Day: June 21, 2018

Knicks C Kyle O’Quinn is looking for more this offseason, as he opted out of his contract to play in New York for the 2018-19 season.

Mikal Bridges could be a perfect fit when the Knicks pick at No. 9 in the NBA Draft on Thursday night.

Kevin Knox is intrigued by the idea of playing for the Knicks and compared his experience at Kentucky to potentially playing in the Big Apple.

Michael Porter Jr. hasn’t worked out for any NBA teams because of his back and hip ailments, but met with Knicks brass in Chicago.

The Knicks will be traveling overseas next season for a regular season game in London against the Wizards.

On Independence Day 2011, I was just beginning my seventh month as district director for newly elected Rep. Michael Grimm. By text message, I was summoned to meet Michael Grimm at a diner at 9 p.m.

The congressman, six months into his term, had a blunt message to deliver about his view on politics:…

The Pennsylvania officer who opened fire and killed a 17-year-old as he was running away from a traffic stop had been sworn in to his job only hours earlier, according to a report.

Antwon Rose was killed Tuesday night in East Pittsburgh, where he and another boy fled a car they were passengers…

In 2018 America, no city should force the parents it employs to exhaust their sick leave to spend precious time home with newborn babies.

Mayor de Blasio and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew get credit for righting that wrong, and ensuring that, come September, public school…

A bridge to the future for commuters

Newark: The Daily News is wrong about Portal North Bridge (“Bridge of lies,” editorial, June 18). The Portal North Bridge project is the most economical and efficient way to create meaningful new capacity while ensuring a vital, working link to New York’s economy…

A Bronx teen stabbed on both sides of his neck made a desperate run to a nearby hospital, only to succumb to his wounds late Wednesday night, cops said.

Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15, got into an argument with two or three men outside a bodega on E. 183rd St. at Bathgate Ave., about a block away from…

Immigrant children locked up at a Virginia center say they were beaten, left naked in cells and strapped to chairs by guards.

Around 30 unaccompanied minors are being held at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center and have suffered from an abusive atmosphere, according to a federal court case filed…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man was arrested after threatening a congressman over the Trump administration’s child-separation immigration policy.

Treasure Coast Newspapers reports that Laurence Key was arrested Tuesday and charged with communication of a threat to kidnap or injure…

DAYTON, Ohio — The father of a 2-year-old Ohio boy who investigators say was accidentally shot and killed by his 13-year-old brother while the teen was playing with a gun has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

A Montgomery County grand jury also indicted the father Wednesday on charges…

A murderous band of Bloods gang members who treated shootings like a sports “scoreboard” were brought low in a sweeping, two-year investigation, Brooklyn prosecutors said.

Eighteen members of the Martense-Beverly Bosses were rounded up on a string of charges that linked gang members to two murders…

Hours after President Trump signed an executive order to stop children from being snatched away from their asylum-seeking parents at the southern border, several planes carrying migrant kids from Texas were still coming into LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday night.

At least seven boys were seen being…

Giancarlo Stanton’s first true Yankee moment was worth the wait.

The $295 million slugger finally delivered in the clutch at the end of Game No. 71, getting a ninth-inning hanger from Seattle righty Ryan Cook and pulverizing the 0-2 pitch into the Bronx night.

So this is what Stanton meant before…

Maybe he ran out of Skittles.

President Trump tossed Starburst candy at German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the G7 summit, according to a witness.

Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer said Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cornered Trump into signing a rules-based international…

DENVER — The leads at Coors Field are as flimsy as the wind, and on Wednesday night the Mets blew two of them in the brutal ballpark. Seth Lugo had his shortest start of the season and the Mets could not hold off the Rockies, who rallied for a 10-8 victory.

The Mets dropped their second straight…

A disgruntled Tesla engineer coded an elaborate hack to leak trade secrets about posh electrical cars — and blame unsuspecting colleagues to cover his tracks, according to a lawsuit lodged by Elon Musk’s company.

The Silicon Valley manufacturer said process technician Martin Tripp admitted to crafting…

Advocates and students say they’re filing a class-action suit Thursday against the city over alleged discrimination against black and Latino athletes in the public school system.

The suit to be filed by the nonprofit New York Lawyers for the Public Interest argues that the city’s school sports…

Spoilers ahead for Season 2, Episode 10

Gilead is built on rape. It’s the governing policy, the structure, the code. It’s systematic. Every month, the handmaid is raped. Every month, she lies back between a wife’s opened legs, spreads her own and dissociates while her commander thrusts and groans…

Brett Gardner was wearing a compression brace on his right knee in the clubhouse Wednesday prior to the Yankees’ game against the Mariners. He said he felt “good” enough to play, but manager Aaron Boone still kept the lefty-swinging outfielder out of the lineup against Seattle ace right-hander…

Her nickname is Mellow, but she’s anything but.

A raging Upper West Side woman used a small knife to get revenge on a man who called her out for being rude in a housing development elevator at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, police sources and witnesses said.

The unhinged 22-year-old attacker repeatedly…

DENVER – Asdrubal Cabrera looked like he was in considerable pain when he walked off the field holding his left elbow in the bottom of the seventh inning of the Mets’ ugly 10-8 loss to the Rockies Wednesday night. The second baseman apparently hit his elbow hard on the ground as he tagged out Tom…

A Canadian real estate tycoon’s son, who penned a graphic novel that features gruesome killings, was convicted in Southern California Wednesday of the torture and mutilation of his girlfriend who had given birth to their child just weeks before.

A Los Angeles jury found Blake Leibel, 37, guilty…

Giancarlo Stanton delivered in the clutch.

Stanton smashed a two-run walk-off homer to center, giving the Yankees a thrilling 7-5 come-from-behind victory over the Mariners on Wednesday night in The Bronx.

The Bombers have won three in a row. It was Stanton’s first walk-off homer as a member of…

President Trump wants to combine the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Labor as part of a sweeping plan to clean up the federal government.

The new agency, if approved by Congress, could be called the Department of Education and the Workforce, Education Week reported. The plan may…

To be frank, the Phanatic has landed in hot water.

Kathy McVay was sitting behind home plate at the Phillies vs. Cardinals game at Citizens Bank Park on Monday when the team’s mascot began shooting hot dogs out of his launcher.

One had some extra mustard on it and struck McVay in the face. It was…

In an expected move, Knicks reserve center Kyle O’Quinn declined his $4.2 million player option and will become a free agent, a source confirmed.

O’Quinn, 28, is still a strong candidate to re-sign with the Knicks after his career season when he averaged 7.1 points and 6.1 boards in 18 minutes….

Pete Davidson didn’t have to get engaged to “Tonight Show” favorite Ariana Grande to appear on the late show, but he did anyway.

The “Saturday Night Live” funnyman confirmed to host Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night that he popped the question to the “No Tears Left to Cry” singer.

“I feel like I won…

On Independence Day 2011, I was just beginning my seventh month as district director for newly elected Rep. Michael Grimm. By text message, I was summoned to meet Michael Grimm at a diner at 9 p.m.

The congressman, six months into his term, had a blunt message to deliver about his view on politics:…

The Pennsylvania officer who opened fire and killed a 17-year-old as he was running away from a traffic stop had been sworn in to his job only hours earlier, according to a report.

Antwon Rose was killed Tuesday night in East Pittsburgh, where he and another boy fled a car they were passengers…

In 2018 America, no city should force the parents it employs to exhaust their sick leave to spend precious time home with newborn babies.

Mayor de Blasio and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew get credit for righting that wrong, and ensuring that, come September, public school…

A bridge to the future for commuters

Newark: The Daily News is wrong about Portal North Bridge (“Bridge of lies,” editorial, June 18). The Portal North Bridge project is the most economical and efficient way to create meaningful new capacity while ensuring a vital, working link to New York’s economy…

A Bronx teen stabbed on both sides of his neck made a desperate run to a nearby hospital, only to succumb to his wounds late Wednesday night, cops said.

Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15, got into an argument with two or three men outside a bodega on E. 183rd St. at Bathgate Ave., about a block away from…

Immigrant children locked up at a Virginia center say they were beaten, left naked in cells and strapped to chairs by guards.

Around 30 unaccompanied minors are being held at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center and have suffered from an abusive atmosphere, according to a federal court case filed…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man was arrested after threatening a congressman over the Trump administration’s child-separation immigration policy.

Treasure Coast Newspapers reports that Laurence Key was arrested Tuesday and charged with communication of a threat to kidnap or injure…

DAYTON, Ohio — The father of a 2-year-old Ohio boy who investigators say was accidentally shot and killed by his 13-year-old brother while the teen was playing with a gun has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

A Montgomery County grand jury also indicted the father Wednesday on charges…

A murderous band of Bloods gang members who treated shootings like a sports “scoreboard” were brought low in a sweeping, two-year investigation, Brooklyn prosecutors said.

Eighteen members of the Martense-Beverly Bosses were rounded up on a string of charges that linked gang members to two murders…

Hours after President Trump signed an executive order to stop children from being snatched away from their asylum-seeking parents at the southern border, several planes carrying migrant kids from Texas were still coming into LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday night.

At least seven boys were seen being…

Giancarlo Stanton’s first true Yankee moment was worth the wait.

The $295 million slugger finally delivered in the clutch at the end of Game No. 71, getting a ninth-inning hanger from Seattle righty Ryan Cook and pulverizing the 0-2 pitch into the Bronx night.

So this is what Stanton meant before…

Maybe he ran out of Skittles.

President Trump tossed Starburst candy at German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the G7 summit, according to a witness.

Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer said Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cornered Trump into signing a rules-based international…

DENVER — The leads at Coors Field are as flimsy as the wind, and on Wednesday night the Mets blew two of them in the brutal ballpark. Seth Lugo had his shortest start of the season and the Mets could not hold off the Rockies, who rallied for a 10-8 victory.

The Mets dropped their second straight…

A disgruntled Tesla engineer coded an elaborate hack to leak trade secrets about posh electrical cars — and blame unsuspecting colleagues to cover his tracks, according to a lawsuit lodged by Elon Musk’s company.

The Silicon Valley manufacturer said process technician Martin Tripp admitted to crafting…

Advocates and students say they’re filing a class-action suit Thursday against the city over alleged discrimination against black and Latino athletes in the public school system.

The suit to be filed by the nonprofit New York Lawyers for the Public Interest argues that the city’s school sports…

Spoilers ahead for Season 2, Episode 10

Gilead is built on rape. It’s the governing policy, the structure, the code. It’s systematic. Every month, the handmaid is raped. Every month, she lies back between a wife’s opened legs, spreads her own and dissociates while her commander thrusts and groans…

Brett Gardner was wearing a compression brace on his right knee in the clubhouse Wednesday prior to the Yankees’ game against the Mariners. He said he felt “good” enough to play, but manager Aaron Boone still kept the lefty-swinging outfielder out of the lineup against Seattle ace right-hander…

Her nickname is Mellow, but she’s anything but.

A raging Upper West Side woman used a small knife to get revenge on a man who called her out for being rude in a housing development elevator at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, police sources and witnesses said.

The unhinged 22-year-old attacker repeatedly…

DENVER – Asdrubal Cabrera looked like he was in considerable pain when he walked off the field holding his left elbow in the bottom of the seventh inning of the Mets’ ugly 10-8 loss to the Rockies Wednesday night. The second baseman apparently hit his elbow hard on the ground as he tagged out Tom…

A Canadian real estate tycoon’s son, who penned a graphic novel that features gruesome killings, was convicted in Southern California Wednesday of the torture and mutilation of his girlfriend who had given birth to their child just weeks before.

A Los Angeles jury found Blake Leibel, 37, guilty…

Giancarlo Stanton delivered in the clutch.

Stanton smashed a two-run walk-off homer to center, giving the Yankees a thrilling 7-5 come-from-behind victory over the Mariners on Wednesday night in The Bronx.

The Bombers have won three in a row. It was Stanton’s first walk-off homer as a member of…

President Trump wants to combine the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Labor as part of a sweeping plan to clean up the federal government.

The new agency, if approved by Congress, could be called the Department of Education and the Workforce, Education Week reported. The plan may…

To be frank, the Phanatic has landed in hot water.

Kathy McVay was sitting behind home plate at the Phillies vs. Cardinals game at Citizens Bank Park on Monday when the team’s mascot began shooting hot dogs out of his launcher.

One had some extra mustard on it and struck McVay in the face. It was…

In an expected move, Knicks reserve center Kyle O’Quinn declined his $4.2 million player option and will become a free agent, a source confirmed.

O’Quinn, 28, is still a strong candidate to re-sign with the Knicks after his career season when he averaged 7.1 points and 6.1 boards in 18 minutes….

Pete Davidson didn’t have to get engaged to “Tonight Show” favorite Ariana Grande to appear on the late show, but he did anyway.

The “Saturday Night Live” funnyman confirmed to host Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night that he popped the question to the “No Tears Left to Cry” singer.

“I feel like I won…

Knicks center Kyle O’Quinn has declined the $4.2 million contract for the 2018-19 season to become an unrestricted free agent this summer, league sources told ESPN.

The New York Knicks and Washington Wizards are scheduled to play a game in London next season. The New York Knicks and Washington Wizards are scheduled to play a game in London next season.

Former Knicks president Phil Jackson mostly bombed with his second-round picks. Current Knicks general manager Scott Perry will try to reverse the trend Thursday with the 36th selection, acquired in the Carmelo Anthony deal. The only second-rounder Jackson has a shot with is his 2017 pick, shooting guard Damyean Dotson, who still has promise. Willy…

It’s the night every NBA hopeful dreams of, the night NBA executives long for, the night NBA writers can’t wait to end: the NBA draft. So that brings us to The Post’s last mock draft for the 2018 event, which begins at 7 p.m. Thursday at Barclays Center. It’s an exercise in guesswork in which…

As expected, Knicks backup center Kyle O’Quinn opted out of the final year of his $4.3M contract, a source confirmed. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean the Knicks are out of the picture to bring back O’Quinn, especially if center Enes Kanter follows suit. Indications are the Knicks will investigate re-signing O’Quinn for a more lucrative one-year…

Coming home felt different this time. Mohamed Bamba couldn’t put his finger on it, but as his plane descended upon the city and he saw the skyline from his airplane window, a different emotion rushed across his 7-foot frame. “It was like a homecoming,” he said Wednesday, on the eve of the NBA draft. And…

The cord is officially cut Thursday night. For real, and for good, the lasting stain of Phil Jackson will be removed from the Knicks. It was two days shy of a year ago that Jackson conducted his final official duties with the Knicks, drafting Frank Ntilikina with the No. 8 pick, declining to trade Kristaps…

On the eve of Thursday’s NBA draft, Villanova junior Mikal Bridges, a Philadelphia native, called New York his “second home.” General manager Scott Perry, running his first draft for the Knicks and essentially with more power than he has ever had, is eyeing making New York Bridges’ permanent home. It would be a very safe…

Will the Latvian be good for London? The Knicks will make their third trip to London since the 2012-13 season when they face the Wizards on Jan. 17, the NBA announced Wednesday. The big question is whether their star European, Kristaps Porzingis, will be on the court. Porzingis is rehabbing his ACL tear with sources…

The art of losing in order to rebuild with young, cheap players through the N.B.A. draft has become popular, but the data doesn’t necessarily back it up.