It doesn’t matter on what side of the pinstriped rope that surrounds the Yankees universe you stand when it comes to DJ LeMahieu returning to The Bronx. The fans, who love to spend Hal Steinbrenner’s money, are unanimous about the Yankees’ most complete player not leaving via free agency. Manager Aaron Boone and the players...
Eleven incumbent US presidents have run for re-election since Gallup began tracking their approval ratings in 1945. For 75 years, approval over 50 percent means a president wins a second term, while approval under 40 percent spells certain defeat. In this year of uncertainties, President Trump’s approval rating is right in the electoral gray zone....
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf sent off a stern warning to Twitter after the social media company suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan. “As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other Federal agencies continue to rely on Twitter to share important information with the U.S. public, your censorship poses...
The Guardian Angels are gearing up for possible rioting and unrest in the wake of Tuesday’s election. “Fear is growing among New York City residents and business owners that the contentious elections may lead to vandalism, looting, and rioting, as was seen in the City in mid-June,” the neighborhood-watch group said in a press release...
James Bond may have been the ultimate British adventurer-rogue, but when I think of great Sean Connery portrayals, my mind goes right to Danny Dravot, aka “The Man Who Would be King.” Connery and Michael Caine had the time of their lives playing two scrappy British sergeants out to retrace the steps of Alexander the...
An Uber passenger who requested a pitstop was shot and killed early Saturday in Brooklyn, police said. At some point during his ride, the 32-year-old passenger asked the driver to make a stop somewhere on Avenue H, between East 53rd and East 54th streets, according to police. When he got back in the car, he...
New York has eliminated its quarantine travel advisory list, replacing it with a strict new blanket testing policy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday. Under the new mandate, travelers from nearly every state in the union must show proof of a negative test taken within three days of arriving in New York, and must also quarantine...
The UFC returns to the Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. There are too many unknowns to recommend a wager on the main event between 45-year-old legend Anderson Silva and Uriah Hall. The co-main between Bryce Mitchell (-152) and Andre Fili (+125) is a better betting bout. Mitchell, the 15th-ranked featherweight, enters with a...
The Giants won’t take any cues from antagonizer Rex Ryan under Joe Judge’s watch. Especially not this week. Judge, who spent eight years as a New England Patriots special teams coach, was asked Saturday if he ever saw an opponent that lost a game before kickoff because they were in awe of future Hall of...
This is the first time New Yorkers have been able to vote early in person for a presidential contest and 3 million statewide have voted -- 1.97 million people cast ballots through Friday, according to a report.
Three firefighters were injured in a five-alarm blaze that raged at an auto body shop in Brooklyn Saturday morning, FDNY officials said. The fire erupted at 3432 Atlantic Ave. in Cypress Hills shortly after 7:30 a.m., FDNY Chief of Department John Sudnik said at a press conference at the scene. Sudnik said the three firefighters...
The 8-year-old girl who was hit by an out-of-control driver in Queens was killed in front of her family during a shopping outing for her brother’s 17th birthday, heartbroken relatives said Saturday. Jashanty Cole had just left Jimmy Jazz in Jamaica around 5:30 p.m. when a Range Rover came barreling over the curb along 164th...
Winter is here. Ignore the calendar. A deep freeze has arrived. “You know what we are going to hear for a while?” one veteran agent said of the expected echo chamber from teams, “ ‘We don’t know what we can spend because we don’t know our budget.’ It already has begun.” Free agents can begin signing...
The city Department of Education is hiding abysmal attendance in many schools on its website by omitting the numbers of students showing up, critics say. Mayor de Blasio admitted last week that only 283,000 students — about a quarter of the one million enrolled — have set foot in classes “at least once” since schools...
An American citizen kidnapped in Niger last week has been rescued in neighboring Nigeria by U.S. special forces. “Last night, our Country’s brave warriors rescued an American hostage in Nigeria. Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers behind the daring nighttime rescue operation and celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen!” President Trump said...
What do The Go-Go’s, Tina Turner, Kraftwerk, A Tribe Called Quest, Sonic Youth and Iron Maiden have in common? Not much. Except none of them are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “It’s a closed system,” said one industry player. “It’s all about the tastes of the older guys who started it: [Rolling...
In lieu of throwing her annual Halloween bash, the model instead filmed a short horror movie to keep her fans entertained.
Which member of the Brooklyn Nets’ coaching staff will Stephen A. Smith attack next? After slamming the hiring of first-time coach Steve Nash as “white privilege,” ESPN’s gasbag described new Nets assistant coach Mike D’Antoni as being unfit to be the head coach of a contender after making 10 playoff appearances in the role in...
The race for the White House is tightening, according to a new poll – with Joe Biden’s national lead dipping to just under 5 percent, and a much closer 3-percent margin in the battleground states. The results of the IBD/TIPP tracking poll, released Saturday, give President Trump fresh hope for another Electoral College win, even...
Four years ago, almost nobody gave Donald Trump a realistic chance to win the White House. Right up until the vote totals started coming in, Hillary Clinton was the prohibitive favorite in the minds of the media and the smart set. A few hours later, the outsider businessman from Queens was the president-elect. In 2016,...
The former US Senator and HBO political pundit sparred over whether or not this would be possible.
It was a “bad and boujee” moment, to quote Migos’ biggest hit, when Beverly Hills police stopped the trio’s superstar rapper Offset on Oct. 24 after he drove his $90,000 Jeep Cherokee Trackhawk past a Trump rally. The 28-year-old — real name Kiari Cephus — was in Los Angeles to perform at “Every Vote Counts:...
One day, there will be a team undaunted by the prospect of Patrick Mahomes greeting them at the entrance to Arrowhead Stadium, because that team will be quarterbacked by Trevor Lawrence. One day does not arrive on this day for the Jets. What arrives for them on the day after Halloween is an invitation for...
Boxer Floyd Mayweather will soon be a grandfather.
