The White House said Wednesday that President Trump’s Twitter shot at Sen. Chuck Schumer the morning after the New York City terror attack was not political. “Look, this wasn’t going [the] political route. This is something the president has been talking about for a new policy. this isn’t a new policy or conversation,” administration spokeswoman...
Graphic novelist John Backderf still remembers the moment he learned the strange kid he’d known back in high school was a notorious serial killer. “It’s like getting hit with a 2-by-4,” the Cleveland-based author tells the Post. “Suddenly all the goofball antics and silly things we’d done became completely sinister and troubling. Man, it f–ks...
"The dinner party was on a Friday, and I was not able to leave that house until Sunday afternoon," the "Jeopardy" host said. "I spent the next day and a half in bed."
An American family traveling through the Amazon has been reported missing after pirates allegedly hijacked a ferry, authorities said. Emily Faith Heart, 37, her husband Adam Harris Heart, 39, and their two daughters — Sierra, 3, and Colette, 7 — were en route to Breves in north Brazil on Sunday when a group of armed...
He’s an all-American blond cutie who had a hit Disney Channel show, “Austin & Ally,” and sings in a band, R5, alongside siblings Riker, Rocky and Rydel. So naturally Ross Lynch’s eyes lit up when the role of Jeffrey Dahmer rolled around. “I liked the fact that it was going to shock a lot of...
This morning-after was a better one for the Rangers, who for only the fourth time reported to the practice rink off of a victory and therefore unencumbered by the effects of defeat. “When you’re losing, nothing in your life is as good,” Mats Zuccarello said. “You go home after the game and you second-guess yourself....
OAK HILL, W.Va. — Police say heroin was found in a child’s trick-or-treat bag in West Virginia. Oak Hill Police Chief Mike Whisman told news outlets that the 3-year-old girl’s mother found a dark substance wrapped in a glove, and called police. Preliminary results from a field test revealed it was heroin. No one was...
Nothing to see here. The day after Ben McAdoo suspended Janoris Jenkins indefinitely for failing to show up to practice and not alerting anyone to his whereabouts, virtually everyone, from McAdoo on down to his players, tried to downplay the move of disciplining his second prominent cornerback in three weeks. “When things aren’t going the...
It’s the age-old question – why do men have red beards when their hair doesn’t have a single strand of red in it? Thankfully the universal mystery has finally been answered by a scientist who explained it is all down to your genes. What makes someone a red? Scientist Petra Haak-Bloem from Erfocentrum, a Dutch organization...
Security writers: Lone Wolves Aren’t Really Alone It takes a pack to raise a lone wolf like accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov, suggest Judith Miller and Seth Barron at City Journal. Because even if Saipov acted alone, “he was part of a growing ideological fraternity numbering in the tens of thousands who now inhabit...
A Florida woman was arrested after a naked toddler wearing only boots was found wandering the streets, authorities said. Deputies responded to a report Tuesday night that a 3-year-old boy was walking around alone in Indialantic, a coastal town in central Florida, with a dog, news station WKMG reported. Authorities said they suspected that the...
Artificial intelligence could one day be used to help identify a person contemplating suicide. Around 800,000 people die a year from suicide, according to the World Health Organization. It’s currently the second-leading cause of death in the U.S. among people between the ages of 15 and 24. But a new study is using brain scans...
LONDON — British defense minister Michael Fallon resigned from his position on Wednesday saying he accepted his conduct in the past had fallen below high standards. Fallon was named in an a newspaper article earlier this week which said he had touched a radio presenter’s knee in 2002. The BBC reported on Monday that Fallon’s...
LOS ANGELES — Seven thoughts for a classic World Series that has gone seven games: 1. Conspiracy theories abound about a different version of baseballs that fly and fly, but I wonder if there should be more concern about what is going on in home ballparks. Going into Game 7, the home team was 4-2...
Airline workers at JFK Airport left two bodies in coffins bound for Pakistan in a loading area — and then forgot about them, according to published reports. The bodies were supposed to be loaded onto the Oct. 28 Pakistan International Airlines flight between New York City and Lahore, which was set to be the company’s...
President Trump told House Republicans he wanted to call the tax reform plan his administration is touting the “Cut Cut Cut Act,” ABC News reported on Wednesday. House Republicans were planning to reveal their unnamed tax proposal on Wednesday, but delayed it until Thursday. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Kevin Brady, the chairman of...
A massive flying ancient beast the size of a small plane has been found in the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia. The dinosaur had enormous 36-foot long wings and would be one of the largest winged reptiles ever known to live on Earth. The giant lived 70 million years ago in a warm climate that...
Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Wednesday visited victims injured in the Manhattan terror attack, where he offered a message of hope and healing for all New Yorkers. “When I got here nine years ago, my first 9/11 ceremony at St. Peters on Barclay Street, the priest there said: ‘What we celebrate more is 9/12 because that’s...
A husband and wife in Canada allegedly held a homeless man with mental disabilities captive as a “slave-type maid” for decades, according to the victim’s son, whom prosecutors say the couple claimed and raised as their own. The extraordinary decades-long saga involving accusations of routine beatings, stolen government checks and fraudulent hospital records was detailed...
An online petition signed by more than 200,000 people is demanding a halt to a taxpayer-funded research project at Texas A&M University that studies muscular dystrophy’s debilitating effects in golden retrievers, arguing that it is cruel and scientifically useless. Two Texas A&M students are behind the Change.org petition, which seeks an end to the experimentation...
The former couple were spotted riding bikes in Los Angeles together complete with Jelena-status smiles.
The illegal tobacco trade is helping to prop up Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program as well as the world’s biggest terror groups, according to a US security chief. David Luna says the North Korean regime accumulates most of its wealth through a network of “criminal enterprises that trade in everything from goods made by forced...
Chris Brown clearly doesn’t believe in the idea of leaving your fans wanting more. On Tuesday, the controversial R&B star dropped a monster of a new album, “Heartbreak on a Full Moon.” It contains 45 tracks (!), and lasts a mind-boggling 2 hours and 40 minutes. My guess is that Brown is trying to manipulate...
