Новости за 12.04.2018

Move over, John Oliver — another “Daily Show” alum is coming to HBO with a late-night show fusing comedy with commentary. “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas,” helmed by the ex-“Daily Show With Jon Stewart” correspondent, premieres Friday at 11:30 pm. Ten half-hour episodes will mix commentary on current events with longer field pieces. Oliver, who hosts...

The latest roadblock for the biopic was the demise of Brett Ratner’s $450 million co-financing deal with Warner Bros.

BOURNEMOUTH, England — Among Ron Grantham’s happiest memories are the days he spent fly-fishing with his beloved dog, Spot. Now those memories are being revived by visits from his new best friend, Biscuit – a robotic dog. Grantham is 99 years old and lives in Templeman House, a British old folk home, which brought in...

BOSTON — Subtlety was not a strong element of the middle game of this Yankees-Red Sox series. It was a night for short fuses and long balls, low temperatures and high drama. There were 16 runs, two benches-emptying incidents and somehow it was all shoved into a package that took less than four hours —...

President Trump wanted James Comey to investigate the infamous “pee tape” allegations — to reassure Melania that he hadn’t actually paid Russian hookers to urinate on a hotel bed, the former FBI chief claims in his upcoming book. “He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’ … adding that it bothered him if...

A stolen Marc Chagall painting is heading back to its rightful owners — nearly 30 years after it was swiped from an elderly couple’s Upper East Side apartment by a building worker, the FBI announced Thursday. The 1911 oil-on-canvas piece, entitled Othello and Desdemona, was recovered last year and is slated to be returned to...

The Kardashian-Jenner matriarch used Instagram to congratulate Khloé on welcoming her baby with cheating Tristan Thompson.

The ex-doorman for a Trump property in Manhattan was paid $30,000 by the National Enquirer to spill allegations that Donald Trump had an out-of-wedlock child, but the story was never published. On Thursday, he identified the woman who had the child as a former housekeeper for the future president. “Today I awoke to learn that...

The supermodel had just finished telling jurors she'd been drugged and raped by the embattled comedian when she turned on the charm for the judge.

There’s a photograph of Alex Cearns as a baby, laying on a blanket next to her Old English Sheepdog named Ben. As an only child growing up on a large rural property in outback South Australia, Ben was one of Cearns’s first real friends. She also found companionship in a guinea pig, a horse, some...

French gendarmes are seen in silhouette at the start of an evacuation operation in the zoned ZAD (Deferred Development Zone) in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near Nantes, France. French police swoop in to clear eco-activists and anarchists from a site in western France that had been planned as a new airport.

The former Disney Channel star reveals the ins and outs of sponsored social media posts.

A former second-grade teacher at a Tennessee Christian school claims she was fired for having a baby without being married. Tabatha Hutson is suing Concord Christian School in U.S. District Court for pregnancy and sex discrimination after her contract didn’t get renewed at the end of the 2017 school year, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported....

New Jersey-schooled Joseph Tsai finally completed his long-pending purchase of 49 percent of the Brooklyn Nets from Mikhail Prokhorov, along with the right to buy controlling interest in the team. A source told The Post the deal would value the Nets at $2.35 billion, a record for the NBA. It doesn’t include Barclays Center. Prokhorov,...

You take supplements to stay healthy — but some of them may be doing more harm than good. Certain dietary iron supplements may aid the development of colon cancer in humans, according to new research out of Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology. Scientists found that two strains of iron — ferric citrate, which is found...

GUNSAN, South Korea — Workers at a rural South Korean factory are busy extracting some of the world’s most coveted metals, used in the batteries that power electric cars. But they’re not digging in the ground or refining ore. Instead, they are sorting through a pile of lithium-ion batteries from old mobile phones and laptops....

Second City Television, the famed Canadian sketch comedy series that helped launch the careers of numerous superstars, is making a comeback.

Saudi Arabia’s first-ever Arab Fashion Week kicked off Tuesday, headlined by international designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Roberto Cavalli. “We are so excited today to be announcing a history and new era for the kingdom, and for the entire Arab world, which is Arab Fashion Week,” Jacob Abrian, CEO of the Arab Fashion Council, told...

“Game of Thrones” has staked a major claim on the word “wildling,” but here it denotes a primal fairy tale of sorts. Bel Powley (“The Diary of a Teenage Girl”) is teenage Anna, rescued from a childhood in total isolation at the hands of a kidnapper (Brad Dourif). He called himself her father but wasn’t,...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Police in Pakistan have arrested a man accused of fatally shooting a pregnant singer as she performed at a party held by a wealthy landlord. Local police chief Hazoor Baksh Junejo said Thursday the man suspected of killing local performer Samina Sindhu has been arrested. Sindhu’s husband, Mohammad Ashiq, says the party...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — One of the country’s largest American Indian tribes is the latest to sue pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors, alleging their conduct caused the opioid crisis. The Navajo Nation’s lawsuit filed Wednesday in US District Court in New Mexico seeks unspecified damages and attorney fees. The tribe says American Indians have suffered disproportionately...

A Florida police chief who dropped by a pool party last summer and took a photo with bikini-clad subordinates is in hot water with city officials, despite an independent probe that found no wrongdoing. Coral Gables Police Chief Edward Hudak attended a pool party in July at the home of public information officer Kelly Denham...

A US judge in Philadelphia has ruled that limousine drivers for Uber Technologies are independent contractors and not the company’s employees under federal law, the first ruling of its kind on a crucial issue for the ride-hailing company. US District Judge Michael Baylson on Wednesday said San Francisco-based Uber does not exert enough control over...

At least one player has no issue with Jeff Hornacek’s firing. Joakim Noah has been in exile from the Knicks since having a heated verbal altercation with the former coach on Jan. 25, but the exit of Hornacek could open the door for reconciliation between the former All-Star and the franchise. Noah, who has played...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — A Hungarian magazine published Thursday more than 200 names of people it claims are likely part a group that Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls “mercenaries” paid by US-Hungarian billionaire philanthropist George Soros to topple the government. Those on the list in weekly publication Figyelo include members of rights organizations such as Amnesty...