PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A bus plowed into people taking part in an early morning street festival in Haiti on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and injuring 17 others, rescue officials said. The accident occurred at about 3 a.m. in the city of Gonaives when a passenger bus first hit two people at a bus...
President Trump is making his “mark” on both sides of the wall. The Mexican Institute of Industrial Properties approved a series of trademarks for the Trump brand, covering such operations as hotels, construction, and insurance and financial services, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. The trademarks were authorized on Feb. 21, a little after his...
Are the Jets, in full rebuild mode, about to make a big, big splash in free agency? Signing Patriots linebacker Dont’a Hightower would certainly qualify. On Sunday, the Jets were linked to Hightower, one of the few premium free agents remaining on the open market. The Jets and Patriots “appear to be leading the pack’’...
James Hewitt had a five-year affair with the late royal as her marriage to Britain's Prince Charles fell apart.
New video shows that Michael Brown — the unarmed black man whose 2014 shooting death at the hands of police sparked violent protests in Ferguson, MO — may not have committed the convenience store robbery that led to his fatal police encounter. A documentary filmmaker has released never-before-seen security camera footage that appears to show...
Fired Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara on Sunday likened his surprise ouster by President Trump to the 2014 shutdown of a state anti-corruption panel by Gov.Cuomo. “By the way, now I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like,” Bharara tweeted. The remark referenced the former state Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, a blue-ribbon...
Leatham popped the big question under a big display of fireworks and with a little help from Cher.
PORT ST. LUCIE — Each day another hurdle is cleared. Each day Zack Wheeler lets out a big sigh of relief. Wheeler pitched Friday against the Braves and came through his initial two-inning stint fine, but it was the next two days that really concerned him, Wheeler told The Post on Sunday. “How I did...
New York City Public Advocate Letitia James on Sunday called for a probe of Mayor de Blasio’s failing “School Renewal Program,” saying recent exposes by The Post demanded an accounting of its exorbitant spending. James specifically cited Post reports about declining enrollment, the dismal college-readiness rates of grads and “the shortage of supplies and qualified...
Given that the evening was dedicated to families of all kinds, Paulson stressed the importance of peer support throughout the next four years.
PHILADELPHIA — Myles Stephens had a career-high 23 points and eight rebounds and Princeton won the inaugural Ivy League Tournament, beating Yale 71-59 Sunday to clinch its first berth in the NCAA Tournament since 2011. Princeton (23-6) won its 19th straight game overall and didn’t lose in Ivy play this season. A day earlier, the...
After 10 long years of court proceedings, the absentee father of tragic Nixzmary Brown has agreed to a $750,000 settlement from the city. Abdurrahman Mian’s emaciated 7-year-old biological daughter was bludgeoned to death in 2006 by stepfather Cesar Rodriguez in retaliation for taking yogurt from the fridge. Rodriguez and Nixzmary’s mother, Nixzaliz Santigao, were convicted...
Police are investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby girl at her family’s Harlem apartment, authorities said. The girl’s mother discovered Kourtny Williams wasn’t breathing and called 911 around 10 a.m. Police and EMS responded to the Fifth Avenue building near West 112th Street and rushed Williams to Mt. Sinai Hospital where she was pronounced...
SANTIAGO, Chile — Argentine officials say two people have died in a crush at a massive rock concert. The open-air site of Saturday night’s concert in the town of Olavarria was set up for 200,000 people, but prosecutor Susana Alonso tells the Todo Noticias television channel that it was apparently overcrowded. She says an unspecified...
A GOP senator on Sunday warned his colleagues in the House not to “walk the plank” and pass a bill scuttling ObamaCare because it is headed for failure in the Senate and could even risk their majority rule. “I would say to my friends in the House of Representatives with whom I serve, ‘Do not...
There were two tantrums thrown by quarterbacks during the Texans’ Week 17 loss in Tennessee last season. The first resulted from a player being too woozy to play, the next from a player being asked to play. The dust is settling on Brock Osweiler’s one-year Texans stint, and the team is kicking him on his way...
A dead body was discovered at Kennedy Airport Sunday morning, officials said. The body of a 51-year-old man was found in a restroom inside Terminal 8 around 11 a.m., the Port Authority said. The man’s body was removed from the building and turned over to the Medical Examiner’s office for an autopsy. The man worked...
The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday confirmed a Kremlin envoy met with members of the Trump campaign during the election to discuss “bilateral relations” – but he also contacted people linked to the Clinton camp. Dmitry Peskov, who denied Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election, said Ambassador Sergey Kislyak huddled with...
When Richard Nixon took office in 1969, he, too, went gunning for holdover US attorneys. Just as now, Manhattan’s US attorney was asked to resign. And just as now, he refused. “I had a couple of cases I wanted to finish,” then-US Attorney Robert Morgenthau recalled to The Post Saturday. Those cases included investigations into...
There’s an irony to Derrick Rose’s lukewarm view of the triangle. The system offense, antiquated in the view of some players and analytics specialists, doesn’t accentuate the 3-point shot. The spacing leads more so to mid-range shots, low-post attempts and the pinch-post jumper – foul line extended. With Rose admitting reluctance to shoot the 3-pointer, this...
On Wednesday night, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross were all spotted at Cafe Milano.
Her daughter, Riley Keough, is still a devout follower and is fighting to get her mom back in the fold.
President Trump was the butt of jokes yet again on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” where he was portrayed by Alec Baldwin trying to rally troops to destroy aliens in an imagined 2018 speech. “We know the aliens are killing us, sir. They have the most advanced weaponized technology we’ve ever seen. What should we do?”...
In the 1952 classic “High Noon,” Gary Cooper’s desperate sheriff, Will Kane, is minutes away from confronting a man who wants to kill him. He turns to everyone he knows for help — all the people he’s protected as sheriff. Only one man, a local named Herb, has stood up for him, and even Herb...
The new rules for the city’s planned Soviet-style takeover of 30,000 co-op apartments were at least partially written by advocates who could cash in on their implementation. Joseph Center, the former associate director of nonprofit Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, said the recent city plan embraces rules for co-op oversight he wrote for the city more...
