May 27, 2015
McCann discusses 1 negative to all his Yankee Stadium HRs
Brian McCann hit his sixth homer of the season on Wednesday — and all six have come at Yankee Stadium. “I’m trying to put my finger on why that’s the...
Now he's The Cable Guy: Chris Gethard moves public access show to Fusion
New York comedian Chris Gethard is out to bring a little bit of what’s still weird about the city to a national audience. For years, the New Jersey native’s name...
David Duchovny gets his groovy on in NBC's 'Aquarius'
If someone told you Charles Manson might be the most intriguing fictional character on summer TV, you wouldn’t believe them. But on “Aquarius” — a stylish new NBC cop show...
Face it, George Clooney sucks
It's time for Hollywood to face facts: George Clooney is not a star. If you matched them up head-to-head, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson would crush him — and I don’t...
Hondo taking West test
Hondo cashed with the Twins and Nationals on Wednesday, which more than offset his loss with the Astros and enabled him to trim his deficit to 795 colavitos. Thursday: Mr....
After blasting 2 HRs, Lucas Duda explains his recent power surge
Wilmer Flores no longer leads the Mets in home runs this season. Lucas Duda saw to that Wednesday at Citi Field. In fact Duda even hit well enough to become...
Blackhawks blitz Ducks to force Game 7
CHICAGO — It is really hard to wear out Duncan Keith. He just keeps going and going and going. Keith had three assists and saved a goal in the third...
Why Vigneault was frustrated with Brassard after perfect Game 6
At a time of year when information is shared with the utmost reluctance, Derick Brassard delivered a wonderful look behind the scenes when he told the world his coach Alain...
How a wire-wearing ex-FIFA honcho rocked the soccer world
The $150 million FIFA bribery scandal that rocked the international soccer world Wednesday unraveled when a high-living fat cat who grew up in Queens went to work for the FBI...
Council green lights One Vanderbilt
One Vanderbilt got the green light Wednesday as the New York City Council voted unanimously to approve plans for the new skyscraper next door to Grand Central Terminal. The 1,501-foot...
Has Congress finally come to its Census?
Congress wants the Census Bureau’s finances audited. What took so long? A few weeks ago, this memo popped up on the website of the Inspector General of the Department of...
Relativity pair resign amid $200M debt conflict
Relativity Media announced Wednesday that two directors have resigned from the Ryan Kavanaugh-led company at the board’s request. The Post reported on May 22 that conflicts had erupted between the...
$20M man Jamie Dimon lashes out at 'lazy' shareholders
Jamie Dimon doesn’t want to hear your thoughts about running his bank. The JPMorgan CEO railed against some of the bank’s “lazy” shareholders on Wednesday, flogging them for voting to...
Suitors emerge in $2 billion Hostess bidding
Post Foods on Wednesday joined several suitors making nonbinding bids to acquire the back-from-the-dead Hostess bakery for roughly $2 billion, a source close to the situation told The Post. Grupo...
Giants' Victor Cruz gives latest update on his recovery process
Victor Cruz is getting close. “I’m about 80 percent there. I think it’s just a matter of continuing to build the strength for the last leg of it,” Cruz told...
Lightning on Rangers' Game 7 prowess: They haven't beat us
TAMPA — The Lightning’s best chance to reach the Stanley Cup final is gone, extinguished when shot after shot died on contact with Henrik Lundqvist, evaporated when the defense did...
Off-Broadway's ‘Nice Girl’ is an affectionate look at losers
Nice girls finish last. OK, maybe not dead last, but not far from the bottom. At least that’s the case in Melissa Ross’ new play “Nice Girl,” whose title character,...
IRS hack came from Russia
WASHINGTON — IRS investigators believe the identity thieves who stole the personal tax information of more than 100,000 taxpayers from an IRS website are part of a sophisticated criminal operation...
3 reasons why A-Rod still is the Yankees' most compelling player
Just a big bag of A-Rod Wednesday at Yankee Stadium. Although, when isn’t it? Now that the Yankees have climbed back to DEFCON 4, with Alex Rodriguez’s three-run, third-inning homer...
IRS chief shrugs at massive breach --- of course
The Internal Revenue Service can’t find stuff on its own computers — but hackers enter almost at will. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has had no trouble facing down questions about...
The latest Clinton shoe: Bill's shell corporation
Just two days after President Obama confirmed that Hillary Clinton would be his secretary of state, Bill Clinton set up a shell corporation to “channel” his payments for unspecified consulting...
Loretta Lynch cracks open the FIFA cesspool
Loretta Lynch earned the World Police MVP award Wednesday by cracking open the cesspool of FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, international soccer’s governing body. Attorney General Lynch came...
NY Democrats aim to play bedroom police
Emma Sulkowicz graduated from Columbia College last week, lugging her mattress under one arm as she reached for her degree with the other. Some classmates cheered Sulkowicz — the self-proclaimed...
Female filmgoers flip off feminist fury
Last week, Maggie Gyllenhaal told the media she’d recently been turned down for a role as the love interest of a male lead because she was too old. Gyllenhaal is...
'One man, one vote' ruling could upend New York politics
Hang on to your hats, New Yorkers. That’s the word in the wake of this week’s US Supreme Court decision to take a new look at the meaning of the...
Son charged in millionaire dad's death is denied bail
A Manhattan judge Wednesday denied the bail application of a man charged with fatally shooting his millionaire hedge-fund dad. Thomas Gilbert Jr., 30, sent a fill-in-the-blank bail application to Justice...
The Mets' strategy to keep Matt Harvey healthy is a mistake
The Mets insist the six-man rotation is about more than protecting Matt Harvey. They also want to throttle back on 42-year-old Bartolo Colon, recognize that neither Jacob deGrom nor Noah...
Psychic cheats heartbroken man out of $700K after girlfriend dies
A “psychic” swindler preyed on a lovelorn Brooklyn man for nearly two years, using his girlfriend’s death as an excuse to dupe him out of more than $700,000, officials said...
Appeals court upholds corruption conviction for ex-councilman
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the corruption conviction of ex-City Councilman Larry Seabrook, court papers show. Seabrook was sentenced to five years in prison after his 2012 conviction for...
Motorman's ban upheld after he broke safety rules for ill trainee
The motorman who was suspended for breaking the rules to rescue a student lost a disciplinary hearing fighting his suspension, the Post has learned. Quincy Calhoun was teaching a student...
Lawyers hand over Cashman's phone records to ex-mistress
The Yankees brought their big bats to court Wednesday. Team COO and General Counsel Lonn Trost watched from the gallery as Bombers lawyers agreed to hand over portions of GM...
FBI probing NYC jail guards union over investments
Federal prosecutors are probing the finances of the powerful correction-officers union, the Post has learned. The Manhattan US Attorney’s Office has subpoenaed financial documents from the treasurer of the 9,000-member...
Student pushed in front of train graduates with hero cops by her side
A Hunter College student who was shoved in front of a Metro-North train by a deranged homeless man graduated on Wednesday with the cops who saved her life by her...
Rand Paul says GOP hawks 'created' ISIS
WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is blaming his own party for the rise of the Islamic State group. The freshman senator from Kentucky said Wednesday that the GOP's...
Ex-Madoff trader avoids jail after cooperating with feds
An ex-Bernie Madoff trader was sentenced to 10 months home detention Wednesday – the latest employee of the arch-Ponzi schemer to get a no-jail sentence after cooperating with Manhattan federal...
'Shaq threatened to murder Kobe' during final season together
Gradually strained throughout their title run together, the relationship between Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal deteriorated severely at the end of their co-existence in Los Angeles --- to the point...
We hear ...
That a $6.9 million unit at the Thomas Juul-Hansen-designed 505 W. 19th St. that Jessica Alba and pro-golfer Rory McIlroy both toured is now in contract, snapped up a mystery...
Winters coming: 'Battle Creek' star house hunting in NYC
CBS may have cancelled “Battle Creek,” from “Breaking Bad’s” Vince Gilligan earlier this month, but its star, Dean Winters, has come a long way from boyfriend roles on "Sex and...
Costa doing business: Calvin Klein designer selling $2.3 million apartment
Calvin Klein’s women’s creative director, Francisco Costa, is selling his two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at 220 Madison Ave. in Murray Hill that he shares with his longtime partner, horse trainer John...
Old Warhol hangout selling for $539K
Andy Warhol used to haunt this East 42nd Street pad back in the day, when he’d hang here with its former owner, the late Tina Fredericks, a magazine editrix credited...
New cribs on the block: The 2015 guide to new NYC rentals
Despite the condo market’s healthy development activity, New York City remains more of a hot spot for renters. A whopping 67.5 percent of residents across the five boroughs rented the...
Nebraska becomes first conservative state to ban death penalty since 1973
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska abolished the death penalty on Wednesday in a landmark veto-override vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment. Senators in the one-house...
Rangers tickets for Game 7 will cost you a small fortune
Want to see the Rangers try to advance to the Stanley Cup final for the second consecutive season? It’s going to cost you — big time. According to data from...
The 5 fastest ways that men die
Sure, a heart attack can kill you almost instantly. But surprisingly, myocardial infarction doesn’t actually rank as the most common cause of sudden death among younger guys, says Gerald Wydro,...
Hawks deserve a second chance to prove you don't need a star
The Atlanta Hawks saw their season end with a thud Tuesday night, getting waxed by the Cleveland Cavaliers by 30 points as they were swept out of the Eastern Conference...
Tracy Morgan settles lawsuit: 'Walmart did right by me'
Walmart has thrown in the towel and agreed to settle a civil lawsuit brought on by actor Tracy Morgan — who was severely injured during a car crash last year that...
The day in photos
Butterflies leave us aflutter, President Barack Obama takes flight and more.
Chicago cops posed with suspect in disturbing 'hunting' photo
A disgusting display of police work has surfaced in Chicago -- where two white cops were caught on camera pretending to be hunters as they posed with rifles alongside a...
Carmelo Anthony is NBA's 'most overrated:' Bucks' Dudley
The hits keep on coming for Carmelo Anthony. Just one day after Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith reached the NBA Finals for the first time in their career following a...
Mom finds baby dead in stroller
A Queens mom found her infant daughter dead in her stroller as the two were sitting in a Forest Hills park Wednesday, authorities said. Ten-week-old Zoey Kaplan was with her...
Noah Syndergaard homers at plate, dominates on mound
Noah Syndergaard’s complete game didn’t need nine innings Wednesday. The stud rookie turned Citi Field into his personal sandlot, with the kind of all-around performance that should have left the...
Earthquake disaster flick ‘San Andreas’ is silly to a fault
In the idiotic new disaster movie “San Andreas," a woman trusts her fiancé to bring her daughter back to college — only to have him leave the girl trapped in...
A-Rod, Pineda help finish off Yankees sweep of Royals
It’s hard to imagine the Yankees playing worse than they did less than a week ago, when they were in the midst of losing 10 of 11 games. But manager...
If your man does these 6 things, he's having an affair
You’ve got a feeling your significant other is up to no good. But even if your intuition is right, changes are he’s not going to answer your prompts with, “Yes,...
Eli Manning fan of joint practice -- now that Shockey's gone
Eli Manning was asked if he remembered the last time the Giants worked with another team in a joint training camp practice. Manning did not immediately come up with the...
Get off your high horse, Kris Jenner — you’re not the only ‘momager’
The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” matriarch is far from the only celebrity mama to take her child’s career to the top.
Jets take step back from Geno Smith vote of confidence
A week ago, new Jets offensive coordinator Chan Gailey made it sound as if it would take something between a case of malaria and an amputated right arm for Geno...
Behold, the Instagram that transforms your favorite celebs into gingers
File this under brilliant and absurd. “Put a Rang On It” is a clever new Instagram account that reimagines — via top-notch Photoshop — big-name stars as fair gingers in...
Drugs, boxing, naked girls: Why Penn State withdrew recognition from frat
Penn State University on Tuesday said it was withdrawing recognition from a fraternity for three years after members were accused of posting pictures they took of mostly undressed women onto...
Feds indict FIFA execs in $150M kickback scheme
Calling it “the World Cup of fraud,” federal authorities in Brooklyn on Wednesday announced charges against nine international soccer executives, accusing them of pocketing more than $150 million in bribes...
Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson are barely entertaining in 'Barely Lethal'
Treading the same halls as “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman,” “Barely Lethal” imagines an academy of teen assassins. Life there is deadly, but not as scary as high school. Hailee Steinfeld plays...
Chris Mullin has no idea what'll happen with Rysheed Jordan
Chris Mullin still doesn’t know if he’ll have St. John’s best returning player for the start of the season -- or at all. The new coach said Rysheed Jordan’s grades continue to...
Graphic kidnap drama 'Unfreedom' paints too broad strokes
Hate, extremism, torture and rape are bad; love is good. If the last sentence blew your mind, you may be the target audience for this broad-strokes, dual-plotline drama from debut...
Guy Pearce's 'Results' is a mildly amusing workout
Dry humor — of the kind that doesn’t really try to make you laugh, and succeeds — gets a workout in writer-director Andrew Bujalski’s thin rom-com “Results.” Cobie Smulders plays...
The life is back in Matt Harvey's fastball
The pitches came in at 96 mph, but as Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen said, “There’s 96. And then there’s 96. There’s a 96 with life at the end.” And...
Fairway looks to grow by shrinking store size
Fairway Market’s answer to five straight years of losses is to shrink the size of its stores. The 15-store New York grocer will be opening smaller outlets from now on...
College lab tech arrested for selling date-rape drug
A chemistry lab technician at Auburn University was arrested Friday after allegedly selling a large amount of date rape drug, police say.
Internet troll who claimed Obama is gay banned from Twitter
The world’s most notorious troll has been banned from Twitter six years after he joined, but his social media silencing is unlikely to last. Charles Johnson, a journalist and “debunker...
Martoma tries new tack to overturn conviction
Mathew Martoma, who is serving nine years in prison for carrying out the most lucrative insider trading scheme in history, said he should be freed after an appeals court tossed...
A great Rangers town awaits its biggest game since raising Cup
It is all about the silver chalice, that has been established, but here in New York, here on the Broadway stage, this can become the golden era of Rangers hockey....
Amy Schumer wants you to get over your fond Cosby memories already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sq4gVZ4cBc For the generation that grew up watching Bill Cosby, his spectacular fall from grace was like watching a wall of your childhood home ripped away. Finding out that the...
Lab chimps likened to enslaved blacks at animal-rights trial
The Nonhuman Rights Project is asking a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to grant a writ of habeas corpus to two chimpanzees living in a Stony Brook University lab in Suffolk County....
Masahiro Tanaka's rocky rehab start could delay return to Yanks
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Masahiro Tanaka right elbow felt fine. That was the good news. His performance, however, didn’t scream major league ready. The Yankees ace, out since April 23 with...
Blame your lame dance skills on your hearing
So you think you can’t dance? If you often find yourself struggling to keep time with music, you may be suffering from beat deafness, a rare brain disorder that prevents...
Regina George is so fetch in this deleted scene from ‘Mean Girls’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUFfddrg1tE Regina George has a soul after all. In a newly resurfaced scene from “Mean Girls,” Rachel McAdams’ feisty queen bee Regina confronts Lindsay Lohan’s good girl/mathlete Cady Heron in...
Student gets detention for giving 'ghost pepper' to classmates
A Long Island student is red-hot mad that he was slapped with detention for bringing one of the world’s spiciest peppers to his high school and sharing it with pals,...
Live like a baller in Michael Jordan’s Chicago mansion
Michael Jordan refuses to quit. The basketball legend may not have initially made his high school varsity team as a youngster, but he still went on to lead an illustrious...
LeBron James taking a role in Johnny Manziel's recovery
Johnny Manziel is a new man, and he has LeBron James to thank for that. Manziel, who is in camp with the Browns after spending ten weeks in a rehab...
The swimming coach 'running on water'
Lenka Tanner has a biblical swimming stunt up her sleeve. The Slovakian synchronized swimming coach can not only walk on water, she can run. She starts the trick by taking...
Daredevil geologist snaps photos on volcano
An Italian geologist is living life on the edge — of a volcano! A little lava didn’t scare Francesco Pandolfo, who got dangerously close to Mount Nyirangongo to get an...
Stealthy crocodile uses algae to disappear
This crocodile is the master of disguise. A conniving croc inconspicuously floated down a pond at a Thailand zoo, camouflaging itself with a layer of algae. Photographer Song Kanokrattana spent...
John Paulson could go Dutch in drug takeover battle
There’s a $40 billion drug deal brewing — and billionaire investor John Paulson just might find himself in the middle of it, the Post has learned. If Teva, the giant...
Hunt on for men who axed woman to death over 'witchcraft'
BANGKOK - Police in Papua New Guinea vowed to find the men who axed to death a woman accused of using witchcraft to spark a measles outbreak in the country's...
I have a birthmark on my face -- I don't need a doll with one
I have a massive birthmark that covers the left side of my face. It’s brown and vaguely shaped like Africa, with a few errant splatters of pigment under my eye...
Rihanna struts her way through Versailles in Dior’s new film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GalVgIH2wSA Rihanna takes a midnight stroll through a Parisian palace in Dior’s latest film. And while Band of Outsiders is shuttering, Hillary Clinton’s e-commerce endeavor is only heating up. -...
McDonald's CEO to investors: Hey, check out our buns!
McDonald’s new chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, said the burger joint is toasting its buns longer to improve the taste — part of a bid to hit the “reset” button on...
Over 1,100 dead in powerful India heat wave
HYDERABAD, India — Soaring summer temperatures in India have left over 1,100 people dead over the past month, officials said Wednesday. Most of the deaths have been reported in the...
Watch Gronk's booze-fueled tribute to Tom Brady
If you thought Gisele Bundchen was Tom Brady's biggest fan, think again. During his motorboating-filled holiday weekend, Rob Gronkowski took a moment to praise his teammate's innocence through a booze-fueled...
Rick Santorum launches presidential campaign
CABOT, Pa. — Conservative culture warrior Rick Santorum launched a 2016 White House bid on Wednesday, vowing to fight for working-class Americans in a new election season that will test...
New flood warning as Houston searches for bodies
The National Weather Service issued a new flash flood warning on Wednesday for Houston as the fourth most-populous U.S. city searched for bodies from deadly storms that turned neighborhoods into...
Copper theft leaves thousands of subway riders stranded
Five hundred feet of copper wire was ripped out of a stretch of track in southwestern Queens-- delaying hundreds of thousands of riders on the city’s longest subway line, authorities...
Tennis star: I'm having sex all the time, but never with tennis chicks
While it is common for sports men and women to abstain before a big game, rising tennis star Nick Kyrgios says that rule doesn’t apply to him. “I don’t abide...
Over 60 students sexually abused at Horace Mann: group
More than 60 students were sexually abused at Horace Mann School in the Bronx from the 1960s to 90s, double the number of victims than originally believed, according to a...
Michael Kors sinks on smallest sales gain since 2011 IPO
Is Michael Kors too big to succeed? That’s the question facing the company, which startled the market by reporting a 6.7 percent quarterly decline in same-store sales in North America...
How flaky J.R. Smith became LeBron's perfect running mate
Once upon a time, J.R. Smith, a Freehold, N.J. native, considered playing with Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks the pinnacle of his career. But nobody sounded more grateful to be...
Letterman marquee removed from Ed Sullivan Theater
Workers began removing David Letterman’s the former late night king’s marquee outside the Ed Sullivan Theater early Wednesday morning — just a week after the funnyman’s epic final late-night show....
Bryant vs. Harper lives up to hype with two very different homers
CHICAGO — The moment Kris Bryant made contact, just about everyone in the Cubs' dugout rose to take a look. It was hard to tell if the ball struck the...
52-year-old twins charged with hurling bricks at each other
ORANGE CITY, Fla. — What are a few bricks between brothers? Well, they're worth battery charges for twin 52-year-olds after officials say an argument ended with them hurling the projectiles...
These veggie burgers are worse for you than a Big Mac
When you order a veggie burger, you don't have to worry about whether the beef you're about to eat is antibiotic-free and grass-fed. Still, there's a good chance your favorite...
Rafters discover aircraft wreckage, bones in Grand Canyon
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A group of river rafters in search of old mining equipment on a hike at the Grand Canyon came across something unexpected during a recent trip: the...
Canadian diplomat's son seeks bail in drug-related killings
MIAMI — The teenage son of a prominent Canadian diplomat is seeking release from custody on bail in a drug-related South Florida shootout that killed his older brother and another...
Bear climbs tower to get raven's eggs
This fearless black bear scaled a 100-foot-tall electrical tower and raided a raven’s nest for an egg brunch.
Homeless man pleads not guilty to killing shelter worker
The homeless man charged with killing a beloved Bronx shelter manager pleaded not guilty on Tuesday — while again asking the court to let him represent himself. West Spruill, 39,...
'Not amateurs': IRS hackers steal thousands of taxpayers' info
About 100,000 taxpayers are about to get letters from the IRS — and the news will be worse than usual. Hackers broke into an IRS system and ripped off sensitive...
'Corrupt' councilman must forfeit pension
Federal prosecutors can seize disgraced ex-City Councilman Larry Seabrook’s pension, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Seabrook, who was sentenced to five years in jail after he was convicted on corruption charges...
'Lying' cop costs NYPD big-time bust
A judge said an NYPD cop is such a big liar that there was no choice but to toss out evidence that could have put a suspected drug dealer behind...
Bill took the (f)risk, and we're all paying the price
Things are starting to go a little wrong in New York City. Not a lot wrong. A little wrong. What we don’t know is the point at which something that’s...
Twin brothers shot, one fatally
Twin brothers were shot, one fatally, in a Brooklyn apartment on Stillwell Avenue arta round 11 p.m.late Tuesday night, sources said. The brothers were taken to area hospitals where one...
Subscribers help TiVo beat Q1 forecast
TiVo’s stock rose 4.7 percent in after-market trading Tuesday after the TV services’ company beat first-quarter estimates on strong subscriber growth. Earnings fell 2.5 percent in the period, to $7.9...
Masahiro Tanaka one pain-free start away from Yankees return
Masahiro Tanaka hasn’t pitched for the Yankees since April 23. If all goes well in Pawtucket, R.I. on Wednesday, that could change soon. The right-hander, who is rehabbing from right...
All of a sudden this Rangers youngster is a playoff star
TAMPA — To think, last year, J.T. Miller spent all but four games of the Rangers’ Stanley Cup final run watching his teammates from the side, a healthy scratch deemed...
Time Inc. enters sports blogging world with new acquisition
Even while Time Inc. gets ready to ship more jobs overseas, it’s targeting some small niche operations for acquisition in the US. The company said it was buying the sports...
Mets expect rehabbing Travis d'Arnaud to return next week
Travis d’Arnaud’s comeback tour is underway. The Mets catcher caught five innings Tuesday in an extended spring training game in Port St. Lucie and went 1-for-3 at the plate in...
Cops still stumped as slain rapper is laid to rest
Family and friends packed a Queens church Tuesday for the wake and funeral of aspiring rapper Lionel “Chinx” Pickens as cops were still hunting for a motive and suspect in the...
Keith Yandle starting to make GM Sather look like a genius
TAMPA — It was a risk, and for a while there, it looks liked it was a risk that was going to backfire on Glen Sather. But the Rangers general...
De Blasio's school program revamp ignores teacher unions
Mayor de Blasio rolled out plans Tuesday to allow another 64 public schools to operate outside teacher-union guidelines — much like the charter schools he opposes. The so-called PROSE program...
'Hustling' cabbie injures cops during getaway attempt
Two Port Authority Police officers were injured Tuesday after they tried to bust a reckless taxi hustler at JFK Airport who hit one of the officers with his car during...
Jacob deGrom finds silver linings on night the pen cost him a 'W'
There was not much else the Mets could have asked of Jacob deGrom on Tuesday. When the reigning NL Rookie of the Year departed the game in the eighth inning,...
NY education board names Florida teacher commissioner
The Board of Regents on Tuesday has named a nationally recognized Florida educator — who has a reputation as a reformer who works well with teachers unions — as New...
Ryan Callahan finally scores playoff goal and it doesn't matter
TAMPA — Ryan Callahan ended one miserable stretch on Tuesday night, but saw the streak he really wanted to snap extend at least another two days, perhaps, for another year....
Chirlane McCray gets school-funded trip to Italy
First Lady Chirlane McCray is heading back to Italy — with NYU picking up the $6,500 tab. The mayor’s office announced Tuesday she will leave Wednesday for a four-night, NYU-sponsored...
Top FIFA officials arrested in raid on luxury hotel
ZURICH — Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings into FIFA's awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested Wednesday pending extradition to the...
These numbers show just how dominant Dellin Betances is
Dellin Betances has faced 30 batters over the past 22 days. He has retired 28 of them. Just two — the Nationals’ Dan Uggla and the Rays’ James Loney —...
Hondo goes for a triple
The Giants came up with a large victory for Hondo on Tuesday night in Milwaukee, cruising past the Brewskis to lower the deficit to 845 andersons. Wednesday: Mr. Aitch expects...
Real-estate royalty buys Olympic Tower for $1B
The Chera family’s Crown Acquisitions and partner Oxford Properties Group now own the entire office and retail base of Olympic Tower at 641 Fifth Ave., which they purchased in two...
A-Rod, Teixeira carrying Yankees when we least expected it
And two down-and-out geezers shall lead them. Where on the reality spectrum did we have Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez operating in tandem so effectively here in 2015? Somewhere between...
Vox Media acquires tech website Re/code
Kara Swisher and Walter Mossberg said they are selling their Re/code operation to Vox Media. The news was first reported on the New York Times website Tuesday. Swisher and Mossberg had...
Time Inc. to step-up its India workforce
Time Inc. plans to more than double the size of its workforce in India to upward of 1,000 employees by the end of 2016, according to remarks made by Chief...
Perry Ellis names fashion bigs as new execs
Perry Ellis International has averted a full-blown proxy fight — for now. Legion Partners Asset Management and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (Calstrs) withdrew their three board nominees on...
Wilmer Flores has earned a break from booing and speculation
They were mobbing Wilmer Flores when it ended, because he has been through plenty, been doubted and crucified on social media and in the tabloid media, and never blinked. The...
Girl arrested for killing mom's boyfriend over soda
Police arrested a woman Tuesday accused of fatally stabbing her mom’s sleeping boyfriend because her sister refused to hand over a soda, law enforcement sources said. Burnette Singleton, 34, of...
Insurance could cover IVF in the future
The sky-high cost of in-vitro fertilization — from $10,000 to $25,000 per treatment cycle — would be covered by insurance under a bill introduced in Albany. Neither ObamaCare nor state...
Henrik Lundqvist's legacy won't be defined by Stanley Cup title
TAMPA — One more time, there will be a Game 7, there will be a night of hope and horror and everything in between at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers...
De Blasio blasts kid-banning school carnival
Administrators at the Queens school that barred students from its end-of-year carnival because they didn’t pay the $10 entry fee should be ashamed, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday. “It’s unconscionable...
The challenge that turned Brassard into a Game 6 hero
TAMPA — Challenge accepted. Challenge accepted by the resilient Rangers, who staved off elimination for the fourth time this spring and for the 15th time over the last four tournaments...
NYPD boss spent $60K on dance studio for cops, infuriating Bratton
An NYPD boss dropped $60,000 to turn an old printing room at Police Headquarters into a Zumba dance studio — in a move that infuriated top cop Bill Bratton, police...
Who's there? Seacrest hosting 'Knock Knock Live' on Fox
When does this guy sleep? TV’s busiest host, Ryan Seacrest, has added another gig to his ever-expanding resume as the host of “Knock Knock Live,” a new unscripted “life-changing” Fox...
Potter's Dumbeldore to play Churchill in PBS movie
English actor Michael Gambon (the “Harry Potter” movies) is set to play Sir Winston Churchill in a new TV movie airing on PBS’ “Masterpiece” franchise next year. “Churchill’s Secret” —...
Summer TV: Where 10 of your favorite returning dramas left off
Nearly nine months have passed since we last saw some of our favorite summer TV series — ample time to forget all that finale drama that kept us so riveted...
Drones, robots, donkeys: The 6 wackiest wedding trends
It's no longer enough to throw on a big, poofy gown, grab a bouquet of roses and walk down the aisle if you want your big day to stand out...
LeBron carries Cavs, J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert into NBA Finals
LeBron James knew what he left behind when he bolted to Miami five years ago. He broke hearts at home, where generations of Cleveland fans only know championships through stories...
Results of kids' IQ study are 'a disaster'
Now they have the proof that filthy air damages children’s brains. Columbia University’s ground-breaking study linking airborne toxins to lower IQs among poor New York City kids is a wake-up...
The $130 MTA 'invisible fare'
New Yorkers are hit with an “invisible fare” of $130 a month in taxes, fees and subsidies for the MTA, the city comptroller charged Monday. This ranges from sales and...
Daily Blotter
Bronx Police have released photos of two men — one on a scooter — fleeing the scene of a woman’s shooting last month in the West Bronx. The 49-year-old victim...