An Aeroflot executive has been nabbed for allegedly spying for Britain, according to Russian news agencies. The London-based employee, Dmitry Fedotkin, is accused of passing secrets related to Russia’s social and political situation to Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service, according to an unnamed source cited by TASS and RIA news agencies. Fedotkin, however, did not...

Rep. Ilhan Omar has funneled nearly $2.8 million to her husband's political consulting company since the beginning of 2019, according to a report.

The World Health Organization declined to publicly call out countries with political clout in their agency that made repeated mistakes at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, but expressed frustrations privately, leaked recordings and documents show. The recordings and documents, taken between January and April of this year and obtained by the Associated Press, come...

North Korean despot Kim Jong Un has threatened punishment for citizens caught wasting food, as the Hermit Kingdom faces a famine. “At the beginning of this month, the Central Committee [of the Korean Workers’ Party] ordered residents to actively participate in solving our food crisis this year as part of a food-saving struggle,” an official...

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition announced members of agency review teams that will begin the process of transferring power across the federal government – even as the Trump administration has put up roadblocks and challenged election results. “Our nation is grappling with a pandemic, an economic crisis, urgent calls for racial justice, and the existential threat...

The richest 650 Americans have seen their wealth swell by more than $1 trillion, a new report reveals.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to deliver a pre-Thanksgiving address to reflect on “shared sacrifices” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden “will discuss the shared sacrifices Americans are making this holiday season and say that we can and will get through the current crisis together,” according to guidance released by his campaign. The speech is expected to...

A Brooklyn deputy borough president and former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss were part of a large, mask-less indoor crowd that celebrated Carlo Scissura of the New York Building Congress.

Extreme generosity never goes out of style – especially during a pandemic. A good Samaritan left a lofty $3,000 tip on a single $7 pint of beer at a Cleveland restaurant voluntarily shutting down amid the coronavirus crisis — giving four servers an unexpected boost to their wallets on Sunday. “So just before we closed...

A Texas superintendent who believes in “love” and “prayer” to tackle the COVID-19 crisis has allegedly made face coverings optional in his schools — despite a statewide mask mandate that’s been in place since July. Lance Johnson, who oversees the Peaster Independent School District, has been openly defiant of Gov. Greg Abbott’s order, telling parents...

New York’s left is starting to devour its own as part of a campaign to pressure local Democratic pols to aggressively tax the rich to address the state’s pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis. A group including the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which is aligned with US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, currently has...

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday reassured Americans that there’s “help” coming to fight the COVID-19 pandemic — saying that promising vaccine candidates have the potential to curb the health crisis. The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said vaccines could soon offer some “serious help” to the nation, which he acknowledged...

Students going home from college for Thanksgiving could create a COVID crisis.

With the dark winter months looming, there’s one glimmer of hope in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis. Two, to be exact. Vaccine candidates from Pfizer, and its German partner BioNTech, and Moderna have shown to be 95 percent effective in ongoing trials. The promising results have prompted Pfizer to seek approval from the Federal...

Police and activists clashed in South Africa Friday during a protest against a graduation party allegedly organized for “whites only.” Nearly 2,000 members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a radical left political party, rallied around Brackenfell High School in Cape Town as police fired tear gas and water cannons at the crowd, Al Jazeera reported....

A look at the latest national political stories for Friday, November 20.

A Brooklyn deputy borough president and former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss were part of a large, mask-less indoor crowd that celebrated Carlo Scissura of the New York Building Congress.

A Los Angeles police sergeant who was repeatedly reprimanded over social media posts, including those about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and rapper Nipsey Hussle, has accused his superiors of punishing based on his political beliefs.

Gov. Cuomo wants to show you the challenges of directing the state’s fight against a pandemic that has so far killed more than 34,000 New Yorkers and put the rest of us in face masks. “Closing down is not a press release; it’s the most complex government policy we have ever instituted," he writes in his new book, 'American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.'

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci assured the public on Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine would be safe and effective and called for an end to suggestions that the development was rushed for political purposes. “The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety, nor did it compromise scientific integrity,” Fauci said Thursday at...

Police arrested three former Hong Kong opposition lawmakers Wednesday for disrupting legislative meetings earlier this year, as China continues to dismantle the city’s guarantees of political autonomy. Eddie Chu, Raymond Chan and Ted Hui were each arrested by Hong Kong police Wednesday morning for splashing pungent liquids and other items during meetings in Hong Kong’s...

Amid the continuous COVID-19 crisis, Giant Food supermarkets has made a giant error in judgment.

This may be Bill Belichick’s most unexpected play call ever. The New England Patriots head coach stepped off the gridiron and into the political field Wednesday, as he demanded the US take action in the recent dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The comments came as he was asked about how Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher...

The First Family will spend Thanksgiving at the White House as President Trump hunkers down for what he wants the public to think is an epic fight for his political life.

Hospitals in Austin, Texas, are taking in non-COVID patients from El Paso to ease the burden on the city’s overwhelmed medical facilities amid a massive surge in coronavirus hospitalizations. “We have patients in our hospitals right now from El Paso because there wasn’t room for them in El Paso,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said during...

Saturday’s Thanksgiving-themed event handed out food to about 8,500 families facing financial stress from growing the crisis -- 17 times more people than the annual event usually serves.

The former president accused Trump of putting his own selfish whims ahead of a society grappling with a killer pandemic and an economic crisis.

An Aeroflot executive has been nabbed for allegedly spying for Britain, according to Russian news agencies. The London-based employee, Dmitry Fedotkin, is accused of passing secrets related to Russia’s social and political situation to Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service, according to an unnamed source cited by TASS and RIA news agencies. Fedotkin, however, did not...

Rep. Ilhan Omar has funneled nearly $2.8 million to her husband's political consulting company since the beginning of 2019, according to a report.

The World Health Organization declined to publicly call out countries with political clout in their agency that made repeated mistakes at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, but expressed frustrations privately, leaked recordings and documents show. The recordings and documents, taken between January and April of this year and obtained by the Associated Press, come...