For the first time, a majority of the people who took the FDNY entrance exam this fall were people of color — and more women took the test than ever before, officials announced Monday. “Our unprecedented recruitment campaign has succeeded in drawing interest in a firefighting career from more young men and women than ever...
Credit Suisse rigged currency markets for years with a bag of tricks that included chatroom cartels, anti-competitive business practices, and even software programs that were designed to automatically rip off the banking giant’s own customers, New York regulators said Monday. The state’s Department of Financial Services, led by Superintendent Maria T. Vullo, slapped Credit Suisse...
Girls are a smart influence. A new study published Friday in School Effectiveness and School Improvement suggests that boys get better grades when their classes have a higher percentage of girls in them. Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands analyzed the reading test scores of more than 200,000 15-year-olds from more than 8,000 co-ed schools...
Authorities say a family of four in Arizona was found dead in a murder-suicide. Jason Fairbanks and Annie Fairbanks, both 39, and their two young kids died Friday afternoon at their Scottsdale home, Arizona Central reported. Police said evidence indicated that Jason Fairbanks shot his wife, 3-year-old daughter and 9-month-old son before turning the gun...
A party at a third-floor apartment in Texas turned into chaos when the floor collapsed, sending students from the University of North Texas tumbling into the apartment below. No serious injuries were reported, although both apartments were severely damaged, and many residents have been displaced. Officials are investigating the cause of the incident.
The comedian is cooking up a romance with chef Chris Fischer.
Brooklyn firefighters responding to a blaze in a Bensonhurst home stumbled on 170 pounds of marijuana in the basement, police sources said Monday. The smokeaters found the drugs at 2150 65th St. during a room-to-room search around 9:50 p.m. Saturday, police said. Brooklyn South Narcotics is investigating.
Conde Nast officially unveiled Radhika Jones as the new editor in chief of Vanity Fair, succeeding Graydon Carter who is stepping down after 25 years at the helm. In picking Jones, the publishing giant is banking on an editor with literary ties and experience developing digital businesses, but who has no profile in the fashion...
At a recent newly-launched lesbian party in Brooklyn, women scattered themselves haphazardly throughout the backyard of a gay bar filled mostly with men. Wearing dark jeans and denim jackets, they stood in small groups, intermittently scanning the room while talking amongst themselves. Inside the bar, the dance floor was empty. “This is why lesbian bars...
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually assaulted a 16-year-old when he was an adult — locking her inside his car and forcing her head onto his crotch, the now-grown woman claimed Monday. Beverly Young Nelson says she was working as a waitress at the Olde Hickory House in Gadsen, Ala., in 1977 and the...
The bizarre fitness trends keep rolling in, but this one gets a double thumbs up from us. One yoga instructor in New York is offering up evenings of tipsy yoga. Why? Because “one is more flexible when drunk.” Eli Walker teaches a basic vinyasa class alongside an open bar with unlimited wine at Grey Lady...
Social critic: Time for Bill Clinton’s ‘Me Too’ Reckoning What’s most remarkable about the #MeToo movement, says The Atlantic’s Caitlin Flanagan, is not the number of women involved but that they’re finally “being believed.” We had a similar moment during the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991, “but then Bubba came along and blew up...
“I was a little uncomfortable in being faced with a vulva to play with on my iPhone,” said single Australian woman Kellie, 47, “but I thought if men used this app for practice then my sex life would be fabulous!” Kellie is one of many Australian women using sexual pleasure education and information site OMGYes.com....
Tyrese's attorney is no longer working with him.
A Florida man who rescued a squirrel during Hurricane Matthew is now weathering a different storm altogether — fighting his condo association for the right to keep the rodent as an emotional support animal. Ryan Boylan, of Clearwater Beach, rescued Brutis after the storm rocked Florida in October 2016. Boylan, who has been suffering from...
Beneath the sand of this picturesque island chain lies a brutal and bloody past that’s still being unearthed. Scientists are still discovering full skeletons that lay buried in the little-known “Murder Island” almost 400 years after Australia’s first and biggest mass murder, 60 Minutes reports. The mutiny and massacre that occurred on the Dutch sailing...
A sleeping man was viciously stabbed by his female partner inside their luxury Midtown apartment, police said Monday. The 64-year-old victim was dozing when his 53-year-old lover stabbed him twice in the torso after a fight at the Fifth Avenue building near East 38th Street around 11:15 p.m. Sunday, cops said. The man was taken...
Imagine taking the subway to avoid a delay? LeBron James and the Cavaliers opted to get the full New York City experience Monday, riding the subway instead of a bus back to their hotel after a morning shootaround at the Garden ahead of their game against the Knicks. James and the team documented the trip...
The arrest of an amateur hockey player in a deadly dispute outside Chelsea Piers has left his teammates shocked at the “out of character” allegations, one of them told The Post on Monday. Kohji Kosugi, 39, is a “mild-mannered, stand-up guy” who’s “not the type of person to look for trouble,” said the teammate, who’s...
Prosecutors on Monday filed fresh manslaughter charges against five members of a Penn State fraternity based on video evidence recovered by the FBI that shows they fed a pledge 18 boozy drinks in under an hour and a half to an underage pledge before he fell to his death down a flight of stairs. The...
“I would ask him about it," Maron said. "I would say, ‘This story about you forcing these women to watch you [masturbate], what is that, is that true?'”
A pet spa owner in Venice, Florida, is under fire after a disturbing video of her allegedly abusing a dog went viral. A former employee shared the video on Facebook. It shows Phyllis Lucca appearing to choke, shake, then manhandle the small pooch while cleaning its ears.
Swift announced 27 shows, with stops in Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and Houston.
Now this is wild. A South Australian zoo is reversing the whole nature-spotting experience, putting humans into a cage while a group of lions roam free right outside. The open-range Monarto Zoo unveiled its Lions 360 Experience on Monday, which lets people right inside one of Australia’s largest lion prides. Visitors walk through a tunnel...
An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale rocked northern Iraq and Iran.
