Inside New York’s ‘superbug’ crisis — and the bad habit that’s fueling antibiotic resistance

Forget bedbugs and cockroaches — NYC is battling “superbugs” that can’t easily be quashed. Candida auris, for one, survives on surfaces even after cleaning, frequently evades standard antifungal treatments and can trigger fatal bloodstream infections. New York has seen a steady increase in Candida auris cases since the state officially detected the dangerous fungus in … Read more

Exclusive | What affordability crisis? New Yorkers line up for hours to pay $12 for grapes and $65 for olive oil at trendy new gourmet grocer Meadow Lane

Exclusive | What affordability crisis? New Yorkers line up for hours to pay  for grapes and  for olive oil at trendy new gourmet grocer Meadow Lane

“I’m so hungry and so cold,” a bundled-up young woman told The Post through chattering teeth, as she waited for food in frigid temperatures early Friday morning. The New Yorker was one of hundreds who’d made the rush hour trek to TriBeCa for sustenance — standing in a long line that stretched back an entire … Read more

Family planning: When facing a health crisis, egg freezing can preserve fertility

Family planning: When facing a health crisis, egg freezing can preserve fertility

First comes love, then marriage, but a baby carriage isn’t always next or guaranteed. So it was for Katharine Losavio, a 36-year-old healthcare administrator from Manhattan who wed in 2022. Then, days before their first wedding anniversary, Losavio learned she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma, an aggressive cancer affecting the lymphatic system. While more than half of … Read more

Stunned wife recounts husband’s mid-life crisis chaos — after leaving him alone for just three weeks: ‘I wish he’d cheated instead’

Stunned wife recounts husband’s mid-life crisis chaos — after leaving him alone for just three weeks: ‘I wish he’d cheated instead’

More like hus-banned. A hard-working woman who left her spouse to his own devices while away on a three-week business trip has gone viral with an account of the wreckage that awaited upon her return home — leaving readers are crying, laughing, and collectively saying: yikes.  Taking to Reddit, the put-upon partner shared the saga of … Read more

Here’s why many parents face a debt crisis to support kids, new survey shows

Here’s why many parents face a debt crisis to support kids, new survey shows

The soaring cost of living and financial pressures on families have forced six in 10 parents into debt to provide for their children. That’s according to a survey of 2,000 parents of children aged 0–18, which examined the economic challenges and mounting debt families across America are facing. Sixty-three percent of parents in debt admitted … Read more

Chipotle, Sweetgreen bet big on small, local farmers amid ongoing agriculture crisis

Chipotle, Sweetgreen bet big on small, local farmers amid ongoing agriculture crisis

National brands are betting big on small farmers.  Food giants such as Chipotle and Sweetgreen have long emphasized close partnerships with small or local farmers, in many cases, due to corporate sustainability goals. Today, those relationships may be essential to the survival and resilience of the American agriculture industry, as the sector faces increasing instability. “The agricultural … Read more

Beware: Synthetic kratom — 7-OH — is powering a new opioid crisis

Beware: Synthetic kratom — 7-OH  — is powering a new opioid crisis

Vape shops are popping up in every neighborhood in America, but few people — even doctors — know that many of these shops are selling a dangerous new opioid. It’s concentrated 7-OH, a synthetic byproduct of the kratom plant that binds strongly to the body’s opioid receptors — making it up to 13 times more … Read more

Bill Nye says US climate crisis is a reason deadly Texas floods were so destructive: ‘Exactly what was predicted’

Bill Nye says US climate crisis is a reason deadly Texas floods were so destructive: ‘Exactly what was predicted’

Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said Wednesday that fossil fuel companies and the U.S. Congress’s neglect of the climate crisis are a big reason the flooding in central Texas was so destructive. During the latest episode of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Nye argued that one of the main ways to prevent what host Dana Bash reported was an … Read more

George Clooney roasts his ‘midlife crisis’ brunette hair — and reveals what Amal thinks

George Clooney roasts his ‘midlife crisis’ brunette hair — and reveals what Amal thinks

It’ll be one fine day for George Clooney when he can go back to his roots. The actor, 64, isn’t thrilled about dyeing his hair brunette for his Broadway play “Good Night, and Good Luck” — and will return to silver fox status when the takes his final bow on June 8. George Clooney on “Late … Read more

The state of ‘Star Wars’ TV: Why ‘Andor’ is a hit — but the franchise is having an ‘identity crisis’

The state of ‘Star Wars’ TV: Why ‘Andor’ is a hit — but the franchise is having an ‘identity crisis’

In a galaxy far, far away… After the release of the sequel trilogy films that concluded the Skywalker Saga in 2019, “Star Wars” pivoted to television — and the results have been a mixed bag. Some of the Disney+ shows, including “The Mandalorian” spinoff “The Book of Boba Fett” and the Leslye Headland series “The Acolyte,” … Read more

King Charles won’t hand throne to Prince William as monarchy shake-up could spark ‘crisis’: experts

King Charles won’t hand throne to Prince William as monarchy shake-up could spark ‘crisis’: experts

Prince William has been quietly taking on more duties to support his father behind palace doors, raising questions about whether the monarch would ever step down to prioritize his health. But according to several royal experts, King Charles, who is battling an undisclosed form of cancer, has no plans to give up the throne anytime … Read more

‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in Emergency Rooms

‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in Emergency Rooms

The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard metal chairs. Only those with conditions so dire they needed immediate care — like a heart attack — got seen immediately. One man had had enough. He pounded on the glass window in front of … Read more

Covid-19: Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On

Covid-19: Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On

We asked 19 photographers to revisit their most enduring images of the coronavirus pandemic, five years after the virus became a global threat. Their photographs transport us to that bewildering period in an uncanny sort of time travel. The journalists who captured these scenes were not just covering the Covid-19 story but living through it. … Read more

Gen Z is suffering a ‘midlife crisis’ — amid ‘vicious cycle’ of overspending and job stress: study

Gen Z is suffering a ‘midlife crisis’ — amid ‘vicious cycle’ of overspending and job stress: study

The kids are not alright.  Zooming into adulthood — becoming autonomous, moving out of mom and dad’s, landing their first big girl or big boy jobs — all once sounded like a sweet fantasy to the youngsters of Gen Z.  But now that they’re in it, Zoomers are fast feeling like their dream life of independence is … Read more

Kimberly Williams-Paisley felt ‘shame’ for losing her voice for 2 years from ‘terrifying’ health crisis

Kimberly Williams-Paisley felt ‘shame’ for losing her voice for 2 years from ‘terrifying’ health crisis

Kimberly Williams-Paisley opened up about a “terrifying” health crisis. The “Father of the Bride” actress, 53, revealed in a new interview with People that in the fall of 2022 her voice disappeared — and she couldn’t speak louder than a whisper for nearly two years. “I felt trapped in my own body. There was so … Read more

Royal family live updates: King Charles facing ‘really hard’ decision about Prince Andrew over Chinese spy crisis

Royal family live updates: King Charles facing ‘really hard’ decision about Prince Andrew over Chinese spy crisis

New York Post Entertainment has all the latest news on the royal family, from Kate Middleton and Prince William to King Charles and Queen Camilla, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and more. In light of his already-disgraced brother Prince Andrew’s associations with a Chinese spy, King Charles, 76, is facing a “really hard” decision when it comes to the family’s holiday celebrations, … Read more

Remote country opens to American visitors with new flight amid overtourism crisis: ‘The herd is coming’

Remote country opens to American visitors with new flight amid overtourism crisis: ‘The herd is coming’

Nuuk Nuuk, who’s there? Americans — and a lot of them. The capital city of Greenland, a frigid Nordic lump situated between Atlantic Canada and Iceland, is projected to become the next travel hotspot as a new airport and hotels gear up to welcome travelers looking for an alternative to packed European favorites that have soured … Read more

The cost of pet rent is rising — and it’s contributing to a crisis

The cost of pet rent is rising — and it’s contributing to a crisis

For a few years, I’ve been contemplating getting out of New York City. Perhaps I could take advantage of the high rents in my Brooklyn neighborhood to rent out my co-op, move somewhere cheaper, and pocket a bit of cash. The first area I began looking into was Lancaster, PA, which recently came in at No. … Read more

Escort reveals why business isn’t slowing down amid cost of living crisis

Escort reveals why business isn’t slowing down amid cost of living crisis

You’d think the cost of living crisis would mean fewer men can afford to pay for sex, but according to escort Katija Cortez – it is the opposite. The 28-year-old said that many of her clients have claimed it is “cheaper” to see an escort than bother with traditional dating. “They tell me that once … Read more

Exclusive | We’re nerds using our smarts to fight NYC’s loneliness crisis — we hold boozy and fun pop-up lectures in bars all over town

Exclusive | We’re nerds using our smarts to fight NYC’s loneliness crisis — we hold boozy and fun pop-up lectures in bars all over town

Brooklynites Felecia and Ty Freely are bona fide nerds.  But the clever married couple — she a seasoned techie, he a psych student at Columbia — don’t view their brainy lots in life as a negative.  Instead, the perspicacious pair have wrangled their collective wit to help build community in the Big Apple — by creating … Read more