The Trump rally has some competition. The gains in the Dow Jones industrial average since President Trump was elected, which had been by far the best in the past 50 years for any first term president at the six-, 12- and 18-month marks, are now just the second-best. Due to an almost 1 percent decline Read More…
WASHINGTON – Actor-turned-GOP Congressional candidate Antonio Sabato Jr. called White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being asked to leave a Virginia restaurant an “unfortunate” incident — but said he was personally used to that kind of treatment. “She’s a lovely lady and it’s disgusting,” Sabato told The Post Sunday as he attended a Virginia Read More…
Plus-size apparel and the curvy models who promote them are hot. But some upscale designers and chains haven’t gotten the memo. These companies recently expanded into size 14 and above but didn’t want to talk about their plus-size business — as if they feared sales of their new larger sizes would hurt their core size Read More…
The Virginia restaurant owner who wouldn’t serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the ouster — as critics on Sunday slammed the refusal. Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of The Red Hen in Lexington, told The Washington Post she asked Sanders to leave Friday because the White House press secretary works for an “inhumane and unethical” administration. “I explained Read More…
Mister Rogers would’ve been sad about the way we treat each other. That thought occurred to me as I sat in a Kips Bay theater one afternoon last week, escaping the heat and watching “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” The documentary follows the career of Fred Rogers, host of the popular kids’ TV show that Read More…
Everyone seems to agree that it’s time for term limits for politicians, but with year after year of inaction, no one believes they’ll actually happen. Especially in Albany. While there was some enthusiasm for term-limit legislation in the state Senate, no one was surprised that Gov. Cuomo steered clear of it or that the Legislature Read More…
How long will Mayor de Blasio keep trying to fool New Yorkers about his phony “probe” of city yeshivas? Since 2015 — 2015! — his folks have been claiming they’re “investigating” whether 39 religious Jewish schools are providing an adequate education to students. Yet after all this time, only 15 have been inspected. Just how Read More…
If it works as promised, the agreement City Hall struck last week to give teachers paid parental leave ought to be the model for all new perks and all city unions. The deal means it will be the United Federation of Teachers’ 120,000 members who pay for the new benefit. It “will come at no Read More…
An anti-revenge-porn bill that had been weaving its way through the New York Senate died last week after a push by Google to stop it. As The Post reported, the bill “would have made nonconsensual dissemination of sexually explicit images a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail” and “would have also helped Read More…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is telling “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon to “be a man” and stop “whimpering” about the personal anguish he felt over the backlash he received after messing up Trump’s hair during a 2016 campaign appearance on Fallon’s late-night talk show. Fallon recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he “made a Read More…
From the right: Rosenstein & Wray Work for Trump Trey Gowdy and other top House Republicans are frustrated at top Department of Justice officials for not responding to subpoenas about the Trump-Russia and Clinton e-mail investigations. But Andrew McCarthy at National Review says all the huffing and puffing is silly — President Trump is the Read More…
Team de Blasio refuses to take any responsibility for the NYCHA nightmare. Consider the twisted logic city lawyers used last week in a class-action suit on behalf of NYCHA kids who suffered lead-poisoning: The agency, they said, shouldn’t be held liable because officials hadn’t conducted mandatory inspections and thus didn’t know about the lead paint. Read More…
Video of a white woman allegedly calling the police on a young black girl who was selling water bottles in San Francisco has gone viral. The child’s mother, Erin Austin, posted the video on her Instagram account. In it, she follows a woman named Alison Ettel, who is holding a phone to her ear. Austin, Read More…
WASHINGTON — Porn star Stormy Daniels will sit down with federal prosecutors in Manhattan Monday, sources told The Post. Daniels will discuss the $130,000 hush money payment made by President Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen to her in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election, along with other issues stemming from the payment, in order Read More…
CHAPMANVILLE, W.Va. — Police in West Virginia say a man who said he was trying to baptize his wife and children in a bathtub has been charged with trying to drown them. News outlets report 36-year-old Leslie Kelly of Chapmanville was charged last week with attempted murder, domestic battery and child abuse creating the risk Read More…
Trade wars could trigger a “significant” economic slowdown, according to a report a major international financial regulator released Sunday — as the Trump administration and China continue to escalate their tough tariff talk. “One possible trigger of an economic slowdown or downturn could be an escalation of protectionist measures,” according to the annual report from Read More…
ANKARA — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election and said his ruling AK Party and its alliance partner had won a parliamentary majority. However, the main opposition party said it was too early to concede defeat and said it believed Erdogan could still fall short of the 50 percent needed to Read More…
That wasn’t very neighborly. A group of protesters heckled Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi outside a screening for the new Mister Rogers documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” Video of the confrontation posted to Twitter by progressive activist Timothy Haberlein of Organize Florida, shows several people shouting at Bondi as she leaves the Tampa Theatre Read More…
WASHINGTON — A prominent Democratic lawmaker said he thought the restaurant owner was wrong for asking White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave her eatery. “I think the restaurant owner should have served her,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. “I really do,” he added during Read More…
A former deputy campaign manager for President Trump lashed out at a black Democratic strategist during a heated debate Sunday on “Fox & Friends” about immigration and said he’s “out of his cotton-picking mind.” The two were reacting to comments made by former CIA director Michael Hayden who compared the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration Read More…
The grieving family of a Bronx teen murdered in a horrific case of mistaken identity last week still hasn’t heard a peep from Mayor de Blasio or Police Commissioner James O’Neill, the mom told The Post on Sunday. “I have not heard from them. No one in their offices contacted me,” said Leandra Feliz, 48 Read More…
Donald Hall, a prolific, award-winning poet and man of letters widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, has died at age 89. Hall’s daughter, Philippa Smith, confirmed Sunday that her father died Saturday at his home in Wilmot, New Hampshire, after being in hospice care Read More…
Sen. Bernie Sanders hit back at President Trump for accusing Democrats of thwarting immigration reform and blasted the administration’s now-reversed zero tolerance policy, saying the United States “is not a nation which tears children from their parents.” “Clearly, anyone who looks at the record understands that the Democrats have been serious about comprehensive immigration reform, Read More…
BERLIN — Twenty-five people were injured, four of them severely, when an explosion destroyed an apartment building in the western German city of Wuppertal, police said Sunday. Police said the explosion rocked the several-story building shortly before midnight Saturday with a large bang, scaring people in surrounding homes so much they ran out into the Read More…
President Trump defended his demand for heightened border security in a series of tweets on Sunday, arguing the US can’t allow “these people to invade our Country,” and blasted Democrats for not getting on board with immigration reform, saying “Don’t RESIST.” “We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes Read More…
WASHINGTON – President Trump’s former Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert called last week’s immigration mess that included images of children being held in wire cages “terrible optics” for the administration – suggesting the missteps were avoidable. “This week has been just gripping imagery and terrible optics for the administration,” Bossert said to ABC’s ”This Week” Read More…
A GOP House member from Texas on Sunday said President Trump is “still 100 percent” behind passing a Republican-backed immigration bill even though he wrote in a tweet last week that “they should stop wasting their time.” Rep. Michael McCaul told “Fox News Sunday” that the White House on Saturday reassured him that Trump is Read More…
The Trump administration said it knows the locations of all children removed from their parents as the result of the zero tolerance immigration policy and announced a hotline for separated families to call, according to a report. The Department of Homeland Security released the fact sheet – “zero-tolerance prosecution and family reunification” – late Saturday Read More…
Two police officers were shot Saturday night during a standoff in San Diego, authorities said. Officers surrounded an apartment complex where a gunman, reportedly in his 30s, barricaded himself inside, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The surrounding street was blocked off. Around 11 p.m., a SWAT team went in. Approximately 20 minutes later, authorities had taken Read More…
The Justice Department says it has given House Republicans new classified information related to the Russia investigation after lawmakers had threatened to hold officials in contempt of Congress or even impeach them. A spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan said Saturday the department has partially complied with subpoenas from the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees Read More…
In politics, as in life, lucky is the person with clumsy and incompetent enemies. By that measure, President Trump is the luckiest man on Earth. As illustrated by the growing proof of FBI bias against him and the left’s incoherent rage over his immigration policies, Trump’s political enemies these days resemble the passenger list on Read More…
Debt-laden millennials who patronize the city’s bar and club scene are now officially among the worst tippers, according to a new study. This is true even though many millennials work in the service industry and rely on tips. “We’re seeing younger adults tipping less, and even showing a greater preference towards eliminating tipping altogether,” according Read More…
Dear John: I reported a profile to Facebook through their proper channel because it contained nudity and pornography. This was the Facebook reply: “Thank you for letting us know about this. We’ve looked at the photo, and although it doesn’t go against any of our specific Community Standards, you did the right thing by letting Read More…
Dear John: I e-mailed you about two months ago and asked you not to publish my question of concern. I just wanted to let you know the outcome of my son’s problem. He got hit by Hurricanes Eileen and Sandy to the tune of losing his first house and putting up for sale another one, Read More…
Last week, amid all the news about immigration, President Trump made a great leap into the future of protecting our country’s investment in technology and military spending. He began the process to create a sixth branch of the armed forces: the Space Force. The US has more than $1 trillion in assets flying above our Read More…
Legal pot will come to New York, cannabis industry experts predict, noting the economic benefits to states and cities. Indeed, it is inevitable, they add, because, as neighboring states approve legalization, tax-hungry New York lawmakers will be jonesing for the revenue that comes from legalized weed. Indeed, legal pot, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer Read More…
Depending on whether and when he wants to earn some more left-wing cred at the expense of working stiffs, Gov. Cuomo some time soon is likely to upend New York’s restaurant industry by killing tips. Officially, it will be his labor secretary making the call, after supposedly careful research. But every “independent” official under this Read More…
Mayor de Blasio failed to get the Legislature to rewrite admission standards for the city’s specialized high schools — this year, anyway. That means he and Chancellor Richard Carranza will likely fall back on their Plan B. But there’s a better option — if they’re bold enough to take it. We agree with de Blasio: Read More…
If ever there was a no-brainer appropriate for the skill level of the empty noggins in Albany, it was the bill to ban revenge porn. If someone posts online a nude picture of you without your consent for the world to dissect and ridicule and beat their chests over, it obviously ought to be a Read More…
Some people have bad social-media addictions. You probably know them. But is it possible that you yourself have a mild case of social-media addiction, that it has made you a little depressed, made you spend money in ways that weren’t in your interest, kept you from voting when you otherwise would have, erected a slight Read More…