• Tribune Publishing, parent company to Daily News, is cutting salaries

    Tribune Publishing, parent company to Daily News, is cutting salaries

    Tribune Publishing, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, and the Baltimore Sun, late Thursday said it was asking employees across the company to take pay cuts ranging from 2 percent to 10 percent. Unionized shops within the company are being asked to take a 4.5 percent pay cut, according …
  • Tua Tagovailoa’s nightmare draft scenario could play out: ‘Flunked’

    Tua Tagovailoa’s nightmare draft scenario could play out: ‘Flunked’

    A week ago, Tua Tagovailoa went through a thorough medical exam with an independent doctor agreed upon by NFL team physicians. The NFL Network reported the results were “overwhelmingly positive,” but not everyone is convinced. The former Alabama superstar quarterback remains a roll of the dice. Just ask former Dolphins and Jets executive Mike Tannenbaum. …
  • Billionaire Cliff Asness’ hedge fund AQR hit with $43B COVID-19 losses

    Billionaire Cliff Asness’ hedge fund AQR hit with $43B COVID-19 losses

    Billionaire investor Cliff Asness has spent his quarantine watching $43 billion disappear. Asness’ AQR Capital — which managed $186 billion at the end of 2019 — has updated its Web site to reflect that its assets under management as of March 31 now stand at $143 billion. It’s unclear how much of the massive 23 …
  • Paige VanZant sends ‘subtle’ message to naked haters

    Paige VanZant sends ‘subtle’ message to naked haters

    Paige VanZant and husband Austin Vanderford are doing a bit of light reading while stripping down in quarantine. On Wednesday, the couple added the next chapter to their naked escapades, this time courtesy of Mark Manson‘s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F–k.” “Your life isn’t yours if you always care what someone else …
  • Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s podcast looks at married life in quarantine

    Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s podcast looks at married life in quarantine

    If you haven’t seen their story in the Oscar-nominated autobiographical dramedy “The Big Sick” (and what better time than now to seek it out on Amazon?), writer Emily V. Gordon and comedian Kumail Nanjiani are a couple who got married following the most extreme of adverse circumstances. During their early dating days, she became seriously …
  • Taiwan Denies Accusations of Racism from WHO Head

    Taiwan Denies Accusations of Racism from WHO Head

    Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Thursday denied accusations by World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that the country had engaged in a “racist” smear campaign against him. “Without having checked the facts, Tedros’s unprovoked and untrue accusations not only differ from reality, they have also seriously harmed our government and our people,” the ministry said …
  • Wall Street firm offered 175% returns to investors using US aid programs

    Wall Street firm offered 175% returns to investors using US aid programs

    A New York investment firm pitched wealthy investors in recent days on a way to make returns of 22 percent to 175 percent using US government programs designed to help Americans keep their jobs and boost the coronavirus-stricken economy, according to a marketing document seen by Reuters. Following questions posed by Reuters, Arcadia Investment Partners, …
  • Jets mailbag: The tempting Jamal Adams trade scenario

    Jets mailbag: The tempting Jamal Adams trade scenario

    You ask, we answer. The GAG is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Jets. Joe Douglas has said he wants to sign Jamal Adams to a long-term deal. However, if the …
  • Dick’s Sporting Goods furloughs 40,000 employees amid coronavirus pandemic

    Dick’s Sporting Goods furloughs 40,000 employees amid coronavirus pandemic

    Another business has been hit by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that keeping its doors open has proven difficult while there are no sports or any physical activity going on during the lockdown. Beginning Sunday, the retail giant will furlough almost 40,000 employees and keep only a “small number” of …
  • David Blaine brings magic to coronavirus patients, medical workers

    David Blaine brings magic to coronavirus patients, medical workers

    As the coronavirus may be at its apex, David Blaine is on call. Not as a doctor, of course, but as a magician. He’s been making himself available to entertain patients, first-responders and medical workers who are fighting the pandemic. Though he’s been performing in hospitals since age 18, Blaine, now 47, has had to …