The Yankees’ injury bug seems to have returned for another season. Left-handed pitcher James Paxton is expected to miss three-to-four months after undergoing lower back surgery to remove a peridiscal cyst, the team announced Wednesday, leaving him out until about June. Paxton, 31, is in his walk year and battled injuries for most of 2019,...
Bill Ackman just decaffeinated his portfolio. The billionaire investor on Wednesday said his Pershing Square hedge fund sold its stake in Starbucks for a massive 73-percent profit. The timing of the sale suggests a piping hot return of $516 million, although a source close to Pershing said the returns are nearer to $500 million after...
Kardashian's 2-year-old fell out of her high chair, but is "OK," she said.
Lauren Marie Young, 30, testified in Manhattan Supreme Court how Weinstein attacked after he invited her up to his suite the night of Feb. 19, 2013 at the Montage Beverly Hills hotel following a business meeting at a bar in the lobby.
A 55-year-old typo is finally being fixed. Workers on Wednesday replaced the first of 19 signs missing the second “Z” in Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, accurately spelling the last name of Giovanni de Verrazzano for the first time since the bridge opened in 1964. The Italian was the first European explorer to sail into New York Harbor,...
Brian and Tracy Bellows scampered to their seats a full hour before their son, Kieffer, took the ice Tuesday night with the Islanders for his NHL debut. Their daughter, Brianna, FaceTimed with her parents just as they began taking photos and videos at Barclays Center. It was important. She needed the family’s login information so...
Jay Cutler is back, and you won’t have to tune in to reality television to catch some of the witty and ornery quarterback. The former Pro Bowler has met with ESPN and CBS about a future in broadcasting, The Big Lead is reporting. With the success of Tony Romo in the booth, recently retired players...
"I think it's likely, yes," Nadler told reporters. "When you have a lawless president, you have to bring that to the fore, you have to spotlight that, you have to protect the constitution, whatever the political consequences."
It appears that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is struggling to get bipartisan support for a resolution to censure President Trump over his withholding of military aid to Ukraine in an effort to get the country to announce an investigation into 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The red-state Democrat proposed the resolution Monday, when he...
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign was also once a client of the tech firm whose glitchy app was behind the caucus catastrophe in Iowa that fouled up the reporting of Monday’s results, according to a report. Shadow Inc. — led by Gerard Niemira, who developed technology for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential...
ORLANDO — If he lacked the passion and profanity of his longtime ace CC Sabathia and tried to forge ahead, Hal Steinbrenner nevertheless made his point on Wednesday: He is not OK with what the Astros did to his Yankees three years ago. “When (Rob Manfred’s) report came out, I was (as) upset as anyone,”...
Knicks owner James Dolan is in a hurry. According to an NBA source, Dolan sacked president Steve Mills two days before the trade deadline so he could begin researching and interviewing presidential candidates without having to do so in clandestine fashion. The source said Dolan was not intending to renew Mills’ option after the season...
The city’s scandal-rocked Housing Authority is still failing to comply with its obligations to inspect and remove dangerous lead paint from units, the agency’s federal watchdog revealed Wednesday. “NYCHA has not fulfilled various lead-paint obligations, and has acknowledged it will not complete certain required visual assessments on time,” said the monitor, Bart Schwartz, in his...
A group of mayors has launched a petition drive to protest elements of the state’s new discovery reform law, which they say imposes massive new costs that will lead to hike property tax hikes. The change.org petition — Stopthediscoverytax.com — calls for Albany to overhaul the new rules requiring prosecutors and police to turn over...
A 5-year-old Colorado girl died from acute meth poisoning after drinking from her mother's bong, getting left for three hours without medical help.
Criminal charges will be dropped against the reality TV show doctor and his girlfriend who were accused of raping and drugging seven women in California, prosecutors said. Orthopedic surgeon Grant Robicheaux, who appeared on the 2014 Bravo reality TV show called “Online Dating Rituals of the American Male,” was charged in late 2018 along with...
Brittany Matthews is taking in every moment from the Chiefs’ victory parade — literally. On Wednesday, the girlfriend of quarterback Patrick Mahomes shared snippets from the scene in Kansas City on social media, as the champions of Super Bowl 2020 celebrated the team’s first title in 50 years. Joined by tight end Travis Kelce and...
BEIJING/SINGAPORE – What is worrying Rao Yong more than the daily news updates of a virus outbreak gripping China is that he may soon have to shut his online handicraft store and tell the 1,400 craftswomen he employs he is no longer able to sell their work. Rao, from eastern China’s Zhejiang province, is among...
Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday he will vote to convict President Trump of committing impeachable acts in his dealings with Ukraine, breaking with his Republican colleagues.
A 29-year-old man waited naked in the hallway of a housing complex in Harlem to ambush a cop — then begged two other officers to “shoot us” while he wrestled for the cop’s gun, a new series of graphic videos released Wednesday shows. The fatal incident started just before 2 a.m. Oct. 23 when cops...
Thirty-four alleged members of the crews were hit with a 122-count indictment on various charges that include attempted murder, assault, gun possession, robbery, burglary, and rape.
Investors slammed the brakes on Tesla shares Wednesday, sending them down as much as 20 percent after the electric car maker confirmed the coronavirus outbreak has sparked a production hiccup in China. Tesla’s stock is up more than 67 percent since the start of the year, fueled in part by Tesla’s announcement last month it...
A dream vacation and a stroll through the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel quickly descended into the stuff of nightmares. It was November 26, 2008 and it marked the Allen family’s last stop on their adventure through India when 10 Pakistani men charged buildings in the bustling city of Mumbai and carried out a series of...
Red Sox players are just beginning to come to terms with the recent trade that sent star outfielder Mookie Betts to the Dodgers as part of a three-team deal that also included five-time All-Star pitcher David Price. “Big moves, obviously,” pitcher Nathan Eovaldi told reporters Wednesday. “It’s unfortunate, I guess.” Eovaldi mentioned how big of...
A preschool teacher and a former counselor at a rape crisis center have been busted in an undercover child-sex sting in Ohio, police said. They were among 14 suspects nabbed Tuesday in a four-day investigation called “Operation Unsportsmanlike Conduct” in northeast Ohio, Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink announced. Investigators used chat rooms and social...
