Month: August 2018

Clyde Frazier, when asked where he’d rank Kevin Durant on a list of all-time players, said he would dock the two-time Finals MVP for joining “a team that really didn’t need him.”

“I need answers!” Captain Kirk used to bark on “Star Trek.”

Now, the man who played him hears the same demand from fans.

Except the questions lobbed at William Shatner are personal: How do I know if I’m in the right career? How do I make love last? How do I make a difference?

Trekkies figure the…

Stephen Hricko, 35, booked a romantic getaway for Valentine’s Day in 1998, a weekend featuring a dinner-theater murder mystery at the Harbourtowne resort on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

His marriage was on the rocks, and he hoped the excursion would rekindle romantic flames between him and his wife,…

Friday, Aug. 31 – Sunday, Sept. 2

ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING RULES ARE IN EFFECT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

Friday is the last, big getaway day of the summer, and traffic will feel even more like a zoo Friday with the U.S. Open in Flushing, the Yankees in the Bronx, and the Electric Zoo music festival on…

This weekend, the New York City Police Department is changing its policy with respect to people caught smoking marijuana in public. I want to explain the shift — so both officers and the people of the city understand exactly what we’re doing and why.

The new directive gives police the discretion…

In our increasingly polarized climate, are our universities sacrificing the pursuit of truth in the name of political expediency? Recent signs point to yes, and this should be of profound concern to anyone who believes that we should, as President Obama once put it, “follow the science” on important…

The streetcar is coming! The streetcar is coming!

See, right there, in a glossy book from Mayor de Blasio, announcing that more than two years after its first glimmer in his State of the City address, Brooklyn-to-Queens BQX is on track to roll.

Did he say the project would pay for its entire $2.5…

Let the word go forth: American police can be held to account, both legally and administratively, when they fatally abuse their authority.

Tuesday in Dallas, a jury returned a rare verdict, but a just one: Former Police Officer Roy Oliver was found guilty of the murder of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards….

Four respected FDNY officers may get caught in the fallout from the brutal bare-knuckled Bronx brawl earlier this summer that got eight firefighters suspended.

All four officers attended a Medal Day celebration at Billy’s Bar near Yankee Stadium on June 6. They were captured on surveillance videotape…

Keep civilians far from arrest scenes

Hempstead, L.I.: The Sergeants Benevolent Association wants to give a $500 reward to civilians who assist police in making an arrest. I think this is one of the more irresponsible suggestions that have come out of policing in decades.

Civilians should never…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said early Friday it seized over 1,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles being smuggled by small ships in the Gulf of Aden amid the ongoing war in nearby Yemen.

The seizure by the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham may mark the first such interdiction…

Eminem has a surprise for his fans.

At midnight on Friday on the east coast, the rapper announced on Twitter the release of a new album, “Kamikaze.”

“Tried not 2 overthink this 1 … enjoy,” he wrote on Twitter.

The release is his tenth studio album, and is a follow up to the 2017’s “Revival.”

The…

SAN FRANCISCO — An artist is paying tribute to the late Robin Williams with a giant mural in San Francisco that depicts his blue eyes and nose framed by silver hair.

The San Francisco Examiner reports that Argentine muralist Andres Iglesias, who signs his art with the pseudonym Cobre, completed…

CANBERRA, Australia — The Catholic Church in Australia on Friday rejected a recommendation by a government inquiry that priests be required to report evidence of child sex abuse disclosed in the confessional.

The recommendation that priests be prosecuted for failing to report evidence of pedophilia…

After a devastating loss to the struggling Tigers, at least the Yankees can say help is coming.

The Yankees went out and made a deal for outfielder Andrew McCutchen Thursday night to help bolster their injury-plagued lineup, a team source confirmed.

The five-time All Star and 2013 National League…

At his best, Novak Djokovic is a wall in motion, returning every ball sent his way with enough consistent force to frustrate and conquer opponents.

For 2 ½ sets Thursday night, the 2011 and 2015 U.S. Open champion made himself a wall and appeared primed for an easy second-round win at Arthur Ashe…

Odell Beckham Jr. screamed with delight running off the MetLife Stadium field andthrough a tunnel as a crowd of raucous fans hollered from above Thursday night.

Beckham hadn’t played in the Giants’ 17-12 preseason finale loss to the Patriots, but he knows he will be playing in the Giants’ next…

Over his previous 39 innings pitched over 40 appearances, Dellin Betances had allowed three earned runs and just two homers.

Thursday night, he reached that mark in one third of an inning. The back-to-back homers to Victor Martinez and Niko Goodrum gave Betances his second blown save and fourth…

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — A shortage of wild foods after the dry summer has led hungry bears to seek easy meals around campsites in the Adirondacks.

Dave Winchell of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Adirondack office tells the Glens Falls Post-Star that there were 330 reports of bear incidents…

CONCORD, Mass. — If three’s a crowd, what does 11 make?

An open Massachusetts congressional seat has prompted a political free-for-all of sorts, with 10 Democrats and a Republican vying for the affection of voters in Tuesday’s primary — putting it among the nation’s most crowded House races.

Democratic…

Former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued President Trump’s family foundation out of personal hatred and used the litigation as a prop to boost his own campaign fund-raising, according to the lawyer for the charity.

Alan Futerfas, the attorney defending the Donald J. Trump Foundation…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 31, 2018

We might resist unexpected changes from the Moon’s early morning conjunction with irrepressible Uranus, but the instability is only temporary. We can bask in the apparent certainty of a practical Grand Earth Trine while the determined…

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Police say they charged a 64-year-old woman with the death of her grandson in a hot car after discovering inconsistencies in her story that she collapsed from a medical issue.

Greenville County Sheriff’s spokesman Ryan Flood said 18-month-old Joe Avery James Lockaby was left…

The Yankees are beginning to return to full health, but that didn’t stop Brian Cashman from making a deal for another bat to help bolster a depleted outfield.

Andrew McCutchen is headed to the Bronx in exchange for a package of prospects,a source confirmed to The Daily News’ Kristie Ackert.

A package…

On a night dominated by homers at the Stadium, Giancarlo Stanton hammered his 300th career home run Thursday in the third inning of the Yankees 8-7 loss to the Tigers.

Stanton’s was one of eight home runs Thursday night. The Yankees, who are on pace to set a home run club record this season, hit…

At least seven people have died in a fatal Greyhound bus crash in New Mexico Thursday afternoon, police said.

Forty-nine people were aboard the bus, which was headed from St. Louis to Los Angeles, when it collided head-on with a semitrailer in Gonzales Thursday afternoon.

New Mexico State Police…

Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh wanted to cap the amount victims of 9/11 and their family members could receive from the federal government at $500,000, records obtained by the Daily News show.

Kavanaugh, who served as associate White House Counsel during President George W. Bush’s administration,…

After a weekend of wheeling and dealing in Atlantic City,. Floyd Mayweather hit Manhattan’s Diamond District and dropped more than a million dollars on bling.

The former champ was spotted at Pristine Jewelers and Avianne & Co. Jewelers, both on W. 47th St. this week.

“He went on a jewelry spree,”…

Lurking more than 100 miles off the coast of South Carolina, deep sea explorers last week discovered a massive coral reef whose size surprised even the most experienced of divers.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced as part of its ongoing Deep Search 2018 that explorers…

As the city’s million-plus public school students head back into the classroom, some educators and families will feel the effects of Chancellor Richard Carranza’s stepped-up school desegregation plans. The strategy, which includes relaxing admissions to 78 of the city’s more than 1,700 schools,…

All aboard the streetcar named we told you so, stalled in its tracks with Mayor de Blasio at the controls.

From the get-go in his 2015 State of the City address, the risks that the Brooklyn-Queens Connector trolley might not pay for itself as promised through boosted property tax collections were…

As we near the month of September, a death toll approaching 3,000 carries eerie echoes here in New York City.

And so, while we would never compare slow-motion carnage caused by a natural disaster with the horrific instantaneous killings caused by a terrorist attack, we see the new official estimate…

A city councilman who has accused the FDNY of running “two systems” of discipline within its ranks called on the mayor and the fire commissioner Wednesday to terminate disgraced EMT Robert Gala, who was found guilty of forgery and ignoring 911 calls in a city probe.

Gala, 25, the son of FDNY Deputy…

Dump all the NYCHA naughties now

Manhattan: The Daily News front page on Tuesday said “NYCHA cleans house” (“Orgies on overtime,” Aug. 28). After reading that headline I was happy these employees got fired for their gross misconduct. Upon reading the story, I find these party people only got reassigned….

A pizza delivery worker was fatally shot in the head outside a Harlem Papa John’s Wednesday night, police sources said.

A shooter opened fire on 37-year-old Jose Alvarado outside the pizzeria on Amsterdam Ave. at W. 145th St. about 10:30 p.m., police said.

Medics rushed Alvarado to Harlem Hospital,…

BEIJING — A group of U.S. lawmakers has urged the Trump administration to impose sanctions including asset freezes and visa bans on Chinese officials and companies allegedly tied to a stifling security crackdown and the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslims in camps in a far western region.

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A newlywed drowned in the waters off Orchard Beach in the Bronx Wednesday night — less than a week after he tied the knot, police sources said.

Adolfo Munoz, 29, was just married on Friday, sources said, and five days later, he went out to the beach, about 6 miles away from his Morrisania home,…

She was killed by her best friend’s boyfriend.

Lisa Marie Velasquez, the woman whose body parts were found stuffed in plastic trash bags in two Bronx parks, was last seen rushing to the rescue of her pal Ciara Martinez, but, cops say, she ran into Daquan Wheeler, who beat her to death then butchered…

Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Jordan Edwards, an unarmed 15-year-old, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday.

Oliver, 38, was found guilty of murder Tuesday, prompting audible gasps from a packed courtroom. He was found not guilty…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor has been arrested in Arkansas after police allege he punched a woman, held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.

Little Rock police say they were called to Taylor’s home Wednesday afternoon in regard to a disturbance…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 30, 2018

An awkward uncertainty can be debilitating if we let it overtake other feelings while the Moon finishes up her business in spontaneous Aries. Being here and now is complicated when there are real-world commitments to fulfill. A lunar opposition…

Didi Gregorius did some light jogging on the field at Yankee Stadium Wednesday afternoon, running in figure eights and backpedaling a little as well. It was hardly the brilliant speed that has made the Yankee shortstop one of the most dynamic players in the game, but it put him on a fast track…

BOSTON — A college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been released from prison and handed over to federal immigration officials, who plan to deport him to his native Kazakhstan.

A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Dias Kadyrbayev was transferred by…

HONOLULU — A soldier based in Hawaii pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to help the Islamic State group, telling a judge he provided secret military information, a drone meant to track U.S. troops and other support to undercover agents he believed were members of the terrorist organization.

Sgt….

Here we go again.

In their 20th year of facing each other as tennis professionals, the Williams’ will collide in round 3 of the US Open on Friday.

And in case you forgot, both sisters would rather be playing somebody else.

“I never root against her, no matter what,” Serena Williams said. “So I…

We will on Saturday turn the page on the calendar to the final month of the regular season.

The Yankees have 29 regular season games left to try and make up what was a 7.5 game gap with the Red Sox, or keep their hold on the American League’s top Wild Card spot.

They have four weeks to line up…

New Jersey Little League star Alfred “Big Al’’ Delia continued to ride the wave of fame spurred on from his introduction at the Little League World Series regional.

On the field for batting practice, the 12-year-old Middletown, N.J. native was summoned over to the batting cage by Neil Walker.

He…

California tech billionaire Peter Thiel, one of President Trump’s earliest supporters, ponied up his first six-figure donation of the midterm elections, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

The PayPal co-founder donated $101,700 to the Republican National Committee in July, CNBC first…

The father and defacto stepmother of a 3-year-old boy found dead at a squalid New Mexico compound pleaded not guilty Wednesday to new charges of child abuse resulting in death.

The new pleas from Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his partner Jany Leveille came as District Court judges in Taos dismissed a raft…

A frightening, new study reveals that air pollution isn’t just bad for your lungs, but for your brain, as well.

The shocking research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, analyzed math and language tests of 20,000 Chinese residents between 2010 and 2014 and…

The family of a 4-year-old Detroit girl, who died tragically when the go-kart she was riding careened out of control and struck a parked car, suffered a double dose of despair when her father was later taken into police custody.

Autumn Young was with her father, whom cops have yet to identify,…

With many of the NBA’s highest-profile players heading to the Western Conference, Knicks C Enes Kanter gave a hot-take comparison between both conferences.

An angry New York Knicks fan sold his fanhood for a total of $3,450 and will root for the Los Angeles Lakers this season.

If the Knicks hoped publicly taking a shot at an “attention-grabbing gentleman” would shrink that attention, they were wrong. After a longtime Knicks fan announced he was auctioning off his NBA loyalty on eBay, so exasperated was he by rooting for the woebegone franchise, the Knicks released a statement to Bleacher Report that showed they…

A vengeful ex-boyfriend stabbed the mother of his children more than 20 times as she stepped out of a livery cab in Queens, leaving her badly hurt and bleeding in the street, cops said.

The 31-year-old victim somehow survived the brutal Tuesday morning assault — though her lung was punctured and…

A woman lit a room ablaze in a Times Square hotel, then torched trash cans on two other floors Tuesday, police said.

The firebug made her escape amid the chaos at the Staybridge Suites, as firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze that left two people hurt, officials said.

The ponytailed woman, who…

He’s got a famous name and a knockout approach to running a boxing gym.

EverybodyFights, founded in 2013 by George Foreman III — son of two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman, Sr. — allows boxers and gym-goers to get all their training done “under one roof.”

Foreman created his gym concept…

Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich wants to rename a local elementary school after the late Arizona Sen. John McCain.

In a letter sent Tuesday to schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, Ulrich (R-Queens) called for the renaming of Belle Harbor’s popular Public School 114 in honor of the Vietnam War…

The troubled EMT son of a high-ranking FDNY chief remains on the company payroll despite a string of arrests for pretending to be a cop and a documented history of blowing off 911 calls, the Daily News has learned.

Robert Gala, 25, was caught forging his partner’s signature on a patient’s report…

Perhaps the hapless President was too busy these past few days making sure the White House flag was raised to full-staff in dishonor of Sen. John McCain to bother to remember to offer solace or even comment on the latest deadly mass shooting on his watch.

We expected it, we deserved it, but we…

An NYPD detective who challenged another cop to a department-approved boxing match will be forced to lose 25 vacation days and be put on a year’s probation, the Daily News has learned.

An administrative trial judge recommended the heavy penalty on Tuesday, shocking Detective David Terrell, who…

It’s actually surreal to think how easily the media can dupe people into thinking that President Trump is going to be impeached and possibly removed from office.

For the last five-and-a-half years of the Bush administration, the Democratic Party howled that Bush “lied us to war to enrich his friends.”…

We’ve been talking about impeachment all wrong, and Michael Cohen’s guilty plea shows why.

Last week, Cohen — until recently President Trump’s personal lawyer — pleaded guilty to two felonies that directly implicate Trump. Cohen admitted that he had arranged “hush money” payments to two of Trump’s…

Doubtless, Hasidic schools care for their students. But what they ultimately deliver is open to question, and scrutiny by the government.

According to a study released by the United Jewish Appeal in 2013, 45% of the children in the New York metropolitan area’s Jewish households lived in or near…

Before they get their well-earned heave-ho to the unemployment line, let’s thank the NYCHA employees who pursued personal pleasures on government time and cajoled colleagues into their on-premises orgies for exposing — no, not that!

These reprobates did a public service by presenting a headline-ready…

ALBANY — In a move they say will protect tenants, two state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit rent increases tied to major capital improvements.

Instead, the bill introduced by Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) and Assemblyman Brian Barnwell (D-Queens) would offer building…

The first day of school for the nation’s largest public school system is Sept. 5, but thousands of kids across the five boroughs are back in class already — in charters.

Some 114,000 kids here attend the government-funded, independently run, open-to-all-by-lottery schools, the vast majority of…

ALBANY — A tenant activist named in a $40 million defamation lawsuit by a group representing landlords is set to subpoena several current and past state senators, real estate industry donors and lobbyists, the Daily News has learned.

The subpoenas being sent on behalf of Michael McKee, who is the…

Subway gates will save lives

Bronx: Earlier this month, a 5-year-old boy was hit by a subway train in Brooklyn and critically injured. This is one of many, many instances of people being hit by trains in NYC. It does not have to happen. The solution is to install gates or barriers on the subway…

SAN FRANCISCO — Officers found human remains in a fish tank inside the home of a man who was reported missing weeks ago, San Francisco police said Tuesday.

Investigators discovered the remains on Aug. 17 and are awaiting the results of an autopsy and identification of the body, police Commander…

LOS ANGELES — Michelle Janikian, who writes about marijuana for publications like Herb, Playboy and Rolling Stone, says after she tells someone what she does for a living, she usually spends the rest of the conversation “trying to act so friendly and mainstream” so they don’t think she’s stoned.

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Jacob deGrom threw eight stellar innings of one-run ball and had an RBI single, but this time it wasn’t the Mets who rained on his parade. At least not entirely.

Though the Mets still couldn’t give their ace enough run support for a victory — but what else is new — it was a Chicago thunderstorm…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 29, 2018

We can maintain a positive attitude about work, but inwardly we may lose confidence as our dreams slip out of our grasp. The courageous Aries Moon continues to fuel the fires of enthusiasm, but the flames grow dimmer if we don’t make as…

Public housing apartments in New York City are in far worse condition than nonpublic housing — and have remained in a deteriorated state over the past four years — while private-sector units improved, a new study set for release Wednesday has found.

The Citizens Budget Commission analyzed Census…

It started with Greg Bird unable to catch a routine throw to first, and it didn’t get any better for him.

The struggling first baseman had an extra-base hit stolen from him on a leaping grab on the warning track and lined into a double play at first. With two chances to bring in the game-winning…

Neil Walker came here looking for a chance. The second baseman was one of the players frozen out in last winter’s cold MLB free agent market. Signed near the end of spring training, he was hoping for an opportunity to play, and with the Yankees he thought there would be a chance to win.

This year…

WASHINGTON — A proposal to rename the Senate’s oldest office building for John McCain ran into resistance Tuesday from Republican senators reluctant to take away an honor already bestowed on an earlier Senate titan — and a leader of Southern senators during a tumultuous era in the nation’s history.

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Strange as it seems, Roger Federer, widely considered the greatest tennis player ever, has not hoisted the champion’s trophy at the U.S. Open since 2008.

If he’s going to be severely tested at this year’s Open, the stress will come later. Tuesday night, he took full advantage of both an evening…

J.D. Martinez is standing by his Hitler Instagram post, maintaining that he was defending the second amendment.

The Red Sox slugger spoke to the media on Tuesday, according to multiple reports, responding to his social media post from 2013 with the quote, “To conquer a nation, first disarm it’s…

The resignation Monday of the federal student loan ombudsman — along with his scathing kissoff letter — marks another in a series of slashes and setbacks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Seth Frotman, watchdog of the $1.5 trillion student loan industry, quit in protest over what he…

With only a few weeks left until the Democratic primary, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his challenger in the September Democratic primary, Cynthia Nixon, owe the public detailed answers about how they plan to fix the state’s stumbling economy.

According to a recent poll by Quinnipiac University, the economy…

Chapter two of today’s edition of “Golly, look what New York City and State can do when they work together”:

Gov. Cuomo just committed $15 million in scarce affordable housing tax credits to build apartments for senior citizens within New York City Housing Authority developments on the east end…

ALBANY — An upstate Republican running for state Senate once registered as a foreign agent to serve as a media consultant to a political party in Bosnia.

According to a registration statement he filed in 2016 with the U.S. Department of Justice, Thomas Basile was going to provide part-time media…

Farewell, John McCain, American hero

Staten Island: It’s not every day you get to meet, work and be mentored by a true American hero. I was lucky, blessed and humbled to be part of Sen. John McCain’s security detail when he was in New York during both his 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns. My…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Suburban Phoenix police officers shown on video beating an unarmed black man as he stood against a wall three months ago should not face criminal charges, outside police investigators said Monday about one of a series of recent incidents that drew criticism about the agency’s…

PITTSTON, Pa. — State police say a man killed his wife with an ax in their northeastern Pennsylvania home and then stabbed himself to death over the weekend.

Police in Luzerne County say troopers were called to the Exeter Township home Sunday and found the bodies of the two.

Police said 58-year-old…

LAREDO, Texas — A Texas National Guard soldier part of the state’s border protection buildup has been accused of stealing from U.S. Customs and Border Protection methamphetamine that federal agents had seized.

Pvt. Edwin Baez had been deployed to Laredo to help CBP agents with their work at the…

A Bronx gunman who fired a hail of bullets at a teenager fleeing him last month has been charged with attempted murder, police said.

Donisio (Don Flo) Tullis, 20, was busted Monday on charges he shot his 18-year-old victim once in the back, once in the arm and twice in the buttocks at the Pelham…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 28, 2018

Overextension leads to overcompensation as the day unfolds. Clever Mercury’s creative square to bountiful Jupiter encourages us to turn tiny molehills into big mountains. The Moon’s shift into enterprising Aries at 12:35 pm EDT gives us…

You could blame it on the schedule, but the Yankees don’t have a lot of time for excuses. After making up ground in the American League East over a six-game road trip, they returned to the Stadium Monday night looking “sluggish” and lifeless. The Bombers committed three errors and had just three…

BOSTON — A piece of computer history that helped launch a trillion dollar company is hitting the auction block.

A fully functioning Apple-1 being auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction in September is one of only 60 or so remaining of the original 200 that were designed and built by Steve Jobs and…

When Serena Williams gets on a roll, there are few sights more exciting in sports.

The 23-time Grand Slam champion reminded us of what we missed last year in a 6-4, 6-0 drubbing of Poland’s Magda Linette on opening night of the U.S. Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Displaying a blend of power, precision…

Toyota wants to help build a self-driving car.

The car company invested $500 million in Uber Monday “with the aim of advancing and bringing to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale.”

“Combining efforts with Uber, one of the predominant global ride-sharing and automated driving…

A beloved chimpanzee at Zoo Miami has died unexpectedly at the age of 28.

Bocco, a crowd-pleaser at the Florida attraction, was found unresponsive in his enclosure on Monday before being ruled dead. The spectator area was quickly cordoned off.

Even more heartbreaking, the other chimps, sensing…

Bronx cops used a T-shirt as a tourniquet to save a woman’s life after her ex butchered her with a kitchen knife while her young children cowered inside her apartment Monday morning, police said.

The ex-boyfriend, 32-year-old Wilson Rojas, later tried to hop a flight to the Dominican Republic —…

Serena Williams won her first U.S. Open title as a 17-year-old in 1999. Venus Williams played in the 1997 Open final at the same age.

Chris Evert reached the Open semifinals when she was 16. Tracy Austin won her first pro title at 14.

Today, the path to stardom for tennis teens is harder because…

The day the Giants decided not to trade Odell Beckham Jr., they committed to signing him long-term. It was just a matter of when, and if Beckham would help them get there.

Five months passed between the Giants’ spring Beckham trade discussions with the L.A. Rams and Monday’s signing of a blockbuster…

Luke Voit might have been the jolt the Yankees needed. The first baseman’s fist pumps and home runs have injected some life into a team that was called out by former Red Sox and Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez for playing without energy just a week ago.

“He’s a character. It’s fun to watch…

A 16-year-old California girl is still missing after police say she disappeared with a wrestling coach from the local high school.

Phillip Maglaya, a 25-year-old coach at Franklin High School in Stockton, was in a “romantic relationship” with the missing girl, according to the San Joaquin County…

Aaron Judge created a stir Monday afternoon. The injured Yankees slugger was seen walking near the batting cages outside the clubhouse with a bat in his hand.

It was, however, a false alarm. Judge was just holding a wiffle ball bat.

A month after Judge suffered the fractured right wrist, Aaron…

On the “Today” show in June, Bill Clinton was asked if he had ever apologized personally to Monica Lewinsky. The normally eloquent and loquacious former President went into the verbal equivalent of a mad dash to the sidelines — once again getting comeuppance for his appalling behavior while in…

Getting a sugar-high is the least of your worries with these fruits.

Cops in Spain busted seven suspected drug smugglers after foiling their clever ruse to import hollowed-out pineapples jam-packed with 148 pounds of cocaine, reported Agence France-Presse.

The pineapples, which were “perfectly…

Long Island cops caught a man wanted for sex trafficking and drug peddling after they cuffed him in a hit-and-run accident.

Rakeem Holland, 27, was nabbed Sunday around 5:20 p.m. after he and Pierre Grace, also 27, tried to run away from a car crash on Station Road near Sunrise Highway in North…

It was this lost dog’s lucky day.

A transit worker found a lost pup at the Third Ave. L line station in Manhattan on Monday and got it into the hands of the staff at the Animal Care Centers of New York City, officials said.

A rider told the station agent that there was a dog on the northbound platform…

The on-court rivalry of Bird and Taurasi has defined a generation of guard play in women’s basketball.

Ginobili, 41, was a two-time All-Star, Sixth Man of the Year Award winner and core member of four Spurs championships teams.

Add shady construction permits to Michael Cohen’s laundry list of legal troubles.

Besides cheating on his taxes, lying to banks and violating campaign finance laws while working for President Trump, public records show that Cohen’s partners in three apartment buildings submitted documents falsely…

A top-to-bottom house cleaning is unfolding at a Bronx public housing development where NYCHA discovered pervasive lead paint, with the entire staff ordered to hand in their keys and exit the property.

The clean sweep took place Friday at the Throggs Neck Houses and was ordered up by NYCHA General…

A retired NYPD sergeant says his former supervisor in Mayor de Blasio’s troubled security detail drunkenly assaulted him during a fight at Gracie Mansion — and that the shocking incident was swept under the rug.

Retired Sgt. Roland Jerome detailed his alleged fracas with Lt. Karl Pfeffer, the second…

Although opioids dominate the headlines, stimulant drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine never went away.

In fact, more Americans use illegal stimulant drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine than use all opioids combined, and recent data suggests they’re contributing to our skyrocketing drug overdose…

On June 4, President Trump tweeted, “As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON” — his caps, of course — “myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?”

The idea that the President of the United States would muse aloud about exercising his…

They’ve descended upon Cleveland, Louisville, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Baltimore: Dozens of American cities are seeing motorized scooters go where only bikes have dared to roam.

In some places, the ride’s been smooth. Elsewhere, the backlash has been stiff.

New York should give…

A lifetime appointment on the highest court in the land is serious business: Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee must subject Supreme Court nominees to tough vetting, having first reviewed all relevant evidence of a nominee’s conduct. In the case of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, we’d like that to…

Back in May, when Transit Authority chief Andy Byford released his subway transformation plan, Gov. Cuomo and MTA boss Joe Lhota played coy with the price tag.

A couple of dollar figures leaked: $43 billion, $19 billion. But by the time of the announcement, the numbers vanished. Classic cowardice.

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ALBANY — New York’s political circles will be focused Wednesday on the one and only debate between Gov. Cuomo and his Democratic primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon.

For Nixon, the debate likely represents her best chance to close the polls that show her trailing by 30 points.

Sources close to her…

ALBANY — A former chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, in an email raising money for Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, referred to her primary foe as a “charismatic young black man”

Judith Hope in the Aug. 8 email sought to portray Hochul as imminently more qualified for the job than City Councilman…

ALBANY — The union representing rank-and-file city cops is continuing to troll Mayor de Blasio outside New York.

Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch on Monday is set to send a letter to members of the Democratic National Committee trashing de Blasio and potential national…

The following is an expanded version of the second item from my “Albany Insider” column from Monday’s print editions:

ALBANY —Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, in a four-way race in the Sept. 13 state attorney general Democratic primary, is being endorsed Monday by insurgent state Senate candidate…

ALBANY — Republican attorney general candidate Keith Wofford, a corporate lawyer and first-time candidate, is staffing up with a team of veteran national and state GOP operatives — including some who worked for President Trump.

Wofford has named long-time GOP consultant O’Brien Murray, who worked…

Damn right Jim Brown’s still a role model

Franklin, Ind.: Carron Philips is a prime example of what’s wrong with the liberal media (“Jim Brown, once a hero, maybe never should have been one,” column, Aug. 24). Who is Phillips to say that Brown should or shouldn’t be a role model to the black community?…

Luis Severino got himself back into the conversation. The Yankees’ ace hadn’t really pitched like one his last seven starts. The 24-year-old had sputtered since just before the All-Star break, pitching to a plus-7.00 ERA.

But Sunday night was Severino’s second straight start where he showed he…

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General Horoscope for August 27, 2018

Warrior Mars turns direct today, ending its two-month retrograde period and its siege on progress. The Pisces Moon may cloud our view, but we’ll probably feel different right away, even if it’s a few days before we start seeing measurable…

Just last week, Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez called them lazy and lacking the energy of a winning team. The Yankees universe seemed resigned to just trying to clinch a spot in the wild card. While the former Red Sox ace was likely rubbing a little salt in a wounded lineup that had just played 20…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Some say inhaling nitrogen gas would be like dying on a plane that depressurizes in flight, swiftly killing all aboard. Now more than a quarter of Alabama’s death row inmates have signed statements saying they would prefer that gas over lethal injection or the electric chair…

Athletes from the Florida area and across the country reacted to the deadly shooting at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida on Sunday afternoon that left two dead and wounded 12 others.

The alleged gunman, identified by Jacksonville police as gamer David Katz, died from a self-inflicted…

CONCORD, N.H. — Eleven former staffers at a prominent New Hampshire prep school have been accused of fondling, forced kissing and other sexual misconduct with students over several decades, according to two reports released on Friday.

The reports released by Phillips Exeter Academy also found that…

President Trump took time out of his busy schedule Sunday for golf and self-praise, but failed to publicly mention a mass shooting at a Jacksonville video game tournament that left three dead, including the gunman.

Trump tweeted twice after news of the shooting broke around 2 p.m., once quoting…

Justus Sheffield is going to need a little more time to get used to his new role.

At least that is the observation of one scout who was watching the Yankees top pitching prospect’s game Saturday.

Sheffield, a projected starter who is transitioning to the bullpen for an anticipated major league…

Police have arrested a 13th suspect in the brutal gang-related killing of an innocent Bronx teenager.

Ronald Urena, 29, was busted at 6:15 p.m. Sunday on murder charges in the June 20 killing of 15-year-old Lesandro (Junior) Guzman-Feliz.

When he was walked out of the 48th Precinct stationhouse…

Mollie Tibbetts’ father eulogized his daughter in front of 1,200 people in the Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom High School gymnasium Sunday afternoon, steps away from her family home.

The 20-year-old Iowa woman was found dead in a cornfield last week, almost a month after she went missing during an evening…

The President shot down aides’ suggestion that he put out a statement honoring John McCain in favor of tweeting a short message to the senator’s family, according to a Washington Post report.

The statement, which was reportedly edited by White House staffers including White House Press Secretary…

Knicks Gaming topped Heat Check Gaming twice on Saturday to win the inaugural 2K League championship.

President Trump is flipping his lid over his former lawyer and other longtime confidants cooperating with prosecutors.

Amid a week in which he was directly implicated in a criminal conspiracy, Trump fumed — using language worthy of a “Goodfellas” character — about “flippers” turning state’s evidence…

The Old Homestead Steakhouse is serving up decadent twists on classic sandwiches — and some of them cost as much as a plane ticket to Mexico.

For a whopping $275, foodies in the know can savor a grilled cheese sandwich featuring imported prized Japanese Wagyu. The Old Homestead’s version of the…

In the urban jungle of New York, parks and playgrounds are havens for children and their parents, where they while away hours in nature, creating memories for a lifetime. Those memories may well become nightmares, however, if we don’t take action to protect our children against exposure to the…

Corrupt and broken systems are always vulnerable to disruption. Empires of every kind — political, military, corporate — are brought down by forces and factors visible only in hindsight.

From the Romans to the Nazis to Soviet Communism to an endless parade of once-dominant, now-disappeared corporations,…

Four years ago, this Editorial Board opposed Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout’s candidacy for governor because she was the wrong person for the position. This year, Teachout is running for the right job, New York attorney general. She is the standout in the Democratic field of four. The Daily…

An insurgency on the primary-election campaign trail retails an appealing message to New York’s legions of overstretched tenants: rent control for everyone, everywhere.

A city and state already struggling to build enough places to live needs this like a hole in the ground — which such laws would…

While celebrating this year’s New York Caribbean Carnival and Parade, the West Indian American Day Carnival Association is also marking a few firsts — partnerships with popular Uber transportation company and the Eventbrite ticketing website.

According to an association spokeswoman, Uber has been…

Putting a name on the illegal menace

Ormond Beach, Fla.: Another innocent American has lost her life because of the failure to enforce our immigration laws. The left’s use of politically correct terms such as “undocumented immigrants,” their support for sanctuary cities and their attacks on ICE…

All smiles after picking up a win in his spot start and hearing cheers in the Camden Yards crowd from traveling Yankee fans who have booed him heavily at Yankee Stadium, Sonny Gray did not sound much like a pitcher reeling from a demotion to the bullpen.

“I’m one of the best starting pitchers in…

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Serena Williams took the high road Saturday, a day after the French tennis federation found her form-fitting black catsuit, inspired by the hit movie Black Panther, too risqué for the French Open.

“Obviously, the Grand Slams have a right to do what they want to do,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion…

Angel Angelof seemed like a divine prospective American.

The Bulgarian refugee sailed into New York on Feb. 18, 1966, in steerage aboard the Italian liner Cristoforo Columbo. He told immigration officers that he yearned to breathe free.

“I dislike the Communist regime, wish to migrate to the USA…

He ran a ruthless mob, corrupted countless cops, even ordered a massacre – and no one could touch him. And then Al Capone made his big mistake.

He angered the IRS.

That’s the story of “Scarface and the Untouchable” by mystery writer Max Allan Collins and historian A. Brad Schwartz. But it’s not…

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General Horoscope for August 26, 2018

There’s no limit to the amount of change that can occur in just one day. We might be lulled into complacency when the Moon enters idyllic Pisces at 1:32 am EDT, but the gentle vibes won’t last. The Pisces Full Moon at 7:56 am marks a dynamic…

A rabbi, a writer and a stand-up comic walks into the lives of dying comedians … you haven’t heard this one before.

Rabbi Michael Fine makes a living as a humorist, but being a one-man audience for fellow comics as they near death has become his calling. Now he’s trying to raise money to buy space…

Senator John McCain died at the age of 81 on Saturday, and the sports world reacted with raw emotion.

Senator McCain was an avid Arizona sports fan, often being spotted at Diamondbacks games. He threw out the first pitch before Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, in which Arizona beat the Yankees…

Fire ripped through a three-story Brooklyn home Saturday killing a 79-year-old wheelchair-bound woman, officials said.

The blaze started about 8:40 p.m. in the basement of the residence on Quincy St. near Bedford Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The victim, Elizabeth Mahone, who was born in the building,…

Tributes to the late Sen. John McCain came from friends and family Saturday night as political allies and foes fondly remembered the Arizona senator and Vietnam War hero.

“I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning,” said his daughter Meghan McCain. “In the 33 years we shared…

Tough talking John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, a maverick senator from Arizona and the Republican nominee for President of the United States, lost his brave battle with brain cancer Saturday night, his family said. He was 81.

“My heart is broken. I am so lucky to have lived the…

If the Mets are still harboring any hopes, however misguided or not, about making a playoff run next season with this same framework of a team, they at least got a glimpse of what happens when that plan works on Saturday afternoon.

Zack Wheeler, who is making Mets brass appear brilliant for holding…

Welcome to the Big Grapple!

Five city employees — including a cop and a firefighter — were arrested in separate incidents from late Thursday to Saturday on charges that included sexual assault, assault and other offenses, officials said.

And the weekend has one more day to go.

Authorities said…

Serena Williams loves the bright lights and the big city. So, to no one’s surprise, she’ll be the headliner at Arthur Ashe Stadium on opening night at the U.S. Open.

While the 23-time Grand Slam champion is likely to have an easy time Monday against Poland’s Magda Linette, Serena’s road to a record-tying…

The Yankees did exactly what they needed to do Saturday afternoon.

They clobbered an awful Orioles team, 10-3, in Game 1 of a day-night doubleheader at Camden Yards.

The Bombers (81-47) got home runs from Miguel Andujar, Brett Gardner, Gleyber Torres and Aaron Hicks to blast Buck Showalter’s overmatched…

A daring Bronx dad plucked his sleeping sons from their beds and steered the family to safety through a smoky Saturday apartment building blaze.

The two-alarm fire ignited in the basement of 112 E. 198th St. around 3:35 a.m. as Buba Konate, his wife and their two pre-school boys slept in their…

The mother of a transgender woman murdered 21 years ago said she’s “thankful” her daughter’s killers are finally behind bars — but believes the case was never considered a priority because of her child’s sexual identity.

“It was because (she) was a transvestite,” Fanny White, 60, told the Daily…

Breanna Stewart and Diana Taurasi headline a semifinal playoff round defined by young talents coming into their own and W.N.B.A. veterans finding new ways to win.

The Bronx has the city’s second-highest rate of major crimes — but the fewest NYPD surveillance cameras except for Staten Island.

The Argus cameras the police department have deployed around the city since 2007 are a step above the ones outside bodegas or apartment buildings because they link to…

For ages, unions representing private sanitation workers struggled to rouse the trash industry’s corruption-buster to act against a company they alleged cheated laborers of their right to organize and created life-threatening conditions on the streets.

Two deaths and a spree of property damage…

The federal government allocates $1 billion annually to local schools through what are called Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants, which are intended to improve academic achievement by helping “(1) provide all students with access to a well-rounded education; (2) improve school conditions…

The epic con by Don

Bronx: As much as some of our citizens want Donald Trump to be impeached, he has not done anything to warrant it at this time. Mike Cohen committed his crimes at the behest of someone. As an officer (lawyer) of the court, he should not have allowed himself to be put in a trick…

The Giants lost another top offensive weapon to injury Friday night when tight end Evan Engram went down with a concussion.

Engram went to the locker room with 5:10 remaining in the second quarter after being sandwiched by Jets linebackers Avery Williamson and Darron Lee. Engram had nowhere to…

The Jets’ special teams unit was a special kind of sloppy in their 22-16 preseason loss to the Giants Friday night. Gang Green gave up a punt return for a touchdown, missed an extra point and fumbled a kickoff return, prompting plenty of head scratching (and four-letter words) on the sideline.

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Nate Solder ran a 5.05-second 40-yard dash at the 2011 NFL Combine, good for fourth among all offensive linemen entering that year’s draft.

And Solder may have been running even faster Friday night at MetLife Stadium, tracking diagonally back across the turf to impressively catch Jets defensive…

Sam Darnold is so money… and he doesn’t even know it.

Ok, maybe he does.

But he’ll certainly never say what everyone was thinking after the Jets’ 22-16 preseason loss to the Giants on Friday night:

He’s got the goods.

Darnold had the audacity to suck all the drama out of the Jets’ quarterback competition…

A triple shooting at a Florida high school football game has left one person dead and two other injured, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

The gun play happened just after 10 p.m. at Raines High School as the school played against Lee High School.

It’s not clear if the shooting stemmed…

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General Horoscope for August 25, 2018

We are stepping into a magical day that supernaturally suspends us between the inertia of a stuck situation and the healthy pursuit of change. Contradictions are easily contained by the stabilizing Grand Earth Trine because of the superconductive…

The injury-riddled Yankees trotted out a lineup Friday night with quite a few names they never would have expected to be seeing on a late-August roster card.

Luke Voit would be first and foremost among them, but the journeyman minor leaguer came up huge, hitting two home runs, his second in the…

Julius Thomas is the latest NFL player to cut his career short — but he’s doing it to help others avoid the crippling effects of CTE.

The former Denver Bronco is returning to school to pursue a doctorate in psychology, focusing on “the effects of contact sports on brain trauma and neurobehavioral…

President Trump gave a social media shout out to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un Friday, but said nothing about Senator John McCain, a decorated Vietnam War vet, whose family announced hours earlier he would no longer seek treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer.

“In the meantime I would…

A city parks worker made a grisly discovery Friday afternoon when he stumbled on two bags of human body parts near Crotona Park in the Bronx, police said.

The bags with the unidentified remains were found about 2 p.m. near Franklin St.

Police could not say the gender or age of the victim, nor which…

A sexual battery case against Kevin Spacey turned over to Los Angeles prosecutors this week involves an alleged assault of a man in Malibu two years ago, police said Friday.

Detectives with the Malibu/Lost Hills division of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department began the investigation May…

President Trump went out of his way Friday to praise Rep. Jim Jordan’s wrestling skills — even though the hardline Ohio Republican is accused of covering up sexual abuse during his time as a college wrestling coach.

“The great Jim Jordan. How good is Jim? Where is Jim? Don’t ever wrestle him,”…

It looks like the Yankees will be without their closer for at least the next two weeks, though they still don’t have a timeline for his return.

Aroldis Chapman reportedly received a plasma-rich platelet injection on Friday for the knee tendinitis he has been battling all season. The Yankees said…

The head of a public school system is suburban Atlanta resigned Friday after he was accused of repeatedly using the N-word in racist rants that emerged amid a discrimination lawsuit.

Buford City Schools Superintendent Geye Hamby tendered his resignation in a short letter to the school board obtained…

NJ Transit is far behind on installing safety technology and at risk of blowing an end-of-year deadline, according to stats from the Federal Railroad Administration released Friday.

Only a third of the hardware needed for the technology, known as Positive Train Control, which aims to prevent derailment…

Plenty of Giants players, both starters and backups fighting for roster spots, have opened eyes this preseason even though the games don’t technically count.

Here are some of Big Blue’s encouraging performers, some under-the-radar and some obvious but nevertheless noteworthy, with Friday night’s…

Kids holding oversized tennis balls squealed as Sloane Stephens strode into Louis Armstrong Stadium on Friday.

Fans clamored for autographs and selfies with Stephens as the U.S. Open allowed the public to watch media day interviews with her and other superstars including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal…

Before Cynthia Nixon’s wife Christine Marinoni landed on the city payroll, she got a salary from — Cynthia Nixon.

Newly-released tax documents show that Marinoni in 2013 drew a $96,200 salary — $117,560 counting retirement contributions — from The Fickle Mermaid, a pass-through corporation Nixon…

House Judiciary Democrats urged their Republican colleagues on Friday to take “several actions” responding to President Trump’s implication in a “criminal conspiracy,” marking a tiny step towards possible impeachment proceedings.

The committee’s 17 Democrats signed the letter, which comes in the…

A heartless mugger dragged a 71-year-old woman down a flight of brick stairs, then ran off with her shopping items as she lay bleeding on the sidewalk, authorities said.

Clennie Joseph on Friday was being cared for in the intensive care unit at Jamaica Hospital.

She has bleeding on the brain, a…

Coney Island is hoping to make a splash with a new log flume and other attractions set to open in the next two years.

The city announced plans to expand Brooklyn’s seaside amusement area Luna Park by nearly 50% by building on empty lots that sit near the boardwalk between W. 10th and W. 16th Sts.

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In order to better prepare for his second season with the Knicks and his first under new head coach David Fizdale, point guard Frank Ntilikina told the French outlet l’Equipe he won’t play for France.

Former Knicks Nate Robinson and Amar’e Stoudemire and Tri-State will play the 3-Headed Monsters on Friday at Barclays Center in the BIG3 third-place game.

Ex-NBA star Jimmy Jackson, in town to call Friday’s Big3 Finals at Barclays Center for FOX at 8 p.m., glowed about Knicks lottery pick, 6-foot-9 forward Kevin Knox. “He’s a bigger version of Devin Booker,’’ Jackson said. “He’s got all the same skills but he’s taller.” Jackson was referring to another Kentucky lottery pick who…

The Knicks and Nets are both expected to be near the bottom of the standings and not overly competitive on the court, but at least they’re showing a little feistiness in their trash talk game. First, Brooklyn’s Latvian rookie Rodions Kurucs spoke in June about wanting to play against countryman Kristaps Porzingis and “beat his…

David Fizdale’s trip to Latvia this summer to visit with Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis appears to have been a successful one.

A city councilman is re-upping calls for the city to cut ties with the Trump Organization following guilty pleas by President Trump’s personal lawyer.

Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) said Michael Cohen’s plea — and his relationship to the Trump Organization — give the city the legal opening…

Well, that’s awkward.

The board and top executive of the Boys’ Club of New York has maintained that declining enrollment, expense and gentrification are the reasons for its plans to shut down and sell its storied Harriman Clubhouse at 287 E. 10th St. on the Lower East Side, which has served close…

These aren’t your children’s puppets.

“The Happytime Murders,” the raunchy new comedy directed by Jim Henson’s son, features a cast of foul-mouthed puppets who have sex, use drugs, gamble and fire off weapons throughout the R-rated film.

For puppeteer Drew Massey, it’s about time these cloth characters…

Lyric McHenry’s loved ones still don’t have answers about her shocking Bronx death, but they held an ultra-private memorial Sunday to celebrate her “beautiful” life, the Daily News has learned.

About a hundred close relatives and friends gathered at a private residence in West Hollywood and listened…

What is a poor President to do when his protective wall crumbles brick by brick, when the lawyer and tabloid publisher he paid to bury his secrets prepare to spill all, and his convicted campaign manager could crack at any moment?

When the attorney general pledges to uphold the rule of law without…

In an interview with Politico, the deputy mayor who oversees public housing defended Mayor de Blasio’s record — including failures so serious, a federal court ordered up unprecedented oversight — and, par for the course, viciously attacked reporters who dare expose the truth.

Everything’s getting…

The most dangerous idea of the week comes from the Sergeants Benevolent Association, which is giving a $500 cash reward to vigilantes — er, civilians — who jump in to aid a police officer arresting a suspect.

So frustrated is SBA boss Ed Mullins by smartphone video of police encounters, he wants…

Brooklyn: The killing of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts is nothing short of a travesty, but I knew it wouldn’t take long for it to be politicized. Unfortunately, there’s always going to be crime and killings, some from citizens and some from non-citizens, but how many a year are killed by illegal…

NEW YORK — When a 41-year-old escort who goes by the name Lana Marciano went from apartment to apartment in Brooklyn as part of a push for sex workers’ rights, she seemed pleased that no one slammed a door in her face.

Marciano was among 35 sex workers and their allies who recently campaigned for…

HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut man who fatally shot his roommate during a drug feud and then blew up the body with a pipe bomb to try to get rid of the evidence has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors say 43-year-old Christopher Miller was sentenced Wednesday for the July…

PHOENIX — Federal authorities have discovered a sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnel that went from a home in Mexico to an abandoned fast-food restaurant in Arizona.

The Homeland Security Investigations division of the Department of Homeland Security says it got word in April that there was a tunnel…

Two shootings in Brooklyn left four people wounded and sent a bullet sailing into the door frame of a state senator’s packed campaign office Thursday night.

The gunfire erupted at around 7:30 p.m., in front of the Cypress Hills houses on Euclid Ave., and on Rogers Ave. and Crown St. in Crown Heights….

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General Horoscope for August 24, 2018

Bumping into our personal limitations might seem like a serious wake-up call today. The brilliant Aquarius Moon prompts us to remember a variety of unrealized dreams as if they are each possible. But the Moon’s opposition to Mercury and…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday that illegal dealers of the opioid fentanyl should be sentenced to death when convicted, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Sessions met Trump at the White House to discuss overhauling prison sentences,…

A black sixth-grade girl has been booted from her Louisiana Catholic school for wearing hair extensions.

Video shows a teary-eyed Faith Fennidy exiting the New Orleans-area school with relatives as her braids are pulled back.

Christ the King Middle School policy prohibits extensions, but many critics…

This sign needs to watch its language!

A reprogrammed traffic sign at the base of the Pulaski Bridge in Brooklyn had some choice words for the President, reading “F—k Trump” Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

The sign drew gawkers to Greenpoint throughout the day, with several posting photos…

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has begun exploring a criminal case against the Trump Organization and some of its executives stemming from Michael Cohen’s hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, according to a report.

The case would revolve around how President Trump’s company…

Ireland Baldwin revealed her past struggles with anorexia in a poignant series of social media posts Thursday.

The model, 22, first shared a photo of herself looking rail-thin with the caption, “Anorexia throwback.” She also shared a bikini shot that simply said, “NOPE.”

Baldwin then explained…

Two Colorado cops lost a day’s pay after it was determined that they had violated department regulations by leaking a video of the Denver mayor’s son berating an officer during a traffic stop.

“My dad’s the mayor, you f–king f—–t,” 22-year-old Jordan Hancock told Aurora, Colorado officer Paul…

PITTSBURGH — Activists have called for prosecutors to investigate the stabbing of a 24-year-old black man outside a Pittsburgh bar as a hate crime after video emerged of the white suspect using a racial epithet.

Joden Rocco has been charged with homicide in the death of Dulane Cameron Jr. Police…

The Staten Island Little Leaguers traveled to Pennsylvania in hopes of a World Series crown. Instead, they leave as champions in gamesmanship and honor.

The Mid-Islanders’ title hopes were dashed on the diamond Thursday as the Peachtree City, Ga., squad, representing the Southeast region, rallied…

Perhaps it’s time to rethink those Mexico travel plans.

The State Department issued a travel advisory Wednesday warning citizens headed abroad to beware of a select few Mexican states due to a recent uptick in crime.

Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, mostly states on the country’s…

Federal authorities have been coercing migrants separated from their children into signing deportation orders even though they may have had eligible asylum claims, telling them they risk never seeing their kids again if they don’t leave the country immediately, according to a complaint filed Thursday.

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A pet pit bull was anything but man’s best friend when it brutally attacked its female owner to death.

Cincinnati cops thought they were responding to a woman having a seizure; instead, they witnessed the gruesome sight of a dog standing over an unconscious woman, identified as Della Riley.

As…

PARAMUS, N.J — Tiger Woods failed to carry any momentum he had from his last tournament into the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Neither did Sean O’Hair.

That was only good news for one of them Thursday in The Northern Trust.

O’Hair missed the cut last week and saw his FedEx Cup standing slip…

The Knicks, yet again, have a plan to turn the franchise around, but this time it’s different.

We should all be having what David Fizdale is having. In a supremely optimistic TV interview from a Manhattan kids clinic Wednesday, the new Knicks coach said he “clicked” with Kristaps Porzingis, calling him “excited” about the team’s direction, adding all Knicks fans should be excited about what is growing at the Garden. “It’s already…

A gay man took legal guardianship of 5-year-old twins early in his career, then built winning college programs and has made his mark in the W.N.B.A.

The federal Department of Education is thinking of exploiting a legal loophole that would allow taxpayer money to pay for guns for teachers, reversing a longstanding policy, according to a New York Times report.

Though the DOE has a traditionally opposed using federal funding to purchase weapons…

Nine alleged drug dealers were busted for peddling selling heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in a crime-ridden park just feet from the Staten Island street where Eric Garner died during an arrest just over four years ago, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

The alleged dealers — four of whom are convicted…

The stock market broke the record for the longest rally in United States history, marking a near decade-long boom on Wall Street that remains on its upward trajectory.

The current bull run started after the market bottomed out in March 2009, at the low point of the Great Recession. It’s risen more…

A city councilman from Queens on Wednesday sought detailed records of police use of chokeholds from the board that investigates civilian complaints against police.

Councilman Rory Lancman sent a letter to the Civilian Complaint Review Board demanding to know the number of police chokehold cases…

Four borough presidents have signed off on a letter to the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission to “express serious concerns” about a proposal to require term limits for members of community boards.

The borough presidents — Gale Brewer of Manhattan, Ruben Diaz Jr. of the Bronx, Melinda Katz of Queens,…

Each May for 30 years, my wife had had mammograms, and the reports were always good. Kathy would go for the test, then within days, the phone would ring and a voice would tell her that all was well.

Then last spring the phone brought different news. They wanted to do a recheck. Then an ultrasound….

City politicians may be hoping that the sweltering heat during these dog days of summer will somehow melt away our crisis at NYCHA. If only.

We have failed the 400,000-plus public housing residents who have been subjected to miserable conditions. Many live in mold-infested apartments with crumbling…

You’d better bet the scandal-plagued New York City Housing Authority needed to put someone in charge of ensuring its nearly 2,500 aging buildings met federal health and safety standards when Mayor de Blasio brought in veteran city manager Edna Wells Handy as acting chief compliance officer — its…

The fossil-fuel-powered shredder in the Trump White House has masticated the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, replacing a sound framework to get states to slash carbon emissions with new rules that let plants pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The President, shilling in West…

Scooters, fly far away from here

Brooklyn: To City Councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Rafael Espinal (“City pols push for e-scooters,” Op-Ed, Aug. 22): New York has enough traffic trouble without adding scooters into the mix.

Delivery scooters drive down streets the wrong way, and don’t stop for stop…

MARIETTA, Ga. — A 15-year-old girl called 911 for help in Georgia, leading to the arrest of four people who police say were at the center of a sex-trafficking operation.

Marietta police Officer Chuck McPhilamy tells news outlets the teen called police Monday, saying was held captive and forced…

PHOENIX — Immigration authorities coerced dozens of parents separated from their children at the border to sign documents they didn’t understand, according to a complaint expected to be filed Thursday.

In some of those cases, parents gave away rights to be reunited with their children when the…

Grainy surveillance video shows the moment a shooter opens fire at an Upper East Side luxury high-rise from across the water at Roosevelt Island.

Police on Wednesday released a 50-second black-and-white video showing a silhouetted figure shooting across the water, the gun’s muzzle flashing several…

NEW YORK — Advocates of ordaining women as Roman Catholic priests are citing the church’s unfolding sex abuse scandals as powerful arguments for their cause, while acknowledging the high unlikelihood of achieving their goal anytime soon.

Even with extensive grassroots support for letting women…

An off-duty FDNY lieutenant punched a woman in the face and threw her into the bushes off a Bronx street in a domestic-violence incident Wednesday night, cops said.

Daniel Jackson, 39, attacked the 37-year-old woman at the corner of the Mosholu Parkway and Van Cortlandt Ave. in Jerome Park at about…

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General Horoscope for August 23, 2018

Authentic living includes being honest in all interactions. The Sun’s shift into exacting Virgo encourages us to fine tune reality to see how small actions can produce significant consequences. The Moon’s shift into intellectual Aquarius…

Pardon?

President Trump is considering exonerating Paul Manafort, a day after the ex-campaign manager and international fixer was convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud, Fox News reported.

“He mentioned pardoning Manafort,” Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt told political pundit Sean…

Two men with suspended licenses collided on a Kips Bay street, sending a garbage can rocketing toward a pedestrian in a bizarre Wednesday afternoon crash, police said.

A Kia sedan and a Mercury Mountaineer SUV were headed north on Third Avenue, near E. 31st St at about 5:20 p.m., when the Kia’s…

David Villa canceled out Bradley Wright-Phillips first-half goal with a second-half equalizer as the New York Red Bulls and New York City FC played to a spirited 1-1 draw in the third and final regular season chapter of the Hudson River Derby in front of an announced crowd of 30,139 Wednesday night…

The anguished expression on 12-year-old pitcher Chris Bedford’s face was an omen of things to come.

The scrappy Staten Island Mid-Island Little Leaguers, who swept the city by storm with their disciplined play on the diamond, lost 10-0 to Hawaii. It now plays a Georgia, with the winner facing Hawaii…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer was suspended by Ohio State on Wednesday for the first three games of the season for mishandling domestic violence accusations, punishing one of the sport’s most prominent leaders for keeping an assistant on staff for several years after that coach’s wife accused him…

Lamar Odom has revealed harrowing new details about his near-death coma crisis three years ago.

“All my doctors that see me say I’m a walking miracle,” the retired NBA star and ex-husband of Khloé Kardashian told Kevin Hart for the comedian’s “Cold as Balls” web series on LaughOutLoud.com.

“I had…

A Roman Catholic high school will shed the name of Washington’s archbishop, who was cited in a sweeping grand jury report as having allowed priests accused of sexually abusing children to be reassigned or reinstated while he was Pittsburgh’s bishop.

The Diocese of Pittsburgh said Wednesday that…

Michael Cohen was in the room when President Trump and his eldest son discussed a meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, Cohen’s attorney said Wednesday, casting doubt over the President’s statements on the matter.

Pressed on what evidence Cohen has that…

An Oregon mother of a severely disabled 7-year-old son fatally shot him before attempting suicide with an overdose of pills, said authorities.

Tashina Jordan, 28, was found unconscious in the Bend, Ore., home she shared with her mother, reported TV station KTVZ.

Police answering an emergency call…

Kevin Knox just got some love from his fellow rookies, but perhaps a few more chips for his shoulder, too. Knox’s dominant summer league appeared to impress his fellow rookies, but not enough to move to the top spot in any of the categories in a recent NBA.com survey of 36 rookies. The Knicks’ No….

Zephyr Teachout’s bid for attorney general is gaining some momentum — and the endorsement of an elected official who’d already backed her main rival, Public Advocate Letitia James.

Councilman Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx) told the Daily News he is “co-endorsing” Teachout, a Fordham law professor, after…

An up-and-coming baritone singer alleges he was drugged and violently raped in 2010 by two of opera/classical music’s shining stars, David Daniels and Scott Walters.

Daniels, 52, the most famous countertenor in the world, has been a favorite of the Metropolitan Opera, while his now-husband Walters,…

They made him do it.

Pervy pop-pop Conrado Aleman, 82, a repeat subway sex offender busted Friday for groping two women, told the Daily News that the ladies were in cahoots and set him up.

For the sixth time in two years, cops busted the octogenarian ogler for rubbing his groin against two victims…

The Arctic’s thickest sea ice is breaking up and starting to be pushed away from the Greenland shoreline.

Following a heatwave, this occurrence has been recorded for the first time, the Guardian reported.

This came to the surprise of scientists, as the melting of the thick sea ice on the north…

She’s trying to play the criminal system like one of her video games, federal prosecutors say.

An aspiring Fortnite pro who says she smuggled cocaine to New York City to help her family in Puerto Rico survive Hurricane Maria’s aftermath was actually in it to enrich herself, federal prosecutors…

The mother of a Bronx high schooler stabbed to death by a fellow student intends to file a $25 million lawsuit against the city Wednesday, the Daily News has learned.

Louna Dennis claims the city was negligent in failing to stop a student at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conversation from…

By hitting pause on the number of Ubers and Lyfts that can drive on our streets, the City Council took an important step towards alleviating crippling congestion. But congestion is only part of the problem.

Our city’s transit system is in crisis, and as everyone from Mayor de Blasio on down has…

Electric scooters could be the newest ride to hit the streets — just in time for the L train shutdown.

Council members Ydanis Rodriguez and Rafael Espinal are drafting legislation for the city’s first scooter share program, inviting companies to bring their motorized scooters to New York.

Bird,…

Glenda Jackson is going to play “King Lear” on Broadway. Idris Elba is under consideration to be the new James Bond. And the straight comedian Jack Whitehall is set to play the firstly openly gay character in a Disney film.

Hooray. Seriously. For years, progressives rightly pushed for color-blind…

How a bill shouldn’t become a law: On Monday, Cuomo signed legislation creating a commission to discipline prosecutors who commit professional misconduct.

The legislation, we argued last week, is chock full of separation of powers problems that run afoul of the state Constitution. The office of…

‘Queen of Stole’ kept fur flying

Keyport, N.J.: To provide some balance to the accolades being heaped on the memory of Aretha Franklin, it is important to remember that she never made the decision to renounce the practice of wearing fur. It wasn’t because she didn’t know better. She just didn’t…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii residents rushed to stores to stock up on bottled water, ramen, toilet paper and other supplies as they faced the threat of heavy rain, flash flooding and high surf as a strengthening hurricane continued to churn toward the state.

On Tuesday night, the National Weather Service…

MONTEZUMA, Iowa — The disappearance of a well-liked college student from America’s heartland had touched many people since she vanished one month ago while out for a run. But the stunning news that a Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally has allegedly confessed to kidnapping and murdering her…

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — Police in northwest Indiana say an attack on a Catholic priest has been forwarded to the FBI as a possible hate crime because the assailant referred to reports of clergy sex abuse involving children.

Merrillville Detective Cmdr. Jeff Rice says the Rev. Basil John Hutsko was…

President Trump’s ex-lawyer Micheal Cohen wants to spill his guts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, dishing on what Trump knew about meeting with the Russians at Trump Tower and the hacking of the 2016 Presidential Election, according to Cohen’s lawyer.

Heavy-hitting Democratic legal eagle Lanny…

MUNSON, Pa. — Three men face more than 1,400 counts each of sexually abusing animals at a Pennsylvania farm.

Prosecutors said Monday that a teenage boy alerted state police to the abuse, which involved a variety of animals.

On Saturday, police searched a property where the men live in Munson, Pennsylvania,…

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife were charged Tuesday with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition, theater tickets — even fast food purchases — and attempting to disguise the illegal spending in federal…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 22, 2018

We are highly motivated to produce tangible results today with four planets moving through strategic Capricorn. Establishing goals early in the day helps to create the structure we need to measure our progress. However, we may be forced…

A day that started with Didi Gregorius being placed on the disabled list ended with the frightening sight of Aroldis Chapman signaling for the trainer and being pulled from the Yankees’ 2-1 win over the Marlins Tuesday night.

Chapman had come on for a save in the bottom of the 12th inning and looked…

The homeless couple who stabbed a man to death on a Midtown street lured the victim to his doom with the promise of sex for sale, prosecutors said early Wednesday.

David Gamble, 54, and Chantel Davis, 39, were angling to rob the victim, whose name has not yet been released, Assistant District Attorney…

The Seagrams liquor heiress charged with harassing and intimidating victims of an Albany sex cult won’t be getting close to them anytime soon.

Clare Bronfman, who’s been shacked up in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan since she was placed under house arrest on Jul. 24 — a far cry from her 3-mile-long…

Little Marcos Avila and his dad Marco were inseparable in life, sharing a love for sports and each other.

On Tuesday, friends of the tragic father and son gathered in the Queens playground where they regularly played soccer to mourn them, after both died in a river-rafting accident upstate.

“He…

Film producer Craig Zadan, who helmed the Academy Awards show as well as hit movies and TV shows, has died at the age of 69.

Zadan passed away after complications following shoulder replacement surgery, said NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt.

Earlier this year, Zadan produced “Jesus Christ…

President Donald Trump fell back on his new favorite coping mechanism on Tuesday night — when the going gets tough, rip the NFL.

Hours after his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pled guilty to paying off two women who had affairs with the president, and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was…

A despicable Pennsylvania woman who abducted, imprisoned and tortured mentally disabled adults in a monstrous scheme to collect their government checks will spend the next 40 years of her life rotting behind bars.

Jean McIntosh, one of five tormentors who chained one victim to a radiator while…