President Trump is brushing aside concerns about a possible government shutdown. “We’ll see what happens,” he told Reuters on Thursday night with the deadline looming for Congress to pass a new spending bill. “If there’s a shutdown, there’s a shutdown.” Lawmakers hope a stopgap measure before midnight Friday – the eve of trump’s 100th day...
MOSCOW — Russian prosecutors are demanding that a blogger spend 3½ years in prison for playing “Pokémon Go” in a church. The trial of Ruslan Sokolovsky wrapped up Friday in the city of Yekaterinburg. The judge said a verdict would be issued May 11. The 22-year-old Sokolovsky has been in detention since October, after posting...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The sprawling American investigation of bribery and corruption in international soccer has reached into Asia and claimed the first guilty plea from a senior official in the new FIFA leadership. A member of the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee, Richard Lai of Guam, was suspended by the Asian Football Confederation on...
BEIJING — China’s foreign ministry on Friday refused to confirm or deny U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s assertion that Beijing has threatened to impose unilateral sanctions on North Korea if it conducts further nuclear tests. Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang reiterated China’s support for U.N. sanctions on the North but repeatedly avoided giving a direct...
MENA, Ark. — Authorities in Arkansas are searching for two young children whose mother was found dead in a creek. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that the body of a woman discovered on Tuesday has been identified as 43-year-old Bethany Jo Wester of Mena, Arkansas. Wester’s body was discovered in a creek southwest...
Amber Rose was spotted at a cocktail bar in Hollywood wearing a revealing pink dress, harkening back to her days as an exotic dancer. The VH1 host is one of several Hollywood stars who got their career starts on the stripper pole: Blac Chyna, Diablo Cody, Courtney Love, and Cardi B of “Love & Hip...
SYDNEY — Rebel Wilson is suing an Australian publisher for defamation over a series of magazine articles the actress says cost her movie roles by painting her as a serial liar. Wilson’s lawyer, Renee Enbom, said during a court hearing on Friday that the Australian-born actress would present evidence that the articles published by Bauer...
LONDON — British counter-terror police have shot a woman and arrested four people in raids in London and southeastern England. The injured suspect has been hospitalized in serious condition after the raid in northwest London. She was shot after police entered a house in the Willesden neighborhood. Police said Friday she was the subject of...
STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities say a woman in her 60s injured in the April 7 truck attack in Stockholm has died, raising the death toll to five. In a statement Friday, the Stockholm police said the woman, who has not been publicly identified, had been hospitalized in southern Sweden. A 39-year-old Uzbek man, Rakhmat Akilov,...
Evan Engram might turn out to have a fine career in the NFL, and if he lives up to his draft status, he will be a Giant for a long time. But don’t look for the first-round draft choice from Ole Miss to make much of an impact this season. There aren’t enough footballs to...
BOSTON — Sure, it’s early. Anything that happens in April is early. Anything that happens before Memorial Day, if we’re being honest, is early but April … well, April is awfully early. It’s crazy early, absurdly early. Just so we’re in agreement on that. Still … Isn’t it refreshing to use that word as a...
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — T.J. Owuanibe got his wish: The 14-year-old shared center stage with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to announce the Baltimore Ravens’ top draft pick. The eighth grader at McDonogh School in Baltimore was diagnosed two years ago with brain cancer. He recently told Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic that he longed to join Goodell at...
Mike Maccagnan’s Jets legacy ultimately will rest on whether he will be able to find his franchise quarterback, probably in the 2018 NFL Draft, unless Christian Hackenberg suddenly morphs into Broadway Christian against all odds. But in the meantime, on this night, Maccagnan can take a bow. On a night when the Bears (Mitchell Trubisky),...
BOSTON — Matt Holliday’s first few weeks with the Yankees haven’t exactly gone according to plan. All it took for him to heat up offensively was a night against one of the top pitchers in the game. The designated hitter, who entered the Yankees’ 3-0 win over the Red Sox in a 2-for-27 slump, had...
PHILADELPHIA — With the first pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, the Browns selected the safest pick on the board: Myles Garrett, the Texas A&M pass-rushing fiend. The 6-foot-4, 272-pound defensive end had been atop virtually every mock draft as the consensus No. 1 overall pick for months — though there was late speculation that...
The Justice Department investigated a now-defunct Vermont college once run by Bernie Sanders’ wife, it was reported Thursday. E-mails between an attorney for Burlington College and a Vermont state education official revealed that Justice had been investigating “some aspects of the college’s activities,” according to the Web site VTDigger.com. Jane O’Meara Sanders reportedly overstated donations...
BOSTON — Chris Sale played the part of Yankee-killer once again Thursday night in every way but one: he took the loss. The Red Sox lefty dazzled the Yankees for much of the first eight innings at Fenway Park, but faltered in the ninth in a 3-0 Yankee victory. Afterward, he refused to blame a...
House Republicans late Thursday reportedly delayed a vote on their latest effort to repeal ObamaCare, ending the opportunity for President Trump to deliver on one of his major campaign promises during his first 100 days in office. House Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders came to the conclusion that they did not have enough...
Madness. Reader Bob Mantz informs us that WFAN’s morning team, Boomer & Carton, played Mike Francesa’s “OH MY GOD” March madness audio clip over a serious accident update on the NJ Turnpike on Thursday morning. No word on whether the state’s governor, Chris Christie, who may end up in Francesa’s sizable seat, called in to...
AKRON, Ohio — Police say an Ohio man called 911 to request a police dog to help track down heroin allegedly stolen from him. WEWS-TV reports a 20-year-old man in Bath Township, near Akron, made the call in January. The recording was released this week. When the call operator asks why the caller needs a police...
BOSTON — Court records show the estate of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez currently has a dollar value of zero. The former New England Patriots tight end took his own life last week in prison. Hernandez’s fiancee and her lawyer said in an affidavit filed Wednesday in probate court that Hernandez’s estate is currently worth...
Tony nominations are out Tuesday, so let’s read the tea leaves. Producers are gnawing their nails over Best Musical. So many shows, only four (maybe five) slots. “Come From Away” and “Dear Evan Hansen” are in. After that, predict at your peril. I think “Groundhog Day” makes the cut, and probably “War Paint,” although “Natasha,...
If the human race could ever be wholly enslaved by a social network, Tom Hanks would be the type to pull it off. As tech patriarch Eamon Bailey, he delivers ominous pronouncements like “I believe in the perfectability of human beings” with a disarmingly warm-and-fuzzy Hanksiness. But even he can’t save “The Circle,” a clumsy...
A 16-month-old girl reported missing Tuesday from her home in a Chicago suburb was found dead in the house — reportedly inside a couch. The Will County Sheriff’s Office and FBI executed a search warrant late Wednesday at the home in Joliet Township and found Semaj Crosby dead. The house was in deplorable condition and...
