Day: June 16, 2018

The good news for the Knicks is that Spurs coach/president Gregg Popovich likes Knicks young point guard Frank Ntilikina a lot. The bad news for the Knicks is, Popovich also loves Kristaps Porzingis — whose inclusion is probably the only way a Kawhi Leonard deal gets done. According to sources, Knicks brass was interested in…

WASHINGTON — President Trump ignited eleventh-hour confusion Friday over Republican efforts to push immigration legislation through the House, saying he wouldn’t sign a “moderate” package. The White House later walked back the comments, formally endorsing the measure and saying Trump had been confused.

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NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — Police say a Massachusetts man fled naked from a hospital, broke into a nearby home and attacked its resident with a hammer.

Newburyport Police say 26-year-old Robert Girard, of Amesbury, fled Thursday night from Anna Jaques Hospital after removing his IVs and GPS monitoring…

There’s a question, early on in the second season of “Marvel’s Luke Cage,” about the definition of family. Is it the barbershop owner who turned you into a man, or the dad who turned his son against you? Is it the mother you barely know, or the father who died before you were born? Is it the woman…

Sadly, 50 people have died in fires so far in 2018 — the most deaths in the first five months of any year in more than a decade. And if we go back to the tragic month of December 2017, when 26 people were killed, those of us in the business of preventing and fighting fires are very concerned things…

WASHINGTON — President Trump credits his accord with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un with saving tens of millions of people from nuclear war. Now he just has to get everyone else on board.

Frustrated with lukewarm backing from congressional Republicans, criticism from Democratic opponents and skepticism…

Though the billion-dollar-plus consent decree inked between City Hall, the Housing Authority and the Justice Department was a civil matter, the feds’ complaint overflows with descriptions of bad behavior by public employees that could well prove criminal.

If prosecutors have got the goods — and…

You may have noticed that we’re not especially fond of President Trump or his relationship with his home city.

For the purposes of this editorial, it’s water under the Verrazano. We really, truly hope Trump comes here to campaign with Rep. Dan Donovan before the June 26 Republican primary.

Trump…

SELLS, Ariz. — The Border Patrol says it’s investigating an incident involving an indigenous man who is seen on video being struck by an agent’s vehicle.

The agency said Friday its Tucson Sector has been made aware of the video taken Thursday on the Tohono O’odham Nation.

Paulo Remes, a resident…

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani caretaker Prime Minister Nasir-ul-Mulk has described the killing of Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan as a “significant development in the fight against terrorism.”

Mulk made the comment in a telephone conversation Friday night…

A matter of life and death

Manchester, N.J.: In August of 1932, I was born on a kitchen table. My family lived in a four-story apartment house, on the third floor. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was our town. I lived there for 12 years before we moved to Bensonhurst. What I remember about those 12 years…

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s neighbor was sentenced Friday to 30 days in prison for tackling the lawmaker while he was out doing yard work at his Kentucky home.

Paul, who suffered broken ribs, had hoped for a harsher penalty. He said in a statement that the 21 months in prison sought…

DENVER — A 12-year-old boy told police he saw a driver open fire on his family during a road rage confrontation in Colorado, killing his older brother and critically wounding his mother and younger brother, authorities said Friday.

Police arrested Jeremy Webster, 23, hours after the shooting that…

A uniformed on-duty NYPD officer was seriously injured when she was hit by a car on an East Harlem street late Friday, police said.

The officer was in front of a department van parked in a bus lane on E. 125th St. near Lexington Ave. when a black Toyota Camry clipped her as she stepped into traffic…

PHOENIX — Seth Lugo had his worst start of the season Friday and the Mets’ offense continued to struggle in a 7-3 loss to the Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

The Mets (28-38) have lost four straight and 17 out of their last 20 games. They dropped a season-high 10-games below .500, a dramatic swing…

MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin woman accused of trying to plan terrorist attacks on social media leads a lonely life and sought companionship online, but she never posed a real threat, her attorney told a judge Friday.

But federal magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph said the allegations against 45-year-old…

CHICAGO — A group of Florida high school shooting survivors started their nationwide bus tour registering young voters to help accomplish their vision for stricter gun laws at a rally on Chicago’s South Side.

Kyrah Simon from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people died…

LONDON — A large blaze ripped through an architecturally important building at the Glasgow School of Art, the second time in four years that fire has damaged the famed Scottish school.

More than 60 firefighters were battling the blaze early Saturday morning, and images posted on social media showed…

There’s nothing creepier than copyright infringement.

A Brooklyn painter is accusing HBO of using his artwork without permission in its 2016 documentary “Beware the Slenderman,” a new lawsuit charges.

Joe Coleman says his painting, “No One Can Enter the Lord’s House Except as a Child (Slenderman)”…

A Las Vegas man who called a prominent Manhattan attorney a “n—er lover” and threatened to blow up his law office confessed Friday to making the vile remarks.

Joseph Amico, 47, was promised a six-month jail sentence plus five years’ probation in Manhattan Supreme Court in exchange for admitting…

It seems the Yankees have an endless supply of young players in the minors who can be called upon to provide a big-league worthy performance when needed, even if he leapfrogs Triple-A.

Jonathan Loaisiga is the latest example.

The 23-year-old righthander, whom the Yankees brought up from Double-A…

That pose, the one Cristiano Ronaldo makes before each free kick, is his trademark.

Michael Jordan has his famous Jump Man logo and Ronaldo has his: legs spread three feet apart, arms at his sides, shorts rolled up slightly to show off his massive quads.

And the poor goalkeeper in the crosshairs.

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PHOENIX — There was a point this spring when Seth Lugo had to go and ask to be put in the bullpen.

Pitching with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament, Lugo had been targeted as the possible sixth starter to be stashed in Triple-A in case of an emergency. The Mets were concerned about the…

A reputed Bonanno crime family associate and his construction company cronies threatened to kill a roofer and his family if they didn’t kickback $150,000 in exchange for landing a lucrative job, prosecutors charged Thursday.

Construction boss Peter McMahon, 55, the vice president of DPC New York,…

PHOENIX – Wilmer Flores returned from the disabled list Friday night and came up with a big hit.

The infielder, who had been out since May 28 with a lower back issue, doubled with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to plate the Mets’ final run in their 7-3 loss to the Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

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SOUTHAMPTON — Jordan Spieth slammed his right hand against the column of the scorer’s clubhouse after he finished his second round Friday, a surprising display of emotion from the normally even-keeled Texan.

But Spieth had reason to be frustrated. He made four straight birdies on the back nine…

If the Spurs are willing to trade Leonard, who has long been reported to be unhappy, they may have aggressive bidders in the Lakers, Clippers and Celtics.

With reports swirling that Spurs F Kawhi Leonard wants to play elsewhere next season, the fit with the Knicks sounds enticing.

The Loud Mouths and Michael Rapaport discuss the report of Kawhi Leonard’s alleged desire to leave the Spurs and join the Lakers.

Kawhi Leonard wants out of San Antonio, and the disgruntled Spurs forward reportedly has the Knicks on his wish list.

With reports swirling that Spurs F Kawhi Leonard wants to play elsewhere next season, the fit with the Knicks sounds enticing.

The Loud Mouths and Michael Rapaport discuss the report of Kawhi Leonard’s alleged desire to leave the Spurs and join the Lakers.

Kawhi Leonard wants out of San Antonio, and the disgruntled Spurs forward reportedly has the Knicks on his wish list.