Day: July 12, 2018

New Knicks guard Mario Hezonja celebrated Croatia’s World Cup victory over England on Wednesday.

Knicks draft pick Kevin Knox has been unleashing ferocious dunks and burying threes while dominating in the Summer League.

There was no secret that former Knicks star F Carmelo Anthony and former head coach Mike D’Antoni didn’t see eye to eye in New York.

President Trump can’t rely on luck seeing him through his Friday the 13th meeting with the Queen.

As Trump gears up for his U.K. trip and the honor of meeting the Queen on June 13, high on his list of preparations should be learning the myriad protocols in place for all social interactions with…

It has come to pass that Laura Ingalls Wilder is now bad, too.

There are generations of readers who can trace their first love for books straight back to Wilder and her nine entries in her “Little House” series, first published in the 1930s and early 40s. For many of us, these were our first moments…

The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy is drawing much-needed attention to the abuses perpetrated by ICE, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

But the crisis didn’t start there. And the debate around what to do with ICE is not as complicated as some…

BRUSSELS — President Trump threatened European allies that he could ‘go it alone’ in a shock at the NATO summit in Brussels, according to a report.

The commander-in-chief had blasted Germany and others for not spending more on their own defense, and a report from the Germany news agency DPA said…

Only thorough, independent investigation will tell whether anyone could have stopped one Rikers Island detainee from putting his hands around the throat of another and killing him.

But the first fatal assault by one inmate on another in more than a decade serves as ghastly reminder that the jails…

Here’s how stupid elections can get in New York: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat incumbent Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley, also won a primary in a neighboring district — on the Reform Party line. With a grand total of nine write-in votes, or 10 if spelling doesn’t count.

And that’s not even the…

Back in May, when he was blaming Democrats for a policy his White House devised and implemented, President Trump called the practice of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents “horrible.”

Tuesday, as his administration failed abysmally to meet a court-ordered deadline to return,…

ALBANY — A dispute between Gov. Cuomo and the state Assembly over criminal background checks has jeopardized up to $12 million in federal day care funds — potentially hitting poor, minority and immigrant children hardest, the Daily News has learned.

The disagreement centers on a program that provides…

A pair of Brooklyn progressive state Senate Democratic candidates is set to announce on Thursday they will back each other’s bids.

The two 27-year-old first-time candidates are Julia Salazar and Ross Barkan.

Salazar, a self-described democratic socialist, is running a primary challenge against…

A smarter way to clear NYC trash

Bronx: Re “Trash war heats up with new private sanitation bill in City Council” (June 27), we applaud Councilmen Robert Cornegy and Mark Gjonaj for standing up for New York’s small businesses. The two Council members have introduced a smart, innovative, responsible…

A 16-year-old boy was killed when a gunman shot him in the head in broad daylight as the teen walked with his girlfriend on a tree-lined Brooklyn block Wednesday, police said.

The victim was walking with his sweetheart on Macon St. near Stuyvesant Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant when he got into a war…

SUNRISE, Fla. — In the crucial first minutes after a gunman began shooting students and staff at a Florida high school, law enforcement’s response was hampered by quirks in the local 911 system that caused many calls from inside the school to be transferred, the chairman of a commission investigating…

A savvy squad of Queens detectives used devices — both old and new — to track down and save a woman trying to hang herself in a Midtown hotel, cops said Wednesday.

The hi-tech, life-or-death rescue effort began when a panicked woman came running into the 107th Precinct in Flushing on a video call…

A hate-spewing passenger unleashed an anti-Muslim tirade on a city bus, verbally attacking another woman with profane threats for wearing a headscarf.

“ICE is here for you,” the instigator, who identifies herself as Ashley, can be heard screaming on the Brooklyn-bound bus from Staten Island.

The…

Stormy Daniels, the adult film star suing the President after an alleged affair, has been arrested in Ohio, according to her lawyer.

Michael Avenatti said that his client, who was paid $130,000 not to discuss the alleged affair during the 2016 campaign, was “arrested in Columbus, Ohio, performing…

A Tennessee pastor is being accused of raping a 17-year-old girl.

James “Ronnie” Messer, 46, was arrested after the girl’s family reported him to authorities claiming he took the 17-year-old to the Crossway Worship Center after their plans to go swimming fell through.

The girl’s sister alleged…

HURON, Kan. — Authorities say a councilwoman for a tiny Kansas town kicked, hit and scratched deputies and that they had to use a stun gun to subdue her.

Atchison County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff Jack Laurie says 48-year-old Carol Fowler remains jailed Wednesday on $25,000 bond after the June 29…

BALTIMORE – Tyler Wade’s parents are getting another MLB keepsake from their son: his first career home run ball.

Wade went deep for the first time as a major-leaguer in the sixth inning of the Yankees’ 9-0 victory over the Orioles on Wednesday night at Camden Yards.

“No idea. I blacked out,” Wade…

In the end, the happiest man in baseball put a smile on all of Citi Field, which was fitting, of course, for Brandon Nimmo.

As Mickey Callaway put it, when asked whether he saw just how energized Nimmo was after hitting his pinch-hit walk-off home run in the 10th inning of Wednesday night’s 3-0…

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The mother and stepfather of a 21-year-old man with a genetic disability that prevents him from speaking are accused of beating, binding and caging him.

News outlets report 40-year-old Christina Boyles and 39-year-old Herbert Boyles, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, were arrested…

BALTIMORE – The Manny Machado race is in full swing – and apparently No. 13 thinks he’d look good in a Yankee uniform.

On Wednesday, Machado “liked” an Instagram post from his verified account – “machados13” – that showed him wearing the Yankees’ gray road uniform.

Yeah, that actually happened.

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Jacob deGrom shut the Phillies out over eight innings Wednesday night before Brandon Nimmo sent the Mets home victorious with a 10th-inning three-run walk-off homer.

DeGrom’s season ERA is now at 1.68 entering the All-Star break. It’s the best mark in the majors.

Callaway was asked after the game…

After blowing the first of two deadlines to return migrant children to their families, the Trump administration anticipates reuniting a number of separated kids Thursday.

A San Diego judge ordered the feds to reunite all 102 children under age 5 by Tuesday — a deadline that was missed when only…

TRENTON, N.J. — Whose mother wouldn’t say her child should be in the big leagues?

That is essentially how Tim Tebow reacted to his mom, Pam, telling TMZ at LAX that she would have her son called up to the big leagues and play for the Mets if it were up to her.

“That was my mom trying to be sweet…

Lakers fans will have to wait until the NBA season starts up to see LeBron James in purple and gold.

Jonas Never, one of the artits responsible for a controversial mural depicting LeBron in a Lakers jersey, painted over his work on Wednesday after it was vandalized twice in four days.

Never and…

LAS VEGAS — Frank Ntilikina was out with a groin strain Tuesday, so that gave the Knicks a chance to take a look at former Arizona shooting guard Allonzo Trier at the point. Remember these are the David Fizdale Knicks of positionless basketball. According to sources, failed PED tests were not the overriding reason the…

LAS VEGAS — Burgeoning lottery pick Kevin Knox loves to play and has taken Thomas & Mack Center by storm. But he also loves to watch. When the Knicks are finished with their summer-league games, the 6-foot-9 forward can be seen afterward in the stands — and out of the scorching Las Vegas sun. Knox…

LAS VEGAS — Knicks president Steve Mills and GM Scott Perry brushed off Kyle O’Quinn’s dig at the Knicks but didn’t do a lot to dispel the big man’s premise. After signing last weekend with Indiana, O’Quinn said he rejected a similar Knicks offer because he “wanted to be a part of something bigger than…

LAS VEGAS — Frank Ntilikina was out with a groin strain Tuesday, so that gave the Knicks a chance to take a look at former Arizona shooting guard Allonzo Trier at the point. Remember these are the David Fizdale Knicks of positionless basketball. According to sources, failed PED tests were not the overriding reason the…

LAS VEGAS — Burgeoning lottery pick Kevin Knox loves to play and has taken Thomas & Mack Center by storm. But he also loves to watch. When the Knicks are finished with their summer-league games, the 6-foot-9 forward can be seen afterward in the stands — and out of the scorching Las Vegas sun. Knox…

LAS VEGAS — Knicks president Steve Mills and GM Scott Perry brushed off Kyle O’Quinn’s dig at the Knicks but didn’t do a lot to dispel the big man’s premise. After signing last weekend with Indiana, O’Quinn said he rejected a similar Knicks offer because he “wanted to be a part of something bigger than…