D’Angelo Russell isn’t sure what kind of crowd reaction he is going to receive Wednesday night when he returns to Barclays Center to play against a team that helped him become an All-Star last season. “New York fans can be brutal and they can be loving at the same time,” Russell said Tuesday after his...
A man in prison for killing his son for insurance money has been convicted in California for killing his wife years earlier — and for the same reason. The guilty verdict was returned Monday in the case of Karl Karlsen, 60, according to reports. He was charged with setting a fire that killed his wife...
Gleyber Torres has simple goals for this season: Stay healthy and win a world championship. Nothing else matters. “I don’t think about hits, homers, anything about me,” he said Tuesday at the 40th annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner at Chelsea Piers. “I just want to win the World Series.” It’s why Torres started training earlier...
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is protesting CNN after the network snubbed her from a Democratic town hall just days before the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 11. Last week, CNN announced its lineups for a two-night town hall event set in New Hampshire on Wednesday and Thursday. The event is set to feature eight Democrat...
The first big trade of the NBA trade deadline just went down. The Houston Rockets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks and Denver Nuggets agreed to a multi-player trade early Wednesday morning that includes Robert Covington and Clint Capela, as well as other players and draft picks, according to ESPN.com. The four-team deal sends Covington and Jordan...
Wow, that was one hell of a State of the Union Address. President Trump seized the center with a powerful, patriotic and utterly centrist speech. And then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reinforced his message with her oh-so-symbolic ripping up of the text. What, other than channeling the alienation of the Democratic base from the great...
The CEO of the tech company whose app wreaked havoc in the Iowa caucus on Monday night apologized for the debacle on Tuesday, saying they “feel really terrible” for the snafu. Gerard Niemira, the head of Shadow Inc., told Bloomberg News that the reporting problems were caused by a bug that transports results to the...
A man in southern New Jersey needed a metal pipe to scare away a pack of wild dogs who attacked him, a report said Tuesday. Surveillance video shows the terrifying moment three large and loud pooches chased the man through Little Egg Harbor Township, according to WPVI-TV. Cops said the dog bit at least six...
PORT ST. LUCIE — Life with the Mets is crazy, you have to be ready for anything. Things change on a dime, save-the-day owners come and go. Steve Cohen looks to be the latest, but as shown again Tuesday, the Wilpons remain. At least if the Wilpon Mets ever make it back to the World...
When the Islanders drafted Kieffer Bellows with the 19th pick in 2016, his father, former NHL player Brian Bellows, had one thing to say. “First thing he said to me after the hug was, ‘The work starts now,’ ” the 21-year-old rookie told The Post after his NHL debut Tuesday night at Barclays Center in...
Here’s a question for Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Have you heard of Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity? The one where he says it’s “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?” To judge by your conduct, I’m guessing you haven’t. Either that or you think Einstein was an idiot, too. Then again,...
The bad blood between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached a boiling point Tuesday night during the annual State of the Union address. The event began with a presidential snub by Trump when he refused to shake the speaker’s extended hand and ended with Pelosi tearing up a printed copy of Trump’s speech....
The Yankees bought Gerrit Cole — no worse than the second- or third-best pitcher in the world — and lost nothing devastating from a 103-win team. Now, the Dodgers have obtained Mookie Betts — no worse than the second- or third-best player in the world — and have taken few meaningful hits from a 106-win...
A protester and father of a Parkland shooting victim was booted from President Trump’s State of the Union address after shouting from the gallery about gun control. The man, Fred Guttenberg, made the brief interruption after Trump vowed to “always protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.” He was there as a...
Knicks president Steve Mills was fired Tuesday. In six-plus season’s as either the team’s president or GM, the Knicks were a league-worst 178-365. The move does raise some questions: 1. Why fire Steve Mills two days before the trade deadline? James Dolan had decided to fire him eventually, so he wanted Mills’ hands off the...
If not for a scheduled conference, Nancy Lieberman could have been in the tragic helicopter crash that took the life of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others. The Hall of Fame women’s basketball player and coaching pioneer had made plans to fly out to Los Angeles, take his helicopter to the Mamba...
A military spouse was reunited with her Army sergeant husband during President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. As he addressed Congress, Trump surprised Amy Williams by bringing out her husband, Sgt. First Class Townsend Williams, who had been deployed in Afghanistan. “Tonight we have a very special surprise. I am thrilled...
Steve Mills, fired as Knicks president Tuesday, oversaw a dark time in team history — in two separate stints as a team executive. Here’s a look at his biggest mistakes: The Kristaps Porzingis trade Porzingis was still with the Knicks just over a year ago. The face of the franchise was unhappy, but had little...
President Trump blasted the “Sanctuary City of New York” for causing the brutal rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman last month by failing to turn over a criminal alien to the federal government for deportation. “Tragically, there are many cities in America where radical politicians have chosen to provide sanctuary for these criminal illegal...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address as he ended his speech Tuesday night — after the president refused to shake her hand at the beginning of the address. As Trump was ending the one hour and 18-minute speech, Vice President Mike Pence and Pelosi, who...
Three Democratic congressmen abruptly left President Trump’s State of the Union address, with one declaring “I’ve had enough” after walking out. Tim Ryan, an Ohio legislator, announced his sudden departure on Twitter. “I just walked out of the #StateOfTheUnion. I’ve had enough. It’s like watching professional wrestling. It’s all fake,” he wrote. Before exiting, Ryan...
The Democratic Party was humbled by an app Monday night. A day later, it still didn’t have voting results for the 31st most populous state in the nation. Yet this is the same party that wants the American people to believe it can remake a $20 trillion economy with free college, free health care and...
Cosmopolitan said it is pulling a cover from a digital edition of the title because it appears the cover model — a contestant on the hit ABC show “The Bachelor” — allegedly posed for an ad campaign that featured a racially offensive slogan. Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pels said she only made the decision to pull...
Ilya Kovalchuk scored the only shootout goal and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a three-goal deficit to beat the New Jersey Devils 5-4 on Tuesday night at Prudential Center. Montreal’s Charlie Lindgren had 20 saves filling for an ill Carey Price, and easily handled muffed chances by Nikita Gusev, Kyle Palmieri and Jack Hughes in...
WASHINGTON — President Trump used his State of the Union address to inform a Philadelphia fourth-grade girl that she can finally join a new school. Trump told Janiyah Davis on Tuesday night, who was in attendance with her mother, that she would receive an “Opportunity Scholarship” to attend a new public or private school. “Janiyah,...
