(Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:19:54 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 1:28:54 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:03:15 AM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:19:54 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 1:28:54 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:03:15 AM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 4:20:58 PM)
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.
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:46:13 AM)
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.
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:15:56 PM)
Knicks president Steve Mills expects a low-key offseason as the team loads up for 2019
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 5:40:28 PM)
Knicks President Steve Mills is not concerned about the possibility of Kristaps Porzingis seeking a trade away from the team one day.
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:52:29 AM)
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.
(Friday, June 29, 2018 3:00:00 AM)
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.”
…
(Friday, June 29, 2018 2:00:00 AM)
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…
(Friday, June 29, 2018 1:10:00 AM)
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…
(Friday, June 29, 2018 1:00:00 AM)
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…
(Friday, June 29, 2018 1:00:00 AM)
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…
(Friday, June 29, 2018 12:00:00 AM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:40:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:30:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:20:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:15:00 PM)
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’…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:15:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:00:00 PM)
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,…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 10:00:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:35:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:25:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:05:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:55:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:35:00 PM)
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,…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:30:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:15:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 8:00:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:25:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:15:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 6:40:00 PM)
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…
(Thursday, June 28, 2018 6:00:00 PM)
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…
[NYTimes] San Antonio Spurs Almost Ready to Cut Ties With Kawhi Leonard (Friday, June 29, 2018 3:46:49 AM)
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.
[NYTimes] Say ‘Kia’ Around the Liberty, and Many Heads Turn (Friday, June 29, 2018 10:23:21 AM)
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.