August 2, 2014
Why Obama is concocting an 'impeachment' threat
It’s as if our president has read all of the disappointed head-shaking opinion pieces by Very Serious Liberals and is responding, “Hey, I’m not sad. I’m ridiculous!” Because in the...
Oil in the family: Man accused of looting dad’s fuel fortune
It was oil in the family. A Staten Island man lifted $100 million from his father’s heating-fuel fortune in order to gobble up pricey real estate and build a mansion...
Meeks’ junket paves way for sidestepping sanctions on Iran
Rep. Gregory Meeks pushed to let an Iran-backed natural-gas project dodge US sanctions — after attending an illicit junket paid for by energy companies. The Queens Democrat and Rep. Yvette...
McEnroe’s 'scam' charity for elite players, not poor kids
You cannot be serious — about John McEnroe’s tennis charity. The former Wimbledon champ’s nonprofit, the Johnny Mac Tennis Project, promises to serve scholarships to “expose young athletes . ....
Daily Blotter
Queens A man who fatally shot an out-of-town visitor in a St. Albans park has been arrested, authorities said. Ajaya Neale, 26, shot Joel Rashko in the head just after...
New York's $4B shrine to government waste and idiocy
Here comes The Calatrasaurus — the Port Authority’s “World Trade Center Transportation Hub,” a cyclopean PATH terminal onto which scary “wings” have been grafted like plastic mutant terrors of 1950s...
How Jeter always grabs the spotlight -- and not always for the good
BOSTON — It is, to steal and tweak an old “Seinfeld” phrase, The Summer of Derek. The impending retirement of Yankees captain Derek Jeter promises to hold New York’s attention...
Follow de Blasio's Money
Like most progressives, Bill de Blasio is a champion of public financing for political campaigns. And with good reason. For all his railing against the evil of big money in...
Al Qaeda Returns
When he campaigned for re-election two years ago, President Obama repeatedly reassured us al Qaeda had been “decimated” and “is on the path to defeat” — even after the attack...
Trio aiming to make fraternal NBA history
The three Harris brothers, Tobias, Tyler and Terry, were inspired by their oldest sister, Tesia. That’s the irony of this Long Island basketball tale that could end in a few...
DeGrom not perfect, but leads Mets to win
Forget Rookie of the Year honors. Jacob deGrom might be the Mets’ MVP at this point. The rookie right-hander continued his masterful first season in the big leagues, taking a...
Brown knows Giants job not guaranteed
Josh Brown had just finished one of the best seasons of his 10-year NFL kicking career last year. The coals from the Dec. 29 season-finale tailgate barbecue grills at MetLife...
Giants’ starters to get limited reps in Hall of Fame Game
CANTON, Ohio — The Giants certainly weren’t the last team standing and some would say that in 2013 they were the first team to fall, that their season was over...
Giants backs rushing to get on higher ground
CANTON, Ohio — As the Giants await what could be fateful news on David Wilson’s future in football, they move forward without him and into Sunday night’s Hall of Fame...
Israeli soldier thought captured is declared dead
JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier the military feared had been abducted by Palestinian gunmen in a firefight that shattered a temporary ceasefire in Gaza has been declared dead, ending what...
Rangers contract talks Staal-ed with defenseman
So, it has been seven weeks since Alec Martinez ended the Rangers’ season in Los Angeles, seven weeks in which general manager Glen Sather has made no attempt to lock...
Yankees offense actually shows up in win over Sox
BOSTON — In Joe Girardi’s mind, Shane Greene was spent. The neophyte right-hander recovered from a rocky second inning to give the Yankees a chance, and now with two Red...
Inside Jay Z's mysterious Roc Nation Sports agency
The sun hammered Mark Light Field at Alex Rodriguez Park on July 26, the humidity so prominent in Coral Gables, Fla., that you couldn’t even summon the energy to chuckle...
Cop who used deadly chokehold should be charged: Sharpton
The bystander whose cell phone video showed a cop using a deadly chokehold to subdue Eric Garner was busted late Saturday for illegally possessing a gun, police sources said. Ramsey...
Mom said she didn't know son died until corpse smelled
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The mother of an 8-year-old Pennsylvania boy whose decomposing body was found on the third floor of their home said Saturday she didn't know he had died...
Tim Hardaway: My time on US select team helped my 'D'
(Editor’s Note: This diary was written before Paul George’s injury in the U.S. national team’s intrasquad scrimmage, which Hardaway Jr. did not play in.) My time with the Select Team...
Serby's Sunday Q&A with Andre Williams
Steve Serby sits down to talk some football and philosophy with Giants rookie running back and fourth-round pick Andre Williams. The Heisman finalist also discusses why it’s important to be...
ESPN to call game above Fenway's Green Monster -- but why?
Does anyone recall when silly was silly, when silly wasn’t taken seriously because it was, well, silly? Now, silly is promoted as new, different. Silly hopefully will be mistaken as...
How the obesity epidemic is ruining America's sex life
From 1980-2010, the number of obese American children aged 6-11 more than doubled, from 7% to 18%. While childhood obesity can presage a host of problems, greatly increasing the risk...
Man returns library magazines 50 years late
Fifty years after snatching a pair of magazines with Marilyn Monroe on the cover, one man’s life as a library scofflaw finally came to an end. “He said it was...
Humanitarian work inspires Jets' TE Zach Sudfeld
CORTLAND — Zach Sudfeld took a look at the Jets practice fields here after another long training camp session and said, “This is great.” Sudfeld, fighting to be the Jets...
400,000 Ohio residents without clean water
TOLEDO, Ohio — Toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie fouled the water supply of the state's fourth-largest city Saturday, forcing officials to issue warnings not to drink the water...
Manziel's game is real, but adoring fans like him for much more
AKRON, Ohio — Johnny Football might never be closer to the Canton Pro Football Hall of Fame than he was Saturday afternoon, battling Brian Hoyer for the starting quarterback job...
Bob May has fond memories of Valhalla duel with Tiger Woods
The reminder is there almost every day for Bob May. It begins with a chase, continues with a finger point and ends with a golf ball disappearing into a hole....
Netanyahu: Hamas will 'pay an intolerable price' for more rockets
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hamas on Saturday that it will "pay an intolerable price" if it continues to fire rockets at Israel, but also hinted that...
Which dating app is right for you?
Match.com has met its match — or, rather, matches. A new wave of free dating apps is making old-fashioned dating sites look downright matronly — but it can be difficult...
A food critic and two 6-year-olds review NYC's craziest ice creams
Vanilla may be the most popular flavor in the rest of the country, but in New York, when it comes to ice cream, it’s just like everything else: the wackier,...
Wife of banker who illegally made $1M for love child: 'We all make mistakes'
She stood by her man — and it saved the disgraced ex-Wall Street investment banker from serving significant jail time. Frank “Perk” Hixon Jr. admitted to insider trading to help...
Why Pablo Schreiber keeps no secrets
Pablo Schreiber gave up on keeping secrets long ago. As a 12-year-old boy, he attended a sleep-away summer camp with his 14-year-old sister. Like any young fellow on the verge...
How Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan became off-screen friends
In the new comedy “What If,” opening Friday, Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan play best friends with a charming will-they-or-won’t-they spark. In real life, Radcliffe, the 25-year-old Brit best known...
Syringes, steroids, crystal meth, and 20 neglected pit bulls found
Police in Queens stumbled upon a canine horror house this week when they found 20 viciously banged up pit bulls locked away in cages drenched in their own feces and...
Tribesman run Islamic State jihadists out of Syrian villages
BEIRUT — Tribesmen have risen up against the extremist Islamic State group in eastern Syria, forcing it to withdraw from three villages after heavy clashes that left more than a...
Judge refuses Aereo’s request to resume business
Aereo took an arrow to its already hemorrhaging heart Friday when a federal judge struck down its emergency request. The video streamer’s last-gasp plea, filed Thursday evening, claimed it was...
Six life lessons learned from video games
I might not have noticed it at the time, but looking back, video games have had a big impact on my life. Games are no longer just games anymore. They...
Doctor with Ebola walks into Atlanta hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB67av4iR-s ATLANTA — The first person infected with Ebola to be brought to the United States from Africa was safely escorted into a specialized isolation unit Saturday at one of...
Israel pounds Gaza as troops search for missing soldier
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel bombarded the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Saturday as troops searched for an officer they believe was captured by Hamas in an ambush...
Don't second guess me again: Netanyahu to US
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily warned the White House “not to ever second-guess me again” on matters involving Hamas — and followed up by vowing that Israel will deal...
Chinese auto factory explosion leaves 68 dead
BEIJING — Sixty-eight people were killed and nearly 200 others injured, most with severe burns, after an explosion Saturday at an automotive parts factory in eastern China that supplies General...
Constitutional Crises For Fun and Profit
Republicans and Democrats are consumed in a vicious debate over which party wants to talk about impeachment more. Democrats say it is lunatic Republicans who are scheming, as we speak,...
Rebooting NYC gov’t’s broken IT-contract rules
Last week, the Department of Investigation released its report on CityTime, the payroll-management system that has become the poster child for information-technology contracts gone wrong. DoI Commissioner Mark Peters has...
Aiming at a Sane US Foreign Policy
With metronomic regularity, there is a choreographed minuet of carnage. Israel is attacked. Israel defends itself. Perfunctory affirmations of Israel’s right of self-defense are quickly followed by accusations that Israel’s...
A Propaganda War
The pictures are horrific: schoolroom walls covered in blood, parents running with injured children against a backdrop of bombed-out rubble, women with outstretched arms imploring Heaven. But they do not...
Welcome Home, Meriam!
Only a few weeks ago, a pregnant Meriam Ibrahim was rotting away in a Sudanese prison. There she would give birth — in shackles — to her second child. This...
We Still Like Ike
It’s been 15 years since a federal commission began planning a memorial in the nation’s capital to Dwight Eisenhower. That’s nearly twice as long as his presidency. Yet, as a...
When NYC Is Your Landlord
Who says you can’t find decent public housing in this city? Just ask the mayor. This week, we learned the West Elm furniture outlet donated $65,000 worth of furniture to...
Mysterious new lake found in Tunisia might be radioactive
A lake that mysteriously appeared in a drought-stricken region of Tunisia last month is being hailed as a miracle by locals but may in fact be radioactive. Local shepherds discovered...
5 things to watch in August
August is usually a hopeless month on TV. There’s not much to watch, and the fall shows are just around the corner — but not close enough. This month, however,...
Serial rapist hit with yet another sex charge
A serial rapist with a decade-long history of attacking kids and hookers was arrested Friday in Brooklyn for impersonating a cop when he raped and robbed a 26-year-old woman, police...
Cafe Wha? owner Manny Roth passes away
Manny Roth — owner of the famed Greenwich Village club Cafe Wha? where a young Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Springsteen performed on its basement stage — has died...
Trainer Jimmy Takter has strong trio in Hambletonian
Can anyone beat the Takter trio? That’s the big question for Saturday’s $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack. Trainer Jimmy Takter sends out the formidable triumvirate of Father Patrick...
Goodell defends his 2-game suspension for Rice
CANTON, Ohio — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended himself Friday against criticism that he was too lenient in suspending Ray Rice two games for his "horrible mistake." "We just can't...
Olivia Benson takes command on 'Law & Order: SVU'
Get ready for the return of Olivia Benson and “Law & Order: SVU.” At the end of last season, Benson (Mariska Hargitay in a first-look photo) was named acting commander...
2 dead after car going 107 mph crashes and burns
A speedster and his pal were killed after their vehicle flipped over on the LIE and burst into flames early Saturday, cops said. The two men were in a 2004...
Hondo eyes an A's kicking
Hondo put another dent in the debt Friday night when the Brewers defied the odds against Wainwright and the Busch leaguers to slash the accounts payable to 1,325 finleys. Saturday:...
Man run over, dragged by truck in Queens
A man was run over and dragged for several feet during a road rage incident in Queens, cops said Saturday Cops are still looking for the driver of the light...
De Blasio's 'conflicting' accepted donations
A nonprofit launched by Mayor de Blasio accepted money from at least two donors that his mayoral campaign had rejected because they had city contracts, a Post review found. Joseph and...
DiBella: Caparello has fighting chance vs. Kovalev
Lou DiBella is always nervous on fight night. Heck, he was even nervous for the fight scene in the movie “Rocky Balboa,” when he played himself as the promoter. So,...
Cops arrest man for stealing soda and find loaded gun
This violent predator was arrested for allegedly stealing a soda at the Port Authority — and, in classic “Broken Windows” policing, cops discovered he was carrying a loaded handgun. Vincent...
Dog thought tossed from highway may have jumped: witness
The dog thought to have been thrown off an elevated section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway actually jumped over the side because he was “spooked” by traffic, a new witness claims....
What the PGA Tour is unfairly hiding about Dustin Johnson
A few years ago, the PGA Tour came up with a well-conceived ad campaign that showcased its litany of talented players with videos of them hitting remarkable shots. Each video...
FDNY rescue dog from apartment near restaurant blaze
A lucky dog was back in its grateful owner’s arms Friday after firefighters pulled it from an apartment threatened by inferno that began at a Midtown sushi eatery. “The Fire...
Israeli soldier's widow gives birth two weeks after his death
The widow of a slain Israeli soldier is celebrating new life in the wake of a devastating death. Galeitu Baynesian gave birth to a baby girl at Soroka University Medical...
The utility guy the Yankees actually wanted at the deadline
BOSTON — Before acquiring Martin Prado from the Diamondbacks on Thursday, the Yankees inquired about the Mariners’ Dustin Ackley. Nevertheless, when Seattle asked for minor league right-hander Bryan Mitchell, the...
Cuomo to pay Moreland lawyer out of his campaign war chest
Gov. Cuomo is tapping his $35 million campaign war chest to pay for a legal eagle hired to deal with the mess over his Moreland Commission. Prominent criminal defense lawyer Elkan...
Can the Wilpons be trusted to improve Mets this offseason?
Trust is a currency in as short supply within the Mets’ fan base as any type of currency seems to be within the franchise’s ownership. Which is why general manager...
The Red Sox may have landed Big Papi 2.0
BOSTON — David Ortiz believes the Red Sox may have landed a younger version of himself in Yoenis Cespedes. That wouldn’t be too tough for Boston fans to take. But...
'Nitro' roller coaster loses power at Six Flags
Thrill-seekers at a New Jersey amusement park had to walk down a 230-foot-tall roller coaster after the ride lost power Friday afternoon, NBC New York reported. Officials at the Great...
Avella and Liu spar over pensions in Queens
Queens voters need an accounting degree to make sense of Friday’s dueling attacks by state Sen. Tony Avella and rival John Liu. Facing off in the Democratic Senate primary next...
Drew doesn't impress in first game as a Yankee
BOSTON — Stephen Drew switched uniforms from the Red Sox to the Yankees on Friday and even though he was going from one archrival to the other, it was only...
Thin chance of Yankees success rests on one brain
BOSTON — Remember the part in “Speed” when Keanu Reeves’ character had to somehow get everyone off the bus while knowing that, if the bus slowed to below 50 miles...
City speed limits to fall as part of de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan
Major Manhattan roadways like Park, Sixth and Seventh avenues will have their speed limits slashed by 5 mph in a desperate bid to reduce traffic fatalities, officials said Friday. A...
Beltran coming to life, but Yankees still can't win
BOSTON — While the rest of the Yankees lineup has gone into a deep sleep, Carlos Beltran has finally woken up. Too bad it’s not making much of a difference....
Harvey throws off mound, still at odds with Mets about early return
Matt Harvey woke up Friday morning, turned the page on his calendar and realized one thing. It was Aug. 1. August had always been the month floated when Harvey, barring...