Iconoclast: A Sensible Minimum-Wage Compromise Advocates of a $15-an-hour minimum wage just got a slap in the face in Seattle, where a new study shows the average low-wage worker is actually losing $125 a month because of it. At The Washington Post, Charles Lane suggests a different approach, one originally favored by President Franklin Roosevelt:...
The moment an expectant wife surprised her returning Navy husband with news of their latest addition has gone viral on Facebook. Chris Daugherty, who was returning from deployment aboard the USS Carl Vinson, was greeted in San Diego by his young children and wife, Natasha, who was holding a “Welcome Home Baby Daddy” sign to...
“Bachelor in Paradise” star Corinne Olympios on Thursday finally spoke out in the wake of debunked allegations that she was sexually assaulted by co-star DeMario Jackson — and his own lurid descriptions of their poolside sex romp. Olympios, 24, in a statement said she has kept quiet in recent weeks while her own “team” investigated...
The best in women’s tennis is missing, but the best there was on the men’s side is somehow back on top. Roger Federer’s amazing Australian Open run, ending with a finals victory over old rival Rafael Nadal, was one of the great moments in sports this year. It also happened at 3:30 a.m. EST. Though...
Kim Kardashian and her husband Kanye West are hiring a surrogate to carry and give birth to their third child, People magazine reported last week. The price tag for the pregnancy? Upwards of $100,000. This isn’t just the high price celebrities pay. That’s actually broadly in line with the $98,000 to $140,000 national average, according...
Countless military lives could be saved in the future thanks to a new remarkable foam. Made by Arsenal Medical and fittingly dubbed ResQ Foam, this remarkable innovation rapidly expands inside the body and seals off the wound. Bleeding to death is the leading cause of fatalities on the battlefield, according to the U.S. Army Institute...
A young Belgium backpacker has become the seventh tourist found dead on Thailand’s Koh Tao island in the last three years. Elise Dallemange, 30, was found in the jungle on April 28 having been half-eaten by lizards – with police claiming she had hanged herself. Dallemange’s devastated mother Michele van Egten has now revealed she...
Greta Van Susteren is out at MSNBC after just six months. The Post has learned that she’ll be replaced by Ari Melber, MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent. Van Susteren, who moved from Fox News to the left-leaning network in January,
Travelers were freaking out Thursday at JFK Airport after a restaurant fire sent smoke billowing throughout a terminal, officials said. The blaze started around 3:30 p.m. inside a Panda Express in Terminal 4, according to Port Authority Police. Emergency crews were spotted rushing to the scene as people scrambled to avoid the smoke. The fire...
Maybe this cold-blooded straphanger also wanted to spew venom at the subway system. A passenger on the L train captured video of a snake wrapped around a pole with its head stretched upward, WNBC reported. But no one recoiled from the startling sight. “Snakes on a train, yo, snakes on a train,” a man is...
Growing up, Donna Price’s childhood seemed as picture-perfect as any other happy youngster’s. Her mom and dad doted on her and her siblings, and to outsiders they seemed the perfect family — but they were hiding a dark secret. Price’s world came crashing down one dark day in 2014 when she discovered the devastating news that...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that the $1 billion he pledged to the struggling MTA won’t be available until next year and was only announced this morning for “planning” purposes. Cuomo said he made the commitment so newly-minted MTA Chairman Joe Lhota “knows that he can count on an additional billion.” “[The MTA] won’t be...
It took a special session of the state legislature and two extra days of meetings , but Mayor de Blasio finally got an extension of mayoral control of the city’s schools. And it was for two years, meaning he won’t have to implore Albany for another extension in 2018. The state Senate voted 48-2 Thursday...
Andrey Baranov, the Russian sports agent accused of paying bribes to get doped-up runners into major US races, has filed a $5 million defamation case against the World Anti-Doping Agency and its independent investigator. The agency, in a July 18, 2016 report written by Canadian Professor Richard McLaren, found that Russian government officials schemed to...
President Trump will meet with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin for the first time next week during the Group of 20 summit in Germany. The meeting will take place as the FBI and congressional committees are investigating Russia’s interference in the election and possible ties to the Trump campaign. White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster...
Fake penis sex attacker Gayle Newland has been found guilty of using a $25 sex toy and blindfold to trick a female friend into sex by posing as a man. Newland has been convicted of impersonating a man over two years in what has been described as an “astonishing deception” to trick a friend into...
The federal government has won control of one of Manhattan’s hottest properties: 650 Fifth Ave., where Nike just leased 60,000 square feet for an estimated $700 million. The feds were awarded the 36-story tower, worth an estimated $800 million, following a four-week trial brought by Manhattan federal prosecutors that accused charitable group Alavi Foundation, which...
A Florida man who divorced his wife to marry the Spanish foreign exchange student they were hosting is accused — along with his new bride — of sexually assaulting the girl’s teen sister, police said. Dale Leary and his wife hosted exchange student Marta San Jose, 16, when she moved to South Florida from Spain...
If you ask Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, he just has the worst luck with Twitter. The NFL billionaire alleges his social media page was targeted by hackers Wednesday night after a full-frontal pornographic photo surfaced on his feed. The post was deleted after for 10 minutes, and another post appeared, saying Irsay had been...
Kristen Stewart feels her animal side, Michael Keaton may have a new career in styling and more...
Perhaps the biggest question remaining from Phil Jackson’s ouster this week as the Knicks president is how it affects the team’s plans in NBA free agency, which begins July 1. According to The Post’s Marc Berman, owner James Dolan hopes the removal of the triangle — the antiquated offense stubbornly favored by Jackson — will...
The Democratic National Committee lambasted President Trump on Thursday for his tweet about “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski, saying his “bullying tweets are an attack on women everywhere.” “Trump’s bullying tweets are an attack on women everywhere,” the DNC said in a statement. “From his Twitter slurs to his policies, we have a president who...
The vessel was previously dubbed Flip or Flop, after the hit HGTV series that made the former couple famous.