Day: July 7, 2018

PHUKET, Thailand — Divers who entered the wreck of a tour boat that sank in a storm off the southern Thai resort island of Phuket described heartbreaking scenes of bodies of children found in the arms of their mothers, as the search continued Saturday for 18 mostly Chinese tourists missing in a…

WASHINGTON — Taking over from an ambitious predecessor known for seeking out the rich, powerful and conservative, the Environmental Protection Agency’s newly named acting chief has promised to reach out to anxious staffers throughout the demoralized agency and to lawmakers of both political parties.

…

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended a second day of talks with senior North Korean officials on Saturday, with both sides saying they need clarity on the parameters of an agreement to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

On his third trip to Pyongyang since April and his…

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Saturday it executed eight people convicted in the 2017 Islamic State group attack on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.

The June 7, 2017 attack has so far been the only assault by the Sunni extremists inside of Shiite Iran, which has been…

Donald Trump should be happy. The economy is still purring as it has been for several years: Friday’s new figures showed the U.S. added 213,000 jobs in June.

But the President can’t sit still, not until he can call the economy fully his own, and not until he can hear the love of an adoring crowd…

For five years the city, or at least parts of it, have had big, clunky blue Citi Bikes and their big, clunky gray docks, proving that bike share does work here, or at least in parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

But major change is coming, for within days, the next wave — bike rentals without…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky officials say the final collapse of a whiskey storage warehouse sent torrents of spirits gushing into retention ponds.

John Mura, a spokesman for the state Energy and Environment Cabinet, said Friday about 120,000 gallons (454,000 liters) have been captured in two retention…

America’s closest allies will be on edge next week as President Trump embarks on a European tour set to include a tense summit, tea with the British Queen and an eyebrow-raising face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump’s whirlwind spin on the world stage begins Wednesday with a…

“There is a real danger that we will leave future generations only rubble, deserts and refuse,” warned Pope Francis Friday. Also known to Scott Pruitt as the Promised Land.

GOLETA, Calif. — Firefighters battling wildfires throughout the U.S. West that have torched hundreds of homes hoped for some help from the weather Saturday even as new fires swept sweltering Southern California.

A fire on the California-Oregon border that destroyed 40 buildings and claimed at least…

TOWNSEND, Del. — Five members of a New Jersey family, including four children, were killed Friday in a crash on a Delaware highway, according to state police.

The other adult who was in the vehicle was taken to a hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries, news outlets reported Friday…

Shed no tears for yellow cabs

Bronx: I have no sympathy for taxi drivers. I remember not too long ago when these same taxi drivers would refuse to pick up a black person like myself. Taxi drivers refused to go to Brooklyn or the Bronx. The same taxi drivers would drive past a black person when…

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president, who recently sparked outrage for calling God stupid, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying he will resign if anybody can prove that God exists.

President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had a thorny relationship with…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to falsely enrolling foreign teens sought by basketball recruiters and coaches in her small private school.

WSOC-TV reports that Evelyn Mack faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to a felony charge of concealing,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newly unsealed lawsuit by Tennessee’s attorney general says the maker of the world’s top-selling painkiller directed its salesforce to target the highest prescribers, many with limited or no pain management background or training.

Citing the public’s right to know, Attorney…

BERLIN — Research suggests the family of Anne Frank, the world famous Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust, attempted to immigrate to the United States and later also to Cuba, but their efforts were thwarted by America’s restrictive immigration policy and the outbreak of World War II.

The Anne…

The three-headed front office of the Mets envisions attempting to pull off a quick turnaround ahead of the trade deadline, rather than a prolonged rebuild.

That certainly flies in the face of the “everything’s on the table” talking point floated by acting GM John Ricco when Sandy Alderson stepped…

DOVER, Del. — An airman stationed at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base has pleaded guilty to raping and endangering a runaway 14-year-old girl.

WDEL-FM reports 22-year-old Zepplin Ray Taylor-McGinness was sentenced Friday to a year in prison, followed by probation.

Dover Police M. Cpl. Mark Hoffman…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A mayor and two former government officials in Puerto Rico face public corruption charges in separate cases that involve a total of $8 million in federal and local funds, authorities said Thursday.

The suspects are the mayor of the southwest town of Sabana Grande and the…

You won’t see Woody Johnson’s two kids kneeling on the sideline at MetLife Stadium during the National Anthem any time soon.

And they might never learn the correct words to “God Bless America” either.

That’s because the Jets owner, while talking on camera for a piece about a documentary on the…

An irate man threatened to kill a campaign volunteer — and Donald Trump supporters — at a Long Island Congressman’s campaign headquarters on Long Island Friday, police said.

Martin Astrof, 75, charged at Donato Panico at Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Nesconset campaign office around 11:15 a.m., harassed him…

You may have noticed the Lakers never tweeted out LeBron James’ decision to sign with the purple and gold.

That’s because his four-year, $154-million contract made public by his agency Sunday isn’t technically official.

The King is busy vacationing in Europe, meaning he’s yet to put pen to paper…

TORONTO – It’s time for the Yankees to remove Sonny Gray from the rotation.

Aaron Boone said after Gray’s latest implosion on Friday night that the atrocious righty is expected to take his next turn on Wednesday in Baltimore, but that absolutely shouldn’t happen.

“I don’t think we would do that…

Jose Bautista entered Friday night’s game against the Rays with 336 career home runs in 1,726 regular season games.

None of them had been of the walk-off variety.

That all changed in the bottom of the ninth at Citi Field when Bautista jumped on a first pitch fastball from Chaz Roe and belted it…

PHILADELPHIA — Police say a seemingly out-of-control city bus ran a red light, hit two cars, and then plowed onto a home’s lawn where people were lounging in a splash pool, killing one man.

Police say the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus carrying 15 passengers crashed into…

PHUKET, Thailand — Divers who entered the wreck of a tour boat that sank in a storm off the southern Thai resort island of Phuket described heartbreaking scenes of bodies of children found in the arms of their mothers, as the search continued Saturday for 18 mostly Chinese tourists missing in a…

WASHINGTON — Taking over from an ambitious predecessor known for seeking out the rich, powerful and conservative, the Environmental Protection Agency’s newly named acting chief has promised to reach out to anxious staffers throughout the demoralized agency and to lawmakers of both political parties.

…

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended a second day of talks with senior North Korean officials on Saturday, with both sides saying they need clarity on the parameters of an agreement to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

On his third trip to Pyongyang since April and his…

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Saturday it executed eight people convicted in the 2017 Islamic State group attack on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.

The June 7, 2017 attack has so far been the only assault by the Sunni extremists inside of Shiite Iran, which has been…

Donald Trump should be happy. The economy is still purring as it has been for several years: Friday’s new figures showed the U.S. added 213,000 jobs in June.

But the President can’t sit still, not until he can call the economy fully his own, and not until he can hear the love of an adoring crowd…

For five years the city, or at least parts of it, have had big, clunky blue Citi Bikes and their big, clunky gray docks, proving that bike share does work here, or at least in parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

But major change is coming, for within days, the next wave — bike rentals without…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky officials say the final collapse of a whiskey storage warehouse sent torrents of spirits gushing into retention ponds.

John Mura, a spokesman for the state Energy and Environment Cabinet, said Friday about 120,000 gallons (454,000 liters) have been captured in two retention…

America’s closest allies will be on edge next week as President Trump embarks on a European tour set to include a tense summit, tea with the British Queen and an eyebrow-raising face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump’s whirlwind spin on the world stage begins Wednesday with a…

“There is a real danger that we will leave future generations only rubble, deserts and refuse,” warned Pope Francis Friday. Also known to Scott Pruitt as the Promised Land.

GOLETA, Calif. — Firefighters battling wildfires throughout the U.S. West that have torched hundreds of homes hoped for some help from the weather Saturday even as new fires swept sweltering Southern California.

A fire on the California-Oregon border that destroyed 40 buildings and claimed at least…

TOWNSEND, Del. — Five members of a New Jersey family, including four children, were killed Friday in a crash on a Delaware highway, according to state police.

The other adult who was in the vehicle was taken to a hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries, news outlets reported Friday…

Shed no tears for yellow cabs

Bronx: I have no sympathy for taxi drivers. I remember not too long ago when these same taxi drivers would refuse to pick up a black person like myself. Taxi drivers refused to go to Brooklyn or the Bronx. The same taxi drivers would drive past a black person when…

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president, who recently sparked outrage for calling God stupid, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying he will resign if anybody can prove that God exists.

President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had a thorny relationship with…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to falsely enrolling foreign teens sought by basketball recruiters and coaches in her small private school.

WSOC-TV reports that Evelyn Mack faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to a felony charge of concealing,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newly unsealed lawsuit by Tennessee’s attorney general says the maker of the world’s top-selling painkiller directed its salesforce to target the highest prescribers, many with limited or no pain management background or training.

Citing the public’s right to know, Attorney…

BERLIN — Research suggests the family of Anne Frank, the world famous Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust, attempted to immigrate to the United States and later also to Cuba, but their efforts were thwarted by America’s restrictive immigration policy and the outbreak of World War II.

The Anne…

The three-headed front office of the Mets envisions attempting to pull off a quick turnaround ahead of the trade deadline, rather than a prolonged rebuild.

That certainly flies in the face of the “everything’s on the table” talking point floated by acting GM John Ricco when Sandy Alderson stepped…

DOVER, Del. — An airman stationed at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base has pleaded guilty to raping and endangering a runaway 14-year-old girl.

WDEL-FM reports 22-year-old Zepplin Ray Taylor-McGinness was sentenced Friday to a year in prison, followed by probation.

Dover Police M. Cpl. Mark Hoffman…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A mayor and two former government officials in Puerto Rico face public corruption charges in separate cases that involve a total of $8 million in federal and local funds, authorities said Thursday.

The suspects are the mayor of the southwest town of Sabana Grande and the…

You won’t see Woody Johnson’s two kids kneeling on the sideline at MetLife Stadium during the National Anthem any time soon.

And they might never learn the correct words to “God Bless America” either.

That’s because the Jets owner, while talking on camera for a piece about a documentary on the…

An irate man threatened to kill a campaign volunteer — and Donald Trump supporters — at a Long Island Congressman’s campaign headquarters on Long Island Friday, police said.

Martin Astrof, 75, charged at Donato Panico at Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Nesconset campaign office around 11:15 a.m., harassed him…

You may have noticed the Lakers never tweeted out LeBron James’ decision to sign with the purple and gold.

That’s because his four-year, $154-million contract made public by his agency Sunday isn’t technically official.

The King is busy vacationing in Europe, meaning he’s yet to put pen to paper…

TORONTO – It’s time for the Yankees to remove Sonny Gray from the rotation.

Aaron Boone said after Gray’s latest implosion on Friday night that the atrocious righty is expected to take his next turn on Wednesday in Baltimore, but that absolutely shouldn’t happen.

“I don’t think we would do that…

Jose Bautista entered Friday night’s game against the Rays with 336 career home runs in 1,726 regular season games.

None of them had been of the walk-off variety.

That all changed in the bottom of the ninth at Citi Field when Bautista jumped on a first pitch fastball from Chaz Roe and belted it…

PHILADELPHIA — Police say a seemingly out-of-control city bus ran a red light, hit two cars, and then plowed onto a home’s lawn where people were lounging in a splash pool, killing one man.

Police say the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus carrying 15 passengers crashed into…

LAS VEGAS — We were all jerks in our youth. That was the message from new Knicks coach David Fizdale in predicting newly signed forward Mario Hezonja has turned over a new leaf as the 23-year-old Croatian put forth a strong finish to last season. Hezonja, the fifth pick in the 2015 draft, officially signed…

Carmelo Anthony didn’t like his reduced role and the Thunder weren’t keen on paying him big money to fail at it. A parting of the ways always seemed inevitable, and now it appears close to happening. Following one dismal season in Oklahoma City, the former Knick appears headed elsewhere shortly after opting in to the…

The Kyle O’Quinn Era is over in New York. The Queens product agreed to terms on a one-year, $4.5 million deal with the Pacers, an NBA source confirmed. The Knicks’ burly backup center got a small raise after opting out of his Knicks contract that would have paid him $4.25 million next season. According to…

LAS VEGAS — Emmanuel Mudiay doesn’t have to be here. But the 6-foot-5 point guard wants to be around new coach David Fizdale as much as he can looking to reverse a disappointing two-month stretch with the Knicks after the trade-deadline deal with Denver. Mudiay is practicing with the Knicks summer-league team that debuts Saturday…

The Knicks have signed C Luke Kornet, the team announced on Friday.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are trying to get rid of former Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony after just one season.

With the Knicks first game against the Hawks slated for this Saturday at 5:30 p.m., here are some players to watch in Vegas over the next couple weeks.

Former Knicks center Kyle O’Quinn agreed to a one-year, $4.5 million deal with the Indiana Pacers on Friday.

Knicks head coach David Fizdale opened up the possibility of Kristaps Porzingis playing at small forward, which could give New York one of the tallest starting fives in NBA history.

The Spurs made an offer to bring back Parker, the free-agent guard who has spent his entire 17-year career in San Antonio, but he has decided to move on.

Anthony, currently a forward in Oklahoma City, is expected to part ways with the Thunder before the end of the summer. The Rockets may be his next stop.