Day: September 16, 2018

If you’re reading this, congratulations on surviving a brutally hot summer. After shielding children in swimming pools and freezing cold movie theaters, the fresh outdoors beckon with the promise of changing leaves and bonfires. The autumnal equinox, too, signals the start of school, but hey, that’s…

Can you smell it?

That pungent, stinging reek in the air is a fear-drenched river of flop sweat rolling off Trump and his professional defenders. For Team Trump’s endless attempts to change the subject, toss out shiny distractions, beef with NFL players, boast about Trump’s self-graded A-plus hurricane…

New York’s progressives are exuberant after voters tossed out six of eight members of the now-defunct Independent Democratic Conference in favor of left-wing challengers.

We interrupt the high-fiving to inject some political reality. The bright blue wave just might crash before it reaches the beach.

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Proudly, a Republican President and a Republican Congress take ownership of low unemployment and growing GDP — fueled, they loudly proclaim, by the $1.5 trillion tax cut that passed on party lines last December.

They shirk all responsibility for a deficit metastasizing as a result of that very…

Let’s quickly sum up 2018 New York Caribbean Carnival and J’Ouvert festival happenings in Brooklyn: Both events ended without any major incidents reported, yet some media outlets linked unrelated criminal incidents to the carnival events.

“Please stop blaming the Caribbean community for common…

The progressive wave crashed over state Sen. Jeff Klein of the Bronx, founder of the breakaway Independent Democratic Caucus, and pulled him in the undertow. Between now and year’s end, he’ll likely have to clean out his desk and turn over constituent services work to Alessandra Biaggi as his successor.

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Osaka bested Serena fair and square

New Paltz, N.Y.: After reading Carron J. Phillips’ column regarding Serena Williams’ loss at the U.S. Open (“Feeling’s all too familiar to black athletes,” Sept. 11), I felt like I needed to take a shower. Not offering one fact to support his assertions “Williams…

ARLINGTON, Tex. – The Giants are going to win on Sunday night. They are built to. They must. They will.

They have no other choice.

Maybe they aren’t built for the Super Bowl run that GM Dave Gettleman tried to go for in his first year. Maybe they are. Their offensive line certainly wasn’t up to…

The suggestion is insulting, ill-informed and just plain wrong. To hear some people tell it, you’d think that Sam Darnold was saddled with throwing and catching footballs all by himself, surrounded by a bunch of invisible teammates.

Imagine how good Darnold will be when he actually has good wide…

Time marches on, and the next generation in pinstripes steps up and takes the place of former champions. Hours after first-year Yankee manager Aaron Boone was tactfully trying to talk about the possibilities that veterans of the last Yankees World Series team may not have a place on this year’s…

The boxing world waited exactly one year for some vindication, and it was received Saturday night in the form of a thrilling fight that ended with Canelo Alvarez handing Gennady Golovkin his first loss as a professional fighter.

It was a highly-anticipated rematch, especially because last year’s…

It’s usually considered rude to go around telling people how great you are.

But what was Joe Namath supposed to do? Lie?

“We are going to win the game,” he said in 1969, three days before Super Bowl III. “I guarantee it.”

And he made good on it, too, when his Jets beat the heavily favored Baltimore…

Gaffney, S.C., is a rural Southern town with a population of about 13,000. It is famous for two things — its Peachoid and its serial killers.

The Peachoid, as any fan of “House of Cards” will tell you, is Gaffney’s million-gallon water tank, constructed and painted to look like a big ol’ peach….

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for September 16, 2018

We are still caught in a complex dilemma that pits our logical heads against our illogical hearts today. Thankfully, a friendly Mercury-Jupiter sextile makes it much easier now to resolve the tension by simply making a choice without…

An 8-year-old Harlem boy suffering from asthma died Saturday after losing consciousness in his home, police said.

Cameron Wilson’s mother called 911 just before 6 p.m. after she found him unresponsive inside their apartment on Seventh Ave. near W. 122nd St., cops said.

Paramedics rushed Cameron…

A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor accused of killing four prostitutes was arrested Saturday after a fifth sex worker escaped his clutches and contacted police, authorities said.

Juan David Ortiz, 35, confessed to murdering four women and kidnapping a fifth in a two-week orgy of violence near Laredo,…

The pieces are slowly coming back, but will the Yankees have time to put them all back together? Aaron Judge and Aroldis Chapman could be ready to rejoin the roster in full before the end of this homestand, the last of the injured Yanks to make their way back from the disabled list.

But the Bombers…

Aroldis Chapman got through his bullpen Saturday without any issues.

The Yankees’ closer gave a thumbs up when asked if he is ready to progress on to a simulated game.

After that, Chapman could be quickly activated, Aaron Boone said.

“It’s possible it could just be the sim game and then we go,”…

A mother disappeared with her 6-year-old son after the boy’s father handed him over for a visit in a meet-up at an NYPD precinct stationhouse in the Bronx, cops said.

The bizarre incident kicked off about 6 p.m. on Sept. 7 when the parents of little Vincezo Dacchile rendezvoused at the 45th Precinct…

It’s up to Jacob deGrom now.

The Mets ace will take the ball Sunday afternoon with a lot riding on his start against Chris Sale. DeGrom will have a chance to bolster his case for the NL Cy Young award if he can silence the roaring Red Sox lineup, and he could help this improving club take two-of-three…

A high school fight over a boy has left one 16-year-old girl dead and a 17-year-old in jail.

Tanaya Lewis was charged with first-degree murder after she allegedly stabbed a classmate with a steak knife and then began laughing at her heinous act of horror, reported Detroit TV station WXYZ.

The gruesome…

A 28-year-old gang member died after he was shot in the back in Brooklyn early Saturday, officials said.

The victim was on Grant Ave. near Fulton St. in Cypress Hills about 4:30 a.m. when three men approached him, cops said.

One of the men opened fire, striking him in the back.

Responding officers…

It was Sandhi Ortiz-Del Valle’s passion and ambition that led her to a maximum-security prison in Rahway, New Jersey, back in 1989.

Her uniform, not surprisingly, had stripes.

At that point in Ortiz-Del Valle’s officiating career, she was obsessed, chasing basketball games wherever they were held,…

ST. PETERSBURG – A week ago, Buck Showalter was sitting at his desk in the visiting team manager’s office at Tropicana Field when his bench coach, John Russell, dropped the lineup card in front of him for the day’s game between the Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays. As he picked up the card, Showalter…

During a recent interview on ESPN-98.7’s “The Michael Kay Show,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone proclaimed: “All I want to be is authentic.”

Is the Yankees manager succeeding in his mission? He remains likeable, as he was during his eight seasons working as an analyst for ESPN, which included a stint…

The team president says he and GM Scott Perry have a plan to bring the Knicks back.