Knicks Morning News (2018.06.12)

  • [NYDN] ‘The Affair’ returns to Showtime and its characters are as screwed up as ever
    (Tuesday, June 12, 2018 3:00:00 AM)

    Showtime’s “The Affair” spends its new season delving into whether people can change — or at least stop screwing up their lives.

    “That’s what season four will be exploring,” says Sarah Treem, who with Hagai Levi created the popular series that returns Sunday at 9 p.m.

    From the beginning, “The Affair”…

  • [NYDN] Kim Jong Un commits to denuclearization after Trump summit
    (Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:45:00 AM)

    North Korea leader Kim Jong Un committed to “complete denuclearization” in exchange for “security guarantees” after a historic meeting with President Trump.

    The President and isolated leader met in Singapore Tuesday for a full day of meetings and a declaration that Trump called “comprehensive.”

  • [NYDN] Full text of Trump-Kim summit statement
    (Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:40:00 AM)

    Below is the full text of the joint statement signed by President Trump and Kim Jong Un at their summit in Singapore on Tuesday, released by the U.S. and North Korea.

    President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic…

  • [NYDN] Ex-con accused of raping woman during Bronx home invasion
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 11:40:00 PM)

    A career criminal with a history of break-ins raped and robbed a 28-year-old woman after creeping through her Bronx window as she slept, prosecutors said Monday.

    Rudolph Moore, 48, was indicted Monday in the terrifying gunpoint attack, according to prosecutors said. He climbed the fire escape to…

  • [NYDN] U2 drops the spectacle — but not the spark — for intimate Apollo Theater show
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 11:00:00 PM)

    U2 is a stadium band.

    On tour, the Irish rockers are as much about towering video projections and elaborate set pieces as they are about anthemic, singalong choruses.

    But on Monday night, the 1,500-seat Apollo Theater in Harlem stripped away the typical spectacle, leaving little else than four…

  • [NYDN] Elderly Lotto winner is found fatally stabbed in the neck in his Bronx apartment
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:55:00 PM)

    A 73-year-old man who just had a lottery score was found fatally stabbed in the neck in his Bronx apartment Monday night, cops said.

    Cops discovered the body of Owen Dillard in his Beekman Ave. apartment near Oak Terrace in Mott Haven just after 8:30 p.m.

    Dillard’s 60-year-old fiancée found his…

  • [NYDN] Three men wounded in Bronx driveby shootng
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:50:00 PM)

    Three men were wounded in a driveby shooting in the Bronx early Tuesday, police said.

    The victims were standing at W. 166th St. and Summit Ave. in Highbridge just before 1 a.m. when a shooter pulled up and opened fire, according to cops.

    Medics took all three victims to Lincoln Hospital with nonlife-threatening…

  • [NYDN] VIDEO: Uber driver boots lesbian couple for kissing in the backseat
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:45:00 PM)

    An Uber driver booted a party-hopping lesbian couple from his car on Saturday after he saw them kissing in the back seat.

    Alex Iovine, 26, an advertising technology consultant, said she and her girlfriend, Emma Pichl, 24, a senior recruiter, hailed the livery to go from a birthday party at the…

  • [NYDN] Suspect busted in NYC group home murder accused of stabbing man who helped him
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:40:00 PM)

    A homeless man has been arrested in the brutal stabbing of a Manhattan man in his Kips Bay group home apartment over the weekend.

    Ashraf Ahmed stabbed his victim, 54-year-old Moses Ybarra, in the chest, forehead, arms and legs, then left two bloody knives behind as he dashed away, prosecutors said…

  • [NYDN] President Trump shakes hands with Kim Jong Un, predicts ‘terrific relationship’ at historic summit in Singapore
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:30:00 PM)

    BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT

    There was a lot of touch and feel — but will there be denuclearization?

    President Trump kept patting Kim Jong Un’s back as he became the first American leader to ever meet with his North Korean counterpart on Tuesday morning in Singapore.

    Trump, who recently said he would be…

  • [NYDN] Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump continue to profit in White House
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:10:00 PM)

    A year at the White House has been lucrative for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

    The Washington power couple raked in more than $80 million in outside income from their business and real estate empire while serving as senior advisers to President Trump in 2017, according to financial disclosure…

  • [NYDN] Former Brooklyn assemblywoman expected to plead guilty in fraud case
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:05:00 PM)

    Ex-state Assembly member Pamela Harris is expected to plead guilty Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court, six months after her arrest on fraud charges.

    The one-time Brooklyn pol was busted in January on charges of misusing roughly $60,000 in public money on expenses like vacations and her Victoria’s…

  • [NYDN] Accused sex cult leader wants out of jail before trial, says women volunteered for his ceremonies
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 9:40:00 PM)

    The women who branded themselves as part of an initiation ceremony in an Albany sex cult did so voluntarily, the lawyer for the group’s accused leader said, arguing in court papers for his client’s release from jail prior to trial.

    Keith Raniere, 57, is not a danger to the community and should…

  • [NYDN] Trump economic aide Larry Kudlow hospitalized after ‘very minor heart attack’
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:50:00 PM)

    Chief White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow was rushed to a Washington hospital after suffering a “very mild heart attack,” according to officials.

    President Trump gave word of Kudlow’s ailing health from the convoy to his meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

    “Our Great Larry…

  • [NYDN] City must pay at least $1B to fix NYCHA nightmare after feds cite Daily News reports exposing the agency’s lies on housing conditions
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:30:00 PM)

    NYCHA managers have for years used carefully crafted lies and elaborate deception to cover up the squalid condition of public housing, filing false documents, tricking federal inspectors and betraying the 400,000 tenants who have long endured heartbreaking conditions and the growing sense that…

  • [NYDN] NYCHA played games to deceive federal inspectors about lousy housing conditions
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:30:00 PM)

    NYCHA officials “gamed” the system to trick the feds into thinking they were following the rules.

    Nearly 70% of NYCHA’s day-to-day funding comes from the federal Housing and Urban Development Department, and HUD performs regular inspections of its buildings to make sure the authority is providing…

  • [NYDN] Pro-‘Straight White Male Hero’ group takes credit for running ‘Star Wars’ actress Kelly Marie Tran off Instagram
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:00:00 PM)

    Kelly Marie Tran, the “Last Jedi” actress bullied off of Instagram, may have been the subject of a hateful Facebook group aiming to take down the “feminist threat.”

    In a since-deleted post, a group called “Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys” took credit for running Tran…

  • [NYDN] SEE IT: Florida Gators runner purposely falls down attempting to steal second… allowing runner on third to steal home
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 7:45:00 PM)

    You don’t see this every day.

    With a College World Series berth on the line, the Florida Gators executed one of the most creative and ballsy plays in recent memory.

    Facing Auburn with the game tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning, the Gators had men on first and third with two outs and…

  • [NYDN] U2 dedicates song to Anthony Bourdain at Apollo concert: ‘A great storyteller who had stories he couldn’t tell us’
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 7:40:00 PM)

    U2 delivered a moving tribute to the late Anthony Bourdain at their Monday night concert at the Apollo Theater.

    The band dedicated “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” off their 2000 album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” calling the chef and writer “a great storyteller who had stories he…

  • [NYDN] Dennis Rodman bursts into tears during CNN interview over North Korea visit
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 7:10:00 PM)

    Dennis Rodman was reduced to a blubbering mess as he recalled his first visit to North Korea.

    The former NBA star burst into tears as he told CNN’s Chris Cuomo about the death threats he said followed his controversial journey to meet Kim Jong Un, the leader of the isolated nation, in 2013.

    “When…

  • [NYDN] Olympic skier Bode Miller’s 19-month-old daughter tragically drowns in pool
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:45:00 PM)

    The 19-month-old daughter of Olympic skier Bode Miller died Sunday after drowning in a pool.

    Emeline Miller, born in November 2016 to the alpine skier and wife Morgan Beck Miller, a professional beach volleyball player, was pronounced dead at an Orange County hospital after paramedics tried and…

  • [NYDN] Two teens charged with threatening to shoot up Virginia high school prom
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:40:00 PM)

    Two teens have been charged with trying to commit a terroristic act at a high school prom in Virginia, authorities said Monday.

    Michael Coleman, 18, and a 17-year-old boy were arrested after a semi-automatic rifle was found in a room at The Westin Hotel where Bayside High School’s prom was taking…

  • [NYDN] Roseanne Barr apologizes for calling George Soros a Nazi
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:30:00 PM)

    It took her almost two weeks, but Roseanne Barr finally admitted George Soros was not complicit in the Holocaust.

    In the middle of a Twitter rant that cost her “Roseanne” and was later blamed on Ambien, the actress accused Soros of being “a nazi who turned in his fellow Jews 2 be murdered in German…

  • [NYDN] 5 storylines to watch heading into Giants minicamp
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:20:00 PM)

    The Giants’ three-day mandatory minicamp runs Tuesday through Thursday at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford. Here are five storylines to keep an eye on as first-year Giants head coach Pat Shurmur continues to mold his new team.

    1. WHAT WILL ODELL DO AND SAY?

    Odell Beckham…

  • [NYDN] SEE IT: High school pitcher consoles childhood friend after striking him out to end playoff game
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:00:00 PM)

    Some things are bigger than sports.

    That was the mindset at least of one Minnesota high school pitcher who immediately consoled an opposing batter after striking him out to send his team to the state tournament.

    After striking out Totino-Grace’s Jack Kocon for the game’s final out, Mounds View…

  • [NY Newsday] ‘The Affair’ returns to Showtime and its characters are as screwed up as ever
    (Tuesday, June 12, 2018 3:00:00 AM)

    Showtime’s “The Affair” spends its new season delving into whether people can change — or at least stop screwing up their lives.

    “That’s what season four will be exploring,” says Sarah Treem, who with Hagai Levi created the popular series that returns Sunday at 9 p.m.

    From the beginning, “The Affair”…

  • [NY Newsday] Kim Jong Un commits to denuclearization after Trump summit
    (Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:45:00 AM)

    North Korea leader Kim Jong Un committed to “complete denuclearization” in exchange for “security guarantees” after a historic meeting with President Trump.

    The President and isolated leader met in Singapore Tuesday for a full day of meetings and a declaration that Trump called “comprehensive.”

  • [NY Newsday] Full text of Trump-Kim summit statement
    (Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:40:00 AM)

    Below is the full text of the joint statement signed by President Trump and Kim Jong Un at their summit in Singapore on Tuesday, released by the U.S. and North Korea.

    President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic…

  • [NY Newsday] Ex-con accused of raping woman during Bronx home invasion
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 11:40:00 PM)

    A career criminal with a history of break-ins raped and robbed a 28-year-old woman after creeping through her Bronx window as she slept, prosecutors said Monday.

    Rudolph Moore, 48, was indicted Monday in the terrifying gunpoint attack, according to prosecutors said. He climbed the fire escape to…

  • [NY Newsday] U2 drops the spectacle — but not the spark — for intimate Apollo Theater show
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 11:00:00 PM)

    U2 is a stadium band.

    On tour, the Irish rockers are as much about towering video projections and elaborate set pieces as they are about anthemic, singalong choruses.

    But on Monday night, the 1,500-seat Apollo Theater in Harlem stripped away the typical spectacle, leaving little else than four…

  • [NY Newsday] Elderly Lotto winner is found fatally stabbed in the neck in his Bronx apartment
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:55:00 PM)

    A 73-year-old man who just had a lottery score was found fatally stabbed in the neck in his Bronx apartment Monday night, cops said.

    Cops discovered the body of Owen Dillard in his Beekman Ave. apartment near Oak Terrace in Mott Haven just after 8:30 p.m.

    Dillard’s 60-year-old fiancée found his…

  • [NY Newsday] Three men wounded in Bronx driveby shootng
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:50:00 PM)

    Three men were wounded in a driveby shooting in the Bronx early Tuesday, police said.

    The victims were standing at W. 166th St. and Summit Ave. in Highbridge just before 1 a.m. when a shooter pulled up and opened fire, according to cops.

    Medics took all three victims to Lincoln Hospital with nonlife-threatening…

  • [NY Newsday] VIDEO: Uber driver boots lesbian couple for kissing in the backseat
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:45:00 PM)

    An Uber driver booted a party-hopping lesbian couple from his car on Saturday after he saw them kissing in the back seat.

    Alex Iovine, 26, an advertising technology consultant, said she and her girlfriend, Emma Pichl, 24, a senior recruiter, hailed the livery to go from a birthday party at the…

  • [NY Newsday] Suspect busted in NYC group home murder accused of stabbing man who helped him
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:40:00 PM)

    A homeless man has been arrested in the brutal stabbing of a Manhattan man in his Kips Bay group home apartment over the weekend.

    Ashraf Ahmed stabbed his victim, 54-year-old Moses Ybarra, in the chest, forehead, arms and legs, then left two bloody knives behind as he dashed away, prosecutors said…

  • [NY Newsday] President Trump shakes hands with Kim Jong Un, predicts ‘terrific relationship’ at historic summit in Singapore
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:30:00 PM)

    BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT

    There was a lot of touch and feel — but will there be denuclearization?

    President Trump kept patting Kim Jong Un’s back as he became the first American leader to ever meet with his North Korean counterpart on Tuesday morning in Singapore.

    Trump, who recently said he would be…

  • [NY Newsday] Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump continue to profit in White House
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:10:00 PM)

    A year at the White House has been lucrative for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

    The Washington power couple raked in more than $80 million in outside income from their business and real estate empire while serving as senior advisers to President Trump in 2017, according to financial disclosure…

  • [NY Newsday] Former Brooklyn assemblywoman expected to plead guilty in fraud case
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 10:05:00 PM)

    Ex-state Assembly member Pamela Harris is expected to plead guilty Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court, six months after her arrest on fraud charges.

    The one-time Brooklyn pol was busted in January on charges of misusing roughly $60,000 in public money on expenses like vacations and her Victoria’s…

  • [NY Newsday] Accused sex cult leader wants out of jail before trial, says women volunteered for his ceremonies
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 9:40:00 PM)

    The women who branded themselves as part of an initiation ceremony in an Albany sex cult did so voluntarily, the lawyer for the group’s accused leader said, arguing in court papers for his client’s release from jail prior to trial.

    Keith Raniere, 57, is not a danger to the community and should…

  • [NY Newsday] Trump economic aide Larry Kudlow hospitalized after ‘very minor heart attack’
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:50:00 PM)

    Chief White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow was rushed to a Washington hospital after suffering a “very mild heart attack,” according to officials.

    President Trump gave word of Kudlow’s ailing health from the convoy to his meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

    “Our Great Larry…

  • [NY Newsday] City must pay at least $1B to fix NYCHA nightmare after feds cite Daily News reports exposing the agency’s lies on housing conditions
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:30:00 PM)

    NYCHA managers have for years used carefully crafted lies and elaborate deception to cover up the squalid condition of public housing, filing false documents, tricking federal inspectors and betraying the 400,000 tenants who have long endured heartbreaking conditions and the growing sense that…

  • [NY Newsday] NYCHA played games to deceive federal inspectors about lousy housing conditions
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:30:00 PM)

    NYCHA officials “gamed” the system to trick the feds into thinking they were following the rules.

    Nearly 70% of NYCHA’s day-to-day funding comes from the federal Housing and Urban Development Department, and HUD performs regular inspections of its buildings to make sure the authority is providing…

  • [NY Newsday] Pro-‘Straight White Male Hero’ group takes credit for running ‘Star Wars’ actress Kelly Marie Tran off Instagram
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 8:00:00 PM)

    Kelly Marie Tran, the “Last Jedi” actress bullied off of Instagram, may have been the subject of a hateful Facebook group aiming to take down the “feminist threat.”

    In a since-deleted post, a group called “Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys” took credit for running Tran…

  • [NY Newsday] SEE IT: Florida Gators runner purposely falls down attempting to steal second… allowing runner on third to steal home
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 7:45:00 PM)

    You don’t see this every day.

    With a College World Series berth on the line, the Florida Gators executed one of the most creative and ballsy plays in recent memory.

    Facing Auburn with the game tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning, the Gators had men on first and third with two outs and…

  • [NY Newsday] U2 dedicates song to Anthony Bourdain at Apollo concert: ‘A great storyteller who had stories he couldn’t tell us’
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 7:40:00 PM)

    U2 delivered a moving tribute to the late Anthony Bourdain at their Monday night concert at the Apollo Theater.

    The band dedicated “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” off their 2000 album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” calling the chef and writer “a great storyteller who had stories he…

  • [NY Newsday] Dennis Rodman bursts into tears during CNN interview over North Korea visit
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 7:10:00 PM)

    Dennis Rodman was reduced to a blubbering mess as he recalled his first visit to North Korea.

    The former NBA star burst into tears as he told CNN’s Chris Cuomo about the death threats he said followed his controversial journey to meet Kim Jong Un, the leader of the isolated nation, in 2013.

    “When…

  • [NY Newsday] Olympic skier Bode Miller’s 19-month-old daughter tragically drowns in pool
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:45:00 PM)

    The 19-month-old daughter of Olympic skier Bode Miller died Sunday after drowning in a pool.

    Emeline Miller, born in November 2016 to the alpine skier and wife Morgan Beck Miller, a professional beach volleyball player, was pronounced dead at an Orange County hospital after paramedics tried and…

  • [NY Newsday] Two teens charged with threatening to shoot up Virginia high school prom
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:40:00 PM)

    Two teens have been charged with trying to commit a terroristic act at a high school prom in Virginia, authorities said Monday.

    Michael Coleman, 18, and a 17-year-old boy were arrested after a semi-automatic rifle was found in a room at The Westin Hotel where Bayside High School’s prom was taking…

  • [NY Newsday] Roseanne Barr apologizes for calling George Soros a Nazi
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:30:00 PM)

    It took her almost two weeks, but Roseanne Barr finally admitted George Soros was not complicit in the Holocaust.

    In the middle of a Twitter rant that cost her “Roseanne” and was later blamed on Ambien, the actress accused Soros of being “a nazi who turned in his fellow Jews 2 be murdered in German…

  • [NY Newsday] 5 storylines to watch heading into Giants minicamp
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:20:00 PM)

    The Giants’ three-day mandatory minicamp runs Tuesday through Thursday at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford. Here are five storylines to keep an eye on as first-year Giants head coach Pat Shurmur continues to mold his new team.

    1. WHAT WILL ODELL DO AND SAY?

    Odell Beckham…

  • [NY Newsday] SEE IT: High school pitcher consoles childhood friend after striking him out to end playoff game
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:00:00 PM)

    Some things are bigger than sports.

    That was the mindset at least of one Minnesota high school pitcher who immediately consoled an opposing batter after striking him out to send his team to the state tournament.

    After striking out Totino-Grace’s Jack Kocon for the game’s final out, Mounds View…

  • [SNY Knicks] Knicks to work out UCLA PG Aaron Holiday
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 6:31:28 PM)

    The Knicks will host a workout with UCLA point guard Aaron Holiday, a 6-foot-1 guard who averaged 20.3 points as a junior.

  • [SNY Knicks] Knicks sound like ‘likely destination’ for LeBron James, says Reggie Miller
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 12:29:33 PM)

    With Cavaliers F LeBron James thinking about whether or not to enter free agency yet again this offseason, former NBA All-Star and current TNT analyst, Reggie Miller, believes the Knicks could be a viable option.

  • [SNY Knicks] Knicks to host draft target Lonnie Walker IV on Wednesday
    (Monday, June 11, 2018 1:40:24 PM)

    The Knicks will host a private workout for Miami guard and Draft target Lonnie Walker on Wednesday.