June 30, 2018
Happy Half New Year!
Tough week took a turn for the better for Stitches and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Saturday night. Red Sox dealt the Yanks a lopsided defeat. And Murphy reached...
Durant's new deal gives Knicks glimmer of hope
It looks like you can add Kevin Durant to the list of 2019 free agents the Knicks will salivate over. Multiple reports stated Durant came to a one-year agreement shortly...
Sonny Gray melts down as Yankees get ripped by Red Sox
A night after the Yankees did just about everything right against the Red Sox, they managed to do everything wrong on Saturday in an 11-0 loss at the Stadium. That’s...
Austrian catering boss spewed racist hate at workers: suit
He was an equal opportunity hater. Americans are “worthless and without a brain,” blacks are “lazy,” and Hispanics are “drunk” and “clueless,” the Austrian-born boss of an international catering company...
Nets stuck in free-agency limbo
While free agency was set to erupt with Midnight Madness, the Nets’ free agency might be a little more of a slow burn. Between having to negotiate Dwight Howard’s buyout...
New Yorkers soak up the sun during heat wave
The heat wave is hellish, but holiday revelers are in heaven. “Today the weather is wonderful for the beach,” Oleg Sobchak, 56, said Saturday as he relaxed at Coney Island...
Woman on buffet line rammed by scooter: suit
It was a buffet to almost die for. A New Jersey woman claims she was lined up at a cruise-ship smorgasbord when a Long Islander rammed into her with an...
Kirsten Gillibrand backs security transaction tax
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand now favors a new charge on Wall Street and investors that could cost billions. New York’s Democratic junior senator is supporting a securities transaction tax (STT) proposal...
La La Anthony comforts sister of innocent teen killed in Bronx stabbing
She lost her little brother in a heartbreaking mistaken-identity murder. But Genesis Collado-Feliz, 17, has gained something of a big sister following the savage slaying of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz: glamorous...
This team will make it to the World Cup final, according to Goldman Sachs
Batten down the hatches. The award-winning chief economist at Goldman Sachs who made notable calls on the global financial crisis has shaken up soccer, using super computers and math to...
Big man hoping to get full-time deal with Knicks or elsewhere
Luke Kornet has participated in David Fizdale’s workouts the past five weeks, the new Knicks coach hoping to add another dimension to Kornet’s game and make him not just a...
The Left needs to face reality: Trump is winning
To understand the madness gripping American leftists, try to see the world through their eyes. Presto, you’re now part of the raging resistance. Like the Palestinians who mark Israel’s birth...
It's time for the Dow Jones index to shuffle the deck and add more companies
Last Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average finally booted General Electric, a company that had been one of its original 12 components in 1896. The famed light bulb maker was...
Readers share their thoughts on Trump's progress
Dear John: For all his bluster, President Trump does have an intuitive grasp of how to use available assets to achieve a goal. This ability cannot be taught. He simply...
Gas companies are taking advantage of summer drivers
Dear John: I recently relocated to Tampa, Fla., from Long Island. I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of the gasoline producers. I worked for different gas companies, and the price...
These New York City beaches are teeming with fecal bacteria
This could be the dirtiest part of New York City to take a dip. The waters at three beaches in southeast Brooklyn were festering with so much fecal bacteria, they...
It's official: Mets are now an embarrassment
MIAMI — Losing is a disease. The Mets are living proof of that. They have perfected the art of losing with a 5-21 month of June, their worst June swoon...
Why Mets are keeping Dominic Smith away from first base
MIAMI — Adrian Gonzalez’s release three weeks ago was supposed to clear the way for Dominic Smith to play first base for the Mets on a regular basis, but that...
Massive subway delays leave commuters frustrated
Seven really was a lucky number Saturday — at least for subway riders. The No. 7 line was the only one of more than 20 MTA routes that appeared to...
More than 100 headstones discovered in Staten Island basement
On Staten Island, the dead are spinning in their unmarked graves. More than 100 old limestone headstones are rotting in the basement of a building on the waterfront campus of...
Bank robber gets away with nearly $14K in Brooklyn
A Brooklyn bank bandit who threatened to shoot a teller made off with nearly $14,000 in a Friday heist, police said. The thief barged into Chase Bank on Smith Street...
British fighter jets bomb Syrian forces
British forces have bombed Syrian troops loyal to the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, for the first time since April. A Typhoon fighter jet dropped a 500-pound laser-guided bomb near Syria’s...
Reds relief pitcher just keeps hitting home runs
CINCINNATI — When Brewers pitchers went over the strengths and weaknesses of Cincinnati's hitters to prepare for their series, they included reliever Michael Lorenzen in the mix. They need to...
New Yorkers need to know that police wrongdoing is punished
One of the most scrutinized police forces in America — the NYPD — is facing yet more oversight: An outside panel is launching a 120-day review of the department’s discipline...
De Blasio should prepare to have his environmental lawsuit tossed
Mayor de Blasio just got a blaring wake-up call from the West Coast about his lawsuit against Big Oil: Get set to be laughed straight out of court, Mr. Mayor....
Gleyber Torres in elite company with Yankees lineup shuffle
These kids today, they don’t appreciate what it means to hit cleanup. “It only matters in the first inning,” Didi Gregorius, who has hit fourth 73 times as a Yankee...
Seven signs Yankees could conquer untouchable HR barrier
Three hundred is a perfect game in bowling, an epic war movie and — I believe — in play for how many homers the Yankees can hit this season. After...
Man stabbed inside Harlem subway station
A man was stabbed inside a Harlem subway station Saturday evening, officials said. The victim was knifed once in the left shoulder on the southbound platform of the 2/3 line...
9/11 hero donor meets woman whose life he saved
She has one of his kidneys. Now, he has a piece of her heart. In December, 9/11 hero FDNY firefighter Kevin Shea gave the gift of life to a total...
Rick Nash right to put health first as he considers future
It isn’t like it was back in the day, when writers were part of a team’s traveling party, hung out at the local watering hole with players and their wives...
Women are frontrunners on Trump's list of Supreme Court nominees
The odds that President Trump will choose a woman as his next Supreme Court nominee just kicked up a notch – and political handicappers took note. Trump has winnowed down...
US could remove troops from Germany
As tensions between President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel heat up, U.S. military action in Germany could be cooling down. Pentagon planners are studying the pros and cons of...
Jacob deGrom now slumping as Mets fall into NL basement
MIAMI — This constitutes a slump for the Mets’ best pitcher. Jacob deGrom was rolling, providing a typical deGrom-like performance when the sixth inning hit Saturday at Marlins Park. Suddenly,...
Populist who railed against Trump set to win Mexican election
You can call him “El Trump.” And he’s about to become our southern neighbor’s new leader. Fiery populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador enters Mexico’s presidential election Sunday with a double-digit...
Driver miraculously survives being impaled by a falling tree
A driver on the Belt Parkway somehow survived after he was impaled by a tree limb that crashed into his car, police said. The victim, 38, was heading west near...
Comedian who pranked Trump claims Secret Service visited him
The “Howard Stern Show” comedian who pranked the president now claims he was visited by the US Secret Service. Agents came knocking Friday night, said the hoaxster best known as...
Tiger Woods played half a great round -- then lost it again
There were moments Saturday at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farms when Tiger Woods looked in vintage form. His ball-striking was pristine, and his putts were finding the center of the...
Walt Disney stole the idea for Mickey Mouse off his friend
According to Walt Disney, the idea for Mickey Mouse suddenly popped into his head on a 1928 cross-country train ride “when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself...
Rangers' approach to open market will be all about rebuild
Forget the Big Splash, at least for this year. Even if there were a deep pool into which to dive, the Rangers wouldn’t do it. Next year, maybe … next...
NYC's film industry is moving away from Manhattan
The city’s $8.7 billion film industry is in the middle of a scene change. Manhattan no longer accounts for more than half of all film permits -- with the majority...
Devils have the money to keep momentum going in free agency
The rebuilding process for the Devils was accelerated a little bit faster than most anticipated. They broke a five-year playoff drought before losing to the Lightning in a five-game first-round...
False college rape allegation 'destroyed' my life: suit
A Long Island woman’s unsubstantiated rape allegation after a drunken night in an upstate frat house has “destroyed” a New Jersey man’s life, he says in a $6 million lawsuit....
Man loses arm, fractures leg after being struck by train
A man lost part of an arm and fractured a leg after being struck by an oncoming train in Brooklyn early Saturday, police told The Post. The 50-year-old is clinging...
Thousands protest Trump's immigration policies in NYC
Thousands of protesters marched from Downtown Manhattan to Brooklyn on Saturday in support of migrant families who were separated when they entered the country illegally or seeking asylum. Eighty-year-olds with...
Tennis broadcaster nears justice for hypocritical ESPN ouster
Eighteen months later, Doug Adler, preposterously fired as a racist by the preposterous bosses at ESPN, appears closer to achieving the justice he should never have had to pursue. Los...
I grew up in a cave — and killed another child to survive
In her new book, “Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World” (Amazon Crossing), Christina Rickardsson, 35, of Umeå, Sweden, chronicles the extraordinary — and sometimes incredibly...
Ronaldo gone as Portugal knocked out of World Cup
SOCHI, Russia — Edinson Cavani upstaged Cristiano Ronaldo, first with his head and then with his right foot, and sent Uruguay to the World Cup quarterfinals. Cavani scored twice and...
Teacher keeps job after allegedly caught with girl student on lap
A Queens teacher caught in a dark classroom with a girl student allegedly sitting on his lap was spared his $90,500-a-year job, but slapped with a “final warning,” records show....
Inside the life of John Sterling, who's one of a kind
There was real fear on the Yankees’ team flight. The turbulence made it feel like the plane was bouncing around the sky like a knuckleball. Then, the oxygen masks dropped...
Posh school's plan to segregate students by race draws parents' ire
Parents are irate over a plan to segregate students by race at the celebrity-friendly Little Red School House in the West Village. In the last month, parents at the $45,485-per-year...
US ambassador to Estonia resigns with tirade against Trump
This ambassador is stone-cold furious about President Trump. The US rep to Estonia is resigning in protest over Trump’s rocky relationship with European allies – and spilling his guts about...
Why newly crowned Miss USA wants the swimsuit competition to stay
Newly crowned Miss USA Sarah Rose Summers is ready to take on New York — and pageant critics. In June, the 23-year-old from Omaha, Neb., moved to Midtown to begin...
Nonprofit slapped fees on big donations under McCray
A city-aligned nonprofit started charging a fee on donations over $5,000 under the leadership of Mayor de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray. Fee revenues go toward operating costs of the Mayor’s...
Here's the exact moment it all went wrong for Mets franchise
I don't believe that most Mets fans believe they are cursed. I don’t believe that most Mets fans believe they have a pox on their houses, that somewhere in the...
NYPD divers rescue two men knocked out of their raft in Jamaica Bay
This dramatic clip show the moment NYPD divers jumped from their helicopter to rescue two men who'd been knocked out of their raft in Brooklyn. The victims were on a...
Protesters across the US march against Trump's immigration policies
WASHINGTON — They wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: “No more children in cages,” and “What’s next? Concentration Camps?” In major cities and...
Deontay Wilder can't let himself be defined by long-sought bout
Any notion Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua would meet this year to determine the undisputed heavyweight championship ended last week with UK-based promoter Eddie Hearn announcing he was finalizing Joshua’s...
Man arrested for sending death threats to FCC chief was irate about net neutrality
A California man threatened to kill the children of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, saying he was “angry” about the repeal of net neutrality regulations, according to feds. Markara...
How India's most obscene billionaires spend their money
It was a big, fat Indian wedding to beat them all. Mining magnate and former politician Gali Janardhana Reddy had invited 50,000 of his dearest friends to Bangalore Palace for...
Rangers rookie trio can't wait to take over hockey's biggest stage
The Rangers’ trio of first-round draft picks — Vitali Kravtsov, K’Andre Miller and Nils Lundkvist — team up for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Describe your mentality...
New York is full of boozehounds
New Yorkers are picking their favorite poison to name their pooches. Brandy is the most popular boozy mutt moniker, with 98, according to city dog-license data, followed by Whiskey at...
Sunbather nearly fried to death after drifting on air mattress for 21 hours
A terrified tourist was rescued off the coast of Greece after floating out at sea for 21 hours on an air mattress after being swept away by a strong current....
French teenager sends Lionel Messi packing at World Cup
KAZAN, Russia — What Lionel Messi has never done, 19-year-old Kylian Mbappe did twice. The quick-footed French teenager scored two goals in a five-minute span of the second half to...
Mike Trout is AL MVP so far but the question is bigger than that
Mike Trout is the AL MVP at the halfway mark. No disrespect to Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez. They are tremendous players. But they have each other and the rest...
Spike Lee's crew accidentally reopened toxic park to the public
A toxic Brooklyn park closed a decade ago was accidentally opened to the public -- because Spike Lee’s crew forgot to do the right thing after a TV shoot and...
Inside the girl gang that lures male enemies to their deaths
The busty brunette wore white combat pants tucked into knee-high red boots to her arraignment on murder, racketeering and assault charges in Manhattan federal court. Her fingernails were painted black....
Let's raise a pint to putting our political differences aside
OHIOPYLE, PA. — For eight years Jim Oppman has prided himself on arriving at the Wilderness Voyageurs Beer and Gear Festival before anyone else, staking his place first in line...
Trump defends 'brave' ICE agents as Dems call to abolish agency
As more Democrats join the parade of liberal pols calling for the end of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, President Trump is pushing back. “To the great...
This little country's freedom fight should give us all hope
As a girl, my grandmother saw many members of her family killed when Turkey tried to destroy its population of Christian Armenians around the time of WWI. She emigrated to...
Weeks-old deaf puppy rescued after falling down 50-foot hole
An 7-week old deaf puppy melted hearts across the globe Saturday when she was pulled from a 50-foot hole in Alabama after a harrowing 30-hour rescue. Rescue workers and volunteers...
The easy way to give your kids the world
Seven years ago, Akeelah Kuraishi and her husband Tim Minnick quit their advertising jobs to backpack around the world for 13 months. It was important to them that their travels...
The myth of Obama's 'disappearance'
If you believe recent media accounts, the former Democratic president has suddenly transcended the political fray. It’s as if a newly “Zen-like” Barack Obama is content to just write his...
Indian car crash victim is first reported death of a World Cup visitor in Russia
MOSCOW - An Indian soccer fan, in Russia for the World Cup, died in a car crash on Saturday on a road near the tournament host city Sochi, Interfax news...
Small plane makes 'belly-flop' landing
LAS VEGAS — A small plane has made a belly-flop landing in Las Vegas and authorities say the three people on board weren’t hurt. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that...
Italy says it won't welcome rescue boat carrying 60 migrants
ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA — A Spanish rescue boat has saved 60 migrants in the sea near Libya, prompting Italy to immediately say it’ll deny the...
Hundreds of thousands set to protest family separation at border
PORTLAND, Ore. — Liberal activists, parents and first-time protesters motivated by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border plan to rally in hundreds of cities nationwide...
The best choice for the Supreme Court
In picking a successor to Justice Anthony Kennedy, President Trump has many fine potential nominees from among whom to choose. The top contenders seem to be Amy Coney Barrett, Thomas...
If the West fails to address people’s complaints, democracy itself is doomed
COPENHAGEN - As democracies falter and authoritarianism rises, internationalist world leaders are scrambling to figure out how to save the democratic system and its values from external and internal threats....
Two huge New York stars homer on the same day
Perhaps Aaron Judge was just making sure Odell Beckham Jr. didn’t show him up. The Giants wide receiver took batting practice in The Bronx on Friday afternoon with the Yankees’...
The 'old man' gives the Yankees just what they need
CC Sabathia bounced off the mound, and scooped a slow roller backhanded, flipping it to first base for the final out of the seventh inning. The 37-year-old unleashed a ferocious...
Knicks could make a run at one of these three free agents
Here are three potential free agents the Knicks could target when NBA free agency begins. Each player's name includes their age, height, weight and free-agent status: Michael Beasley, 29, 6-9,...
Masahiro Tanaka takes another step toward return to Yankees
Masahiro Tanaka isn’t far off from returning to the Yankees’ rotation after pitching a three-inning simulated game at the team’s complex in Tampa on Friday. The right-hander, who has been...
NBA free agency world set to revolve around LeBron
NBA free agency is the real Midnight Madness. And when it tips off in the wee hours Saturday night into Sunday morning, LeBron James — who opted out of his...
Mets' one-time vital cog is now just a forgotten man
MIAMI — This is crystal clear. These Mets are no longer Yo’s team. The Mets came to Marlins Park on Friday and Yoenis Cespedes, who is rehabbing two hours north...
Greg Bird rediscovers power on day the competition arrives
It was, of course, just a coincidence. Of course it was. What else could it have been? But on the day that Brandon Drury, who recently moved to first base...
David Quinn gets rave reviews from those who know best
The three Hockey East players who participated in the Rangers’ development camp this past week agree that one thing is for certain about new head coach David Quinn: He’s a...
It's now or never if Tavares is going to re-sign with Islanders
If he has taken this long, why not just wait as long as possible? John Tavares continued running the sand through the hourglass into Friday evening, having not agreed to...
Young Laker could land with Nets in this free-agent scenario
After handing out big offer sheets the past two years, the Nets’ free agency should be more reserved — as in reserved for 2019. The Nets won’t be chasing stars...
Seth Lugo caught off guard by Mets' latest move in rotation
MIAMI — Seth Lugo fully understands the Mets’ bullpen predicament, but that didn’t make his removal from the rotation any easier on him Friday. “It caught me by surprise a...
I make the picks that make you cry
Would you rather have panhandlers or Barry Manilow? Tough call, but one that managers of Rite Aid stores in California found easy. With vagrants and drifters on the rise outside...
Bear cub with burnt paws rescued from raging wildfires
DURANGO, Colo. — An orphaned bear cub suffered painful burns to her paws in one of the half-dozen significant wildfires scorching Colorado, but she is being nursed back to health,...
Tiger Woods has a real shot heading into weekend
POTOMAC, Md. — What once was a formality is now a pleasant surprise for Tiger Woods. He goes into the weekend at the Quicken Loans National without having to make...
Trump says he'll discuss election meddling with Putin at summit
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to bring up Russian election meddling during his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin, part of a wide-ranging list of topics...
Inside the program training teachers to fire back at school shooters
SAN ANTONIO — The man and woman creep down the school hallway back-to-back, guns drawn. A tap on the backside signals they are ready to move into the next room....
NSA deleting more than 685M call records
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the...
Miguel Andujar, Gleyber Torres may be Yankees' biggest move
Brian Cashman looked like a quarterback calling a play, surrounded in a huddle of reporters Friday, not far from the Yankees’ home dugout about two hours before first pitch. For...