The latest smear on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a disaster for Democrats, and everyone seems to know it except the party’s presidential candidates. No sooner had The New York Times published a new, unsubstantiated allegation of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh than most of the candidates demanded Kavanaugh’s impeachment. “These newest revelations are disturbing,” Read More…
The US will deploy “defensive” troops to Saudi Arabia amid heightening tensions in the region after oil facilities in the country were attacked last Saturday, the Defense Department said Friday night. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made the announcement at the Pentagon, saying the military resources will focus on “air and missile defense.” “The president Read More…
A Bronx Supreme Court judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump must give a video deposition as part of a lawsuit alleging his staff assaulted demonstrators outside Trump Tower in 2015. The decision comes after Trump’s lawyers tried to quash a subpoena compelling his testimony. His attorneys argued that to force a sitting president to Read More…
Lawyers for Nike Inc. are asking a judge to bar accused extortionist Michael Avenatti from subpoenaing any of their records as part of his upcoming trial, according to new court papers. “It is Mr. Avenatti — not Nike — on trial,” an attorney for the sportswear giant wrote Friday, following a request from Avenatti’s defense Read More…
Facebook says it has suspended “tens of thousands” of apps over concerns about how they handled user data amid an internal probe sparked by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The social media giant on Friday said it booted the apps for “a variety of reasons” as part of its ongoing investigation of third-party developers that had Read More…
One of South Korea’s most notorious serial killers — and crime drama inspirations — has been “preliminarily identified.” According to the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, a suspect has been named more than 30 years after the criminal known as the “Korean Zodiac Killer” raped and murdered 10 women ranging from teenagers to septuagenarians. The Read More…
President Donald Trump repeatedly pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s son during a July phone call in which he urged him eight times to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on a probe, a new report said Friday. “He told him that he should work with [Mr. Giuliani] on Biden, and Read More…
The bulls are betting on an ex-unicorn from Brooklyn. Etsy ended higher Friday on the Nasdaq, as shares of the Brooklyn-based company wrap up a week that saw two bullish calls by investment banks. RBC Capital Markets upgraded Etsy Thursday to outperform, from market perform, pinning its optimism on new initiatives at the e-commerce website Read More…
WASHINGTON — President Trump taunted Bill de Blasio in the Oval Office Friday, calling him a “part-time mayor” who could have worked harder. During a state visit with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Trump didn’t pass up a chance to ding the New York City mayor for dropping his long-shot bid for the White House Read More…
An NYPD cop who moonlighted as a bodyguard for El Chapo’s wife broke down in tears during a jailhouse interview Friday, in which he insisted he had no idea who he was working for when he took the job and that he quit after one day when he found out. “I had never seen that Read More…
Smart TV maker Roku saw its shares plummet close to 20% on Friday — the latest in a series of double-digit stock tumbles as the video streaming war heats up. Friday’s plunge — Roku’s third double-digit stock drop in just two weeks — were triggered by a Wall Street research report that questioned Roku’s ability Read More…
An out-of-control SUV driver smashed into a Chicagoland mall Friday and barreled around the shopping center — sending panicked people running for their lives. The wild incident happened at the Woodfield Mall in the suburb of Schaumburg at around 2:30 p.m. local time, when the car rammed through the Sears storefront. Video posted to Twitter Read More…
London police are hoping to crack a cold case murder dating back more than a decade with a digital reconstruction of the victim’s face. The skeletal remains of the unidentified victim were found wrapped in a sleeping bag in an abandoned factory, in Forest Gate, east London. “I would urge people reading this appeal, especially Read More…
A Florida family is heartbroken after their dog died on a United flight from Boston to Fort Lauderdale that made a stopover in Newark, where the father claims Rock fried in the baking hot hold, according to a report. John Paul Ciancimino, 45, told The Sun of the UK that Rock — a protection canine Read More…
Four people were killed and another 30 injured in a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon on Friday afternoon, according to Utah authorities. Photos from the scene of the crash show the large tour bus reduced to a mangled wreck as emergency workers treat injured people on the highway. At least four people have been Read More…
A veteran cop in Boston is off the street after allegedly using the N-word during a confrontation with students he referred to as “monkeys,” the teens claim. Boston Police Commissioner William GrossBoston Globe via Getty Images Officer Joseph Lynch, a 16-year department vet, is on administrative leave following the Sept. 13 incident at a McDonald’s Read More…
Bill de Blasio, the man who introduced the seven-hour work month to New York’s how-to-be-a-mayor manual, went on “Morning Joe” Friday to deep-six his humiliating LSD trip of a presidential campaign.“It’s clearly not my time,” said the mayor. Giggle. Now here’s the question: When a candidate craters in public and nobody cares, does he make Read More…
LOS ALAMOS, NM — Nuclear watchdog groups say they will sue if the US government doesn’t conduct a nationwide programmatic environmental review of its plans to expand production of key components for the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Federal officials have set a deadline of 2030 for ramped-up production of plutonium pits. The work will be split Read More…
Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and anti-political-correctness crusader, has checked himself into rehab in New York, his daughter has revealed. The “12 Rules for Life” author has sought help trying to get off the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam, his daughter Mikhaila Peterson said in a video posted to her YouTube account Thursday. “I’ve never seen my Read More…
Indonesia’s president pushed Friday for parliament to delay its vote on a controversial bill that would criminalize sex outside of marriage. President Joko Widodo announced that 14 articles of the bill needed further review after various groups ordered his minister “to perfect” it. A vote on the bill — seen as a move toward greater Read More…
Walmart plans to stop selling e-cigarettes in the wake of the recent controversy over how safe the alternative smoking devices are, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. “Given the growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity and uncertainty regarding e-cigarettes, we plan to discontinue the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products,” the company Read More…
HONG KONG — Amnesty International accused Hong Kong police on Friday of torture and other abuses in their handling of more than three months of pro-democracy protests, but the police say they have shown restraint on the street in the face of increased violence. Anti-government protesters, many masked and wearing black, have thrown gasoline bombs Read More…
WASHINGTON — Online shopping giant Amazon revealed a carbon footprint Thursday that rivals that of a small country and vowed to reduce the damage to the planet by cutting its use of fossil fuels. The company, which ships more than 10 billion items a year on fuel-guzzling planes and trucks, said it has ordered 100,000 Read More…
President Trump said Friday he’d had dinner with the family of college student Otto Warmbier, who died when he returned to the US after being tortured in a North Korean prison — and suggested that President Obama should have moved faster to win his release. “I had dinner the other night with the Warmbier family, Read More…
Uber sued the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission on Friday, arguing its plans to mandate the amount of time app-based hacks spend without passengers are government overreach. The TLC approved new rules last month requiring that by August 2020 drivers for Uber, Lyft and their competitors spend no more than 31 percent of their time Read More…
President Trump said Friday that his administration was “making a lot of progress” with China, as deputy-level trade talks continued for a second day and Washington lifted tariffs on over 400 Chinese products at the request of US businesses, who said they’d be hurt by the tariffs. But he also noted that cutting a deal Read More…
Some 40 Canadian and US diplomats and their families stationed in Cuba may have not been victims of “sonic attacks” after all — but instead may have fallen ill from ingredients used in pesticides to ward off mosquitoes, a new study revealed. The Canadian study, first obtained by Radio-Canada’s Enquête TV program, revealed that the Read More…
Carl Icahn is moving his financial empire to a seaside office tower just a hop, skip and a jump from his private-island home, The Post has learned. The Far Rockaway native plans to lease one-and-a-half floors at the top of a yet-to-be-constructed glass-encased office tower in Sunny Isles Beach when he moves Icahn Enterprises to Read More…
Mayor Bill de Blasio has finally realized what the rest of the country did long ago: He has no chance of being president of the United States. But that doesn’t mean he’s done torturing New York. Oh, on the plus side, New Yorkers will no longer have to wince as their mayor abases himself before Read More…
The US manufacturing sector “already appears in recession” and overall economic growth is expected to slow “in the near horizon,” St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said on Friday, explaining why he dissented at a recent Fed meeting and wanted a deeper, half percentage point rate cut. The Fed reduced its target overnight Read More…
Google will make an additional investment of 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) over the next two years to expand its European data centers, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in Finland. The investment plan includes an additional 600 million euros investment in the Hamina data center in Finland, bringing total investment in the site to 2 Read More…
Apple diehards who lined up outside the revamped Fifth Avenue Apple Store for the iPhone 11 launch got more than they bargained for when chief executive Tim Cook stopped by for a surprise appearance. The CEO flew in from the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters to officially open the doors of Apple’s iconic glass cube, which Read More…
Two top Wall Street dealmakers say they were snookered into a four-year legal battle over $10 million in back pay — only to learn from the New York Post that they were legally entitled to that money years ago. The bankers, Michael Kramer and Derron Slonecker, say their former employer, Perella Weinberg Partners, and its Read More…
Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf. As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump. For most of his time in office, Trump, Read More…
Kids in the city will be missing school today for the nationwide “Climate Strike.” They might see it as a small sacrifice: Who needs an education to prepare for tomorrow when tomorrow is a dubious proposition? Truth is, they probably have no idea just how silly are the things they’re promoting. “We, the youth of Read More…
It’s now been four days since The New York Times corrected — er, retracted — its attack against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Turns out the “new allegation” isn’t supported by the victim, a fact conveniently left out of the story. And still Kamala Harris, Liz Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro, Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg haven’t Read More…
Justin Trudeau turns out to be even more of a vapid idiot than we’d thought. But what price will he pay for his idiocy? Canada’s ultraprogressive prime minister stands exposed as having donned black- or brownface at least three times in his younger years — the most recent occasion apparently being in 2001, at age Read More…
Certain hawks are suggesting that President Trump all but guaranteed the Iranian attack on the Saudi oil industry when he declined to answer Tehran’s shootdown of a US drone with a military strike. They’re wrong — and the reasons why they’re wrong should guide Washington’s reactions now. Trump is right: His restraint back then showed Read More…
Court watch: Reporter’s Self-Damning Interview Robin Pogebrin, co-author of the now-infamous New York Times column airing a new allegation of a Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault, has inadvertently shown her “pure confirmation bias,” says Kyle Smith at National Review. In an interview Tuesday, Pogebrin said she decided to include that accusation, even though the supposed victim Read More…
Dish Network’s chances of buying DirecTV could be about as remote as a satellite that’s orbiting the earth. That’s the take from sources close to Dish Chief Executive Charlie Ergen, who say that in addition to regulatory stumbling blocks the mercurial billionaire faces tough financial hurdles in acquiring his longtime rival. Ergen appeared to get Read More…