Month: June 2018

Enes Kanter has exercised his $18.6 million player option to remain with the Knicks.

Mookie Betts hacked feebly at CC Sabathia’s 97th and final pitch, and the Red Sox right fielder was only able to send a dribbler 55 feet to the right of the mound.

But the 37-year-old Sabathia, all 300 pounds of him, quickly pivoted from his follow-through, scooped up the ball and threw it underhand…

MAE SAI, Thailand — The effort to locate 12 boys and their soccer coach missing in a cave in Thailand for a week has picked up pace, with a break in the rain easing flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joining the mission.

The search effort in the northern province…

NEW YORK — Threats of violence against journalists for doing their jobs are commonplace, and a coping strategy for many is the thought that the words are mostly empty — until that small comfort was shattered by the shooting deaths of five people in a Maryland newspaper newsroom.

Reporters largely…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The newest furry member of the Sacramento Zoo is relying on human care after her mother started neglecting the tiny red panda.

Sacramento Zoo spokeswoman Laurel Vincent said Friday that the female cub was born Monday to 7-year-old Pili and 9-year-old Takeo.

Veterinarians took…

We’re living in frightening times in the United States, and the group that feels this most viscerally are immigrants. Immigrants and their relatives have been under attack since Jan. 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump was sworn in.

Since then, we’ve witnessed border patrol agents cruelly separate children…

NEW YORK — A few days ago, few people outside of Queens and the Bronx knew who Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was.

Now she’s being asked about running for president.

The 28-year-old Democrat appeared on the ABC program “The View” Friday to talk about her upset victory in a primary over a 10-term New…

Let there be no misunderstanding, now that young Lesandro Guzman-Feliz lies in the earth, the blood let from his neck like an animal:

The slaughter of a promising 15-year-old Bronx boy known as Junior at the hands of criminal gang members who mistook him for their intended target cannot be left…

Our great city on the sea usually shrugs at the water-borne wonders that lie literally all around us. So it’s high time, whatever the tide, to make a break for Coney Island, where today the New York Aquarium debuts a new exhibit of marine creatures built to live in this tough town, “Ocean Wonders:…

The Daily News is proud to co-sponsor Citizenship NOW!, in its 16th year. Nearly 50 attorneys and 250 other volunteers will spend this summer’s day at John Jay College helping immigrants navigate the intimidating road toward U.S citizenship.

This nation has never more needed the hard-working, revitalizing…

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks finished mostly higher Friday, but they surrendered most of an early gain as worries about rising tariffs once again dampened investors’ enthusiasm as the second quarter came to an end.

Banks led the early rally. The Federal Reserve gave the green light for most large U.S….

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, a 1983 U.S. Military Academy graduate who has held high-ranking Army posts in Europe and Asia, will become the first black officer to command West Point in its 216-year history, academy officials announced Friday.

Williams will assume command as the…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Liberal activists, parents and first-time protesters motivated by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border plan to rally in hundreds of cities nationwide Saturday to press President Donald Trump’s administration to reunite the families quickly.

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MTA angels on the Q70 bus

Chicago: The morning of June 19 brought me a pleasant surprise, which I feel compelled to share with you as an example of excellent customer service. I was visiting New York for business in the Jacob Javits Convention Center. In the middle of a transfer from the Q70 bus…

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A federal judge says Kentucky can’t require poor people to get a job to keep their Medicaid benefits, chastising President Donald Trump’s administration for rubber-stamping the new rules without considering how many people would lose their health coverage.

The decision is a setback…

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to bring up Russian election meddling during his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin, part of a wide-ranging list of topics that could include sanctions and the status of Crimea.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he planned…

ORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida professor is facing stalking charges after a Ph.D. student says he sent her more than 800 messages per day and watched her work out through the window at her gym.

Ali Borji, a 39-year-old assistant professor in the school’s Department of Computer…

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program.

The NSA’s bulk collection of call records was initially…

They’re accused of the vicious machete killing of Bronx teen Lesandro (Junior) Guzman-Feliz, but on Friday two of his suspected killers said they didn’t do it .

Jonaiki Martinez-Estrella, the 24-year-old who cops say delivered the fatal blow to the neck of the 15-year-old best known as Junior,…

DURANGO, Colo. — An orphaned bear cub suffered painful burns to her paws in one of the half-dozen significant wildfires scorching Colorado, but she is being nursed back to health, state officials said Friday.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers believe the bear will recover well enough to be released…

Shooters shoot.

Like most Jersey kids born in the 1990s, Mike Trout idolized Derek Jeter.

The current face of MLB even repped No. 2 growing up in honor of the Yankees legend.

So when Trout rolled up to second base during his rookie season and met Jeter for the first time, he asked for an autograph.

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PHOENIX — The Trump administration says a ruling this week by a federal judge in San Diego requiring the government to reunify families separated at the border means authorities can legally keep families detained until their cases are complete.

The interpretation means immigrant families could…

A Manhattan judge has told Madonna to take a bow from her suing her co-op board.

The pop star can no longer seek documents from her Central Park West co-op board explaining why they changed the rules to bar her kids from using her posh $7.3 million pad, a state supreme court judge ruled Friday.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Quietly clutching candles or hoisting #AnnapolisStrong signs, more than 1,000 people streamed through Maryland’s capital, remembering five people slain in a newspaper office not just as gatekeepers of the news but as a crucial piece of their tight-knit community.

Friends, former…

With the Red Sox stacking up three left-handed starting pitchers this weekend in the Bronx, the Yankees summoned Brandon Drury from Triple-A Scranton to provide a righty-swinging option to the slumping Greg Bird at first base.

Those plans still might not have changed fully after the oft-injured…

Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres anchored the Yankees offense in an 8-1 win over the Red Sox Friday night, but inside the clubhouse it was just another day at the office for the youngest of the Baby Bombers.

“Not surprised anymore,” manager Aaron Boone said after the game. “Gleyber with the big…

The greatest basketball player in the world might join a new team, instantly making it a title contender. Or he might stay with the Cavaliers.

The free-agent market opens at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Sunday. James might end up in Cleveland after all.

The Liberty don’t have many wins this season, but at least they have set a W.N.B.A. record for most Kias in league history.

The greatest basketball player in the world might join a new team, instantly making it a title contender. Or he might stay with the Cavaliers.

The free-agent market opens at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Sunday. James might end up in Cleveland after all.

The Liberty don’t have many wins this season, but at least they have set a W.N.B.A. record for most Kias in league history.

James Dolan plans to separate the Madison Square Garden Company from the Knicks and Rangers.

Enes Kanter just announced that he’s opting in to his $18.6 million deal with the Knicks — and he did it using a play on Donald Trump’s slogan.

Knicks’ Frank Ntilikina, Kevin Knox and Mitchell Robinson headline the 2018 Summer League roster.

LeBron James opted out, and will now be targeted by the Lakers, Rockets, 76ers, and others as the 33-year-old decides on his next landing spot.

Center Enes Kanter said he still has yet to make a decision on whether he decided to opt into his $18.6 million player option with the Knicks after a report said he would exercise that option.

Here are three potential free agents the Knicks could target when NBA free agency begins. Each player’s name includes their age, height, weight and free-agent status: Michael Beasley, 29, 6-9, 235 Unrestricted free agent The Knicks either sign their surprisingly dynamic forward who started after Kristaps Porzingis went down or find his replacement. Beasley scored…

Well, it was a great couple of days for Knicks fans. For about 48 hours, New York hoops fans worked themselves into a state of giddy hopefulness — believing Wednesday’s announcement by Madison Square Garden that it was weighing a move to spin off the Knicks and its other sports teams was an oblique message…

Mike Francesa criticized former Knicks president Phil Jackson during an appearance on “Desus and Mero” on Thursday, claiming the legendary coach “stole” the hefty salary he received from the team from 2014 to 2017. “He [Knicks owner James Dolan] brought Phil Jackson in, he gave him a ton of money, he gave him carte blanche,…

“The Decision” was obvious. Enes Kanter finally announced he’s opting into his contract, doing so flamboyantly on Twitter with a photo of himself at a podium with the sign “Make Knicks Great Again.” Kanter, after exploring other options, didn’t find a long-term deal that would make it worth leaving $18.6 million on the table. Kanter…

Michael Beasley was invited by Knicks president Steve Mills and coach David Fizdale to join them on a float in the Gay Pride parade last Sunday in New York. Perhaps it was a way for Fizdale to see how much Beasley has changed. As the Knicks figure out how to fill their stopgap starting power…

With signs pointing toward Enes Kanter opting into his contract, the Knicks center stated in a text message to The Post his final decision won’t be rendered until Friday night. The Post has reported he will declare his intentions on social media. Friday is his deadline and strong indications point to Kanter opting into the…

Knicks president Steve Mills said formerly disgruntled Kristaps Porzingis is thrilled at the team’s direction. He expects Porzingis to draw a marquee free agent in 2019 like “a magnet,” as the franchise essentially sits out this summer’s frenzy. With brass again making no indication they’ll even attempt to have a meeting with LeBron James on July…

Rookie Kevin Knox will make his Knicks debut July 7 at the Las Vegas summer league against the Hawks. Knox, 18, will either look like the next Kevin Durant or Jayson Tatum, depending which Kentucky coach you believe. One week after John Calipari compared Knox to Tatum in predicting he will explode in the NBA…

With signs pointing toward Enes Kanter opting into his contract, the Knicks center stated in a text message to The Post his final decision won’t be rendered until Friday night. The Post has reported he will declare his intentions on social media. Friday is his deadline and strong indications point to Kanter opting into the…

Knicks president Steve Mills said formerly disgruntled Kristaps Porzingis is thrilled at the team’s direction. He expects Porzingis to draw a marquee free agent in 2019 like “a magnet,” as the franchise essentially sits out this summer’s frenzy. With brass again making no indication they’ll even attempt to have a meeting with LeBron James on July…

Rookie Kevin Knox will make his Knicks debut July 7 at the Las Vegas summer league against the Hawks. Knox, 18, will either look like the next Kevin Durant or Jayson Tatum, depending which Kentucky coach you believe. One week after John Calipari compared Knox to Tatum in predicting he will explode in the NBA…

Knicks president Steve Mills said Thursday that the team has repaired its relationship with Kristaps Porzingis. Mills, speaking on The Stephen A. Smith Show, said the Knicks will be positioned to attract top free agents next offseason.

Enes Kanter will survey the market until his Friday deadline, but he likely will exercise his $18.6 million player option to remain with the Knicks, sources told ESPN.

Knicks president Steve Mills expects a low-key offseason as the team loads up for 2019

Knicks President Steve Mills is not concerned about the possibility of Kristaps Porzingis seeking a trade away from the team one day.

Enes Kanter has until Friday to decide whether to opt in or out of a Knicks deal that would pay him $18.6 million next season.

Terrified employees at a Maryland newspaper threw themselves under their desks when a shotgun-wielding maniac with a grudge against the outlet stormed their office and opened fire Thursday, killing five people and wounding two others in what authorities and witnesses described as a “targeted attack.”

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So frayed has political discourse become that the nation finds itself debating whether civility is good in the first place — and the suspicion spans the partisan divide. President Trump often rejects civility as “political correctness,” but increasingly his opponents share his suspicion.

Sometimes…

The Daily News’ Fight for Fair Pay Campaign for decent wages for 40,000 airport employees started in January 2014. Victory was supposed to be sealed with a Port Authority vote Thursday to enact a series of raises for cleaning crews, security guards and bag handlers at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark…

Our hearts sag heavy for the five who lost their lives and still others wounded by gunfire in an Annapolis, Md., newsroom kindred to the one in which we write these grieving words. The Capital Gazette happens to share ownership with the Daily News, but more fundamentally we are family as fellow…

The lawyer who successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act is endorsing Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout for state attorney general, the Daily News has learned.

Roberta Kaplan plans to make the announcement during a conference call with Teachout Friday…

Red Hen and the fact of conscience

Manhattan: The News’ editorial “The Red Hen and all of us” (June 26) misses the point. Donald Trump is mean and vicious to anyone he disagrees with or is investigating him. Sanders and the other Trump administration were not denied service for being Republicans…

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico’s non-voting representative in Congress is introducing a bill that seeks to make the U.S. territory a state by 2021.

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez said Wednesday that 14 Democrats and 20 Republicans currently sponsor the bill among the 435 members in the House…

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Authorities say a central Georgia man who was shot in the head drove nearly 20 miles in the wrong direction to a hospital for help.

The Telegraph of Macon reports 36-year-old Shasta Richardson was shot in the head by another man after trying to retrieve his belongings from…

The Capital Gazette is refusing to let a fatal newsroom shooting get in the way of finishing tomorrow’s newspaper.

“Yes, we’re putting out a damn paper tomorrow,” the outlet tweeted just after midnight on Friday, fulfilling a promise made by a reporter earlier in the day.

The font page headline…

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church 14 new cardinals Thursday, exhorting them to resist any temptation toward haughtiness and instead embrace “the greatest promotion” they could hope to obtain: tending to those neglected or cast aside by society.

Among those receiving the cardinals’…

CHICAGO — A Brazilian mother and 9-year-old son separated at the U.S.-Mexico border were together again Thursday after a federal judge in Chicago ordered the U.S. government to release the boy, in one of the first examples of an urgent petition for court intervention successfully reuniting parent…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A professor at Miami University in Ohio has been indicted on charges of traveling to Missouri to have sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

The U.S. attorney’s office says federal grand jurors returned the indictment Tuesday against 52-year-old Kevin Connor Armitage,…

The reputed Trinitarios gang member seen dragging Lesandro (Junior) Guzman-Feliz from a bodega so the rest of the street crew could hack and stab the boy to death admitted on Thursday that he took part in the attack in an exclusive jailhouse interview.

Kevin Alvarez, 19, ’fessed up to being the…

An ex-con who served state prison time for a Manhattan robbery that left a man shot in the face is now charged with fatally stabbing a man outside a Brooklyn homeless shelter.

Police on Thursday arrested Rickie Drawhorn, 38, charging him in the Feb. 25 murder of 21-year-old Miguel Acosta.

Acosta…

Jazz Jennings, the 17-year-old star of “I Am Jazz,” shared her first post-op photo Thursday after undergoing gender confirmation surgery.

“I’m doing great, thanks for all of the love and support,” the TLC star captioned the photo.

Jennings, who was born male and identifies as female, confirmed…

Brandon Drury is finally being summoned from Triple-A Scranton, according to Ken Rosenthal.

Drury has played his previous three games for the RailRiders all at first base, so he could be an option to start against the Red Sox lefties Chris Sale and David Price over the weekend. Aaron Boone indicated…

Oh Deer.

Enes Kanter caused a stir late Thursday night when the Knicks big man posted a cryptic tweet implying he may be taking his talents to Milwaukee.

Kanter coyly posted an emoji of a deer without any caption or context, sending overreacting fans into a frenzy. He then quickly replied to that…

A member of the same bloodthirsty gang that murdered a teenager outside a Bronx bodega and knifed another on the Bronx River Parkway has been charged with stabbing and robbing a man on the Upper East Side, cops said.

Missael Alvarez, 16, who cops describe as a member of the Trinitarios street gang,…

Jarrod Ramos left a paper trail of mad ravings aimed at the Capital Gazette for at least six years before he allegedly stormed the newsroom Thursday slinging smoke grenades and firing a shotgun.

The 38-year-old Laurel, Md., man arrested in the massacre began an obsessive campaign against the Annapolis…

Emotion were running high as Anderson Cooper welcomed two survivors from Maryland’s Capital Gazette newspaper shooting Thursday night.

The idea of people praying for change totally set reporter Selene San Felice off.

“I don’t know what I want right now but I’m gonna need more than a couple days…

A 27-year-old man was fatally shot on a Brooklyn streetcorner Thursday night, marking just the second murder this year in an East New York police precinct that saw triple-digit homicide numbers in the 1990s.

The victim was shot on the corner of Pitkin and Montauk Aves. at about 9:30 p.m., after…

MELBOURNE, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man was returned to jail shortly after his release because he couldn’t pay the taxi driver that took him home from the jail.

Florida Today reports that 40-year-old Charles Folk was arrested Thursday morning and charged with petty theft.

Melbourne police…

Investigators believe an elderly Lottery winner stabbed to death in his Bronx home this month was killed by his nephew, and they’re asking the public’s help finding the man.

Police on Thursday named 45-year-old Idris Abdul-Muhaymin as the prime suspect in the slaying of Owen Dillard, 73, who was…

Showtime is finally bringing “Halo” to the small screen.

The network announced Thursday that it has picked up a 10-episode season of a live-action, scripted drama series based on the video game franchise.

“Lone Star” creator Kyle Killen will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer alongside…

Saquon Barkley may soon be a very rich man, but don’t expect him to spend money like one.

While Barkley elected to buy his parents a new house earlier this week, the 21-year-old rookie said he plans to be frugal with his money throughout his career. Unlike most players, Barkley said he plans to…

The Spurs have been reluctant to give up on fixing the damaged relationship with their All-Star forward but are close to letting him go.

The Liberty don’t have many wins this season, but at least they have set a W.N.B.A. record for most Kias in league history.

Count Ray Allen among those who think LeBron James should take his talents to Madison Square Garden.

If Enes Kanter stays a Knick, he knows exactly who he will mentor next season.

Enes Kanter has until Friday to decide whether or not he wishes to opt out of his deal with the Knicks. But the addition of head coach David Fizdale may entice him to stay.

The national implications of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory over Rep. Joe Crowley are easy to discern. A former organizer with the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, she’s part of a rising tide of progressive millennial activists who are bringing their hopes, values and organizing…

The American-Israeli hacker who terrorized dozens of Jewish community centers across the United States has been found guilty.

The defendant, an 18-year-old dual citizen at the time of his arrest last year and unidentified because he was a minor when some of the crimes were committed, was convicted…

The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling, which bars compulsory fees to unions from government workers, deals a serious blow to the power of organized labor, period.

The decision will leave workers and their representatives the poorer by forcing them to forgo funding from those who do not voluntarily choose…

A Mexican television host sullied his country’s joy at progressing to the next round of the World Cup with a racist gesture towards the nation that helped it get there.

Mexico advanced to the round of 16 in the tournament on Wednesday despite an uninspired 3-0 drubbing by Sweden because South Korea…

Bring justice to NYPD Trial Room

Purdys, N.Y.: Mary Jo White has a stellar reputation for integrity, as do her colleagues Robert Capers and Barbara Jones, who will all be reviewing the actions in the kangaroo court called the NYPD Trial Room (“3 ex-fed bigs on panel to review NYPD discipline,”…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio woman accused of suffocating her three young sons over a 13-month period has appealed a court order that she undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

At issue is whether a confession made by defendant Brittany Pilkington can be used at her trial.

The Bellefontaine (behl-FOWN’-tihn)…

McLEAN, Va. — An unarmed, naked man died after an encounter with police in northern Virginia in which the man was trying to hurt himself, authorities said Wednesday.

Fairfax County Police said Wednesday that 31-year-old Christopher Paul of Alexandria was pronounced dead at a hospital after becoming…

MAE SAI, Thailand — A U.S. military team and British cave experts joined the rescue effort in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their soccer coach missing for five days inside a cave being flooded by near-constant rains.

A Thai army general coordinating the rescue said Thursday morning that overnight…

NEW YORK — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surprised herself. And a lot of other people, too.

The 28-year-old liberal activist, who worked as a bartender at times last year, knocked off the No. 4 House Democrat Tuesday in New York City. And in so doing, the former Bernie Sanders campaign organizer threw…

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Republican Party has withdrawn support from a legislative nominee after a website connected to him said God is a racist white supremacist and Jews are descended from Satan.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported the party announced Tuesday it will not support…

Scarlett Johansson made sure her message wasn’t lost in translation.

The “Avengers” actress didn’t mince words when rebuking a former Scientologist’s claim Wednesday that she auditioned to date Tom Cruise following his split from Nicole Kidman.

“The very idea of any person auditioning to be in…

After spending more than a month in a Kentucky lock-up, white nationalist Matthew Heimbach is too busy binge-watching “The Handmaid’s Tale” to return to politics.

The ex-Traditionalist Workers Party boss kicked off his first week of freedom by firing up the dystopian series, according to the Southern…

SEATTLE — Your Amazon packages, which usually show up in a UPS truck, an unmarked vehicle or in the hands of a mail carrier, may soon be delivered from an Amazon van.

The online retailer, wanting more control over how its packages are delivered, is rolling out a program Thursday that lets entrepreneurs…

Maybe the Mets should be managing by committee, too.

Wednesday night, in the first game under the Mets’ new general manager triumvirate, Mickey Callaway not only mismanaged his bullpen, he then was condescending when explaining just how he blew it.

Slow to recognize that Jeurys Familia, on the…

Bumper-to-bumper jams drive people crazy. But more than 200 cars could be taken off traffic-choked Canal St. if congestion pricing and a two-way toll on the Verrazano Bridge were in place, according to a study released Thursday.

The report from Sam Schwartz Engineering, commissioned by the Hudson…

Christina El Moussa has flipped her way into a solo show.

The “Flip or Flop” star has launched her own design series on HGTV, “Christina on the Coast,” the network announced Wednesday.

“Design is my favorite part of the house-flipping process, and I can’t wait to be able to now work directly with…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Police in Anchorage, Alaska, are on the lookout for a squirrel that made off from their parking lot with a doughnut.

In a video posted on the department’s Facebook page on Sunday, the squirrel is seen with what appears to be a glazed doughnut clenched in its teeth as it runs…

On Tuesday, Jeurys Familia lost his cool. A night later he lost the ballgame.

A day after he barked at the Pirates’ Josh Harrison for his takeout slide into Asdrubal Cabrera which caused the benches clear, Familia couldn’t get an out Wednesday with a two-run lead, giving up three singles and a…

PHILADELPHIA – Luis Severino has said he isn’t scared of any team, and he’ll get another shot against the Red Sox on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball.

“I think that’s fair to say that we want him to go against Boston,” Aaron Boone said of Severino, who will be making that start on regular rest. “I’m…

Angel Rosario of West Farms, the Bronx, knows the brutality of gang violence.

In January 2017, Cindy Diaz, the mother of Rosario’s four children, was an innocent victim, fatally shot by a stray bullet in the middle of a gang dispute.

“A guy was trying to shoot another guy and missed him and got…

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Investigators in Montana say a woman armed with a machete broke into her ex-boyfriend’s home, ordered him to undress and continued to have sex with him even after he tried to get her to stop.

KFBB-TV reports Samantha Mears is accused of breaking into the man’s Great Falls home…

One of Zack Wheeler’s best starts of the season was wasted by Jeurys Familia.

The Mets closer was downright disastrous in the ninth inning when called upon to shut the door with a two-run lead, giving up three singles and a walk before being pulled with the bases loaded and no outs. Anthony Swarzak,…

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A North Carolina woman has been arrested and is accused of trying to poison her two sons with cream soda laced with lighter fluid.

The Fayetteville Observer reports 34-year-old Octavia Latosh Robinson of Fayetteville has been charged with two counts each of distributing food…

The less said about “Girls & Boys” and its star Carey Mulligan the better — and that’s the opposite of a dis

One reason for being tight-lipped that this play from London at the Minetta Lane Theatre by Tony winner Dennis Kelly (“Matilda The Musical”) goes to unexpected places. No one should spoil…

President Trump keeps punching defeated Rep. Joe Crowley while he’s down, this time to supporters at a North Dakota campaign-style rally.

The gloater-in-chief jabbed the 10-term Bronx-Queens lawmaker for losing the Democratic nomination while bragging that a handful of his endorsed candidates —…

The league’s commissioner, who secured a huge TV deal and negotiated a labor agreement with the player’s union, was given five more years at the helm.

The Madison Square Garden Company is exploring a possible spin-off that would create a separately traded public company made up of its sports franchises, including the Knicks and Rangers. The other half of the company would be comprised of a live entertainment business that includes venues, MSG and its Hulu theater, Radio City Music Hall,…

Enes Kanter said he wouldn’t mind being a mentor to new Knicks rookie center Mitchell Robinson, who was drafted Thursday in the second round with the 36th pick. Kanter, who will decide Friday on whether he will opt into the final, $18.6 million year of his Knicks contract, sounded like he’ll eventually be teammates with…

The Madison Square Garden Company is exploring a possible spin-off that would create a separately traded public company made up of its sports franchises, including the Knicks and Rangers. The other half of the company would be comprised of a live entertainment business that includes venues, MSG and its Hulu theater, Radio City Music Hall,…

Enes Kanter said he wouldn’t mind being a mentor to new Knicks rookie center Mitchell Robinson, who was drafted Thursday in the second round with the 36th pick. Kanter, who will decide Friday on whether he will opt into the final, $18.6 million year of his Knicks contract, sounded like he’ll eventually be teammates with…

Joakim Noah has impressed one former teammate this offseason. “I just worked out with Jo, actually a couple of days ago. Jo is doing great,” Corey Brewer, who won two national titles with Noah at the University of Florida, told Kevin Brockway of GatorSports.com at Brewer’s annual youth summer camp at Santa Fe College in…

The mindlessness of “GLOW” is a welcome relief in a world that never seems to stop spinning.

So it’s a testament to the cast and crew of the Netflix comedy that the second season manages to seamlessly incorporate real life issues — those that exist both in the show’s 1985 and today — without losing…

National Security Adviser John Bolton has arrived in Russia and will meet with President Vladimir Putin as part of a Trump administration blitz for better relations with Moscow.

Bolton landed in the capital city on Wednesday, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirming that the conservative…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions cracked a joke about the administration’s immigration chaos, and was greeted with laughs at the idea of separated families.

Sessions spoke Tuesday to a crowd at the conservative-leaning conservative Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, and accused critics of his “zero…

Praise heaven, Mayor de Blasio is hitting the streets preaching salvation for the New York City Housing Authority, by means of private management and financing to repair otherwise hopelessly shabby apartments.

“The shape of things to come,” came his sermon Tuesday elevating plans underway to enroll…

In the hell of Ground Zero, FDNY Chief Ronald Spadafora toiled to ensure the safety of rescue and recovery workers, only to succumb last week to cancer contracted among them. May a hero rest in peace.

More than 10,000 high school students registered to vote last month during New York’s first citywide student voter registration drive, according to City Hall.

The drive was held at 294 schools across the five boroughs on May 21. The 10,000 new voters will represent a significant increase in the…

Beer makers in Britain are ale-ing over their inability to get supplies of an essential ingredient.

Wholesaler Booker said Tuesday that customers such as restaurants and pubs were being given limited supplies of suds because of a short supply of carbon dioxide.

Customers, in the middle of a beer-swilling…

Immigration mess long in the making

Manhattan: Harry Siegel’s column “The moral rot is real” (June 24) is high on hate and anger but takes us away from workable solutions. Separation of children from their families is a difficult thing. Incarcerating children with their parents is also difficult….

GOOCHLAND, Va. — A New Zealand man who traveled to the U.S. home of a 14-year-old girl he had communicated with online was shot by the girl’s mother, a sheriff said Monday.

Troy George Skinner, 25, was shot Friday after he allegedly smashed a glass door and tried to enter the home in Goochland,…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Netherlands has approved a limited ban on “face-covering clothing” in public places, including Islamic veils and robes such as the burqa and niqab but not the hijab, which covers only the hair. Firebrand far-right politician Geert Wilders had pushed for the ban for…

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A 66-year-old Texas death row inmate who confessed to four slayings and at least nine rapes is set for lethal injection Wednesday evening amid concerns from his lawyers that multiple health issues make it likely his execution will be botched and cause him unconstitutional pain.

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A white woman was arrested for allegedly striking a black teenager repeatedly as she berated his friends and forced them to leave a community pool in South Carolina, according to counton2.com.

The woman, Stephanie Sebby-Strempel, is accused of slapping a boy with a camera and hurling racial slurs…

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh police officer who posted a Facebook comment that appeared to celebrate the recent death of up-and-coming rapper Jimmy Wopo has been put on desk duty.

The police department says the city is investigating the social media post. The department says “comments that disparage…

WAUSAU, Wis. — A judge sentenced a Wisconsin man on Tuesday to 13 years in prison for locking a woman inside a wooden box in his basement and sexually assaulting her.

Allen Jamroz, 56, of Mosinee also was sentenced to seven years of extended supervision for second-degree sexual assault and false…

President Trump is using protests against his contentious “zero tolerance” immigration policy — and staffers tasked with defending it — to ask for campaign funds.

In an email Tuesday, Trump asked supporters to drop at least $1 to “show the Left we will not be intimidated.”

The fund-raising pitch…

The NYPD has named a suspect in a Bronx shooting that left three people dead — one of them a woman handing out flyers when gunfire erupted last week.

Police are asking the public’s help finding Sam Cross, 51, who’s wanted in the murder of Mustafa Tarver, Christopher Alleyne and Arileida Jiminez…

A judge in California just ordered US border authorities to reunite separated families within 30 days — and with 14 if the children are younger than 5.

Early Tuesday morning U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego issued the order in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The lawsuit…

Brandon Nimmo, held out of the lineup for the second straight day with a hurt right hand, returned as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning of the Mets’ win over the Pirates Tuesday.

Nimmo, who leads the Mets in OPS at .974, was hit in the pinkie by a pitch in Sunday’s 8-7 loss to the Dodgers. He…

The Rent Guidelines Board voted Tuesday night to jack up rents on rent-regulated apartments for the second year in a row.

The 5 to 4 vote, which came after weeks of vocal opposition from tenant advocates, allows landlords to hike rent 1.5% on a one-year lease and 2.4% on a two-year lease, effective…

A communications failure sparked a hijacking scare on a JetBlue flight at JFK Airport on Tuesday, setting off a frenzy from first responders over what turned out to be a false alarm.

JetBlue Flight 1623, an Airbus 320 bound for Los Angeles, lost contact with the air traffic control tower while…

President Trump gloated as Rep. Joe Crowley suffered a major upset in the Democratic primary Tuesday and mused the lawmaker could have won had he bent the knee — to a Republican.

Crowley, one of the top Democrats in the House, lost his re-election bid to political greenhorn Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…

PHILADELPHIA — Giancarlo Stanton, it is believed, went where no man has ever gone before during batting practice at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday: over the second deck in left field.

The mammoth BP blast came immediately after Stanton crushed one over the batters’ eye in straightaway center and…

PHILADELPHIA — Of course Luis Severino wants to face the Red Sox on “Sunday Night Baseball.”

Bring it on.

“I want to face any team,” a confident but not cocky Severino said after his latest masterpiece. “I’m not scared of anybody.”

The Yankees haven’t finalized whether their 24-year-old ace will…

Only the President could unite the networks.

A day after President Trump attacked three late-night hosts at a campaign event for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert and “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon joined forces — and show openings — to respond to the accusations.

…

ATLANTA — Authorities say they’ve arrested a 19-year-old man accused of sprinting shirtless toward a jet at Atlanta’s airport and jumping on the wing.

News outlets report Atlanta Police have charged Jhryin Jones with criminal trespassing, public indecency and obstruction of law enforcement officers.

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Kyrie Irving, set to hit free agency in 2019, talked about the rumors swirling around him and potential landing spots such as the Knicks.

Kyrie Irving, set to hit free agency in 2019, talked about the rumors swirling around him and potential landing spots such as the Knicks.

The wish of a Japanese octogenarian to die on the desert island he called home for 29 years has been castaway by authorities who will not let him return.

Masafumi Nagasaki, 82, had moved to Sotobanari, in the country’s chain of islands near Taiwan, in 1989 and spent his years there living naked…

In one move, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is set to infuse local communities with millions more in annual earnings, $43.7 million in federal taxes for public services, 2,700 new jobs and a host of other gains for the region’s economy.

A just-released report by the Economic Roundtable…

One of us runs an organization representing restaurant owners, and the other, service workers. On many issues, we’re on opposing sides. But in urging Gov. Cuomo to save the restaurant industry tip credit, our organizations stand in staunch unity.

The tip credit allows restaurants to pay tipped…

The city’s green spaces are turning into wastelands because of aging and decades of neglect, a new study finds.

The report published by the Center for an Urban Future on Tuesday found that 20% of parks across the city haven’t had an infrastructure upgrade in 25 years.

The city also hasn’t invested…

The notion of a meritocracy — a system in which individuals are selected for positions based on their ability, not their social class or background — dates back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 C.E.) of China. It was at this point that a civil service exam testing fundamental ideals of Confucianism…

One of us runs an organization representing restaurant owners, and the other, service workers. On many issues, we’re on opposing sides. But in urging Gov. Cuomo to save the restaurant industry tip credit, our organizations stand in staunch unity.

The tip credit allows restaurants to pay tipped…

One tragedy of the recently ended state legislative session is that New York has again failed to take action on a basic penal reform that should have been fixed decades ago: the indefensible practice of jailing people accused of minor crimes simply because they lack a few hundred dollars to make…

It was 99 years today, June 26, 1919, when the Illustrated Daily News first appeared on the streets of New York. While “Illustrated” was soon dropped, the Daily News would quickly grow to become the biggest newspaper America had ever seen, read by millions daily.

More than 36,000 editions later,…

The former head of the U.S.’s military alliance now needs to fight to get into the country.

Javier Solana, a former Foreign Affairs Minister from Spain, served Secretary General of NATO in the late 1990s and holds various positions in the U.S., but was not allowed a visa waiver because he has been…

Farewell to a Daily News soulmate

McKinney, Tex.: For many years my dad, Pincus Goods, shared and celebrated his birthday with the Daily News. He was born on the Lower East Side on June 26, 1919 — the same day the first issue of The News was published. Each year he loved to send a current photo…

Calling for managers’ heads is nothing new. WFAN callers have been doing it for years.

But one Mets fan took it to another level on the World Wide Web.

Search “FireMickey.com” and you’ll see why.

Mickey Callaway’s Mets were still above .500 in early May when long-time suffering fan John Lyons bought…

A former employee at the Cayuga Centers facility in East Harlem has leaked footage of herself comforting a tearful migrant girl longing for her mother.

The child — taken from her mother in April — weeps into her arm as an unidentified staffer can be heard coaxing out of her what happened to her…

This mystery was a little easier to solve than the fate of Anastasia.

Cops say they’ve caught the perv who last week groped several teenage girls waiting outside the Broadway theater showing the musical “Anastasia.”

Police on Monday arrested Hosny Elsayed, 46, slapping him with four counts each…

Talk about a stiff fine.

Tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios was fined €15,000 (the equivalent of $17,500) on Monday after being caught making an obscene gesture during his straight-set loss to Marin Cilic at the Queen’s Club Championships in London on Saturday, according to the U.K. tabloid Metro.

Kyrgios…

A 14-year-old Bronx boy could have avoided a knifing attack last Monday, his worried mom said Monday, if the city had heeded warnings about a vicious street gang bent on retribution.

Now, the boy, who was chased down on the Bronx River Parkway, faces a tough recovery after losing a kidney from…

PHILADELPHIA — Dellin Betances got his first chance to hit since high school.

It didn’t go well, but it was still pretty darn funny.

Betances took some mighty cuts with Masahiro Tanaka’s Mizuno bat.

But he ultimately struck out in his first career MLB at-bat, coming to the plate with runners on…

Call them the magnificent seven: That’s how many New York-area hospitals specializing in children’s care landed top spots in a national ranking released Tuesday.

Most prominent was New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley-Komansky Children’s Hospital in Washington Heights, according to U.S. News &…

Until there’s a cure for diabetes, there’s Isabelle Otero.

The teen from Mountain Top, Pa., has had the disease for 16 of her 17 years, and she owns it.

“I feel like if someone came to me, I could completely understand them,” Isabelle says. “I could teach them things that maybe they didn’t know…

A Long Island teen diagnosed with Crohn’s disease teamed up with an NBA star with the same condition to create a slam-dunk charity.

Noah Weber was 11 when he began to feel lethargic during sporting events with classmates.

“I wasn’t able to do as much as my friends,” Weber, now 14, recalls. “I would…

Silvia Olivera’s premature daughter was the smallest baby she’d ever seen, a whole 1½ pounds of her mother’s unconditional love — and unfathomable fear.

“She was very, very tiny,” Olivera says. “I’ve never seen a small baby like that.”

Olivera was taken to White Plains Hospital when she was 25…

When little Ava Musial began to complain of back discomfort, her parents didn’t know what to think.

“As a mother, it doesn’t really make sense for a 3-year-old to complain about back pain,” says mom Lyndsey Musial.

Doctors struggled to figure out what was causing the child’s distress.

An MRI focused…

Ten of the 2,300 children separated from their parents under Trump administration immigration policy are well-cared for by a Long Island social service agency, two elected officials said Monday.

Eight of the children have been in touch with their parents, said Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Nassau County)…

Heather Locklear, who was arrested late Sunday for allegedly kicking a police officer and an EMT, was reportedly hospitalized just hours after being released Monday.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department told the Daily News that officers went to her Thousand Oaks, Calif., home to assist on a…

Jimmy Fallon finally found something in common with the NFL: President Trump tweets too much about both of them.

The “Tonight Show” host, who recently said he didn’t intend to “humanize” Trump with his controversial hair-ruffling interview in September 2016, found himself on the receiving end of…

Luis Guillorme has impressed with his glove since being promoted to the Mets roster in May, but on Monday the infielder had two costly errors playing third base.

The 24-year-old, who was a shortstop in the minors and has played second and third base with the Mets, mishandled a ground ball in the…

Former Cleveland star Kyrie Irving says he has no problem with rookie Collin Sexton wearing his No. 2 jersey with the Cavaliers.

LeBron James will almost certainly become a free agent on Friday. But he doesn’t want the Knicks or other teams to make elaborate pitches.

For Knicks first-rounder Kevin Knox, he wants his impact next season to receive the highest recognition possible.

Knicks center Enes Kanter swears he has not made a final decision on whether to opt out of his contract by Friday’s deadline, but said the addition of coach David Fizdale has made his desire to stay in New York even stronger. Kanter met with Fizdale for two hours during the Chicago draft combine in…

Kyrie Irving’s debut in New York is Tuesday. His movie debut, “Uncle Drew,” that is. The film will premiere Tuesday in Manhattan and hit theaters Friday. Irving, the West Orange, N.J., superstar who becomes a free agent in 2019, when the Knicks are sure to be in hot pursuit, said Knicks fans try to recruit…

Knicks center Enes Kanter denied a report on Sunday that indicated he was expected to opt out of his $18.6 million player option for the 2018-19 season.

Who is in charge of defending our democracy from propaganda? We focus a lot on the role Moscow played in manipulating our elections in 2016. I have yet to see Congress or the administration actually assign the job of dealing with the threat to anyone in government.

Russia is returning for round…

A secure retirement built on a strong pension has always been the ultimate reward and “thank you” for a lifetime of service by our public servants. Unfortunately, massive unfunded liabilities in pension systems across the country threaten that security. This is not only because of chronic underfunding,…

The entire police force of a Mexican town has been arrested after suspicions around the death of a candidate running for mayor.

Officers in Ocampo, west of Mexico City, were questioned by state authorities after the assassination of Fernando Ángeles Juárez, from the left-leaning PRD.

Angeles was…

Having barely dipped his toe in the pool in his first term, Mayor de Blasio is right to finally dive into a school integration debate that’s been riveting the city (and this editorial page) for years.

But he’s chosen an awfully strange first fight.

It’s true that the city’s specialized high schools…

Gov. Cuomo is not on trial in federal prosecutors’ present bid-rigging case against former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, any more than he was in the conviction of former aide Joe Percoco for enriching his family at influence-seekers’ expense.

But both associates, it’s plenty…

State lawmakers have given Google Maps and other web mapping services the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their accuracy.

A bill approved in the final hours of the state Legislature’s annual session would give Google Maps and other global imaging websites the presumption of accuracy when…

In a year where little got done, picking winners of the just-completed state legislative session was not easy. But there were plenty of losers.

Winners:

Senate Democrats: After years of being in the minority, the Democrats are on the precipice of controlling the chamber. They reunited with eight…

This table displays offers of admission to eighth graders at each New York City public middle school for the 2018-19 school year to the eight New York City high schools that decide admissions exclusively based on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). In total, students received about…

The insurgent Democratic candidates taking on Gov. Cuomo and Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley in primaries are set to cross-endorse each other Monday, the Daily News has learned.

Actress and actvist Cynthia Nixon’s backing of Crowley opponent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comes a day before Tuesday’s much-watched…

Leecia Eve, one of four Democratic candidates running for state attorney general, has begun staffing up by dipping into her ties to Gov. Cuomo and Hillary Clinton.

Eve, a Verizon lobbyist and former aide to Cuomo and Cinton, has hired as her campaign manager her brother, Ichor Strategies founder…

Let’s paws the scientific abuse

Middle Village: I had to really compose myself before putting my opinion to paper (“SUNY catastrophe,” June 22). It seems to me that the SUNY College of Optometry in Manhattan offers nothing more than a sadistic inhuman practice of torturing live cats and kittens…

China is oh so bothered by John Oliver’s “Winnie the Pooh” insults against its leader that it has blocked his whole channel.

Hbo.com has been 100% blocked for Chinese Internet users after Oliver devoted a segment to the People’s Republic on his show “Last Week Tonight” last week, according to monitor…

As dusk descended upon the New York City skyline Sunday evening, Florence Welch sauntered past burning sage and bouquets of wildflowers toward a makeshift stage located just a few feet from the banks of the East River.

She was performing for a crowd of no more than 200 guests, who sat on crates…

A Bronx man will face federal charges after he and several others chased a teenage boy onto the Bronx River Parkway and repeatedly stabbed him last week, cops said Sunday.

Ramon Paulino, 21, was busted on attempted murder, gang assault and assault charges for his role in the Monday afternoon attack,…

Just a few months out of prison, rapper Meek Mill used the BET Awards stage to honor XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo, who were both shot and killed last week.

Mill debuted his new song, “Stay Woke,” during a timely performance set in the streets of Philadelphia.

Joined on stage by Miguel, Meek, whose…

CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. — Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others Sunday as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California.

The Pawnee fire that broke out Saturday near the community of Clearlake Oaks has destroyed 12 buildings and threatened an additional…

A 15-year-old boy from Honduras ran away from the nation’s largest facility for migrant children in Texas and may be back in Mexico.

The teen jumped a fence and bolted Saturday afternoon during “scheduled outside time” at the Southwest Key Casa Padre shelter on the outskirts of Brownsville, according…

The Brooklyn man accused of chopping off his pregnant wife’s arm with a steak knife will face attempted murder and assault charges, cops said Sunday.

Yong Lu, 35, who was busted in Niagara Falls on Saturday, was hauled back to Brooklyn Sunday. He’s accused of hacking off his wife’s right arm below…

Joe Jackson appears to be reflecting on his life as it comes to an end.

The Jackson family patriarch, who was hospitalized Friday with terminal cancer, shared a heartbreaking message on social media last Sunday.

“I have seen more sunsets than I have left to see,” he captioned a sunset photo on…

Someone find Hanley Ramirez a new friend.

It turns out the ex-Red Sox slugger is not actually under federal investigation regarding the distribution of fentanyl, as a straight out of left field ABC report originally suggested earlier this week.

Instead, one of his buddies simply threw him under…

Hansel Robles is still pointing to the sky.

The ex-Met made his Angels debut against the Blue Jays Sunday, and it went as well as you’d expect.

Robles entered the game in the 10th inning with the score tied at 6. The right-handed reliever promptly retired the first two batters before things ultimately…

The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan nixed a meeting with Stormy Daniels for the probe into whether President Trump’s troubled lawyer Michael Cohen violated campaign finance laws with a $130,000 hush deal, her lawyer said Sunday.

The porn star was slated to speak with prosecutors Monday, but…

It’s time to choose between two reality show hosts.

President Trump fired back after Jimmy Fallon issued a mea culpa for his controversial “Tonight Show” interview with the then-Republican nominee in September 2016, during which the late show host lobbed softball questions and ruffled the politician’s…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It was high. It was far. It was caught by the shortstop.

The quirky Trop got the best of Clint Frazier and the Yankees in the ninth inning on Sunday afternoon, as the 24-year-old’s fly ball to left deflected off a speaker on the B ring catwalk, turning a possible homer into…

Authorities are trying to determine if a child’s body found in the waters off Long Beach, L.I., is that of a 10-year-old boy who went missing last week while swimming with his brother.

Police on Long Island tell Newsday the body was discovered off Lincoln Blvd. on Sunday afternoon and taken to…

David Fizdale’s middle name isn’t Naismith, but Knicks brass does have confidence its brand-new coach invented basketball. Thursday’s draft was confirmation after the Knicks selected 18-year-old small forward Kevin Knox over the more established Mikal Bridges and Miles Bridges, and snagging the rawest of 20-year-olds in Louisiana mystery man Mitchell Robinson without a workout. Since…

Carmelo Anthony decided that a foray into free agency wouldn’t be cost effective — and knows how angry he just made a lot of Thunder fans. The 34-year-old veteran forward decided against opting out of his player option and will stick with Oklahoma City for a $27.9 million salary in the 2018-19 season. Anthony faced…

David Fizdale’s middle name isn’t Naismith, but Knicks brass does have confidence its brand-new coach invented basketball. Thursday’s draft was confirmation after the Knicks selected 18-year-old small forward Kevin Knox over the more established Mikal Bridges and Miles Bridges, and snagging the rawest of 20-year-olds in Louisiana mystery man Mitchell Robinson without a workout. Since…

Carmelo Anthony decided that a foray into free agency wouldn’t be cost effective — and knows how angry he just made a lot of Thunder fans. The 34-year-old veteran forward decided against opting out of his player option and will stick with Oklahoma City for a $27.9 million salary in the 2018-19 season. Anthony faced…

The New York state native pilot of a U.S. Navy plane has died after a crash near his base in New Mexico.

Lt. Christopher Carey Short, from Canandaigua, was flying a training mission in New Mexico on Friday when his A-29 crashed near Holloman Air Force Base.

A second pilot received only minor injuries,…

JOHNSON FORK, Ky. — An Indiana man has been arrested in Kentucky after police found him naked in a stranger’s yard declaring he might be Jesus.

The Kentucky New Era reports a homeowner called police to report a naked man behind his house. The homeowner told police the naked man took some things…

We all know what it looks like. The blocks of empty storefronts, covered in graffiti, “FOR LEASE” signs in the windows for months and years on end. It’s called high-rent blight, and it’s the latest phase of a hyper-gentrification process that has been pushing small businesses out of the city as…

As a bespectacled gay black nerd growing up in a rough Houston neighborhood, I’d been a target for bullies since I was 6. I learned the hard way how to spot the cautionary signs.

This time was different. I was walking one sweaty summer night back in 1996 near the Houston Museum District, not the…

ALBANY, N.Y. — A police officer in Albany shot and killed a man who was in the act of stabbing his mother, authorities said.

Officers investigating reports of a person with a weapon late Friday night heard a woman screaming behind the locked door of a home.

Police said the officers broke the front…

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey held high-stakes presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday that could consolidate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hold on power or curtail his vast political ambitions.

Voters flocked to polling centers to cast ballots in an election that will complete Turkey’s…

The first salvo by President Trump: tariffs on foreign washing machines and solar panels. Then came huge levies on imported aluminum and steel, under the preposterous pretext they were necessary to defend America’s national security.

For each presidential action, there’s been an equal and opposite…

Polls open this coming sleepy summer Tuesday just for congressional primaries. Turnout, at least in the city’s safe Democratic districts, will be abysmal, and that’s just fine with the powers that be.

So hand it to a crop of young challengers for rousing comfortable incumbents to show voters why…

ALBANY — Undocumented immigrant parents facing possible deportation from New York would be able to choose a guardian to care for their kids under a bill that won final approval in the Legislature last week.

The bill would expand the standby guardianship law created in the 1980s during the AIDS…

Seeking to blunt the effects of a potential Obamacare repeal, Gov. Cuomo is rolling out measures to protect transgender New Yorkers’ access to health care.

Cuomo will announce Sunday that he’s directing state health officials to issue a regulation requiring all New York hospitals to update their…

Researchers observed 3,038 people ambling across crosswalks in New York City and Flagstaff, Ariz. (um, okay) and exploded a myth: Distracted walking is hardly ever to blame when cars hit pedestrians.

Turns out, no matter how many people might be enraptured in a device while strolling around the…

The city released thousands of pages of incident reports Friday to state overseers, documenting everything from assaults to drug dealing to arrests inside homeless shelters.

The release followed a Daily News expose in May documenting how the city Department of Homeless Services had stopped reporting…

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson is endorsing Gov. Cuomo’s reelection to a third term.

Cuomo has made New York “the progressive beacon for the nation” by pushing for gay marriage, guaranteeing transgender people access to health care and prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity,…

Trump administration officials say the U.S. government knows the location of all children in its custody after separating them from their families at the border and is working to reunite them.

A fact sheet on “zero-tolerance prosecution and family reunification” released Saturday night by the Department…

Long Island City: Re Jessica Scott-Reid’s “Montreal is ending its horse-carriage industry; why won’t New York?” (Op-Ed, June 20): I found myself nodding and agreeing through every single point she made! Why on Earth do we still have horse-drawn carriages in New York in 2018? The answer is so very…

CALABASAS, Calif. — Authorities say a man has been shot to death while camping with his two young daughters at a Southern California campground.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says the man was in a tent with the girls when he was shot in the upper chest shortly before 5 a.m. Friday…

PORTLAND, Maine — Two brothers accused of a massive welfare fraud scheme at a Portland grocery store have been sentenced to federal prison.

The Bangor Daily News reports that 41-year-old Ali Ratib Daham of Westbrook pleaded guilty in November to conspiracy to defraud the United States government,…

A Long Island town just spiked a longstanding FDNY volleyball game over firefighters’ appalling lack of beach etiquette.

Bravest members participating in the annual event on June 13 took it upon themselves to erect a temporary tiki bar on the public sands of Long Beach — complete with a rustic…

On July 3, 1988, a woman stopped to relieve herself along the side of a Massachusetts highway and opened the first page of a mystery. In the brush along the road, she spotted what looked like human skeletal remains with a bra wrapped around the neck.

An autopsy of the badly decomposed female corpse…

A Brooklyn man wanted for chopping off his pregnant wife’s arm was busted in Niagara Falls Saturday, police said.

Yong Lu, 35, was arrested by local cops outside the One Niagara building around 7:45 p.m., the Niagara Gazette reported.

Lu is accused of using a steak knife to hack off spouse Li Yang’s…

Latino writers from far and wide were in New York to share their work and the struggles their communities face in the U.S. immigration policy.

A literary retreat on Friday and Saturday at Columbia University was hosted by CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latino poets.

For José Antonio…

LAS VEGAS — Han Solo’s Blaster from the “Return of the Jedi” has sold for $550,000 at a Las Vegas auction.

Julien’s Auctions says Ripley’s Believe It or Not bought the item Saturday.

The sci-fi weapon was the top-selling item at the Hollywood Legends auction.

The blaster was part of a collection…

A young Bronx man died after he accidentally shot himself in the chest Saturday evening, police sources said.

Robert Williams was found on the ground on Watson Ave. near Ward Ave. in Soundview with a gunshot wound to his chest just after 5 p.m., according to cops.

Williams, 18, was playing with…

PETALUMA, Calif. — A 9-year-old English bulldog was named the winner of the 2018 World’s Ugliest Dog contest in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Zsa Zsa won the title Saturday in the competition where dogs with hairless bodies and lolling tongues flaunt their imperfections.

The dogs walk down a red…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School told investigators he encountered shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz in a stairwell as he was loading his AR-15 rifle and was told, “you better get out of here,” according to police interview transcripts released Friday.

The…

The latest 2019 mock draft from ESPN.com has the Knicks getting 6-foot-6 Duke freshman Zion Williamson.

Knicks head coach David Fizdale isn’t going to just hand out minutes.

Knicks first-round pick Kevin Knox revealed that Kristaps Porzingis called him on FaceTime after he was drafted.

Ostarine is partly the reason Arizona junior shooting guard Allonzo Trier is expected to be a Knick this season. The Knicks plan to sign the 6-foot-5 Trier to a two-way contract in July, and he would play on the summer league team. Trier went undrafted Thursday after a college career marred by testing positive twice…

Knicks first-round draft pick Kevin Knox takes his first shot at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Do you burn to be great? A: Yes. That’s why I love this game, that’s why I play this game, that’s the goal. I want to be great. I want to have my name up in…

The drafting of 7-footer Mitchell Robinson in the second round Thursday has put 7-foot-1 center Luke Kornet’s future in flux, according to sources. Kornet was on a two-way contract last season after being undrafted last June and the Knicks have extended a qualifying offer for another two-way deal ahead of his restricted-free agency. If another…

Chalmette (La.) High School coach Butch Stockton may have concerns for his former player’s first summer league game in Las Vegas as the Knicks’ new 7-foot center Mitchell Robinson gets into game shape. Robinson, selected by the Knicks in the second round Thursday with the 36th pick in the NBA draft, hasn’t played a 5-on-5…

Knicks first-rounder Kevin Knox got a call from Kristaps Porzingis on Thursday, who told Knox that the boos he heard on draft night will eventually turn into cheers.

There are 27.9 million reasons for this decision.

The way teams and players are marketed and the balance of star power in each league begin to explain how the leagues got on different sides of this cultural divide.

The Phoenix Suns took the Arizona big man Deandre Ayton with the first pick in the draft. Here’s a look at the entire first round.

Knicks general manager Scott Perry didn’t sound as if he will be signing LeBron James in July. Or as if he’ll have any cap space at all. If center Enes Kanter opts in by June 29, as would seem the judicious move, the Knicks will have just their $8.4 million mid-level exception to wield July…

Kristaps Porzingis has gone from exit-interview blow-off malcontent to team leader in one offseason. Kevin Knox, the Knicks’ No. 9 selection in Thursday’s NBA draft, received a big, 7-foot-3 welcome from Porzingis late Thursday night. According to Knox, Porzingis called him on FaceTime from Madrid, where he is doing his ACL rehab at soccer giant…

Shortly before the Knicks picked fourth in 2015 — their highest selection since they won the first NBA lottery — the grand prize from the 1985 draft, Patrick Ewing, was asked about playing in New York. “Whoever they get,” Ewing said, “tell him he better have a thick skin. A really thick skin.” No one…

Knicks new 7-foot shotblocking center Mitchell Robinson is a mystery man – and man of few words. Robinson, 20, let Knicks coach David Fizdale and team brass do the hyping for him after becoming their second-round pick at No. 36 in Thursday’s draft. At Friday’s introductory press conference for Kevin Knox and Robinson, Fizdale even…

Forget the notion that 18-year-old Kevin Knox’s rookie season will be spent as a reserve. Knicks coach David Fizdale said he has confidence the second-youngest player in this year’s NBA draft can crack the starting lineup at small forward. In rave reviews about the Knicks’ first-round pick, who was selected at No. 9 Thursday, Fizdale…

Kevin Knox and Kristaps Porzingis already have one thing in common. Both were booed on draft night — and the same young fan, Jordan, who was seen crying after the Knicks drafted Porzingis was among those jeering at Knox and chanting to take Michael Porter Jr. instead at No. 9 on Thursday. “We were hoping…

Former Arizona guard Allonzo Trier has signed a two-way contract with the Knicks, and will be in New York City next week, a source close to Trier told SNY.tv.

Knicks rookie Mitchell Robinson will need a major support structure around him as he begins his NBA career, and that career could begin in the G League.

Knicks head coach David Fizdale isn’t setting modest expectations for Kevin Knox and Mitchell Robinson.

The Knicks took Kentucky’s Kevin Knox with the No. 9 pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday night at Barclays Center.

The Knicks took Kentucky’s Kevin Knox with the No. 9 pick at the NBA Draft on Thursday. Here’s what went down, in case you missed it…

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The Knicks went out on a limb and selected Mystery Man Mitchell Robinson with the No. 36 pick in the NBA Draft.

The Knicks reportedly agreed to a two-way deal with former Arizona guard Allonzo Trier.

In picking the younger Kevin Knox over the more polished Mikal Bridges, the Knicks went with a player who had a “high upside,” according to former legend Earl Monroe.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A deadly explosion struck a huge rally for Ethiopia’s reformist new prime minister on Saturday shortly after he spoke and was waving to the crowd that had turned out in numbers unseen in recent years in the East African nation.

Addressing the country minutes after he was…

SEBASTIAN, Fla. — Authorities say a dog died after its owner left it in a hot car to spend the afternoon at a Florida bar.

Treasure Coast Newspapers reports that 64-year-old Harold Krages was arrested Thursday and charged with animal cruelty.

Sebastian police say Krages arrived at Earl’s Hideaway…

SPOKANE, Wash. — Several affiliates of Planned Parenthood sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday over its efforts to impose an abstinence-only focus on its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that has served more than 1 million young people.

The lawsuits were filed in federal…

PORTLAND, Maine — China’s decision to stop accepting plastic waste from other countries is causing plastic to pile up around the globe, and wealthy countries must find a way to slow the accumulation of one of the most ubiquitous materials on the planet, a group of scientists said.

The scientists…

In the 1950s and into the 1960s, the indiscriminate bulldozer worked overtime to clear out New York City’s past to make way for an anti-urban, car-centric future.

By the mid-1960s, the soul of the city was under assault. Penn Station was about to fall. Robert Moses had declared both Greenwich Village…

Police Commissioner Jimmy O’Neill has spoken plenty about accountability and transparency. But the department he leads has miles to go: Reporting by The News’ Graham Rayman and Rocco Parascandola raises big questions about double standards in treatment of rank-and-file officers and senior “white…

STATESVILLE, N.C. — A former North Carolina high school teacher has been arrested on sex offenses involving a minor.

The Gaston County Sheriff’s Office says 54-year-old Jonathan Conrad Busch of Mooresville is charged with two counts each of statutory rape of a child under the age of 15 and indecent…

A South Carolina man with a gun tattooed on his face was busted for allegedly possessing a firearm.

Michael Vines, who is federally prohibited from possessing a gun, was spotted throwing a loaded .38-caliber revolver into the grass after a car crash, the Greenville Police Department said on its…

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors say a flight attendant for a Chinese airline has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle nearly two-dozen spotted and box turtles in a carry-on bag from Los Angeles to China.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Huaqian Qu, a Chinese national, entered his plea Thursday…

The meaning of detention camps

Haines Falls, N.Y.: Mexicans were separated from their children at the border with President Trump’s ridiculous disparaging that these are really bad people. Well, Mr. Trump, the only one who is bad is facing you in the mirror. To arrest Pablo Villavicencio, married…

GAUHATI, India — It was a cash machine heist with a difference: The attackers were hungry rodents.

At least one rat slipped through a hole in the back of an ATM in northeastern India and started eating. By the time it was finished, police say more than $19,000 in bills were shredded.

When technicians…

NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey woman has admitted her role in a monthlong crime spree across two states, including an attempted bank robbery in Pennsylvania where she and another woman dressed as nuns.

Melisa Aquino Arias also pleaded guilty Friday to robbing a bank in Garfield, New Jersey, while…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thousands of whiskey barrels crashed into a massive heap Friday when a large section of a decades-old storage warehouse collapsed at a distillery in the heart of Kentucky bourbon country.

The damaged warehouse at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown held about 18,000 barrels,…

LANCASTER, Pa. — A man convicted of kidnapping his newborn daughter, slashing her neck and cramming her into a trash bag inside a backpack has been sentenced to at least 26 years in prison.

David Sleets was found guilty in April of attempted murder. The 37-year-old was sentenced Thursday to 26…

A Queens man was fatally stabbed Friday night outside his home in what police are investigating as a domestic dispute turned violent.

Cops responding to a 911 call made just before 10 p.m. by the victim, George Bartoli, 70, found him face down in his Queens Village driveway at 220-12 104th Avenue…

CLEVELAND — Authorities in Cleveland say two 17-year-old boys and a 19-year-old man have been arrested in the death of a 9-year-old girl struck by an errant gunshot during an exchange of fire nearby.

Cleveland police said Friday an arrest warrant has also been issued for a 16-year-old in Wednesday’s…

A New Jersey man looking to save time and money found a new way to commute.

Dressed in a suit and hauling a briefcase, Scott Holt paddled on a board across the Hudson River on Thursday, creating an unusual sight for commuters on the New York Waterway Ferry.

Holt, who lives in Jersey City, said…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Yankees are on-pace for 111 wins — 41-14 after a 9-9 start.

So there’s no reason to overreact to their 2-1 loss to the Rays on Friday night at Tropicana Field — even on a day when the Red Sox were able to come back from five runs down to beat the Mariners, 14-10.

Still,…

JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report an outbreak of norovirus on a cruise ship in Alaska.

KTOO public media reports 73 people have reported getting sick on the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam.

The ship, which is carrying more than 2,000 passengers and…

Pittsburgh rallies surrounding the shooting of an unarmed teen earlier this week made its way to where the Pirates play.

The gates at PNC Park were shut down at one point during Friday night’s game between the Pirates and Diamondbacks as crowds protesting the police shooting death of Antwon Rose…

All it took was one bad inning — actually, one bad pitch — to ruin an otherwise solid Zack Wheeler performance in the Mets’ 5-2 loss to the Dodgers on Friday night at Cit Field.

Twice Wheeler jumped to 0-2 counts on Cody Bellinger. In the second inning, he put the Dodgers’ slugging first baseman…

With concerns of Super 2 out of the way, the next wave of prospects is expected to make their debuts within the next 3-4 weeks. Those owners that are either holding a deep stash of FAAB in their vaults or are sitting near the top of the waiver wire order should feel giddy because at least a couple…

A Staten Island high school principal was busted for lying about where she lives to save on car insurance, prosecutors said Friday.

Oneatha Swinton, who is the acting principal at Port Richmond High School, illegally applied for a Pennsylvania driver’s license in May 2014 using a former Department…

A three-legged rescue pup took a bite out of crime Friday, touring NYPD headquarters for Take Your Dog to Work Day.

Chaplin, a 3-year-old Shih Tzu, was found abandoned in a Bushwick apartment earlier this month, authorities said. One of his legs was severely injured; his overgrown, matted hair…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Yankees’ seventh-inning rally came to an end — as did their four-game winning streak.

After Aaron Judge’s RBI single brought the Bombers within a run in the seventh inning, Giancarlo Stanton and Didi Gregorius failed to come through and the Yankees ultimately lost 2-1…