Day: August 22, 2018

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…