WASHINGTON – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s decision to immediately resume air missions out of the airfield the US bombed is a big “FU” to President Trump, one senator said Sunday. “Here’s what I think Assad’s telling Trump by flying from this base: FU,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think...
WASHINGTON – Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross wants “tangible” results from China on fixing the trade deficit within 100 days. The US made two objectives clear during the Mar-a-Lago summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping: reduce the trade deficit “quite noticeably” and increase total trade, Ross said. “Words are easy, discussions are easy, endless...
Milwaukee fans, far too classy to hurl dildos on the field, just wanted to make sure their Brewers were well protected. In the second inning of Sunday’s Brewers-Cubs game, action had to be stopped when a foreign object lazed its way onto the field. What appeared to be a blown-up condom found its way onto...
NYPD cops booted a homeless man from a box disguised as a dumpster in Soho — then apparently reconsidered all the bad press that the mayor might get and returned the contraption without even a summons Sunday. “They just said, ‘Here’s your stuff. Have a great weekend,’ ” said Shane Duffy, one of the two...
A man was killed when he was struck by a Long Island Rail Road train in Queens early Sunday, MTA officials said. The unidentified man was on the tracks just east of the Woodside station when the Manhattan-bound train plowed into him around 5 a.m. It’s unclear why the man was on the tracks, officials...
Allies of Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime rallied around the Syrian strongman and pledged to respond to US “aggression” after the Trump administration bombed a military airfield in retaliation for a poisonous gas attack. “What America waged in an aggression on Syria is a crossing of red lines. From now on we will respond with force...
The gunman who shot and killed two managers at a Florida gym before turning the gun on himself had just been fired from the fitness center for workplace violence, police said Sunday. The Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement Sunday that 33-year-old Abeku Wilson of Miami was let go from his job as a...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praised President Trump’s launch of a cruise-missile attack against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and pledged cooperation in facing mounting threats from North Korea. “The leaders agreed that Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against civilians, including women and children, was abhorrent and warranted a strong response from the...
A Brooklyn man was fatally stabbed by his boyfriend during a lover’s quarrel Sunday, authorities said. The 41-year-old victim’s body was discovered in a fourth-floor apartment at the Ingersoll Houses on Fleet Walk in downtown Brooklyn around 6 a.m., police said. The man suffered several stab wounds to the chest and was pronounced dead at...
More than 30 current and former NFL players – including Maurkice Pouncey, Marquette King, Mychal Kendricks, Navarro Bowman, Jamon Brown and Howard Jones – visited Las Vegas this weekend to participate in the inaugural “Pro Football Arm Wrestling Championship” at the MGM Hotel and Casino. Those involved could now be facing discipline from the NFL....
WASHINGTON – National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster accused Russia of being the “problem” in Syria by continuing to support Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime and urged President Vladimir Putin to stop being complicit. “They’re supporting a regime that is committing mass murder against its own people,” McMaster told “Fox News Sunday” in his first Sunday show...
WASHINGTON –A US aircraft carrier-led strike group is moving toward the Korean peninsula as a “prudent” show of force against North Korea, President Trump’s national security advisor said Sunday. “It’s prudent to do it,” H.R. McMaster told “Fox News Sunday.” “North Korea has been engaged in a pattern of provocative behavior.” The strike group, led...
The driver who smashed into a Brooklyn rollerblader has been nabbed. Terrance Smith, 37, allegedly plowed into the skater at Powell Street and Glenmore Avenue about 8:30 pm Saturday, sending the victim into the middle of the street, police said. Smith, who was apparently arguing with his passenger at the time of the crash, then...
Teigen donated $5,605 so Mercedes Edney can get her license in esthetics.
"La La Land" took home the prize for outstanding locations in a contemporary film.
Gov. Cuomo on Sunday said “Congress has declared war” on New York and the federal government’s impending cuts played havoc on planning a state budget. “That was a big sticking point in [our] budget, Cuomo told John Catsimatidis on his AM 970 radio show. “I don’t know what is going to happen this year. …...
WASHINGTON – Top US diplomats on Sunday gave mixed signals as to what President Trump intends to do next after unleashing 59 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian airbase in retaliation for a poison gas attack that killed scores of innocent civilians. United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said Trump will continue to take action when he...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed while conducting an operation against Islamic State militants in Afghanistan. In a tweet issued Saturday, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan says the soldier was mortally wounded during an operation in Nangarhar Province. The soldier’s name hasn’t been announced and no other...
A group of straphangers went berserk on a Manhattan subway train and attacked two other passengers — striking one with a hammer — when one of the men asked them to move over, police said. The wild encounter happened on a northbound J train around 9 p.m. Friday when the victims, 53 and 29, asked...
With one missile strike on a Syrian airfield, President Trump called two bluffs at once but likely set back his proclaimed goal of defeating ISIS. The predawn strike on Shayrat airfield should deal a crushing blow to the narrative that the Kremlin somehow controls Trump or has compromising material about him. This is not the...
Fans of the legend can file past his casket later Sunday at The Pageant, a St. Louis club where he frequently performed.
The author moderated a discussion on “Americanah,” the first pick for the One Book, One New York community program.
STOCKHOLM — The Stockholm truck attack suspect from Uzbekistan was a rejected asylum-seeker who eluded authorities’ attempts to deport him by giving police a wrong address, Swedish police said Sunday while announcing the arrest of a second suspect. Jan Evensson of the Stockholm police told a televised news conference that the 39-year-old suspect’s request for...
