The White House said Thursday that President Trump believes the people of Alabama should decide whether accused perv Roy Moore should be their senator. “The president believes the allegations are troubling and should be taken seriously and he thinks that the people of Alabama should make the decision on who their next senator should be,”...
A juror in the bribery trial of Sen. Robert Menendez said 10 out of the 12 jurors were ready to acquit the senior senator — raising serious questions about the strength of the Department of Justice’s case. “I thought he was not guilty,” said Ed Norris, 49, a Morris County equipment operator said on his...
The NYPD is discussing a compromise on two City Council bills that would force cops get consent before conducting searches where there is no probable cause and to give business cards to people they stop, sources said. Two versions of a potential deal have been making the rounds at City Hall over the past week,...
The city council voted unanimously to criminalize revenge porn Thursday afternoon, making it punishable by up to a year in prison. Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Queens) wrote the bill. He said district attorneys in the city will now have the tools they need to prosecute the people who commit these “abhorrent acts.” “With passage of this...
A top aide to a Democratic lawmaker who has been one of the most outspoken House members on sexual harassment resigned on Thursday after he was accused of sexually harassing women in the office, it was reported. Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Michigan said she would accept the resignation of her chief of staff Dwayne Duron...
A sheriff’s deputy in Virginia has been reassigned after photos surfaced of her in a blackface Halloween costume depicting Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, authorities said. York-Poquoson Sheriff J.D. Diggs said Wednesday that the veteran deputy of 20 years, Jean Browning, will no longer serve as a school Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program officer following the...
A yoga instructor at a Montessori school in Missouri admitted he groped a 6-year-old student, because the kid was “cute,” according to a report. Platte County prosecutors said Wednesday that Christian A. Hammond, 22, admitted to touching one of his students while they questioned him over molestation accusations, The Kansas City Star reported. According to...
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Mets hired a new manager last month and constructed a new coaching staff around him, but maybe their biggest offseason change that doesn’t involve the roster is yet to come. In this era of analytics, the Mets will more closely monitor statistics of a different sort, with the hiring of a...
Leeann Tweeden nicknamed Al Franken “fish lips” after he forcibly mashed his “wet and slimy” smackers on her face then stuck his tongue down her throat during a 2006 USO tour, she revealed Thursday. The former Playboy Playmate turned radio host recalled the gross new details while recounting Franken’s alleged assault in a press conference,...
This high flier was really stuck on flying American. Flight 1498 from Mexico City was approaching Miami at around 11 a.m. Tuesday when a large bird smashed into the aircraft and became lodged in the nose, WPLG Local 10 reported. The Airbus A319 landed without incident and was able to taxi to the gate. No...
In a joint statement signed by 25 crew members and actresses, they accuse Schwahn of “repeated unwanted sexual harassment of multiple female members of cast and crew.”
Maybe LeBron James would have picked Dennis Smith Jr. over Frank Ntilikina last June if he ran the Knicks. Still, the team that got Ntilikina is happy. They’re not alone. One guy who has been impressed so far is the greatest point guard in Knicks history, Hall of Famer Walt “Clyde” Frazier. Frazier, of course,...
This is the greatest research ever conducted on punctuation. Period. So-called “textisms” — i.e., emoji, deliberate misspellings (“soooo”) and irregular punctuation (“!!!”) — are believed to add valuable context to text messages that otherwise lack the subtleties and nonverbal cues (tone, pauses, and gestures) of a face-to-face conversation, a recent study in the journal Computers...
An activist investor has proposed to take Barnes & Noble private in a deal that would value the bookseller at $650 million. Sandell Asset Management’s surprise move, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, comes nearly four months after the hedge fund made an impassioned plea for the company to go private, arguing that...
An activist investor reportedly has proposed to take Barnes & Noble private in a deal that would value the bookseller at $650 million. Sandell Asset Management’s surprise move, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, comes nearly four months after the hedge fund made an impassioned plea for the company to go private, arguing...
Sleep expert Matthew Walker is not a fan of the expression “you can sleep when you’re dead.” In fact, he calls it “mortally unwise advice.” “Sleep is Mother Nature’s best effort yet to counter death,” Walker says. He would know. Walker, who is director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science,...
Want to know what vitamins you need to take and have them injected into chocolate truffles? There’s an app for that. Fitness app Lifesum mined the data of 100,000 New York City users to figure out what nutrients — and personal traits — we’re most deficient in. (Surprise, surprise: “calmness” is among them.) From there,...
A California woman’s “quest for perfection” ended tragically on Saturday when she died after undergoing a liposuction procedure in Mexico that sent her into a coma, her family said. Irma Saenz, 51, died at a San Diego hospital after she went to Tijuana to get liposuction last month, her family told KTLA. The family said...
Out of 11 wealthy Western countries, the U.S. has the sickest senior citizens. Americans 65 and older were more likely to be sick than their elderly counterparts in countries like Canada, Australia, Sweden, France and Germany, according to the 2017 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Older Adults, which surveyed between 500 and 7,000...
"You don't know if you like or if he's a scumbag and I think that's why I'm attracted to him," the actress told James Corden.
After a short stint living there, she decided to move to another spot in nearby Beverly Crest.
McLean, Va. — Police in Virginia say a mother and daughter may be the victims of a double murder — not a murder-suicide. WUSA 9 reported Wednesday that Fairfax County police initially suspected that 23-year-old Helen Hargan had shot her mother, 63-year-old Pamela Hargan, and then turned the gun on herself. The women died in...
A mistrial has been declared in the Manhattan bribery trial of former jail guards union boss Norman Seabrook — ending an often explosive, five-week proceeding. A federal jury was released Thursday afternoon after six days of fruitless deliberations. Seabrook is accused of accepting a bribe — a Ferragamo bag filled with $60,000 cash — in...
Parents would be better off raising their children in European, Asian or Australian cities, according to a Wednesday report. Real-estate technology startup Homeday evaluated hundreds of cities across the globe on 15 metrics that matter to families, including housing availability and cost, school quality, safety, parental leave laws, healthcare, pollution, green spaces, activities for kids...
