May 15, 2016
Here's Your Perfect Itinerary for a Long Weekend at Sands Bethlehem
Ah, the three-day weekend: a magical retreat that transforms one day off from work into a long, restful getaway. There are two key parts to planning a great three-day weekend:...
Cuomo's team on 'lockdown' as Preet Bharara digs deeper
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s scandal-wracked office is in “lockdown’’ with tight-lipped aides fearful that US Attorney Preet Bharara’s ongoing investigation of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe...
Caitlyn might as well go back to being Bruce
Was it all a big, fat, transgender oopsie? Is Caitlyn Jenner, the most fabulous trans individual ever to strap a bra over budding boobs and squeeze wrinkly buns into extra-extra-large...
'Game of Thrones': Jon Snow finds his next mission
Warning: This article contains spoilers from "Game of Thrones" Season 6, Episode 4 At the end of last Sunday's episode, the recently resurrected Jon Snow (Kit Harington) walked out of...
How Yankees radio disgracefully sells the national anthem
“Oh, say can you see, through Maui Jim’s new sun-filter glasses by the Dawn’s Early Light dishwashing liquid ...” Of all the greed-ugly, greed-obscene attachments that have accompanied the Yankees...
I'm an anti-hoarder and the box trend is driving me crazy
I prefer to think outside the box — box businesses, to be more specific. The New York Times has just entered into one with meal-delivery startup Chef’d. The ingredients will...
Mets' appetizer is finished: Finally, bring on the Nationals
DENVER — Let the real season begin. Finally. The Mets, in the 38th game of the season, will get their first look at the Nationals Tuesday night at Citi Field,...
The next US victory in Iraq may just mean another crisis
President Obama could end his presidency with a crisis in Iraq of his own making. In April, the president said the conditions for liberating Mosul from the Islamic State should...
This is how Facebook is trying to undermine YouTube
All of a sudden, well-armed rivals are raising the stakes for YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki. And why not — it’s where the money is. It is predicted that online video...
How Mets' rotation vs. Nationals hinges on one elbow
DENVER — Noah Syndergaard will get the ball in the upcoming Nationals series, but manager Terry Collins is awaiting more information before setting the rest of his rotation. Collins has...
Hondo guns for a Twinner
Hondo nailed it Sunday with the Marlins, who showed Ross who’s boss as they expanded the bulbous wad to 574 jensens. Monday night: Mr. Aitch will give Berrios another opportunity...
'Career-defining' bogey: Golfer faces site of meltdown at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — One day after he took a 9 on the par-3 17th hole, Russell Knox faced the famous island green again Sunday and bogeyed it after...
OKCupid's embarrassing data leak is a cause for concern
A Danish researcher found himself in a storm of controversy over the weekend after publishing data on 70,000 OKCupid users — including user names, ages and sexual preferences. Amid the...
Daniel Murphy is beloved by Nats -- but what about by Mets fans?
WASHINGTON — Danny Espinosa cannot explain why, but he is absolutely certain he did not like Daniel Murphy. Not until the two became teammates in Washington. “Playing against him, I...
Remember golf's Big Three? It's clearly now a Big One
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — On Wednesday, while playing a practice round with Jason Day, Adam Scott took notice of something significant that struck him about his Aussie countryman. “The...
Russian doping scandal is another sign of the downfall of global sports
News of Russia’s state-run doping program at the 2014 Winter Olympics is just one more sign of the profound corruption of global sports. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin needed his athletes...
Yankees give thriving minor leaguer shot as fill-in starter
CC Sabathia made it through a 45-pitch simulated game Sunday and declared himself “ready to go” for a Friday start in Oakland when he’s eligible to come off the disabled...
Why danger still looms for Yankees, even with hot stretch
This is what happens when you start your year looking like the New York Knights from the beginning, rather than the ending, of “The Natural.” You tie up your best...
The Clinton sleaze never ends
In most cases, news that a major presidential candidate’s family charity doled out millions to a for-profit company controlled by the candidate’s longtime friends would be raising lots of eyebrows....
No one will acknowledge that Americans are still in combat
The recent death of Navy SEAL Charles Keating in intense battle with ISIS forces in Iraq underscores a growing reality: Americans are doing far more than just “advising” Kurdish forces....
Bernie is showing The Donald where to beat Hillary
Hillary Clinton shouldn’t be so quick to write off her recent string of Rust Belt losses to Bernie Sanders. While they won’t spell an upset in the Democratic primary, they...
Black lives matter in New York --- thanks to the NYPD
Do black lives matter? In a high-crime city, apparently not. New Orleans is a sad reminder that good policing and prosecution save black lives. New Orleans was supposed to be...
These magazines will have you wanting to try vegan
Sarma Melngailis, who ran an upscale vegan eatery, was charged with stealing $2 million from the business. She went on the lam with her hubby but was caught when she...
Jason Day beats nerves and field in No. 1 statement at Players
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — There was little doubt all week — at least not from anyone other than Jason Day. Since the moment Day teed it up for his...
Meteorologist told to cover up on live TV
https://www.facebook.com/LiberteChanKtla5/videos/1135814116463535/ A Los Angeles meteorologist was forced to cover up her strappy black cocktail dress on live TV — causing social media to heat up over what some are calling...
'The Wire' star arrested for hitting Bernie Sanders supporter
The 52-year-old TV performer, reportedly flew into his rage at 3:30 a.m. while discussing the 2016 presidential race with the victim and her boyfriend.
Masahiro Tanaka's splitter is gone -- is rest to blame?
Masahiro Tanaka has built his career around his split-fingered fastball, and on Sunday, the Yankees got a glimpse of what he’d look like without it. The right-hander couldn’t control the...
'That's a Hall of Famer': Carlos Beltran belts historic homer
Carlos Beltran said he doesn’t get caught up in numbers, but he couldn’t deny the importance of becoming the fourth switch hitter in major league history to get to 400...
Kozu cooks up big debut for Hamptons summer season
New Hamptons hot spots are finally getting settled and ready to open for the season. Kozu Restaurant and Night Club will be launching where Nammos Estiatorio and, before it, Nello’s,...
Knicks met with Frank Vogel as trio of candidates becomes clear
Knicks president Phil Jackson not only reached out to Frank Vogel, but actually has met with the highly respected coach, according to a league source. Jackson came under criticism in...
Mets swept away as ump's call in question again
DENVER — The Mets are bloodied and bruised, but at least they are heading home — even if they are about to face the first-place Nationals. Their 11-game road trip...
Jose Bautista gets coldcocked in massive brawl
https://twitter.com/CauldronICYMI/status/731973058395815941 ARLINGTON, Texas — Jose Bautista slid hard into second base, stood up and found himself face-to-face with Texas' Rougned Odor. Next thing the Toronto slugger knew, he was rattled...
The X-factor Thunder will need to shock Warriors: exec
So fans of the Oklahoma City Thunder have scoured the Bible, old sports magazines and comic books for inspiration. Any chance David slew King Kong after knocking off Goliath? Did...
Even Max Scherzer amazed at Syndergaard before face-off
WASHINGTON — Thor is on one side. On the other side, take your pick: Superman, Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic. Yup, it’s the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard against the Nationals’ Max Scherzer,...
Chase Headley -- really -- has Yankees suddenly surging
Chase Headley’s return from the abyss allowed the Yankees to finish off a homestand they hope will do the same for their season. The third baseman delivered the game-winning hit...
Man appears to carry bloody knife after stabbing incident
A man was caught on surveillance video carrying a bloody knife down the stairs of a Harlem apartment building Sunday morning after a stabbing there. The chilling surveillance video from...
Bratton refuses to answer questions on corruption probe
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Sunday refused to take reporters' questions about the ongoing federal corruption probe that led to a high-ranking cop's suicide last week. Reporters who showed up...
Obama takes aim at Trump's wall plan in Rutgers speech
President Obama took aim at Donald Trump on Sunday as he decried “anti-intellectualism” in American politics, poked fun at the mogul’s call to “Make America Great Again” and declared that...
Kevin Durant hailed as 'hero' for trying to beat OKC traffic
Kevin Durant's instinct to beat traffic is being regarded as heroic. The Thunder superstar -- and free-agent-to-be -- was entangled in an Oklahoma City traffic jam this weekend, alongside an ambulance....
Runners race up One World Trade for charity
They took the long way up -- for a good cause. About 1,000 people raced to the top of the World Trade Center on Sunday morning to pay tribute to...
Why Kenny Atkinson's biggest test likely isn't with Nets players
The Nets didn’t waste any time in their coaching search, hiring Long Island native Kenny Atkinson just four days after their season ended. Nearly a month later, they are set...
Officials participate in city's largest-ever terror drill
A shootout in a school. A drone dispersing chemicals overhead. A bomb in a parked van. And this was all before breakfast -- as a few hundred NYPD and FDNY...
RNC chairman: People don't care about Trump's controversies
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday suggested that voters “don’t care” about Donald Trump’s on-going struggles with female voters, refusal to release tax returns and allegations of pranking...
Bird poops on Ernie Els
https://twitter.com/skratchTV/status/731859115710910464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw It's about as bad as a birdie gets in golf. Ernie Els was down in the dumps Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., beginning the last round of the...
City may be paving the way for more crime with new policy
Think the city is filthy now? Brace yourself for what may come. In January, the City Council voted to reclassify low-level crimes such as public urination, public consumption of alcohol,...
Cuomo's friends ready to cash in on La Guardia renovation
New York’s next billion-dollar boondoggle could be taking off in Queens. Buffalo Billion, the state’s $1.7 billion plan to revitalize Buffalo, has attracted the attention of federal investigators who have...
Geraldine Ferraro's son running for mayor of LI town
His mom ran for vice president of the United States, but John Zaccaro Jr. has his sights set a little lower. Zaccaro, 52, is running for mayor of Saltaire, LI,...
Rugby wins back heart of one of NFL's most intriguing players
SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Australian Rugby League star Jarryd Hayne's NFL experiment is over, as he announced his retirement Sunday from the San Francisco 49ers in order to join the...
Russell Wilson's inspiring grad speech has a lot of problems
Russell Wilson's commencement speech Saturday offered a timeless, crucial message to University of Wisconsin graduates: Always question the message a person in power is sending you. But in a bit...
Union chief to 'hypocrite' Bratton: Resign!
The head of the city’s sergeants union accused Police Commissioner Bill Bratton of hypocrisy Sunday and called for his resignation. “What I am seeing on a regular basis now in...
The most haunting pair of overalls in sports is back
Remember when 6-foot-2, (conservatively) 325-pound Vince Wilfork wore his overalls in HBO's "Hard Knocks" last summer? Of course you do, because that's an image that gets branded into your mind....
Fake bomb dismantled at British soccer stadium
Police dismantled a fake bomb inside Old Trafford on an unnerving final day of the Premier League season that forced the abandonment of Manchester United's game against Bournemouth before kickoff...
Missing student's Facebook account goes dark days after disappearance
The mystery of Columbia engineering student Nayla Kidd’s disappearance deepened Saturday with reports that her Facebook account has been deactivated, her credit cards cancelled and her cellphone service shut down....
Man repeatedly stabbed roommate in Harlem, police say
A man repeatedly stabbed his roommate with a knife during a domestic dispute in Harlem Sunday morning, police said. The 61-year-old was rushed to Harlem Hospital after the attack at...
Russian cemetery brawl leaves 3 dead, dozens injured
Feuding cemetery workers in Moscow will be digging their own graves after a massive brawl between two rival groups left at least three dead and 26 injured. The deadly turf...
Sheryl Sandberg describes 'fog of grief' after husband's sudden death
Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, spoke poignantly at a commencement address Saturday about her “fog of grief’’ following the death of her husband, but said she has since found...
Manchester United game called off on terror threat
MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United's home game against Bournemouth in the Premier League has been abandoned after a suspect package was found inside Old Trafford stadium. Greater Manchester police said...
Soccer coach's arrest in rape, killing of 4 stuns community
BERLIN — The small Swiss town of Rupperswil is in shock after learning that a long-time local youth soccer coach is suspected of being behind the brutal killings of four...
Paralympian's legs stolen at Arizona competition
Paralympics champion Vanessa Low has appealed for the return of her running blades after they were stolen during a competition. The 25-year-old German, who is World long jump T42 champion...
NYPD strips officer of his gun after top cop's suicide
A day after the suicide of top highway cop Michael Ameri, one of his distraught police pals was stripped of his gun "out of an abundance of caution,'' a union...
We wasted $113B in Afghanistan, no wonder 'America First' resonates
While Donald Trump took a lot of heat for his recent “America First” speech, which foreign-policy experts rejected as “isolationist,” a scathing new Pentagon report on Afghan reconstruction backs his...
Trump wins women by talking about the economy
Never before in American political history have two presumptive presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, entered the general election with such soaring high negative numbers. The result will be...
Meet the New York hotshots exposed in the Panama Papers
These are some of the New Yorkers who have parked their cash offshore or set up companies in farflung island nations to shelter their holdings. Nearly 500 people and companies...
Forgotten woman who gave us our first clear look at DNA
Darwin and natural selection, Pavlov and conditioning, Watson and Crick and DNA — no matter how little we know about science, there are certain names that popular culture associates with...
Making prostitution legal doesn’t ‘empower’ women — it turns them into commodities
We shouldn’t forget that legalizing something means you’ll get more of it.
The controversial way rich parents help their kids de-stress
On a recent weekday night, Ben is holed up in his Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment doing homework — reading “A Separate Peace” for an eighth grade “reaction paper.” And to pay...
Did a homeless man write a massive history of the world?
In 1942, a profile appeared in The New Yorker magazine about a writer named Joe Gould; an often-homeless Harvard expellee who claimed to have written a multimillion-word oral history of...
'NCIS' star on 13-year role: 'You can’t be in that No. 2 slot forever'
'NCIS' Tuesday, 8 p.m., CBS This week marks the season finale for “NCIS,” but more important, it brings to an end Michael Weatherly’s career on the show. The 47-year-old actor,...
What's with the balloon animals on the subway?
Someone’s been clowning around on the subway. One night last month at around 10 p.m., Andrew Tworischuk, 29, had just wrapped up a long day at work and hopped on...
These are the weapons brought to schools no one wants you to see
These are the guns and knives Mayor de Blasio doesn’t want you to see. A surging tide of weapons — including loaded revolvers, 9mm handguns, meat cleavers and daggers —...
The fascinating history of how courtship became 'dating'
Dating is hell. But how much worse would it be if the very act of it landed you in jail? According to “Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating” (Farrar,...
Teens die in crash hours after high school prom
A tragic New Jersey car accident killed two teenage girls and left two others injured early Saturday, hours after their high school prom. Daisia Sulton, 17, was driving on Route...
'It doesn't make sense': Cop who killed himself 'wasn't in trouble'
A day after the suicide of top highway cop Michael Ameri, heartbroken colleagues and family were staggered by one unanswered question — why? — given that he was said to...
Mom who abandoned 'No Given Name' battles to get her back
Abandoned at birth, a girl whose legal moniker is No Given Name now has a chance at a new identity. A Queens mom who says she has fought postpartum depression...
Judge required to live in Queens calls Westchester home: records
Queens Surrogate Judge Peter Kelly, who is supposed to live in the borough, claims a Westchester County home as his primary residence, records show. Kelly, 58, who took the surrogate’s...
Man claims his ex stole his heart — and more than $270K
It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all — but perhaps not when it’s this expensive. A Manhattan man says his ex took more...
Family sues after boy runs into brick wall at school playground
A Manhattan boy kicked off kindergarten with a hard and fast lesson, his mom says in a lawsuit. Just a few weeks into the school year at PS 242 on...
Frustrated voters buckle up for a cutthroat presidential race
Two national polls reveal an increasingly frustrated electorate — and a tightening presidential race. Hillary Clinton has the support of 48 percent of registered voters, edging out Donald Trump by...
Clinton hounded by past scandals as new charity questions emerge
The stench of past scandals is haunting Hillary Clinton as allegations regarding the family’s foundation fester. News that the Clinton Global Initiative aided a company part-owned by a close female...
Terry Collins: Why Matt Harvey beatdowns can help later
DENVER — Matt Harvey may be the weakest link in the Mets’ rotation, but his manager continues to preach patience. A day after Harvey surrendered 11 hits — the second-highest...
Immigrants rush to ensure they'll be able to vote in November
Call it the Trump Effect: Citizenship applications are spiking as legal immigrants rush to make themselves eligible to vote in November. Applications so far this year are up 12.8 percent...
It's getting really ugly for Mets -- and Nats could make it worse
DENVER — This is no way to get ready for the Nationals. This is not pretty. Terry Collins is irritated. Matt Harvey is lost on the mound. David Wright is...
Donald Jr., Rudy Giuliani will go to GOP convention as delegates
Donald Trump knows how to “delegate” responsibility to his family. City Republican leaders have selected the billionaire’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., as a delegate to the party’s convention. As...
It took 80 seconds for Cyborg to become terrifying UFC force
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian Cris "Cyborg" Justino needed one minute and 20 seconds to knock out Leslie Smith of the United States in a women's bout at UFC 198...
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The Bronx Police are working to track down the suspect pictured above in the shooting of a 24-year-old man in Fordham Heights, authorities said. The victim was at Walton Avenue...