A Louisiana widow says Carnival Cruise Line failed to check an unlicensed doctor’s credentials before the phony physician treated her husband who later died aboard one of the boats, according to a federal lawsuit. The judge rejected last week the cruise line’s motion to dismiss charges that it failed to properly verify the background of Read More…
She’s the darling of the far left … and of Bernie Sanders. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has a “very, very important role” waiting for her in the White House should fellow Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders win his party’s nomination and then defeat President Donald Trump in 2020, the Vermont senator said. “Her ideas are resonating Read More…
A decorated former Marine walked into a Florida police station and calmly confessed to killing his parents and two family dogs, authorities said. Jacob Daniel Price, 30, had blood on his shirt when he entered the Crestview Police Department early Wednesday. Deputies later found the bodies of Robert Price, 56, and Jolene Price, 51, in Read More…
Lloyd Blankfein mocked Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American heritage on Thursday after she called him and other billionaires out for greed in a new ad — cracking that “maybe tribalism is just in her DNA.” “Surprised to be featured in Sen Warren’s campaign ad, given the many severe critics she has out there. Not Read More…
“ISIS bride” Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen — and America is under no obligation to let her back into the country, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Judge Reggie Walton found there was enough evidence to prove Muthana — the US-born mom who fled her home in Alabama to join the terror group in Read More…
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired six rockets into southern Israel on Thursday, hours after an Egyptian-mediated truce went into effect in the three-day escalation of violence that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight children and three women. Before the cease-fire was reached with Islamic Jihad, a pre-dawn Israeli airstrike killed eight members of the same Read More…
A New Jersey man was sentenced this week to a day in the slammer for buying an illegal $6,800 tiger skin rug to decorate his “safari room,” according to prosecutors and a new report. Loren Varga, 62, of Franklin Township, bought the rug and traveled across state lines to the Keystone State to receive it, Read More…
A high school geometry teacher in Washington state was busted for threatening to shoot students, authorities said. Julie Elizabeth Hillend-Jones, a 58-year-old teacher at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, made the threat while on the phone with a caseworker on Tuesday, but refused to “back off from those comments” as Pierce County sheriff’s officials Read More…
European and other countries in the coalition battling ISIS must take back and prosecute terrorists detained in Iraq and Syria who came from their countries to prevent the jihadis from reconquering territory, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. “The fight against ISIS is a long-term test of will, a test of civilization against barbarism,” Read More…
Authorities in the Dominican Republic have detained eight people in the slaying of American teacher Patricia Ann Anton, according to a report. Among those in custody is a Haitian maintenance worker in the apartment complex that Anton had moved into just two days before she was found dead Tuesday with her feet and arms bound, Read More…
Former California Congresswoman Katie Hill is an alumna of Saugus High School, where several were injured and at least one killed during a mass shooting Thursday. “My god, active shooter at my high school. 7 injured so far. Unsure if the suspect is caught yet. Praying for all… we have so many campaign interns and Read More…
Students who survived the active shooter at Saugus High School described their harrowing experience escaping gunfire and how friends were “hiding in closets,” reports said Thursday. “It’s very scary, we heard one shot and then four after and we just started running,” a trembling student told KRON 4 beside her mom at a reunification center Read More…
Chinese internet users are flocking to Pornhub to bash pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong after similar videos were yanked from more traditional platforms such as YouTube, according to a report Thursday. Propaganda videos boosting the agenda of authorities in Beijing — who have worked to spread the message that protesters are violent separatists — are Read More…
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said that President Trump’s ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland did not explicitly link military aid to Kiev with opening a probe into former veep Joe Biden and his son, according to a report Thursday. “Ambassador Sondland did not tell us, and did not tell me exactly, about the relation Read More…
Walmart has quietly hired off-duty officers for its stores in El Paso, Texas, as it plans Thursday to open the outlet where a 21-year-old man who police say targeted Mexicans gunned down 22 people in August with no guard at the site. The reopening will happen unceremoniously after a brief meeting with employees, according to Read More…
A Kentucky school principal who once banned books with “homosexual content” from classrooms has been indicted on child porn charges. Phillip Todd Wilson, 54, became infamous in 2009 when he banned LGBTQ-themed books, as well as others he deemed “soft pornography,” calling them “inappropriate” for students, according to the Louisville Courier Journal. Wilson has now Read More…
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has taken legal steps to start a special compensation program for his “victims,” the group announced Thursday. The estate filed papers in the Superior Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands — where Epstein’s will was also filed before his death — seeking “expedited approval” for a confidential claims resolution program. It is Read More…
The former range director at Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting more than $100,000 in bribes from a civilian contractor who helped steer $19 million in government contracts to his employer, according to court filings. Victor Garo, 67, of Mililani, Hawaii, accepted bribes — which included cash, automobiles and firearms — from a Read More…
A suspect in a $500 million heist from a Boston art museum was freed Wednesday after spending 21 years in prison for a different crime. David Turner, 52, was nabbed in an FBI sting in 1999 while trying to rob an armored car and was told he was wanted in the infamous 1990 robbery of Read More…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan whipped out his iPad and played a propaganda video portraying Kurdish fighters as terrorists during his meeting with President Trump in the White House, according to a report. Axios, citing three unidentified sources familiar with the meeting, reported that Erdoğan displayed the video to Trump and five GOP senators who Read More…
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn revealed he holds stakes in both HP and Xerox, as he pushes for the two printer giants to merge. Icahn told The Wall Street Journal that he has a 4.24 percent stake in California-based HP, which Xerox wants to buy for $33 billion. The 83-year-old Queens native owns a 10.6 percent Read More…
Ford will use the Mustang name, previously reserved for its classic muscle car, for an electric SUV that customers in the United States, Canada and Europe can start ordering on Nov. 17, the company said on Thursday. Ford confirmed its new electric SUV will be called the Mustang Mach-E ahead of a debut event scheduled Read More…
Walmart reported better-than-expected third-quarter US comparable sales on Thursday as people spent more at its stores and website and the retailer picked up market share in food and other groceries. The world’s largest retailer also raised its annual earnings outlook, sending its shares up over 3 percent in premarket trade. Walmart has now posted a Read More…
Deficits do matter. And the fact that the US government already owes $23 trillion dollars is troubling, especially since that amounts to 79% of the nation’s gross domestic product for an entire year. That’s the largest percentage since 1948. And we were still paying for a World War back then. So, Trump’s hint that he Read More…
The Fed claims there is too little inflation in the country and that’s one of the reasons it is keeping interest rates very low. Well, tell that to Medicare Part B recipients who are facing a 7% premium hike even as their Social Security payments are rising just 1.6% in 2020. And those same people Read More…
Today I’m going to give President Trump another possible conspiracy to worry about. The White House has already expressed concern that enemies of the Trump administration are embedded in the Federal Reserve. We know that because White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow cleverly let the cat out of the bag recently by saying, “I don’t Read More…
Hooray for us! The Labor Department said this week that households in the New York metropolitan area spent an average of $70,875 in 2017-18, which is the latest figure available. That’s way over the average $60,580 spent by households in the entire US. You could probably figure this out yourself, but housing in this area Read More…
Is that it? Is that all they got? Day One of impeachment was not exactly must see TV. Sure, it was interesting and substantive at times, which would be compliments if this were a graduate school seminar about the lonely lives and confusing experiences of far-flung diplomats. But this was a congressional hearing to determine Read More…
The impeachment hearings going on in the House right now are a joke. Anyone who understands the process knows that Trump isn’t going to get thrown out of office, especially not with Republicans in control of the Senate, where the impeachment trial would have to take place. But don’t underestimate the damage that the impeachment Read More…
Subway Restaurants hired former Burger King Chief Executive John Chidsey to be its new chief as it races to put the brakes on store closures. Chidsey, who ran Burger King from 2006 to 2010, is taking the helm at a time when sagging sales have forced Subway store operators to shutter their stores in record Read More…
“Over the past two days, our society has been pushed to the brink of a total breakdown,” the Hong Kong police said at a Tuesday news conference. What they didn’t dare say is that it’s Beijing that’s doing the pushing. Last weekend was the bloodiest since mass demonstrations began five months ago. A man was Read More…
Sadly, Chuck Schumer probably wasn’t surprised at the flak he took for praising Rep. Peter King after the Long Island Republican announced his retirement. New York’s senior senator simply tweeted that King “stood head & shoulders above everyone else” as a “principled” lawmaker who “never let others push him away from his principles,” a man Read More…
In their first day of public impeachment hearings, Democrats made clear just how weak their case is. In beyond-dull testimony, the Dems’ first witnesses, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent and US Chargé d’Affaires in Ukraine Bill Taylor, noted their displeasure with the fact that there were “two channels” (a “regular” and an “irregular” Read More…
If Democrats think they advanced their case for impeachment with the first day of hearings into the Ukraine matter, they are deluding themselves. The proceedings were confusing, not clarifying. Speaking as someone who has followed this matter in granular detail, I found it extremely difficult to tease out the set of undeniable facts that would Read More…
The Cuomo administration has admitted there is a “structural imbalance” in its massive Medicaid budget, which means the Empire State’s biggest single government program is spending beyond its means. So, what does Gov. Andrew Cuomo plan to do about it? Some hint of the answer might be forthcoming in a midyear financial update — whenever, Read More…
The ghost in the coldest room on Capitol Hill on Day One of the Democrats’ impeachment hearing was their so-called whistleblower. The one person who should have kicked off the case against Donald Trump was nowhere to be seen. But the truth is that the anonymous complainant who triggered this latest gambit to overturn the Read More…
A bid to sell the Caribbean’s biggest resort chain is running into headwinds — and hurricanes are to blame, The Post has learned. Sandals — whose all-inclusive hotels dominate the Caribbean resort scene — has been wooing suitors for its two-dozen vacation properties scattered across seven tropical-island countries. The family-owned franchise, founded by former appliance Read More…
Libertarian: Pete’s ‘Fantasy’ Trillions Pete Buttigieg released his economic plan Friday — and, sighs Reason’s Scott Shackford, it’s an “expensive proposal to push for even greater amounts of federal spending and regulation in housing, child care, college and the workplace.” That’s “hardly a surprise from a Democratic candidate, even a self-styled moderate like Buttigieg.” But Read More…
Wednesday’s first impeachment hearings showed Democrats have shifted the focus to bribery. There is a strategy here. Most of the debate over President Trump’s dealings with the Ukrainian government have centered on whether his pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky for an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden was an abuse of power rising to high crimes Read More…
Grubhub said it’s creating a “task force” to tackle complaints from restaurants that it charges bogus fees for phone calls that don’t result in food orders. After being threatened with legislation in the Big Apple, the food-delivery giant said in a letter to the New York City Council on Wednesday that it will create a Read More…