NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill on Tuesday defended the promotion of a commanding officer who ran afoul of Mayor de Blasio earlier this year for downplaying a spike in sex attacks in his Brooklyn precinct. Veteran cop Peter Rose was elevated from captain to deputy inspector during a morning ceremony at NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan....
Apple would rather miss another deadline than sell a half-baked product. The iPhone X maker disappointed customers over the weekend after announcing that its long-awaited smart speaker to rival the Amazon Echo and Google Home won’t be available for the holidays. “We can’t wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple’s breakthrough wireless speaker for the...
Sixty percent of American women said they had been the victims of sexual harassment, according to a new poll released Tuesday. Of the women who said they had been harassed, 69 percent said it took place at work, 43 percent said it was in social settings, 45 percent said on the street and 15 percent...
The private Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes First Class look like Southwest Airlines. The Dreamliner B787 Dreamjet is the world’s largest and most luxurious private jet — and now the owner has opened up its doors for the Dubai Air Show. A video tour of the huge aircraft, dubbed “the flying penthouse” shows an entertainment and...
Don’t occupy Wall Street — get rich yourself. That’s the message from a full-minute ad from E*Trade that aired earlier this week on Monday Night Football, angling to channel anger at inequality back into capitalism. The ad depicts an office schlub who is jealous of a senior colleague who double parks his sports car and...
An architect might have found a solution to the UK’s housing shortage. Renato Vidal, from Italy, has created an affordable flat pack folding home which could be yours for just $32,800 and takes less than a day to install once on site. Photos show the components of the innovative M.A.D.I. houses being made in a...
You’ll want to be plugged into these killer Black Friday deals. Black Friday is around the corner on Friday, November 24th, and the day after Thanksgiving is bound to have sales just as robust as the Turkey Day feasts preceding them. If last year’s data is any indication of what 2017 may hold, Black Friday...
HARTFORD, Conn. — The lawyer for a former Connecticut college student accused of smearing body fluids on her roommate’s belongings said Tuesday that he doesn’t expect authorities to file hate crime charges. Attorney Tom Stevens’ comments came after former University of Hartford student Brianna Brochu appeared before a state judge in Hartford. The 18-year-old Harwinton...
In 2017, when you can’t sync your iPhone to the Cloud, you see an Apple Genius. When you can’t be bothered to cook, you order Uber Eats. And when you’re feeling burnt out and overwhelmed, you see a Reiki healer. Reiki, for the uninitiated, is a Japanese form of spiritual healing that involves an opening...
“I’d rather choke her to sleep, than talk her to sleep.” “I could put my fist right through her face.” “Consent is nothing.” These are just some of the shocking comments to feature in the 2017 Students’ Club Yearbook produced by residents from the Emmanuel College at the University of Queensland. Other quotes from the...
People are calling out Victoria’s Secret’s long-standing diversity problem. On Monday, the same day Victoria’s Secret taped its fashion show, plus-size model Ashley Graham uploaded a doctored photo of herself to Instagram. In the image, she’s sporting lingerie and Victoria’s Secret’s signature angel wings on a runway. It’s cheekily captioned, “Got my wings!” Her followers...
A sicko was busted posing online as a popular teen dancer — then coercing little girls to perform lewd acts on camera, according to a reports. British perv Lewis Edwards, 18, convinced girls as young as 10 to touch themselves under the guise of a Facebook profile in the name of Madison Haschak — a...
A newly released 911 call revealed a North Carolina family’s horror at finding a mother and teenage son shot in an apparent murder-suicide. Authorities received a call late Thursday night after Jennifer Craig, 43, gunned down her 14-year-old son, Kameron Craig, before killing herself in Willard, news station WECT reported. “There’s blood under the door,”...
Dog the Bounty Hunter is unwavering in his support for wife Beth Chapman, who was diagnosed with stage 2 throat cancer in September.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA captured 20 years of changing seasons in a striking new global map of the home planet. The data visualization, released this week, shows Earth’s fluctuations as seen from space. The polar ice caps and snow cover are shown ebbing and flowing with the seasons. The varying ocean shades of blue,...
Jeff Gorton, the third-year general manager plotting the course for a Rangers team that is attempting to retool on the fly, will face moments of truth as the fork-in-the-road trade deadline approaches. Of his predecessors, perhaps only Neil Smith in 1994 — who, urged by coach Mike Keenan to change the club’s makeup heading into...
From the right: Kirsten Gillibrand — Opportunist New York’s Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand leaped way out in front of her fellow Democratic senators in finally confronting the allegations against Bill Clinton. Still, says Commentary’s Noah Rothman, her “allegedly fearless denunciation” of the former president, while laudable, “comes just a few months after the Clintons’ political utility...
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute Jets linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin for allegedly pummeling a man who accidentally spilled champagne on him nearly eight months ago. “I want to thank everyone who stood behind me,” Mauldin told The Post. “I was fortunate to have the resources to fight the case and clear my name...
You know you’re having a good season when your only problem is at the kicker position. Such is the plight of the 9-1 Eagles, who lost their rookie kicker Jake Elliott to a concussion in their win over the Cowboys on Sunday. The Eagles replaced Elliott with linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill, who had a funny debut,...
Scores of items belonging to John Lennon that were stolen a decade ago from his widow Yoko Ono have been recovered in Germany, cops in Berlin said. The trove included handwritten music, two pairs of Lennon’s signature metal-rimmed glasses and three leather-bound diaries — including one with his final entry before he was murdered in...
The pair tied the knot in 2015.
Toronto’s transit chief is moving over to the MTA to head up the Big Apple’s subway and bus system, the agency announced on Tuesday. Andy Byford, who is the chief executive officer of the Toronto Transit System, will take over as president of New York City Transit, officials said. Byford, who is a United Kingdom...
GREENE, Maine — State police say funeral home employee transporting a body was killed when his van was hit from behind by a sport utility vehicle. Police say the crash killed 59-year-old Richard Charest of Winthrop. It happened on Route 202 in Greene on Monday evening. Police say Charest was transporting the body back to...
British Airways has divided opinion with a new policy that will see passengers who pay the least for their seats being forced to board last. Under the new “group boarding” system, which will be introduced on Dec. 12, passengers will be assigned a number between one and five when they check in. The number will...
A blond femme fatale charged with stealing pricey watches from a string of wealthy men was sentenced Tuesday to five years’ probation for targeting a restaurateur. Alexandra Martinez, 21, dodged jail time as part of the sweetheart deal she struck with prosecutors in September. She pleaded guilty to third-degree grand larceny in Manhattan Supreme Court...
