Knicks Morning News (2018.08.16)

ESPN came out with its predictions for where each NBA team will finish in their respective conference. And let’s just say they don’t agree with Metta World Peace.

Technology is a constant in everyday life — and its significance is reflected in employees’ paychecks.

More than half of the highest-paying jobs in the country — 13 of 25 — are in the technology industry, a new report published by Glassdoor shows.

“There is desperate need for technical skills in…

Don’t expect Madonna to take a bow just because she’s turning 60.

The Material Girl — now just five years away from being eligible for Medicare — has not been shy about ringing in her milestone birthday Thursday. She’s been counting down the days to the big event on social media with no shortage…

President Trump stoked outrage Wednesday when he revoked former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance and threatened to pull clearances for nine other ex-intelligence officials who have been critical of his presidency.

Included on a list of ex-officials whose clearances Trump says he’s…

Former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords and the gun control advocacy group she helms are endorsing Gov. Cuomo in his re-election bid, the Daily News has learned.

Giffords cited Cuomo’s work on gun control legislation like the SAFE Act and his frequent skirmishes with the National Rifle Association…

A Missouri woman applying for a job at a medical clinic was flatly denied from consideration for being “too ghetto.”

St. Louis resident Hermeisha Robinson sought employment at Mantality Health in Chesterfield, Mo., as a customer service representative, but was floored when the Aug. 13 email response…

New York streets are hot. People are thirsty. I propose a marriage between drinking water fountains and fire hydrants.

Up and down city streets, we have hydrants. Thousands of them. On a typical day, most of us walk or bike or drive past dozens of them; we dare not park next to them lest we get…

The city’s efforts to close Rikers Island are commendable and long overdue. But as the de Blasio administration’s new blueprint to shutter the jail complex reflects, New York is still struggling, as are cities and states across America, to manage the many people with mental illness who are thrown…

There was a time when I didn’t think success was possible.

I was in sixth grade, and school was a struggle. I was classified as a poor reader, two grades behind where I should be with no real motivation to read or learn. Despite support of my parents, immigrants from Bangladesh, I just didn’t think…

Heard the rumor that New York’s boys of summer might not make the playoffs? Fake news: A club from Gotham is already there.

So what if they’re 12? They’re ours.

Starting today in Williamsport, Pa., Staten Island’s Mid-Island squad will compete in the Little League World Series, one of eight American…

When the Boston Globe suggested that editorial boards across the country make coordinated statements against President Trump’s vilification of the news media, we didn’t think much of it.

We prize our independence, both from government and from other media outlets. Coordination, especially with…

Strzok by The News’ double standard

Hicksville, L.I.: It is absolutely laughable that the Daily News is defending Peter Strzok (“The Peter principle,” editorial, Aug. 13). If Strzok were an NYPD detective investigating a liberal candidate during an election and had displayed that bias, there is…

FREDERICK, Colo. — Authorities say the husband of a missing family in Colorado has been arrested in connection with the case.

The Frederick Police Department said officers had made an arrest in connection to the case involving 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella and Celeste.

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Six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania joined the list this week of those around the U.S. that have been forced to face the ugly truth about child-molesting priests in their ranks.

But in dozens of other dioceses, there has been no reckoning, leading victims to wonder if the church will ever…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Forty-six people overdosed Wednesday at or near a Connecticut park from a suspected bad batch of “K2” synthetic marijuana, requiring paramedics to be stationed there to provide treatment, authorities said.

No deaths were reported, but officials said two people suffered life-threatening…

David Wright, who continues to battle back from his back and shoulder issues, went 0 for 3 while playing third base for Class A St. Lucie and is hitless in three rehab games.

“I thought I made some good contact today,” Wright said to SNY after the game. “I just missed a fastball, same thing with…

A violent mugger in a hooded sweater put a woman into a chokehold and dragged her onto a Brooklyn sidewalk, then walked off with her backpack, according to a disturbing video released Wednesday.

The robber can be seen rushing his 34-year-old victim at about 11:40 p.m. Aug. 8, as she’s about to…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two women and using his position to make sure they didn’t report the crimes.

Authorities say John Olivas of Riverside was arrested Wednesday and pleaded…

NEW YORK — The nation’s newsrooms are pushing back against President Donald Trump with a coordinated series of newspaper editorials condemning his attacks on “fake news” and suggestion that journalists are the enemy.

The Boston Globe invited newspapers across the country to stand up for the press…

Science can be fun — especially when it involves experimenting with hair-raising roller coasters.

Sixth graders from St. Helena’s School in the Bronx received a crash course in math and physics Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., before putting their knowledge to the test on some of the tallest roller…

Keith Hernandez went all Keith Hernandez Wednesday night, and Twitter didn’t care for it one bit.

The former Met and current SNY broadcaster gave a typical old-school baseball take on the Marlins drilling the Braves’ scorching hot rookie Ronald Acuna.

Acuna, who came into the game on a historic…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 16, 2018

We can be very productive today if we consciously limit our thinking. Thankfully, we’re able to concentrate more effectively once the Moon shifts into penetrating Scorpio at 4:54 am EDT. Nevertheless, we still may run hot and cold as passions…

A city Correction officer took bribes to deliver pot to inmates at Rikers Island, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Pedro Santiago, 26, conspired with three inmates and two people living on the outside to bring marijuana into the jail complex three times between June and July of last year, prosecutors…

ATLANTA — The Marlins’ attempt at slowing Ronald Acuna was an outdated means of getting even, a gesture that needs to be left behind if baseball hopes to progress.

And it still didn’t even work: The Braves won, 5-2. But the actual game was overshadowed by what occurred during the home team’s first…

BALTIMORE — The Mets enjoyed a memorable night in the midst of a season that’s worth forgetting.

Kevin Plawecki hit his first career grand slam during a nine-run sixth inning, Brandon Nimmo went 5 for 5 with three RBIs and the Mets breezed past the Baltimore Orioles 16-5 on Wednesday.

Plawecki’s…

WASHINGTON — The head of the Democratic Party insisted Wednesday that allegations of domestic abuse against his second-in-command would not hurt his party ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.

Yet four days after the first public accusation of physical and emotional abuse emerged against Minnesota…

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