This was one ‘L’ of a ride. A belligerent drunken man berated fellow straphangers and screamed racial slurs on an subway train this weekend until a group of angry commuters decided they’d had enough — pushing him out the door when the train made a stop and even tossing soup at him, a video captured...
At long last, BlackBerry has killed off its iconic physical keyboard. The former king of the high-end cell phone has just introduced the first-ever BlackBerry with no physical keyboard. The BlackBerry Motion features a 5¹/₂-inch screen but not the once popular chicklet keyboard, the company revealed at GITEX Technology Week in Dubai. The elimination of...
An Oklahoma man accused of holding his stepdaughter captive for nearly two decades and repeatedly raping her has been arrested, according to the district attorney in the case. Henri Michele Piette, 62, is accused of keeping his stepdaughter captive for 19 years after “marrying” her when she was around 11 years old, according to court...
When Reese Scott started training women to fight at Kingsway boxing gym in Manhattan in 2007, she had just two pupils. The male boxers at the gym frequently warned Scott: You’ll never have enough women to train. But Scott’s sessions kept growing. One morning she was looking at 30 women. “I took over the gym,”...
The Jones Act waiver that suspended shipping restrictions to aid hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico expired on Sunday and the Department of Homeland Security will not extend it, Reuters reported on Monday. DHS issued the waiver on Sept. 28 after a request by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello and other lawmakers, including Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) and...
WASHINGTON – Tensions between Washington and Ankara spiraled downhill as Turkey and the US both blocked tourist and business travel between the two NATO-allied countries. Turkish Airlines announced Monday it would refund passengers’ airfares or make reservation changes for free because of the diplomatic battle. Passengers holding Turkish passports traveling to the USA and passengers...
After being dubbed the "Twilight Zone" of the digital age, it's no surprise that even the "Black Mirror" cast finds technology frightening.
When Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz updated “Dynasty” for a new audience — the show premieres Wednesday on The CW — they made changes to some of the show’s core characters. Krystle is now called Cristal (Nathalie Kelly) because she is Hispanic and younger than Evans was when she played the part. Sammy Jo is...
If the Yankees manage to come all the way back and knock off the Indians in the ALDS, Aaron Judge’s home run-saving catch in the sixth inning in Sunday’s Game 3 win will no doubt go down in Yankees lore, but it still will likely pale in comparison to Derek Jeter’s iconic play the last...
Oswalt revealed the news when responding to a Twitter troll.
No one knew. That’s the party line in Hollywood regarding Harvey Weinstein, the once-powerful producer revealed as a decades-long sexual predator. This morning — five days after the New York Times exposé and hours after Weinstein was fired from his company — Meryl Streep, Hollywood’s grande dame, issued a statement. “Not everybody knew,” Streep said...
Dem pollster: Trump on Track to Re-election More than half of Americans think Donald Trump is unfit to be president, but Doug Sosnik at The Washington Post says “he has a clear path to winning re-election,” just by “maintaining his current level of support with his political base.” That’s because “we have entered a new...
A group of roughly 150 protesters demanded Monday that city schools recast their portrayal of Christopher Columbus from heroic to heinous. The crowd of activists, teachers, students and parents gathered at Department of Education headquarters in Manhattan to call for an overhaul of social studies programs to ensure “historical accuracy” and “cultural responsiveness.” The gathering...
The Islanders fought back from a two-goal deficit to grab a point Monday in a matinee at Barclays Center, but came up empty in a shootout. Brayden Schenn and Vladimir Tarasenko both scored on their penalty shots for the Blues while Jordan Eberle and Anthony Beauvillier were blanked to send St. Louis out with a...
Holy felony! A handyman stole over $225,000 in rare comic books and artwork from a New Jersey home he was repairing – and then sped off to Italy, police said. Sparta police Lt. John Lamon said the theft happened earlier this year when handyman Francesco Bove, 64, was called in to repair an unoccupied home...
Damien Chazelle popped the question to Olivia Hamilton.
HOUSTON — A lawsuit says a Houston student’s Constitutional rights were violated when she was expelled for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Randall Kallinen, an attorney for 17-year-old India Landry’s family, said the civil lawsuit was filed Saturday against the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District and a high school principal. The lawsuit says Landry,...
Austria’s burqa ban bites for a man in a shark costume — who was slapped with a fine for covering his face Monday. The unnamed worker was dressed as a mascot outside McShark computer shop in Vienna, when he was asked by cops to remove his shark head, the local news site Die Welt reported....
Kathy Griffin takes her wig off, Bethenny Frankel looks stressed in Miami and more...
Last month, Wilson won Australia’s highest-ever defamation payout after successfully suing Bauer Media over a series of defamatory articles.
SONOMA, Calif. — More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through California wine country Monday, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending an estimated 20,000 people on a headlong flight to safety through smoke and flames. The state’s fire chief called the damage estimates conservative and said the fires were...
Defense Secretary James Mattis told the US Army it “must stand ready” and have military options “our president can deploy” in case diplomacy fails to solve the standoff with increasingly belligerent North Korea. “There’s one thing the U.S. Army can do, and that is you have got to be ready to ensure that we have...
Strike 2, and she’s benched. ESPN suspended Jemele Hill on Monday, the network announced, for two weeks “for a second violation of our social media guidelines.” ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz signaled that Hill’s offending tweet involved suggesting fans boycott Cowboys advertisers if they were upset Jerry Jones told his players they would stand for the...
