Day: August 20, 2018

After overcoming heroin addiction, he became a drug abuse counselor and founded an organization to help long-forgotten black basketball players.

Paola Estevez knows when her daughter Jacelyn is suffering, even though the brown-eyed 3-year-old is limited by severe autism and knows only a few words.

So it didn’t take long for the Bronx mom to realize that the little girl was in pain from her commute to the special education preschool classes…

Decades after he says he was sexually abused by a priest who mentored him, Jim VanSickle struggles to reconcile his appreciation for the man who changed the course of his life with the persisting inner turmoil he also caused.

VanSickle, 55, was 16 years old when, he says, the Rev. David Poulson…

A quick-thinking subway conductor saved the life of a straphanger after he suffered a heart attack on the F train.

But in doing so, conductor Kevin Bartsch also had to break the rules.

Bartsch showed plenty of heroism in the March 28 incident — and he also showed the MTA where there’s room for…

Melania Trump is moving forward with her anti-cyberbullying platform, despite her husband’s habit of berating and belittling opponents and critics online.

The First Lady will attend a summit on the subject Monday, delivering “brief remarks addressing the positive and negative effects of social…

Three years ago, we saw a crisis coming. So we took a stand against corporate greed, worker exploitation and congested traffic with a reasonable proposition: Limit the flood of new for-hire vehicles dispatched by companies like Uber and Lyft.

The reaction was swift. The industry assaulted us with…

Mary Walter-Brown came to New York the other day on a mission to help save our local journalism. She may seem an unlikely savior to New Yorkers. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University, she went west to work in San Diego, which has the weather L.A. wishes it had.

But Walter-Brown has something…

More than two years ago, farm worker Crispin Hernandez, fired by an upstate dairy for meeting with union activists, challenged the Jim Crow-era state law that excludes New York’s 100,000 field hands — and only field hands — from the right to organize, despite the state Constitution explicitly granting…

When a powerful man stands accused of preying on young women, feminists rightly scold any and all colleagues who lock arms and reflexively rush to his defense.

Which makes it especially outrageous that scholars with impeccable feminist pedigrees prematurely ran interference for a female NYU philosophy…

Stretched thin and popping Ambien, Tesla founder Elon Musk has proclaimed the past 12 months “the most difficult and painful year of my career.”

Shouldn’t he of all people know how to recharge his batteries?

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo wants Democratic National Committee delegates from New York to vote this week in favor of a proposed rule change to limit the impact of superdelegates in choosing the party’s presidential candidates.

“The superdelegate system undermines a fundamental principle of our democracy…

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

David Catalfamo, a former top aide to the state’s last Republican governor, George Pataki, has formally joined the GOP gubernatorial campaign of Marc Molinaro.

Catalfamo, who had…

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

ALBANY — State Attorney General Barbara Underwood’s office recused itself from representing the state ethics commission in a GOP-filed lawsuit seeking to determine if the panel is investigating…

Hallandale Beach, Fla.: Aretha Franklin blossomed out of her father’s church to become the most distinguished female black artist of all time, breaking boundaries while placing nearly 100 hits on Billboard’s R&B Chart, 20 of them reaching No. 1. The Queen of Soul’s hits included “Respect,” (You…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 20, 2018

We might struggle to find a sustainable pace today, but it doesn’t come easily at first. Thankfully, the optimistic Sagittarius Moon forms a sweet trine to the heartfelt Leo Sun, inspiring an I-can-do-it attitude. Additionally, the future…

An off-duty FDNY EMT died in a motorcycle crash in Queens Sunday night, police said.

Police and medics responded to the crash at about 10:25 p.m. on Utopia Parkway by 80th Drive, near the St. John’s University Campus in Hillcrest.

Medics rushed the 25-year-old victim to Queens General Hospital,…

GREENFIELD, N.H. — An attorney who has bedeviled President Donald Trump during the past year over his personal relationships and immigration policies made a presidential pitch of his own to Democratic voters in New Hampshire on Sunday.

Michael Avenatti, who represents adult film actress Stormy…

NEW YORK — The New York Times reports that Italian actress Asia Argento recently settled a lawsuit filed against her by a young actor and musician who said she sexually assaulted him when he was 17.

Argento is one of the most prominent activists of the #MeToo movement.

The Times says that Argento,…

A woman leaving a Brooklyn restaurant and bar hopped into what she thought was a livery car — and was nearly raped by the driver, police said Sunday.

The woman, 39, got into the wrong car about 5 a.m. Aug. 6 in front of the El Gran Mar de Plata on Fulton St. by Logan St. in Cypress Hills.

After…

Maybe the Mets took some pointers from the Staten Island team that played before them in Williamsport on Sunday.

The big league club, following in the footsteps of their Little League counterparts, received solid pitching and timely hitting to beat the Phillies, 8-2.

Jason Vargas backed up his…

Gregory Bruno got his Staten Island team to Williamsport with a perfect game in the Regional Championship. On Sunday, he delivered another gem to put them one win away from playing for the U.S. title.

Bruno went 5.1 innings, allowing just three hits and one run while striking out six in Staten…

Ariana Grande gets by with a little help from her many, many friends.

The singer will take the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards Monday to belt her latest single, “God Is a Woman,” with some help from a “diverse” group of more than 50 female dancers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“(It’ll…

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is under scrutiny for over $20 million in loans obtained by his and his family’s yellow taxi businesses in New York, it was reported Sunday.

Federal probers are investigating possible bank fraud charges against Cohen for the loans from two lenders that cater to…

The good news is that a White House aide with ties to white nationalists has left the White House. The bad news is that he was there in the first place.

Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie reportedly left the West Wing after CNN made inquiries about his having spoken at the conservative H.L. Mencken…

WASHINGTON — The former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, has a dire warning for Republicans.

Bannon tells The Associated Press that he believes the GOP would lose 35 to 40 seats in the House if the election were held today, thereby ceding their majority to Democrats he’s…

A New Jersey man vying for a seat on his local school board has dropped out of the race after racist Facebook posts referring to black people as “animals” and “f–king monkeys” resurfaced.

Richard Jankowski, 51, withdrew his name from the running for a seat on the Monroe Township Board of Education…