Puerto Rico is bracing for a massive protest Monday calling for Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s resignation. Vulgar and misogynistic text messages from him spurred thousands of Puerto Ricans to demonstrate in the capital San Juan on Friday and Saturday, the Associated Press reported. There were smaller gatherings across the rest of the island, with the movement Read More…
The Kazakhstan-born Brooklyn man who the feds say betrayed America — by becoming a top ISIS sniper in Syria — had come to the US through the diversity lottery, the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed in an angry tweet. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov “was born in Kazakhstan on June 28, 1976,” tweeted USCIS Read More…
An infant flushed this perfect pool day down the toilet at one Gowanus swimming spot. “Somebody didn’t put a Pampers on their kid,” a staffer at the Douglass and DeGraw Pool told The Post about the Friday evening accident. Patrons who showed up Saturday morning hoping to beat the heat with a refreshing dip were Read More…
Was Oliver stoned? In a scene more bizarre than any of this conspiracy theories, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to be his 22-year-old daughter’s godfather. “Does she want to become an Orthodox Christian?” Putin said when Stone suggested the idea during a sit-down in Moscow on June 19. “We’ll make her Read More…
Three significant anniversaries passed this week. Only two have truly been noted. First, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on Saturday, July 20. The second was the 20th anniversary of the deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette in a small plane Kennedy Read More…
A Trump-loving beauty pageant winner was stripped of her Miss Michigan title over the content of her social media. The Miss World America contest “accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic and insensitive,” tweeted Kathy Zhu, who is Asian-American. Miss World America’s State/National/Chief Director accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic, and insensitive. They stripped me of Read More…
PHILADELPHIA — Authorities say several hundred people were evacuated from a northwest Philadelphia retirement community due to a partial power outage amid dangerous hot weather. Police say the evacuation of about 250 people began just before 1 p.m. Friday at The Pavilion apartments in the Wynnfield Heights section of the city following the outage. Residents Read More…
President Trump said he would “personally vouch” for rapper A$AP Rocky’s “bail.” The commander-in-chief said Saturday he made the promise in a phone call with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. “Just had a very good call with @SwedishPM Stefan Löfven who assured me that American citizen A$AP Rocky will be treated fairly,” Trump tweeted. “Likewise, I Read More…
Not such a sweet deal. Experts from the University of Sussex are sounding the alarm over aspartame, an artificial sweetener used in everything from diet soda to chewing gum. In the US, it is commonly sold under brand names including NutraSweet. A new academic paper from professors Erik Millstone and Elisabeth Dawson say a European Read More…
The final bill for this week’s Apollo 11 anniversary celebrations is a sky-high $1.4 million. Federal procurement documents show the whopping costs for the 50th anniversary events this week in Washington D.C. to be exponentially pricier than a decade before, according to TMZ, when the 40th anniversary party totaled just $43,000. There were exhibits, performances, Read More…
You’ve heard of sleepwalking and sleep-talking, even sleep-texting, but you’ve probably never heard of sleep drawing. Lee Hadwin started scribbling while snoozing at age 4, when he would scrawl on the walls, the BBC reported. As he aged, his drawings got more complicated. He uses a variety of mediums — paint, crayons and even knives Read More…
Manny Pacquiao is considering buying an NBA team when his boxing career is over, the welterweight champion said in a new interview. Pacquiao — who is among the top 100 highest-paid athletes in the world — is “thinking about” investing in a basketball team, he said, noting he has the right experience to take on Read More…
Dear Bill de Blasio, Everyone knows you’re a terrible mayor — maybe the worst in the past 100 years. But can’t you at least pretend that you love us? Like, by showing your face when we’re scared or in need of solace? There’s a low-cost way to make people ignore your dereliction and laziness: Just Read More…
Former First Lady Michelle Obama weighed in on the furor over President Trump’s remarks against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), stating, “it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.” “What truly makes our country great is its diversity,” she tweeted Friday. “I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we Read More…
Iranian leaders said the country seized a British oil tanker on Friday in retaliation for the UK’s role in impounding an Iranian ship two weeks ago. “The rule of reciprocal action is well-known in international law,” said Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, a spokesman for Iran’s Guardian Council, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. He added, Read More…
HONG KONG — Police in Hong Kong have raided a homemade-explosives manufacturing lab ahead of another weekend of protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. Hong Kong media reported Saturday that police also found banners against the extradition bill that has sparked more than a month of demonstrations, but police said they had not established a Read More…
BEIJING — Veteran Hong Kong actor Simon Yam has been stabbed while attending an event in southern China. Police say his injuries are not life-threatening and a suspect has been detained. The motive is unclear. His manager Lester Mo says Yam was stabbed in the stomach on Saturday and also had a cut on his Read More…
GAUHATI, India — Officials say the death toll has risen to 152 in monsoon flooding in South Asia as millions of people and animals continue to face the brunt in three countries. At least 90 people have died in Nepal and 50 in India’s Assam state. A dozen people have been killed in neighboring Bangladesh. Read More…
Two Rikers correction officers were thrown in Passaic County Jail on weapons possession charges Friday after they were linked to a non-fatal July 13 shooting outside a Paterson strip club. The arrest of Keith Hood, 29, of Staten Island, and Rasheim Williams, 26, of Brooklyn, was first reported in Northjersey.com. A third suspect, accused trigger Read More…
They may look cute, but these children’s folding hair brushes are actually chock-full o’ lead — with 25 times the amount allowed by United States law, according to federal officials. Nearly 800 of them were seized in Baltimore, Maryland, this week by Customs and Border Protection officers, who had sent them in for chemical testing Read More…
The City of Brotherly Love has its own friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. A West Philadelphia resident was caught on camera Thursday scaling up — and then back down — the side of a 19-story building in an attempt to save his bedridden mother from a fire. “As kids we used to jump roofs,” said the man Read More…
SAN FRANCISCO — The Wall Street Journal says Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people. The Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said the settlement could be announced Read More…
At the end of the month, the Federal Reserve looks poised to cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade — but not as deep as some had hoped. Markets swung in and out of the green Friday as traders digested a slew of comments from Fed officials over the last Read More…
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — A 37-year-old Oklahoma man has been jailed on rape complaints after authorities said he sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl in a bathroom at a McDonald’s play area, which the child was visiting during a day care field trip. Midwest City police say a day care worker knocked on the locked bathroom Read More…
No one doubts that the biggest achievement of the July 20, 1969, lunar landing was simply getting there. It was a monumental triumph of will — and technology. Yet once Neil Armstrong took that historic step, the point of the mission switched: Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin set out to further man’s understanding of Read More…
Every morning, Dan Kaplan finds an article next to his plate at the breakfast table, placed there by his wife, Sandy. It is always a jeremiad against Donald Trump. Dan had done business with Trump and was impressed with his decisiveness. “Trump gets things done,” he said, and voted Republican for the first time in Read More…
On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union pulled off one of the greatest propaganda triumphs in history. For the first time ever, it put a satellite into earth orbit, catching the United States by surprise and kicking off the space age. Sputnik’s steady radio beep-beep-beep relayed no scientific information, but it clearly told the world Read More…
Is the Abram Jimenez scandal going to pass without a ripple? It’s been a week since The Post’s Susan Edelman broke the news that he’d been hired despite a massive conflict of interest, yet Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has yet to offer a ghost of explanation, let alone regret. Jimenez had already quit his $205,000 Read More…
Gov. Cuomo has declined to remove Mayor de Blasio for being an absentee chief executive. Well, gov, how about Mount Vernon Mayor (or maybe not!) Richard Thomas? Someone needs to end the Third World-like political chaos that’s descended on the state’s eighth-largest city. Facing indictment for spending campaign money on personal expenses and taking illegal Read More…
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took that “giant leap for mankind” as the first man to walk on the moon. Then, just 3½ years later, on Dec. 14, 1972, Gene Cernan became the last man to stride the lunar surface. Today, US astronauts must rely on Russian rockets to travel to and from the Read More…
2020 watch: Pushups Won’t Save Biden Joe Biden is still 12 points above his fellow presidential hopefuls in the polls, but that’s “less than half what it was not that long ago” and showing “signs of weakness,” observes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. Biden’s lackluster performance in the first debate leaves voters worried about his Read More…
A deal to make satellite TV provider Dish Network the nation’s fourth largest mobile carrier is days away from being finalized — thanks to the Department of Justice, The Post has learned. Under pressure from DOJ antitrust officials, T-Mobile and Sprint are on track to announce a deal to sell a slew of mobile assets Read More…
JC Penney has hired advisers to explore debt restructuring options that would buy more time for the money-losing US retailer to forge a turnaround, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The 117-year-old department store chain’s move represents a high-stakes attempt to get its financial house in order before its cash coffers dwindle and Read More…
WARREN, Mich. — When you first lay eyes on the new 2020 Corvette, a modern version of the classic American sports car isn’t the first thing that pops into your head. Instead, you think Lamborghini, Lotus, McLaren. The eighth-generation ‘Vette, dubbed C8, is radically different from its predecessors, which for 66 years had the engine Read More…
Owners of the trendy Bowery Hotel so infuriated a NY judge with their delay tactics that she has refused to hear their defense in a multimillion-dollar fraud case. Now it’s time for them to pay up. The epic legal struggle over the Lower East Side hot spot — known for entertaining A-listers Gigi Hadid, Jennifer Read More…
Presidents, like most politicians, don’t apologize. They don’t admit mistakes, either. President Trump just did both. By saying he “disagreed with” and “wasn’t happy” with the audience chants of “Send her back” at his Wednesday rally, Trump effectively walked back his own tweet that went too far. On Sunday, he had criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar Read More…
Richard Greenfield and other key analysts on BTIG’s technology, media and telecommunications team have formed a breakaway shop but will continue to partner with the financial services firm they’ve served for nearly a decade. Noted BTIG analysts Walter Piecyk and Brandon Ross will join Greenfield in what BTIG co-founder Steven Starker introduced on Thursday as Read More…
A New Jersey woman is suing casino chain Caesars for fostering a male-dominated culture that looked the other way as she was retaliated against for complaining about a creepy incident with a superior, according to her lawsuit. Jocelyn Agnellini Allison says her career at Caesars started to suffer after she complained in May 2017 about Read More…
Poor Leana Wen. She took Planned Parenthood’s propaganda a little too seriously. And now she’s out of a job. For the longest time, Planned Parenthood has insisted that it is a health-care organization and that it only cares about abortion — supposedly a tiny share of its business — insofar as it is a function Read More…
Democrats see your paycheck as fair game for their endless social-improvement projects. Every Democrat vying for the White House backs federal legislation that would guarantee workers nearly three months of paid family medical leave every year. Sounds wonderful. We all favor caring for newborns and sick relatives. And working nine months while getting paid for Read More…