DETROIT — Precious Achiuwa is making “good” progress from his hamstring strain but coach Tom Thibodeau said his top frontcourt reserve has yet to go through a practice.  Achiuwa, who suffered the injury in the preseason finale, traveled with the Knicks on their four-game road trip, with games upcoming in Houston and Atlanta.  “He’s doing a little more on the court,” Thibodeau said. “Once a guy can start doing stuff on the court, then usually he’ll travel with us. Sometimes it’s better to keep him back [in New York] because we can do more rehab stuff at the facility. “So…

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board. Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a public health department. While policymakers in Texas banned health departments from promoting COVID vaccines and Florida’s surgeon general bucked medical consensus to recommend against the vaccine, governmental bodies across the country haven’t blocked the vaccines outright. “I’m not aware of anything else like this,” said Adriane Casalotti, chief of government…

Fast-food giant Wendy’s is shuttering 140 underperforming locations through the end of 2024 as it looks to improve its “restaurant footprint and overall system health.”  To counter the closures, though, the Ohio-based company is working to replace many of these units with “new restaurants at better locations with significantly improved sales and profitability,” Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner told analysts on its third-quarter earnings call.  The company thoroughly reviewed individual restaurants to ensure they meet sales expectations and are profitable enough to support growth, and said that the locations closing are “outdated and in underperforming areas,” with operating margins far below…

An uber-woke, $65K-a-year New York City private school will allow “emotionally distressed” students to skip class the day after the election next week — in an eyebrow-raising move that drew ire from parents, including comedian Jerry Seinfeld, whose kids once attended the elite institution. The upcoming presidential election “may be a high-stakes and emotional time” for students, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School administration wrote in a newsletter to parents titled “Election Day support.” Students will not be assigned homework on Election Day and there will not be any assessments on Wednesday, the email obtained by The Post explained. Kids will…

Pennsylvania’s election is likely to go down to the wire Tuesday, meaning support from the commonwealth’s sizable, yet traditionally private Amish community might just make a difference.The Amish-Mennonite community has long been a reliably conservative group, given its devout faith, humility and reluctance to engage with aspects of contemporary societal norms such as driving cars and using cellphones.Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., the first Amish-born member of Congress, said he’s seeing a real change lately.”You have a minority of the Amish who are now farming and agricultural. They ran out of land in Lancaster County a long time ago. So, there’s…

DEAR ABBY: My daughter was diagnosed with a disease. Soon after, she decided to marry a man she’d met. I’m not fond of the guy, and I find it difficult to have a relationship with him. They moved to another state, and I asked that she not bring him to this house. However, every chance she gets, she brings him, and he acts as if this is his house. Right now, I’m in counseling to help me find a solution to this issue. My daughter is also in counseling and claims it is partially due to me. She’ll be having…

Eva Longoria continues to celebrate the massive financial success of John Wick. More than a decade after investing $6 million into the movie, Longoria, 49, revealed she is still getting checks from the 2014 action thriller film. “What I’m pissed off about is I wasn’t connected to the rest of them,” she told Business Insider in an interview published Thursday, October 31. “This was a one-time thing. That was the gamble. But that was my only mistake, not being attached to all of the films.” About a week before production on John Wick began, directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch…

A Dodgers fan was hospitalized and fighting for his life after he fell from the third floor of a building into a “hostile crowd” during the team’s World Series victory celebration in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon. The unidentified man was engaging in “graffiti-related activity” and made his way up to the third floor of a parking garage at the intersection of 8th and Flower Street around 1:30 p.m. — four blocks from where the parade finished. The man, who was tagging the side of the structure, fell and crashed onto the street below into a “hostile crowd,” the Los…

Tim Walz called Elon Musk “gay” on Friday — but the Harris-Walz campaign claimed the Democratic vice presidential nominee misspoke, leading to the inadvertent comment. “That guy, that gay guy,” Walz said of Musk while talking about taxes on the campaign trail in Michigan. While the remark drew swift backlash on social media, Musk — who has become a vocal supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — brushed it off. “I have no problem being called gay tbh,” the X, SpaceX and Tesla mogul replied to a reshare of the video from a user who called Walz’s comment “beyond…

Pro-Israel leaders and activists are expressing frustration and disappointment that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has yet to plan a vote on a bill aimed at tackling the rising tide of antisemitism on college campuses.Many fear the delay could lead to the bill getting “watered down” – or potentially getting derailed altogether. “This is a very good bill. It’s a very important bill. It comes at a very, very urgent time in terms of the dynamics of our country, and it should be passed, and it should be passed and signed into law right away. I mean, the sooner the…