Early exit polling on Sunday had neophyte centrist Emmanuel Macron leading the first round of the hotly contested French presidential race, according to Belgian and Swiss media. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen was in second place ahead of the two-person runoff election set for May 7, the reports said. A total of 11 candidates are...
A man was killed when he was struck by a subway train in Manhattan early Sunday, authorities said. The man, believed to be in his 20s, was walking in the tunnel between Union Square and the 23rd St. station on the Q line when he was struck by a northbound train around 4:30 a.m. The...
Grade-fixing is still in the curriculum at a high school in Mayor de Blasio’s embattled “Renewal” program. Former principal Santiago Taveras was removed from DeWitt Clinton HS in The Bronx in November after investigators found he improperly changed grades and retaliated against an assistant principal who refused to pass an undeserving student. Yet on the...
A whale became stranded in the shallow water off a Bronx beach Sunday, police said. The creature was discovered in the water just off Orchard Beach around noon. It could be seen spouting water as rescuers from the NYPD’s Harbor and Emergency Services tried to help it, police said.
The slideshow, set to Bill Withers' "Lovely day," also caught Tina Knowles, former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland, and a giant Easter Bunny.
Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said long-term peace on the Korean peninsula will only come with a North-South reunification. Bolton called for China to drop its support for North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un, believing Pyongyang’s loss of Beijing’s backing would somehow force peace between the rival Koreas. “The real objective of the...
LONDON — Ilie Nastase, the captain of Romania’s Fed Cup team, has been provisionally suspended from the competition for abusing players and the umpire during the playoff match against Britain. The International Tennis Federation, which organizes the Fed Cup, said Sunday that Nastase “may not participate in the Fed Cup in any capacity with immediate...
LONDON — A runner who carried an exhausted fellow athlete over the London Marathon finishing line says helping him to the end was more important than the race time. Matthew Rees encountered the staggering racer as the pair rounded the final stretch in front of Buckingham Palace on Sunday. To raucous cheers, the 29-year-old Rees...
"What we should be aspiring to, is having role models that are just themselves," she said.
City public schools would have to serve halal and kosher meals to any student who requests them if a new bill becomes law, The Post has learned. State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Queens) has introduced legislation requiring public schools to offer food that meets a student’s religious dietary restrictions. “The city is much more diverse religiously...
Even with 11 candidates to pick from, French voters who lined up to cast ballots at their New York consulate on Saturday were unhappy with the choices in their homeland’s nail-biter presidential election. “It’s similar to what is going on in the US. Do you want more open borders? Do you want to stay in...
WASHINGTON – The majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s performance – marking the worst 100-day start for any modern president. A pair of new polls out Sunday show Americans are largely dissatisfied with Trump’s presidency: 40 percent approve compared to 54 percent disapprove, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. And a similar...
The Golden State Warriors are in total control of their first-round series after their come-from-behind 119-113 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday night to take a 3-0 lead. But as Golden State appears ready to move on to the second round, the status of head coach Steve Kerr has become the great unknown....
PARIS — Amid heightened security, French voters began casting ballots for their next president Sunday in a first-round poll that’s being seen as a litmus test for the future of Europe and the spread of populism around the world. More than 50,000 police and gendarmes were deployed to protect 66,000 polling stations for Sunday’s election,...
“She is running around here like crazy. We keep it very casual and positive around here,” he added.
A hospital specialist who had sex with a patient told her it was therapy, saying: “Trust me, I’m a doctor,” a tribunal heard. A&E medic Kwame Somuah-Boateng, 43, bedded the woman in his sleeping quarters after she went to casualty with numb legs and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The patient, in her 30s, told...
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions backtracked Sunday on his smear campaign against New York City and instead praised the NYPD as a model police department. “For four decades, New York has been a fabulous city for law enforcement,” Sessions told ABC’s “This Week.” “They have developed some of the best techniques ever. They are...
The jurors who acquitted Aaron Hernandez in his recent double-murder trial didn’t believe he was entirely innocent — they just couldn’t agree how guilty he was, according to a new report. “I want to be very clear that a verdict of ‘not guilty’ does not mean that we declared Aaron Hernandez innocent,” jury forewoman Lindsey...
A man who called the NYPD for help after a car accident on the FDR Drive was killed as he waited for them — but they never showed, a lawsuit alleges. Thomas Sauickie Jr., 31, of Hazlet, NJ, was with his wife, Tracie, and young daughter in January 2016 when their car collided with another...
A Brooklyn mosque was destroyed in a fire early Saturday, officials said. The blaze broke out just before 6 a.m. inside the Brooklyn Broadway Islamic Center, on the second floor of a Gates Avenue building in Bedford-Stuyvesant. “We saw a very rapid eruption,” said building owner Gulzar Hossain. “The whole mosque is damaged. They had...
A federal air marshal left her loaded gun in an airplane restroom during a transatlantic flight to Kennedy Airport — yet she’s still on the job, it was reported Saturday. A passenger found the weapon on Delta Flight 221 from Manchester, England, on April 6, and gave it to a flight attendant who returned it...
President Trump awarded a Purple Heart Saturday to an Army sergeant who was wounded in Afghanistan. In his first visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the president and First Lady Melania Trump gave the military honor to Sgt. First Class Alvaro Barrientos, whose right leg was amputated below the knee after he was...
The old sports adage, “the best defense is a good offense,” is being deployed by corporate America when it comes to cybersecurity. HackerOne, a San Francisco-based “vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform,” reports that it has some 800 corporate customers who paid out more than $15 million in bonuses to white-hat hackers since its founding...
New Yorkers heading to the East End for the summer now have two new restaurant options. Eleven Madison Park, which just took the No. 1 spot on the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurant list, is closing for renovations in June. Eleven Madison snared top spot at the W50B Awards in Melbourne, Australia, where partners Will...
Beauty-obsessed New Yorkers are clamoring for the latest organic beauty fixes, trying everything from “collagen cupcakes” to plump-up skin, nails and hair, to attending “Chakra dinners” stacked with beauty drinks and elixirs. Charles Chen, a chef consultant for private clients, says there is demand for herbal, organic ingredients in food. He recently catered a seven-course...
