Two New Jersey men have been arrested after a video emerged showing one of them urinating on a memorial for a 9-year-old boy who died of cancer — and now, the boy’s father said he hopes the pair gets help and “turns their lives around.” Mark Clopp, whose son Christian died from brain cancer in Read More…
Iran’s foreign minister on Monday dismissed President Trump’s tweeted “genocidal taunts,” warning him not to threaten the Islamic Republic’s existence. With tensions mounting between the two countries, Trump tweeted Sunday: “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!” The president’s ominous message came after Read More…
A number of district attorneys in counties around Atlanta said they will not prosecute women for getting an abortion under Georgia’s recently passed restrictive “heartbeat” abortion law, according to a report on Monday. The Georgia bill, signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp on May 7, would prohibit abortions after doctors detect a fetal heartbeat, Read More…
President Trump in a tweet on Monday proclaimed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is “history” now that former Vice President Joe Biden has amassed a double-digit lead in the polls. ”Looks like Bernie Sanders is history. Sleepy Joe Biden is pulling ahead and think about it, I’m only here because of Sleepy Joe and the Read More…
The Eiffel Tower was evacuated Monday and surrounding streets were blocked off after a man was seen scaling the iconic landmark in the heart of Paris. “The Eiffel Tower is currently closed until further notice. We kindly advise our visitors to postpone their visit,” said a posting from the tower’s official Twitter account, La tour Read More…
ARIZONA — Miranda Haskie sits amid the glow of candles at her kitchen table as the sun sinks into a deep blue horizon silhouetting juniper trees and a nearby mesa. Her husband, Jimmie Long, Jr., fishes for the wick to light a kerosene lamp as the couple and their 13-year-old son prepare to spend a Read More…
If Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign schedule is any guide, the Big Apple better get ready for a part time mayor of its own. Buttigieg has been out of town for almost half of the past four months, The South Bend Tribune reported Monday. “Of the 120 days from Feb. 1 through May 31, Buttigieg was Read More…
INDIA — A prominent rights group in Indian-controlled Kashmir is advocating for the United Nations to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate what it calls the endemic use of torture by government forces amid a decades-long anti-India uprising in the disputed region. The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society on Monday released a detailed report Read More…
Sprint and T-Mobile US has won the support of the chairman of the US telecommunications regulator but will require a series of changes to their proposed $26 billion merger, including selling Sprint’s Boost Mobile cell service. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said on Monday he will recommend that the other four commissioners vote to Read More…
A drunken woman was caught in shocking video going on a foul-mouthed, racist tirade against “foreigners” at 39,000 feet before a flight attendant — a former TV presenter — calmed her down. The unnamed Ukrainian woman went on the rant after downing a bottle of whisky she had bought at a duty free shop in Read More…
Two days after GOP Rep. Justin Amash claimed that President Trump committed impeachable offenses, a Michigan state representative has stepped forward to challenge him in the primary election. State Rep. Jim Lower, calling himself a ”pro-Trump, pro-life, pro-jobs, pro-Second Amendment, pro-family values Republican,” announced on Monday his intention to run against Amash in 2020. Read More…
Newly-released dash cam footage shows a Florida man hopping into a police cruiser — and taking troopers on a dramatic 11-mile chase that reached speeds of nearly 150 miles per hour. Shane JensenClearwater Beach Police Shane Jensen, 22, saw an opportunity to jump in the patrol car May 2 when officers pulled him over in Read More…
A man accidentally shot and killed his own daughter in their home early Sunday — after mistaking her for an intruder, according to reports. Nadeja Jermainequa Pressley, 23, was pronounced dead at her home in Greenville, South Carolina, where her father opened fire around 1:15 a.m., striking her through a door, WYFF 4 reported. A Read More…
A transgender woman who was attacked by a group of people after a car accident in Texas last month was found fatally shot over the weekend, police said. Muhlaysia Booker, 23, was found lying face down in a street early Saturday in east Dallas. She died of “homicidal violence,” although investigators told the Dallas Morning Read More…
LONDON — The World Health Organization spent nearly $192 million on travel expenses last year, with staffers sometimes breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. The abuses could spook potential donors and partners Read More…
President Trump lashed out at the “Fake News Media” generally and the “Failing” New York Times specifically for covering a story about “suspicious” financial business he and son-in-law Jared Kushner conducted with Deutsche Bank. ”The Failing New York Times (it will pass away when I leave office in 6 years), and others of the Fake Read More…
A 29-year-old man accused of killing an Alabama police officer and wounding two others has been arrested after a massive manhunt that ended with an “all clear” announcement by Auburn University. Authorities had been searching for Grady Wayne Wilkes, who they said was armed and wearing camouflage body armor and a helmet after the three Read More…
DETROIT — Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods is debuting its second product — meatless sausage crumbles — on Little Caesars pizza. Little Caesars will start testing the Impossible Supreme Pizza on Monday at 58 restaurants in Fort Myers, Florida; Yakima, Washington; and Albuquerque, New Mexico. The $12 pizza also comes with mushrooms, caramelized onions and Read More…
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sought to capitalize on his huge popularity, dissolving the country’s parliament Monday minutes after he was sworn in as president. Zelenskiy, who won 73% of the vote last month in his landslide victory, slammed parliament as a hot-bed of self-enrichment, and promised to stop the war Read More…
Swedish prosecutors heading the probe into a rape allegation against Julian Assange issued a formal detention order Monday against the WikiLeaks founder, who is jailed in Britain – a first step in seeking his extradition. Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said she had filed the request with the Uppsala district court to Read More…
VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — Sarah Day is a school nurse with “street cred” when it comes to the polarizing issue of vaccines on an idyllic island in Washington state known for its rural beauty, counterculture lifestyle and low immunization rates. Since she began communal living on Vashon Island more than 20 years ago, the registered Read More…
NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is unveiling a pay inequity proposal that aims to close the gender pay gap by holding corporations accountable when men are paid more than women. Harris’ plan would require companies to disclose pay policies while applying for a mandatory “Equal Pay Certification” from the Equal Employment Opportunity Read More…
BEIJING — Hong Kong retiree Lee Wai-man loves pork fresh from the market but eats a lot less now that the price has jumped as China struggles with a deadly swine disease that has sent shockwaves through global meat markets. China produces and consumes two-thirds of the world’s pork, but output is plunging as Beijing Read More…
We look forward to hearing Mayor Bill de Blasio answer questions on the presidential campaign trail about the city school system’s decision to wage war on “toxic whiteness” — defined in a way that deems virtually all whites toxic. The city Department of Education has spent more than half a million bucks on training in Read More…
With Alabama and several more states passing extreme pro-life laws even as New York and others pass extreme pro-choice ones, the abortion wars are peaking again — pushed by the purists on both sides even though most Americans remain firmly in the middle. It’s all a reaction to the fact that the Supreme Court looks Read More…
There used to be a joke that you get 200 points for simply bubbling in your name in correctly on the SAT, as that was the lowest score possible on the test. Now the bizarre reality is that a student will get points for the circumstances of his birth. The College Board, which administers the Read More…
The left is starting to take aim at Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. At a conference last week, liberal activists repeatedly booed when told that Biden wanted to find “middle ground” on climate policy. When an audience member shouted “No middle ground!” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replied, “No middle ground is right!”She added: “I will be damned Read More…
The agreement between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its biggest union, the Transport Workers Union, expired last Wednesday, and workers didn’t go on strike. The union’s motto used to be “no contract, no work.” So the fact that we don’t even have a work slowdown might be seen as positive news. It’s not: It shows Read More…
2020 watch: Blas’ White House Run Is His New Cash Hustle Mayor Bill de Blasio’s White House bid appears quixotic, judging by his miniscule national profile and lousy local support, notes Seth Barron at City Journal. But “as the middleman in a machine that runs on money, he must maintain a vehicle for fundraising, or Read More…
Restaurateurs across the country say they are waking up to a years-long, high-tech bamboozling by Grubhub involving hidden fees for orders that never happened — an allegation that could cost the company millions, The Post has learned. Last November, a woman called Italian eatery Enoteca at 6:50 p.m. to ask if they had gluten-free pasta. Read More…
Dear John: Legal betting isn’t so good for any serious gambler who mostly wins. I did approximately 1,500 college basketball bets this winter/spring using picks from an analytics service that I paid for. These bets were typically between $200 to $500 each, not counting the 10 percent (sometimes 5 percent, sometimes 15 percent) bookmaker’s cut. Read More…
Dear John: We have been trying to get a refund from Allstate flood insurance for over a year. After Superstorm Sandy, we were advised to elevate our Long Beach home. We were also told this would greatly decrease our flood insurance cost. On Jan. 1, 2018, our flood insurance bill came due and we paid Read More…
As I have written in the past, President Trump’s tax cuts were not a stimulus program. Tax cuts are only permanent until someone comes along to muck them up. So last week — about a year and a half since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 — Bank of America raised its minimum Read More…
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission is poised to impose protected status on six sites that staffers say played a critical role in the gay-rights movement and may do the same with five buildings said to “represent” the historical contributions of the old sheet-music-publishing business, aka Tin Pan Alley. This is fresh proof that the whole Read More…
Everyone hates them — those annoying, never-ending, often fraudulent robocalls from scammers and telemarketers. Striking day and night, they can drive you nuts no matter how carefully you screen your calls. Yet this year, Americans may get some relief. On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced plans to crack down on robocalls. And Congress may Read More…
US employers are stepping on the accelerator — and that’s lifting average salaries and fueling record raises across many sectors. For the typical American worker, pay increases could soon surge past 4 percent or 5 percent for the year, according to labor experts. By any stretch, the number crunchers say, it’s a big jump to Read More…
Once a Putz, always a Putz. Mayor de Blasio’s announcement that he’s running for president was perfect in one regard: It accurately — and inadvertently — captured who he is. A lazy faker, a race and class warrior and a problem for those he claims to help. He came prepared for his big day with Read More…
When Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin brothers who famously feuded with Mark Zuckerberg over the creation of Facebook, attended a 2012 meeting about Bitcoin, they expected a professional overview of investment opportunities in the new cryptocurrency. What they got was a 22-year-old Orthodox Jewish stoner living in his parents’ Brooklyn basement. Charlie Shrem was Read More…
If the presidential candidacy of Mayor de Blasio has any hope (and it does not), it is because Americans have stopped looking for leadership and started looking for mascots.Dopey Twitter war with Eric Trump? Half-understood and half-serious “Green New Deal” promises? That is what modern presidential campaigns are made of. De Blasio, with his socialist Read More…
There is a reason you don’t let inmates run your asylum, allow your toddler to eat candy for dinner or tell the Labrador retriever sitting behind the wheel of your car, “OK, Duke, I guess you drive.” Those who are, mentally speaking, a few slices short of a loaf don’t get to make grown-up-people decisions. Read More…