Day: September 11, 2018

That the Seattle Storm, just one win from a W.N.B.A. title, have came to rely so much on the rookie guard Jordin Canada is no accident.

Teens prefer texting to face-to-face communication — and social media is helping some teens feel less lonely, even if they recognize social media’s negative qualities, according to a new study.

The study, released Monday by the nonprofit Common Sense Media, reveals that the number of teens with…

Steven Wilder Striegel is hardly the only actor who continued to work in Hollywood after registering as a sex offender.

A scene featuring Striegel in “The Predator” was recently cut from the film after it was revealed he’d been accused of trying to start a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old…

The city is trying to hide numbers that could reveal a racially-charged pay discrepancy affecting the probation officers, according to a new lawsuit.

United Probation Officers Association, which represents around 700 probation officers, seeks to obtain salary information showing how the city’s…

An emergency room worker at Kings County Hospital stole the private information of nearly 100 patients and sold it through an encrypted app on his cell phone, the Daily News has learned.

Orlando Jemmott, 52, who worked at the city-run Brooklyn hospital for more than a decade, also fed more names…

Gov. Cuomo called for a renewal and expansion of the 9/11 Victims Fund Monday following a Daily News report revealing that money meant to compensate people impacted by the terror attacks could run out sooner than expected.

“Some are suggesting that we dilute compensation to the next rounds of applicants…

It is difficult to imagine, but soon the military will welcome recruits born after Sept. 11, 2001. These young people won’t have personal stories from the day when the planes hit the twin towers like so many of us do. The same kind of stories like those about Pearl Harbor that were shared by my…

The closing hours of this year’s Democratic state primaries have been marred by sneaky smears and desperate deceptions.

For those inclined to wash their hands of the whole mess and stay away from the polls, I say: Vote anyway.

Those messy smears are a form of voter suppression. Don’t let them get…

There you are with your camera. There you are waving your arms, motioning for your family to nestle in closer together, a little to the left, more to the right, stay still, there in front of the wall, look this way, now smile. Big smile. All smiles. That’s perfect! That’s it!

No. That’s not it….

For 14 years, James Davis has languished in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. Now, he has a chance to finally come home to his wife in Brooklyn.

In March, 2004, Davis, just 21 at the time, was arrested for shooting Blake Harper, also 21, to death at a party in East New York. It was…

A generation of young adults has hazy understanding at best of Sept. 11, 2001. In the service of national memory, this is our attempt to set down what happened on that day and in its aftermath.

The murder and injury and destruction caused by a small band of fanatical terrorists dealt this, the…

Not for a moment should anyone sick from exposure to the toxic stew at the World Trade Center on and following 9/11 have to worry about whether aid will be there for them.

But with $4.2 billion already spent on awards out of a $7.3 billion fund and more than 600 new claims filed a month, it’s almost…

After the state Democratic Committee that Gov. Cuomo controls sent out a devious mailer dripping with falsehoods about challenger Cynthia Nixon, we asked to speak to party boss Geoff Berman.

The mailer says Nixon is “against funding yeshivas,” “supports BDS” and has been “silent on the rise of…

The 9/11 cloud that still lingers

Brooklyn: I was 10 years old when my mom picked my brothers and me up from school. We were called to the office, just like many others that day. She was hugging my assistant principal. I think it was the first time I’ve ever seen her cry. We went home and waited…

A maniac sliced two men in the Bronx with a box cutter early Monday, randomly ranting at them before slashing their heads with the blade, cops said.

The slasher approached his first victim, a 29-year-old man, near the corner of E. 242nd St. and White Plains Road in Wakefield at about 1:05 a.m….

DETROIT – Sam Darnold wiped away the indignity of starting off his NFL career with a pick-six with a poise and calmness reserved for special players. AIthough it took Darnold a grand total of one play Monday night to look like a rookie, he showed resilience at a time when most other 21-year-olds…

DETROIT – Dig up Wonder Woman and lasso the truth out of the straight-talking, no-B.S. Jets head coach: No way Todd Bowles would have believed this type of eruption in Motown was possible.

Yet somehow the team with a rookie quarterback, dubious pass rush, iffy special teams and a knack for sleepwalking…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The last time the midsection of the East Coast stared down a hurricane like this, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were newlyweds.

Hurricane Florence could inflict the hardest hurricane punch the Carolinas have seen in more than 60…

OKLAHOMA CITY — The operator of a Florida-based animal sanctuary says she was the target of an Oklahoma zookeeper who was indicted last week on federal murder-for-hire charges.

Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue said she’s clashed in the past with Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who goes by the nickname…

It must have been comforting for the Yankees to see Aaron Judge hitting balls in the seats again on Monday — even if it was just batting practice.

Six weeks after he initially fractured his right wrist, the Yankees slugger was taking normal, on-the-field batting practice for the first time.

And…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for September 11, 2018

An expressive alignment between the hardworking Virgo Sun, buoyant Jupiter and penetrating Pluto empowers us to plumb to the depths of our emotions. We can retrieve the gifts of remembrance and reframe our perspectives with newly discovered…

The devastated widow of a New York-bred Marine sergeant shot and killed near his base in California three days ago can’t imagine why anyone would hurt such an “incredible” man.

“I just don’t understand why anybody would shoot him. He didn’t deserve this. No one deserves this,” Alexia Truax said…

PHOENIX — A former youth care worker has been convicted of sexually abusing seven teenage boys at a Phoenix-area shelter for immigrant children.

Federal prosecutors say a jury found 25-year-old Levian Pacheco of Phoenix guilty on seven counts of abusive sexual contact with a ward and three counts…

WASHINGTON — President Trump pitched a wildly off-base claim about economic growth Monday as the White House used selective statistics to build a case that the economy is doing much better than when Barack Obama was in office.

The attention on Obama comes as the ex-president steps back into the…

Jack Ma, who founded e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and helped launch China’s online retailing boom, announced Monday that he will step down as the company’s chairman next September.

In a letter released by Alibaba, Ma said he will be succeeded by CEO Daniel Zhang, an 11-year veteran of the company….

A mechanical problem during a Cirque du Soleil show caused a portion of the audience, as well as performers on stage, to be sprayed with vegetable oil.

The Seattle Times reports the Canadian entertainment company says it will reimburse all audience members from Friday night’s opening show at Marymoor…