’s “origin.” McEnany offered the mixed messages during an at times combative briefing at the White House, in which reporters grilled her over Trump using the “kung flu” moniker while ranting about the pandemic at his Saturday rally in Tulsa. Advertisement “He doesn’t,” McEnany said after a reporter asked why the president uses “racist”...WW…

Video shows confrontation between police and Wall Street trader who is shot by police and left paralyzed. Ex-Wall Street trader Peyman Bahadoran lingers in a Bellevue Hospital ward, facing a lifetime of paralysis after he was shot in the spine by cops who believed — wrongly — that he came at them with a knife. Bahadoran, 55, was suffering a mental breakdown around 6:30 a.m. June 4 when he entered the Healthy Green Gourmet deli at Third Ave. and E. 10th St. near Union Square, carrying a large Defender Xtreme serrated hunting knife in a sheath on his right side and walking his dog....…Video shows confrontation between police and Wall Street trader who is shot by police and left paralyzed. Ex-Wall Street trader Peyman Bahadoran lingers in a Bellevue Hospital ward, facing a lifetime of paralysis after he was shot in the spine by cops who believed — wrongly — that he came at them with a knife. Bahadoran, 55, was suffering a mental breakdown around 6:30 a.m. June 4 when he entered the Healthy Green Gourmet deli at Third Ave. and E. 10th St. near Union Square, carrying a large Defender Xtreme serrated hunting knife in a sheath on his right side and walking his dog....WW…

President Donald Trump headed to the golf course for the first time in over two months, engaging in his personal passion as well as attempting to show how the country can return to normal after stay-at-home orders taken against the coronavirus. Trump arrived at the Trump National Golf Club in suburban Virginia around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. He was spotted earlier wearing a white polo shirt and signature white “Make America Great Again” cap. The White House doesn’t always confirm Trump’s activities while at his golf courses. Advertisement The president’s most recent golf outing was March 8...…President Donald Trump headed to the golf course for the first time in over two months, engaging in his personal passion as well as attempting to show how the country can return to normal after stay-at-home orders taken against the coronavirus. Trump arrived at the Trump National Golf Club in suburban Virginia around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. He was spotted earlier wearing a white polo shirt and signature white “Make America Great Again” cap. The White House doesn’t always confirm Trump’s activities while at his golf courses. Advertisement The president’s most recent golf outing was March 8...WW…

“Are you trying to find the kindergarten class?” I asked a girl who looked lost in the school playground. “No, fifth grade,” she said. Advertisement She was so small, I thought she was younger. I was so embarrassed. “I’m sorry. I’m in fifth grade too. Maybe you’re in my class.” Advertisement That marked the beginning of a beautiful friendship that would last a generation. At first glance — she, petite with beautiful, fragile features and dark skin punctuated by even darker eyes; me with extra weight, scraggly brown hair, and peach-colored skin — we weren’t obvious friends. But we had much...…“Are you trying to find the kindergarten class?” I asked a girl who looked lost in the school playground. “No, fifth grade,” she said. Advertisement She was so small, I thought she was younger. I was so embarrassed. “I’m sorry. I’m in fifth grade too. Maybe you’re in my class.” Advertisement That marked the beginning of a beautiful friendship that would last a generation. At first glance — she, petite with beautiful, fragile features and dark skin punctuated by even darker eyes; me with extra weight, scraggly brown hair, and peach-colored skin — we weren’t obvious friends. But we had much...WW…

President Trump pointedly said Sunday that he wouldn’t necessarily accept a loss in the upcoming election as he continues to rail against the use of absentee ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic. Citing unfounded concerns about voting by mail, Trump asserted that he shouldn’t be under any obligation to say in advance that he will concede defeat if he loses. Advertisement “It depends,” he said. “I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election. I really do.” Trump has long claimed that demands to expand access to absentee voting is part of a liberal plot to steal the election with ballot...…President Trump pointedly said Sunday that he wouldn’t necessarily accept a loss in the upcoming election as he continues to rail against the use of absentee ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic. Citing unfounded concerns about voting by mail, Trump asserted that he shouldn’t be under any obligation to say in advance that he will concede defeat if he loses. Advertisement “It depends,” he said. “I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election. I really do.” Trump has long claimed that demands to expand access to absentee voting is part of a liberal plot to steal the election with ballot...WW…

Jimmy Glenn, a former boxer, cornerman and owner of a popular Times Square bar, died of coronavirus early Thursday morning. He was . He was in mid-April and never recovered, according his son Adam Glenn. The South Carolina native opened his W. 44th St. bar, Jimmy’s Corner, in 1971 and covered its walls with hundreds of photos of fighters he’d met over the years, some of whom would stop in for a drink. The closing scene from the Robert De Niro boxing classic “Raging Bull” was filmed in Jimmy’s Corner. A still from the film hangs over the bar’s cash register. A photo of Muhammad Ali also...…Jimmy Glenn, a former boxer, cornerman and owner of a popular Times Square bar, died of coronavirus early Thursday morning. He was . He was in mid-April and never recovered, according his son Adam Glenn. The South Carolina native opened his W. 44th St. bar, Jimmy’s Corner, in 1971 and covered its walls with hundreds of photos of fighters he’d met over the years, some of whom would stop in for a drink. The closing scene from the Robert De Niro boxing classic “Raging Bull” was filmed in Jimmy’s Corner. A still from the film hangs over the bar’s cash register. A photo of Muhammad Ali also...WW…