Two people were seriously hurt during a house fire in the Bronx early Sunday, officials said. The blaze started in an apartment on Home St. near Bryant Ave. in Foxhurst around 2 a.m. and quickly spread throughout the three story building. An elderly woman and a teen girl were removed from the burning building and...
David Lee called it a career with some literal fireworks. The former two-time All-Star, Knicks first-round pick and Warriors world champion announced his retirement on Sunday with an Instagram post, saying his 12 seasons in the NBA were over. “An epic night celebrating my retirement with my friends and family!” the 34-year-old wrote with pictures...
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said he takes as a compliment suggestions that he and his wife looked like James Bond baddies after a cringe-worthy photo surfaced showing the couple posing with a sheet of newly printed $1 bills. “I never thought I’d be quoted as looking like villains from James Bond. I guess...
Crews tweeted an email the hip hop mogul sent him earlier this month.
An anti-LGBTQ lawmaker and Christian conservative from Ohio regularly trolled Craigslist looking for random gay hookups, according to a published report. State Rep. Wes Goodman was a Craigslist regular, according to former GOP congressional staffer Chris Donnelly — who claims to have had a sexual encounter with the disgraced lawmaker back in 2008, according to...
Toward the end of Esther Garrel’s four-hour shoot with The Post, the photographer asked her to smile for the camera. The 26-year-old politely replied: “I think I’m out of smiles today — I’m not that kind of girl.” Then she assumed a confident, fierce pose. The self-assured French actress is, in real life, a far...
President Trump blasted the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players released after being picked up on shoplifting charges in China and said he should have “left them in jail” after LaVar Ball suggested the president had little to do with helping his son get out of the country. “Now that the three...
Two teens slashed a bodega worker and then sliced a cab driver’s thumb off before cutting his passenger as they tried to escape early Sunday, police said. Juan Carlos Sanchez and Kenneth Guzman, both 17, got into a fight with the worker outside the store on the corner of East 98th St. and Grand Concourse...
Two men robbed a Bronx bodega, slashed a worker and then sliced a cab driver’s thumb off before cutting his passenger as they tried to escape early Sunday, police said. The men held up the store at the corner of East 98th St. and Grand Concourse around 2 a.m. and slashed the hand of a...
It’s the very definition of Orwellian: a panel titled “Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Justice” that’s actually meant to promote Israel-bashing. Co-sponsored by The New School’s Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program, the Nov. 28 event bills itself as “a discussion on how to combat anti-Semitism.” But it quickly reveals its true goal. “When anti-Semitism...
New York is No. 1 — when it comes to bootleg cigarettes, anyway. A new Tax Foundation study cites New York as America’s tobacco bootlegging capital, with 55 percent of smokes sold here smuggled in. Blame high state and local cigarette taxes — $5.85 a pack, in total — and the city’s recent hike in...
Zimbabwean ruler Robert Mugabe called for reconciliation in his troubled country Sunday night – but refused to resign the seat of power he’s held since 1987. Both Reuters and the Associated Press reported, citing government sources, that Mugabe – under house arrest in an apparent coup – was going to step down in a highly...
Zimbabwean ruler Robert Mugabe will step down and relinquish the seat of power he’s held since 1987, sources said Sunday. Mugabe agreed to resign the presidency, sources told Reuters, hours after he was fired as head of his own ruling party. He’s set to address the nation later Sunday night, according to The Associated Press....
Zolani Tete knocked out Siboniso Gonya in just 11 seconds in the quickest-ever world title fight in the history of boxing. The 29-year-old landed a brutal right hook just six seconds into the bout to retain his WBO bantamweight title at Belfast’s SSE Arena. And the ref officially waved away the contest just five seconds...
Everything is going smoothly, and Sergio Dipp is having the time of his life. The reporter returned to English-speaking ESPN on Sunday for the first time since his memorable, brief flop during Week 1 of the NFL season, when he conducted an awkward report on Broncos coach Vance Joseph, then disappeared. In truth, he didn’t...
New Yorkers will do anything to help their fellow man – and here’s the video to prove it. After a scaffold collapsed Sunday in lower Manhattan, trapping two people underneath, dozens of New Yorkers pitched in to pull off hunks of debris and save them. Jonathan Mejia, a vendor at Artists and Fleas said he...
At least four people were injured when scaffolding collapsed on a Manhattan sidewalk Sunday, officials said. The incident happened near the corner of E. Houston St. and Broadway around 11:40 a.m. Firefighters and EMS workers are currently on scene assessing the injuries, which are said to be non-life threatening. At least one person was said...
“We have our own complications on 'Transparent',” Soloway said.
Former federal prosecutors blame juror skepticism and the new, more permissive legal definition of bribery for the stunning mistrials Thursday when two federal juries were declared hung in high-profile public corruption cases. The mistrials in the cases of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and former corrections union leader Norman Seabrook came within two hours of each...
Two GOP senators said Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore should not be a member of Congress amid allegations that he sexually harassed teenage girls when he was in his 30s. “The allegations are stronger than the denial, and Roy Moore should find something else to do. I think that there’s a strong possibility with a...
A former model claims she was just 17 when hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons forced her into sex.
Dear John: I’m an elderly widow living in a rent-controlled apartment. My only income is Social Security. About 18 years ago, I went to the Department of Aging, and it froze my rent at $378.26 a month. Every two years since, I went to the library and asked for a special re-application form and I...
Dunham has reversed course, and apologized for her initial defense of Murray Miller, the “Girls” writer accused of sexual assault.
President Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees has grown a little longer. Five new names added to the list are well-known conservatives. One, Judge Kevin C. Newsom, is Alabama’s ex-solicitor general. The others are DC Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, state Supreme Court justices Patrick Wyrick of Oklahoma and Britt C. Grant of Georgia...
Jennifer Liepen and Sandy Patch own a $345,000 house in Jersey City that they’ve never lived in — which might not be so unusual, except for the fact that they don’t have any other home. “We’re nomads,” Patch told The Post. “[We’re] moving to where resources are at any given time.” Instead, the married couple...
