“I shot two white kids,” 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse told his hometown cops just two hours after he admittedly opened fire with an AR-15 at a protest in Kenosha, Wisc., leaving two dead and one wounded, according to a new report. Details of the shaken teen’s alleged confession inside an Antioch, Illinois police station — made...
Herb Adderley, the Hall of Fame cornerback who joined the NFL as a running back and became part of a record six championship teams with the Packers and Cowboys, has died. He was 81. His death was confirmed by the team Friday, with no details given. Nasir Adderley, a safety for the Los Angeles Chargers,...
As other teams look to shed payroll amid a pandemic, Steve Cohen figures to bring a fat wallet to free agency. The new Mets owner — who will close his $2.4 billion deal to acquire the team from Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz within the next 10 days — seemed anxious to get started Friday,...
A Maine woman who sent a threatening letter to Sen. Susan Collins after her vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Suzanne Muscara, 38, was convicted last November of mailing what she said was a joke letter containing white powder and...
Sacramento twin girls who were born conjoined at the head were successfully separated in an extensive, day-long surgical procedure Friday. Nine-month-old Abigail and Micaela Bachinskiy underwent a 24-hour surgery at UC Davis Medical Center and were successfully separated in the early hours of Friday morning reports KCRA3. The joining of the little girls’ skulls and...
A Post Office in Florida’s largest county is inundated with a mail backlog, which could reportedly contain ballots. The Minority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives, Kionne Mcghee, posted undated footage to his Twitter account on Friday that allegedly showed USPS Inspection Service officials arriving at a Florida Post Office location in Miami-Dade County...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day would be an appropriate tip-off for the NBA season, considering these social-justice times. The Post reported that possibility back in September, when commissioner Adam Silver was imagining fans in team’s home arenas. Upon further COVID-19 pandemic review, however, starting up the new season at Christmastime would be a wiser, better...
Two pedestrians — including an 8-year-old girl — were struck and killed by an out-of-control SUV in Queens on Friday, the NYPD said. The black Range Rover was going southbound on 164th Street in Jamaica at around 5:30 p.m. when the driver lost control and the car jumped the curb, hitting the young girl and...
The Post’s Mike Puma takes a look back at the Wilpon era, which concluded Friday with the sale of the Mets to Steve Cohen: Highs 2000: The Mets, co-owned by Fred Wilpon and Nelson Doubleday, win the National League pennant and play the Yankees in the first Subway World Series since 1956, losing in five...
New Nets coach Steve Nash revolutionized NBA offense as a point guard with the Suns, earning every accolade except a championship while playing under Mike D’Antoni. Now, Nash is looking to finally win that title, with his former mentor now his assistant. Hiring D’Antoni to be a team’s head coach would normally be considered a...
More than a million tons a year of America’s plastic trash isn’t ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash. In 2016 — the last year enough data...
MANILA – Philippine officials on Saturday ordered an evacuation of thousands of residents in the southern part of the main Luzon island as a category 5 storm that is the world’s strongest this year approaches the Southeast Asian nation. Typhoon Goni, with 133 miles sustained winds and gusts of up to 164 mph, will make...
Quinnen Williams said he didn’t have a reaction to swirling reports that the Jets were shopping him. When head coach Adam Gase publicly refuted the notion that Williams was on the trade block this week, it was all the same to Williams, who insisted Friday that he didn’t pay any attention to such rumors in...
A two-time murderer who’d been released on lifetime parole is back behind bars — after she was arrested on Friday for allegedly shooting a man in the neck during an argument at a Manhattan subway station earlier this month, police said. Before being released just last year, Rona Love, 59, had spent 25 years in...
It would be understandable if general manager Dave Gettleman and the Giants are dealing with buyer’s remorse. On Monday night, they will get an up-close look at what might have been. Tristan Wirfs — the NFL’s highest-graded rookie offensive tackle according to Pro Football Focus — will be in town playing right tackle for the...
Steve Cohen’s first photo as Mets owner could be an encouraging one. The hedge fund billionaire’s wife, Alex, shared a photo to Twitter of her and Cohen after he officially bought the Mets from the Wilpons for $2.4 billion on Friday. The pictured showed the couple at home, Cohen with his legs crossed sporting a...
With four teams on a bye in Week 8 and a continued rash of injuries, fantasy football owners are having a tough time patching their lineups together for this weekend. There are no quality running backs available on the waiver wire, and unless you own one of the top four tight ends, that position has...
Both ambushed cops will survive, including one who now has a bullet lodged in his skull, authorities said.
Of course, Michael Skakel got away with the murder of Martha Moxley.
For most of the 37 years in which he owned the Yankees, a quote George Steinbrenner issued on the day he officially put together a group to purchase his baseball team alternately haunted him and caused gales of laughter in his wake because of the supreme irony attached to every syllable. “We plan absentee ownership...
The number of new U.S. COVID-19 cases continued to break records for the third day straight on Friday, when more than 97,000 infections were reported, according to NBC News. That number tops Thursday’s previous record-breaking 90,456 cases. And Thursday’s number had broken Wednesday’s record high of 80,662 new cases. In all, it is the fifth...
Two-time World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe and 11-time WNBA All-Star Sue Bird are getting hitched. The sports power couple announced their engagement with a photo posted to Bird’s Instagram account on Friday and a representative for Rapinoe confirmed the news to Reuters, as congratulations for the couple poured in from across social media. Four-time Olympic...
Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has claimed his spectacular ouster from the pizza chain last year was orchestrated by an advertising firm that was trying to extort $6 million from him — and now he claims that he has the tapes to prove it. The embattled fast-food tycoon — who last year left the company’s...
You could get an entire MBA-style education, master Microsoft Office Suite, boost your resume, and so, so much more without even leaving your house. One hobby you have likely already seen growing on social media is the DIY clothing movement. With all their free time, people are dusting off their grandmother’s old sewing machine and...
Finally! The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its latest Costume Institute show Thursday, after multiple delays — and a canceled gala — due to COVID-19. And it’s only fitting, since the exhibit is all about . . . time. “About Time: Fashion and Duration” marks the Met’s 150th anniversary, and the exhibit reflects 150 years of fashion,...
