Two months after testing positive for COVID-19, Hall of Fame rider Javier Castellano stood out as the biggest winner on Wednesday on the opening day of Belmont Park. In Rushing Fall, Castellano won the $ 100,000 Beaugay Grade 3 bets, going wire-to-wire in the 1 1/16 mile grass race. “I am so happy to be here,” said Castellano, 42. “It’s …
Read More »United States will block Chinese airlines from flying to the United States
The Department of Transportation restrictions will take effect on June 16, but could be enacted earlier if President Donald Trump decides to do so. Hours after the announcement, China’s civil aviation regulator issued a notice Thursday that would effectively allow U.S. carriers to resume limited services in the country. The Department of Transportation said the Chinese government is violating an …
Read More »Hall of Fame college coach Johnny Majors dies at 85
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Johnny Majors, the 1976 Pittsburgh national championship team coach and former Tennessee head coach and player, died Wednesday. He was 85 years old. Majors died at his Knoxville home, according to his wife, Mary Lynn Majors. “He spent his last hours doing something he loved: looking over his precious Tennessee River,” he said in a statement given …
Read More »Lion Air of Indonesia restarts flights, cancels them again
(CNN) – Only weeks after restarting domestic flights, Indonesian Carrier Lion Air canceled them again, citing problems with passengers not following Covid-19 regulations. The Lion Air group, which also includes Batik Air and Wings Air, began slowly reintroducing short-haul flight routes on May 10. But the restored flights did not last long. The company has announced that all routes are …
Read More »Seahawks’ Russell Wilson talks about career after avoiding football
RENTON, Washington. – Speaking to the media for the first time since last season’s finale, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson didn’t mind talking about the game that helped make him famous. “To be honest, I don’t even want to talk about football right now,” Wilson said during a video conference on Wednesday. “You know, that’s something I don’t even know …
Read More »Retired Marine General John Allen: Trump’s threats of military force may be ‘the beginning of the end of the American experiment’
General John Allen, a former commander of US forces in Afghanistan and a former special presidential envoy of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS under the Obama administration, wrote in an opinion piece for Foreign policy that “even for the casual observer, Monday was horrible for the United States and its democracy.” His comments come after the president declared himself …
Read More »Tiananmen Square Massacre: Hong Kong celebrates its anniversary perhaps for the last time
“It was a moment of hope,” said Lee Cheuk-yan, a veteran activist and former Hong Kong lawmaker. At the time, the city was eight years old to move from British to Chinese control, and had a feeling that young protesters across the border might be changing China for the better. “For many Hong Kong people, we feel that 1997 really …
Read More »NBA player Thabo Sefolosha, victim of police brutality, talks about the death of George Floyd
Because, in 2015, it happened to him, when he was injured by the New York City police and was wrongfully arrested. Sefolosha, 36, is a 14-year-old Swiss NBA veteran who spent this season playing for the Houston Rockets before the Covid-19 pandemic halted the season. In Atlanta on Wednesday, he told CNN he could see himself in George Floyd, who …
Read More »Fauci weighs the pros and cons of reopening schools this fall amid Covid-19
In a CNN phone interview on Wednesday, Fauci noted that children tend to have milder symptoms or even no symptoms when infected with COVID-19. What is not yet clear is whether children are infected as often as adults and if they often pass the infection on to others. Ultimately, he said, the decision to reopen schools must be based on …
Read More »How the basketball star and the police improved the lives of the children of New York
There is a better way for everyone. It takes some thought. Some planning is needed. It takes a little faith on both sides. But it can be done. Bob Breen is here to tell you that. It can be done absolutely. In December 1965, Breen had just left the Academy, a couple of years after the old Rice High School …
Read More »Kareena Kapoor, in love with the family tree made by “Beautiful Niece” Inaaya, did this
Kareena Kapoor shared this photo (courtesy kareenakapoorkhan) Highlight Little Inaaya just appeared on Kareena’s Instagram Kareena shared a photo of Inaaya with the family tree she made “Family forever”, subtitled his publication New Delhi: Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu’s daughter Inaaya has just appeared on Kareena Kapoor’s Instagram! Inaaya, who is very interested in arts and crafts, like her …
Read More »New York sport makes long-awaited return at Belmont Park
Fauci was taken over by Prisoner, but horse racing still returned from the coronavirus on Wednesday at Belmont Park. At 1:21 p.m., the sanitized front doors opened and live sports officially returned to New York for the first time in 80 days after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the state. It may have looked different, with masks as common as the …
Read More »Drew Brees: I will never agree that no one disrespects the flag
Brees said that respecting the National Anthem is not only showing respect for the military, but also for anyone who has sacrificed for this country, including those of the civil rights movement. “And everything is fine with our country right now? No, it is not,” Brees said in the interview. “We still have a long way to go. But I …
Read More »Is it safe to go to a pool, the beach or a park? Physician Provides Guidance As Coronavirus Distancing Measurements Are Taken
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Read More »NBA voice Grant Napear talks about the firing of ‘All Lives Matter’
It took three words, “All Lives Matter,” for longtime shock athlete and the career of Sacramento Kings TV presenter Grant Napear to catch fire, but the 60-year-old remorse only goes so far. “I don’t want to call it a mistake,” the Syosset native Long Island told The Post Wednesday in a lengthy telephone interview. On the tweet and its aftermath, …
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