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The CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck on Monday said he watched the videotape of George Floyd being killed by a white officer with the knowledge that it “could be me.” “What the African American community sees in that videotape is that this African American man, who could be me or any other African American man, …

Apple CEO Tim Cook condemned the “senseless” police killing of George Floyd in a note to employees announcing that the tech giant would donate money in response to the incident. In the Sunday memo, Cook cast Floyd’s death as the latest manifestation of systemic racism that has affected even his own staff. Just 9 percent …

Kate Hudson’s Fabletics is one of a host of brands who have canceled ties with influencer Myka Stauffer after she announced she had “rehomed” her autistic adopted son Huxley because of his “medical needs” including autism. Ohio-based YouTuber Stauffer and her husband revealed last week they had given up the Chinese-born 4-year-old after adopting him …

A new series by Joel Sherman chronicles how the Yankees’ fiasco of 1990 laid the groundwork for a dynasty. Look hard. You will have to really examine it. Only with 20-20 hindsight and 30 years of knowledge will you begin to see what was possible amid the rubble. The 1990 Yankees were terrible. No, terrible does …

50 Cent endorsed Andrew Cuomo for president over the weekend after one of the New York governor’s latest coronavirus briefings, which also addressed the demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Fiddy posted on Instagram: “THIS IS THE GUY RIGHT HERE, He doesn’t want to but we need him to be president.” The post …

Josh Lucas’ ex-wife, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, has accused the actor of “cheating” in quarantine when they’d supposedly reconciled. Writer Henriquez branded the “Ford V Ferrari” star — with whom she shares 7-year-old son Noah — a “really s–t human” in a furious tweet on Friday. Lucas, 48, and Henriquez got married in March 2012 and …

New York City has been a baseball town since the 19th century. That span has seen countless memorable moments, the majority of which revolve around the longball. Legendary home runs have defined the sport in the city since even before Babe Ruth exploded the dead ball era with his power, and the great roar that …

In a weeklong series, The Post is looking at alternate realities in New York sports. We are examining “what if” scenarios for our teams, reversals of fortune that would have radically changed not only the franchises themselves but dramatically altered their leagues, too. There are two rules: The scenario must be grounded in reality and …

“Hadestown” star André De Shields, 74, waited a lifetime for the part. “It wasn’t until ‘Hadestown’ that the request came to be smart, to be intelligent, to be a master of language, to be a griot, to be a storyteller, to be a keeper of faith . . . that’s what I’ve been looking for my entire …

A state judge on Friday declared that Missouri’s sole remaining Planned Parenthood clinic will be allowed to remain open, ruling that the health department was in error not to renew the license of the St. Louis clinic. “Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that it provides safe and legal abortion care. In over 4,000 abortions provided since 2018, the …