Day: June 28, 2018

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…