Rafael Palmeiro is nine years older than Aaron Boone, but he’s ready to come back to the big leagues. Not as a manager or a coach, but as a 53-year-old player. Palmeiro told The Athletic he believes he can still play in the majors, despite not standing in a batter’s box at that level in...
Roger Goodell 1, Jerry Jones 0. The NFL’s Compensation Committee informed all owners Wednesday that Goodell has signed a new contract, extending his tenure as league commissioner, according to a Pro Football Talk report. In a memorandum, all owners were notified that a “binding contract extension has been signed by the Commissioner and by Arthur Blank,...
WASHINGTON – Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high-pressure systems that push away rain-bearing storms, a study released on Tuesday said. As temperatures rise, the Arctic Ocean is expected to become ice-free within two or...
A trio of suspensions from this past week have sparked more outrage about the lack of consistency with NFL discipline. The NFL has a plan … to consider a plan, that might help. Troy Vincent, executive vice president of football operations for the NFL,
A Florida man searched for instructions on starting a house fire before setting his girlfriend’s home ablaze — and after he was caught he tried to blame the inferno on a “random black guy,” police said. Jose Bernando Rosa Madrigal, 19, of Auburndale, was arrested Saturday after he allegedly set the fire while his girlfriend...
Every family has their Christmas dining traditions when December 25 rolls in and the royal family is no different. But what do they dig into on the big day? And do they indulge in cheesy Christmas movies and open stockings in pjs? Darren McGrady, the former chef to Queen Elizabeth II, Diana Princess of Wales...
ORLANDO, Fla. — One of the first police officers to respond to the Pulse nightclub massacre is losing his job with only months to go before he’s entitled to full pension benefits. He called on Florida lawmakers to do more to support first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. The Eatonville Town Council agreed...
A university rowing team’s calendar has been banned by Russian authorities for breaching their anti-gay propaganda laws. Customs officials seized the Warwick Rowers naked calendars, which feature the team posing completely stark naked, at the border and returned them to the UK. The founder of the calendar, Angus Malcolm, blasted the Russian’s decision to ban...
"If it weren’t for hitting 'rock bottom' I never would have had this amazing hill of life to climb back up," he wrote.
The armed bandit who knocked off a high-end Upper East Side watch store Tuesday is believed to have been involved in another heist at a ritzy jewelry shop just blocks, police said Wednesday. The baseball cap and sunglasses-wearing crook pulled off the 11:15 a.m. smash-and-grab theft within four minutes at the A. Lange & Söhne...
The man accused of murdering an anti-corruption journalist in Malta set off the car bomb that killed her via text message from a boat out at sea, officials said Wednesday. Three men have been charged in the Oct. 16 death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, who led the Panama Papers probe into corruption on the tiny...
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday defended President Trump’s endorsement of GOP Alabama Senate candidate and accused molester Roy Moore, insisting that Trump had “tremendous moral standards.” Conway argued during an interview on CNN’s “New Day” that while the president found the allegations against Moore “troubling,” he believed that it was more important to...
Scoot Disick and Sofia Richie are going strong, Edie Falco is a biker boss and more...
WNYC has pulled longtime hosts Leonard Lopate and Johnathan Schwartz off the air over allegations of “inappropriate conduct,” the public radio station announced Wednesday. The station didn’t reveal exactly what the two iconic broadcasters are accused of, but hat they’ll be on indefinite leave while New York Public Radio investigates the claims. “[NYPR] takes these...
The iPhone X may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Consumer Reports has just completed its exhaustive texting of Apple’s so-called “future of the smartphone” and concluded that the $1,000 device is overpriced and overly prone to getting damaged. In fact, the watchdog publication recommended Samsung’s Galaxy S8 over the iPhone X, as...
Before Mashable sold itself for less than $50 million this week, the news site had been in talks to sell itself for as much as four times that amount, sources told The Post. In talks that fizzled earlier this fall with Verizon and German media company Prosieben, Mashable had been discussing a sale price of...
"I put up enough that you’re gonna leave me alone," she said.
A Connecticut police car’s dashcam captured the shocking moment when a group of juvenile suspects smashed a stolen vehicle into an SUV, causing serious injuries to a family of three. The suspects fled on foot, and police are still looking for information on their identities.
The “fake news” writer who claimed he “got Trump elected” with bogus viral stories about paid protesters died from overdosing on a drug cocktail that included two types of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, an Arizona medical examiner has concluded. Paul Horner had in his system alcohol; anti-anxiety meds clonazepam and diazepam; and painkillers despropionyl...
The musician was hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday.
President Trump provoked a Twitter storm after his speech on Jerusalem Wednesday in which he appeared to be breathing heavily and slurring some of his words toward the end. “God bless the United States,” he concluded, but the words “States” sounded as if he pronounced it “Shtates” — and scores of viewers noticed. “Trump’s speech...
"He’s not the first person to lie about sleeping with someone,” Paltrow said. “But he used the lie as an assault weapon."
"He’s not the first person to lie about sleeping with someone,” Paltrow said. “But he used the lie as an assault weapon."
A New Jersey cheerleader died in a crash after stealing her mom’s car — and authorities still don’t know where she was headed or why. Brooke Costanzo, 16, had recently obtained her learner’s permit when she jumped into her mother’s Honda Pilot without permission Sunday evening and drove nearly 50 miles away from home before...
Mike Bloomberg took pot shots at Donald Trump and the Koch brothers as he presided over his inaugural “Bloomberg 50” shindig at Gotham Hall Monday. The former Big Apple mayor grudgingly gave Trump credit as a branding genius for “slapping his name on everything he owned” — a move that Bloomberg admitted knows a thing...
