The passengers of a doomed Louisiana flight that claimed the life of Carley McCord, daughter-in-law of a Louisiana State University coach, have been identified, authorities said. Robert Vaughn CrispGlobal Data Systems McCord, a 30-year-old sports reporter, was joined by five other people on the eight-person plane to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta that crashed minutes Read More…
A former judicial candidate in Florida who made hateful, bigoted comments about Muslims and homosexuals on social media has been suspended from practicing law, according to reports. Donald McBath, a 62-year-old former US Army major who lost his bid to become a Sixth Judicial Circuit judge last year, was barred Friday from working as a Read More…
This burglar really cleaned house. A North Carolina family called the cops — and even had a weapon on the ready — to protect themselves against a “home intruder” that turned out to be a Roomba vacuum cleaner. Thomas Milam posted to Facebook on Dec. 23 that he and his wife were watching a movie in Read More…
BAGHDAD — An Iranian-backed militia said Monday that the death toll from U.S. military strikes in Iraq and Syria against its fighters has risen to 25, vowing to exact revenge for the “aggression of evil American ravens.” The U.S. attack — the largest yet targeting an Iraqi state-sanctioned militia — and the calls for retaliation, Read More…
China’s top trade negotiator will travel to Washington this week to sign “phase one” of a trade deal with the US – a development that could de-escalate the bitter trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, according to a report on Monday. Beijing has accepted an invitation for the deal signing and a delegation Read More…
Even Juul Labs employees are having a tough time kicking their vaping habit. Staffers at the San Francisco-based firm have continued to puff away at their desks and in meetings — even though Juul bosses have told them to cut it out and threatened punishment, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The company has tried Read More…
CAIRO — A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year. The death of protester Ahmed al-Khair, a school teacher, while in detention in February was a key point — and Read More…
They stuck to the right path — too bad it wasn’t intended for cars. A family from Burlington, Mass., was trapped in a ditch for seven hours early Sunday after faithfully following their GPS directions right onto a snowmobile trail. Dattu Prajapati, 45, a second adult and five children were en route to Gorham, NH, Read More…
A top leader of an Iranian-backed militia group vowed a “tough” response to the US military’s airstrikes that targeted the terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah’s bases in Iraq and Syria. “The blood of the martyrs will not be in vain and our response will be very tough on the American forces in Iraq,” senior commander Jamal Read More…
A 14-year-old Ohio boy disappeared after leaving home for school 10 days ago — and now the hunt for him is intensifying, according to reports. Harley Dilly vanished on his way to school in Port Clinton on Dec. 20, but authorities believe the teen is alive and the ongoing search for him is being treated Read More…
Joe Biden said he would nominate Barack Obama to the Supreme Court if the former commander-in-chief was willing to do the job. The former vice president, who served two terms under Obama, was answering questions during a campaign event Saturday in Washington, Iowa when he was asked if he’d ever nominate the 44th president to…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was met at a campaign stop in New Hampshire by several hecklers who shouted “quid pro quo” and called the former vice president a “pervert.” Biden was speaking at a rally in Milford on Sunday evening when a man entered the hall and began shouting at him. “You touch kids…
Tesla delivered its first Chinese-made sedans to 15 lucky employees Monday — including one who proposed to his girlfriend on the factory floor.
The daughter of a deacon gunned down during the Texas church shootout recalled her dad’s heartbreaking final moments — but said in a new interview that she forgives the gunman. Anton “Tony” Wallace, 64, a deacon and lifelong member of West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, was killed…
A Cyprus court on Monday found a British teenager guilty of the charge of public mischief for lying about being gang-raped by a group of Israeli tourists at a hotel resort. The 19-year-old, who has not been identified for legal reasons, accused the 12 Israelis – ages 15 to 18 — of raping her on…
SALEM, Oregon — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality fined a creamery for river water pollution caused by dumping milk, officials said. The $26,574 fine was levied against Organic Valley for dumping by its McMinnville Creamery, The Statesman Journal reported Friday. The creamery discharged 87 gallons (329 liters) of condensed skim milk and 384 pounds…
BEIJING — A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media said. He Jiankui, who was convicted of practicing medicine without a license, was also fined 3 million yuan…
The home of a sergeant who works for a Texas sheriff’s office was targeted twice in one week by Molotov cocktail attacks, authorities said. The first incident took place at about 9:30 p.m. Monday when an explosive struck the outside of the home in the town of Katy, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s…
A grandmother said she was tased three times and arrested on her 70th birthday for not cooperating with sheriff’s deputies trying to arrest her grandson at her Florida home.
An Oklahoma man is accused of kidnapping a woman and forcing her to earn money for him by dancing at a strip club, authorities said.
The man accused of using a machete to hack five Hanukkah celebrants is a schizophrenic who is now being investigated in the earlier stabbing of a Jewish man near a synagogue in the same Rockland County town, family friends and police sources said.
A police officer in Kansas was shocked when he bought a coffee at the local McDonald’s and saw “F–ing Pig,” scrawled on the cup. The chief of police in Herington said one of his officers went to the drive-thru in Junction City Saturday on his way to work when he received the insulting label. “This…
The New York City Council’s recent move to ban foie gras has only served to goose sales for the fatty delicacy, the industry claims. Since the November vote, sales of the buttery goose and duck liver are up 20 percent to 30 percent, according to farmers, distributors and chefs who say news of the ban Read More…
The Department of Justice is mulling whether to meddle with billionaire John Malone’s plans to become the king of radio, The Post has learned.
Culture critic: Populism Won’t Die Anytime Soon Just as the “1960s” (as a zeitgeist) didn’t begin until JFK’s 1963 assassination and end until Richard Nixon’s 1974 resignation, so the “populist epoch” of the 2010s “may be only beginning,” argues Matthew Continetti in Commentary. Popular rage against elites began with the Great Recession, boiled over under…
Among the institutions of the so-called international community, anti-Israel bias is so prevalent and obvious, it’s taken for granted and almost funny. The year-end statistics from the UN General Assembly tell nearly the whole story: Of the 25 condemnatory resolutions passed this year, 18 targeted the world’s sole Jewish state. As I said, almost funny….
Two-thousand-nineteen was the tale of two marquee stock offerings: America’s Uber and Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company. Superficially, Uber is a failure, and Aramco is a success: Uber stock sank; Aramco stock rose. But really, it’s the other way around. Uber’s “failure” shows the success of American-style free markets in disciplining companies….
Think the sharp uptick in subway graffiti is just an eyesore? Think again: As Nathan Glazer wrote back in 1979, it can fuel serious disorder — and crime. Graffiti vandalism in the subway tripled from 200 incidents five years ago to 619 last year, and 537 so far this year, The Post reported last week….
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling for a “panel of experts” to “reexamine” bringing high-speed rail to New York, he announced last week. He’s hoping to pull off what governors before him could only dream of. Alas, it’s still “sheer fantasy,” as the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon puts it. Certainly, the costs of building out high-speed…
Incoming Queens DA Melinda Katz is vowing to clean house when she takes office in January, dismissing holdovers from Richard Brown’s near-30-year tenure. Take it as an ominous sign. Katz hopes to prove her far-left criminal-justice cred by hiring “true believers,” even if it means jettisoning the decades of prosecutorial experience of the top staff….
Anti-Semitic attacks continue to shake our city and state. Last week, eight attacks — including four in just in 48 hours — sent a familiar shockwave rippling through the Jewish community. Then Saturday came the horrific stabbing in Monsey, New York. The poison of Jew-hatred is spreading. Like many of you, I’m thinking, “Not this…
DHL says its overall New York City volume is forecast to increase by 13 percent this holiday season over last.
Dear John: I have a less-than-2-year-old Electrolux washing machine that broke. I waited to have their expert repair technician look at it and fix it. Since my warranty covers parts only, he looked at it and could not believe this happened to a 20-month-old washer. He said the labor is hours and not worth fixing….
The outgoing year was filled with many interesting economic twists and turns. There were too many winners and losers in 2019 to list them all, but here are my highlights. The biggest losers first: the politically bent elite economists, who spent much of the year calling for a recession. With solid GDP growth of 2…
Dear John: My problem is not directly with Amazon, but with their credit card company, Synchrony. My card has a very low limit: $120. I rarely go above $100 in a month and usually pay it off or pay a major portion monthly. The problem is that any time I exceed $120 Synchrony reports to…
Dear John: I would like to add my tale of woe to your recent article about Amazon customer service. On March 7, 2019, I received two pieces of mail. The first was a notice from Amazon stating that I had a charge for $1,395 for a gaming system I reportedly purchased using an Amazon Store…
Taxpayers in California and New York shoulder some of the heaviest tax burdens in the nation, and now new data show the two have something else in common: Their growth rates have slowed.
State and local employees who pad their pension payments by chalking up overtime as they near retirement could cost taxpayers a whopping $32 billion to $54 billion over the next 20 years, a new report found.
If you tried too hard to be funny, Don Imus wouldn’t help you with fake laughter. If you tried to poke fun at him and he wasn’t in the mood, he’d flatten you.
The latest call to action from some criminal-justice activists: “Abolish the police.” From the streets of Chicago to the city council of Seattle, and in the pages of academic journals ranging from the Cardozo Law Review to the Harvard Law Review and of mainstream publications from the Boston Review to Rolling Stone, advocates and activists…