President Trump welcomed the New England Patriots to the White House this afternoon, congratulating the players and coaches on their thrilling Super Bowl LI victory. “They delivered iconic American sports moments that will last forever, we’re going to watch it over and over again,” Trump said. Trump singled out several players for those moments, including...
She’s got a college diploma — now she’s adding a wedding certificate! A new med-school grad is “marrying” her degree in an effort to get her family and friends as excited about her graduation and acceptance into her dream residency at Georgetown University as she is. “I worried though that folks wouldn’t take my party...
Smoke ’em while you can afford ’em. The city wants to hike the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes in the five boroughs from $10.50 to $13. Speaking at the American Heart Association in Midtown, Hizzoner announced a package of five bills that included raising the minimum price to what he called the highest...
She's even old enough to hail a cab all by herself!
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is out of his job, according to a statement from the cable channel’s corporate parent Wednesday. The host of the top-rated cable TV news show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” was let go amid allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior, sources said. “After a thorough and careful review of allegations...
Two Brooklynites tortured themselves with nearly 50 consecutive hours of virtual-reality movie watching, setting a world record for VR viewing. Alejandro “A.J.” Fragoso, 26, of Park Slope, and Alex Christison, a 37-year-old from Brooklyn Heights, strapped on VR headsets at 8:45 a.m. on Saturday and kept going until 10:45 a.m. on Monday, claiming at Guinness...
Rebecca Leveille has made a career illustrating comics and graphic novels featuring Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” characters and others, as well as role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, under the name Rebecca Guay. Her painterly Magic: The Gathering trading cards are so popular that when she went to Japan for an event given in her...
Most of 333 buildings in the city that added public spaces in exchange for extra floors are violating their deals — and the Buildings Department isn’t doing anything about it, according to an audit released Wednesday. The violators include Trump Tower, which was missing tables, seats and signs required under an agreement that allowed it...
All 35,000 NYPD cops are being ordered to complete training — and then take a quiz — to prove they understand men and women can use the public bathroom for whatever gender they identify themselves as, police sources said Wednesday. The officers are being given until Dec. 31 to watch an online training course titled...
President Trump — who infamously called Pope Francis “disgraceful” after the pontiff questioned his faith — may meet with the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics when he visits Italy next month. “We will be reaching out to the Vatican to see if an audience with the pope can be accommodated,” White House spokesman Sean...
The mother of the 7-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten by his Brooklyn principal said Wednesday that she was appalled when he told her what happened. “It was very horrifying to me. I was very sad. A principal? I just can’t believe that,” said Shema McKenzie, 28, whose son Hasheem Welch , a second-grader at...
A state health care helpline saved New Yorkers about $3 million in the past year, officials said Wednesday. The toll-free service, offered by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office, also aided consumers in accessing prescriptions or care that they had been previously denied, officials said. The New York Attorney General’s Health Care Bureau Helpline investigated about...
Three men meeting in a Turkish pharmacy nearly got hit by a tire when it bounced through the open door. The tire had come off a nearby vehicle that apparently had been involved in an accident.
It really is a man’s world. Even when women and men share identical college majors, females still earn less in their careers, according to a new study released Wednesday by career site Glassdoor.com, which examined recent grads for five years post college. The reason this happens is that women and men with the same major...
The estate and Paisley Park Enterprises say George Ian Boxill is trying to exploit at least one of the songs for personal gain.
More than 20,000 drug convictions in Massachusetts will be tossed out after a lab chemist admitted she intentionally botched evidence for nearly a decade. Annie Dookhan pleaded guilty to faking lab results and contaminating samples between 2003 to 2012, casting doubt on 40,000 cases she handled at the Hinton laboratory in Jamaica Plain, the Boston...
Under doctors' orders, injured "Groundhog Day" star Andy Karl is taking some time off to heal.
To be trapped inside the Syrian city of Raqqa four years since ISIS swarmed in and declared it the “caliphate capital,” is to be cut off from every principle designed to protect human existence. Inside, one resident explains, the pariah city is nothing short of a fast-deteriorating, hellish place. “Here, there is no life. We...
Being married to one of the world's most stunning stars doesn't mean Javier Bardem can't have a few man crushes.
YOKOSUKA, Japan — From the wind-swept deck of a massive aircraft carrier, Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the U.S. military, promising it would make an “overwhelming and effective” response to any use of conventional or nuclear weapons. Pence, dressed in a green military jacket, said...
A Canadian ranch owner discovered her cows acting weird, so she decided to investigate. She found them following a beaver around for reasons that they can’t explain.
Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, killed himself in prison early Wednesday, prison officials confirmed. He was discovered hanged in his cell by corrections officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., about 3:05 a.m. Wednesday, corrections officials said. “Mr. Hernandez was in...
BEIJING — China’s foreign ministry says Interpol has issued a “red notice” seeking the arrest of Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire who has threatened to disclose corruption at the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party. Ministry spokesman Lu Kang made the disclosure on Wednesday but gave no details about Guo’s alleged crimes. Interpol officials...
NEW DELHI — Forty-four people were killed after a bus swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep gorge in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh state Wednesday, a senior government official said. Only two people, including the ticket checker, survived the crash, according to Rohan Chand Thakur, the district magistrate of Shimla district. Thakur...
Cops were searching for graffiti-spraying vandal who was caught on video painting the letter “X” on an Islamic cultural center in Queens. The suspect sprayed the Xs on multiple doors at the Bosnian Islamic Cultural Center in the Richmond Hill neighborhood at around midnight on April 6, according to police. The person can be seen...
