August 5, 2016
'Alternative' school proves it's possible to be different and successful
A Queens public school that doesn’t screen its applicants by test scores — and encourages kids to go outside and explore — just graduated its entire senior class, a feat...
Fashionista sues after bottle cap 'violently' strikes her in the eye
A Brooklyn fashionista has filed a lawsuit claiming the cap on a bottle of Stella cider “violently” struck her in the eye. Audrey Lea Curry, 29, blames Anheuser-Busch, which manufactures...
Long Island wants the Islanders back at Nassau Coliseum
Nassau County hasn’t given up the long- shot hope that the New York Islanders will move back to their longtime home arena, The Post has learned. Despite the team’s new...
Hondo takes Giant odds
Blazing Hondo ran his winning streak to six Friday night when Devon Travis powered the Blue Jays in Kansas City to send the earnings soaring to 3,324 pagans. Saturday night:...
Victoria’s Secret is proving it's more than just lingerie
Shares of Victoria’s Secret parent L Brands swelled 2.5 percent on Friday — but it wasn’t because of its signature undergarments. These days, the lingerie giant is all about sportswear....
Hall of Famer Jimmy Takter seeks 3rd straight Hambletonian
Threes are wild in Saturday’s $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands. Hall of Fame trainer Jimmy Takter is looking to score his third straight victory, while driver Yannick Gingras looks...
What Olympics haters should watch instead of the Rio Games
The Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero are officially in full swing, and with it the scheduled dearth of new TV episodes (NBC’s entire entertainment lineup and the TNT procedurals...
Starlin Castro, Gary Sanchez provide Yankees a rare laugher
Yankee Stadium felt and sounded like a walkout bout at Sunnyside Garden Arena when two young fighters from Queens were pitted against each other long after the blood from the...
Brazilian marathoner Vanderlei De Lima lights Olympic cauldron
Brazilian marathoner Vanderlei De Lima has lit the cauldron at the Rio Games. De Lima was one of the suspected candidates after Pele revealed earlier Friday that health problems would...
Cops finally take on Washington Square Park crackheads
Police beefed up patrols of Washington Square Park Friday after The Post revealed it’s become a hangout for aggressive junkies. A police van began driving around the area at 7...
Noah Syndergaard's inefficiency dooms Mets in loss to Tigers
DETROIT — Noah Syndergaard’s fastball remains crisp, but the rest of his game is suffering from an efficiency crisis. The Mets righty has struggled to finish off hitters, raising his...
Olivier Vernon's hidden value: Mentor to key Giants lineman
Olivier Vernon was given $85 million to be the backbone of a Giants defense that was last in the NFL a year ago, to improve a pass rush that produced...
Competitors aren't scared of Uber's latest alliance
Despite Uber’s alliance with its biggest Chinese competitor, smaller rivals believe they can make headway against the ride-hailing behemoth. Earlier this week, Uber agreed to sell its Chinese operation to...
Michael Phelps leads U.S. athletes into the Olympics
After 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall in his storied Olympic career, Michael Phelps has finally entered an opening ceremony. The flagbearer for the U.S. has led the contingent...
Lawyer allegedly robbed a bank but doesn't remember doing it
She used to free jailbirds — now she is one. An Upper West Side lawyer landed behind bars Friday for allegedly robbing a bank in Greenwich, Conn, according to reports....
Why Marshall vs. Revis is more inexcusable than Beckham vs. Norman
In this corner, the 31-year-old cornerback who hates any ball completed against him, who is driven to silence naysayers who wonder if Revis Island still is a place where wide...
Don't hold your breath over 'promising' Federal Reserve report
For the second straight month, the US economy created a large number of jobs, the Labor Department reported on Friday. The sudden surge in job growth in June and July...
Fighting terror with a giant cat toy
Who needs the Whitney Museum when you have the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan? That seems to be the thinking at the State Department, anyway: It just dished out $185,000...
A smoking gun for snookered school-safety stats
You couldn’t ask for a more blatant sign that gremlins are messing with school-safety statistics than this: Officially, the only four “persistently dangerous” schools in the city are elementary schools....
Obama said Israel supports the Iran deal -- here's their response
What could President Obama have been thinking when he claimed that Israel’s “military and security community” now supports his disastrous nuclear deal with Iran? “The country that was most opposed...
Flip-flop flap: A Democrat stands up for formal wear
In the history of public service, there have been many memorable political flip-flops — Donald Trump on abortion, Hillary Clinton on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, John Kerry on almost everything. But...
Obama wants you to believe it wasn't a ransom -- just his dumb luck
It’s funny how coincidences work. In 2010, as much as $7 million was dropped on the deck of the Maran Centaurus, an oil tanker captured by Somali pirates, and the...
Ex-CIA spook who whitewashed Benghazi endorses Hillary
Hillary has become a spook’s candidate. Former deputy CIA Director Michael Morell, who so conveniently covered her tracks in Benghazi, has now confirmed it. In a glowing endorsement his friends...
The day in photos: Aug. 5, 2016
Wacken gets wacky, a baby elephant explores, a boar befriends a pooch and more.
Brandon Marshall, Darrelle Revis come to blows at Jets practice
Jets practice Friday turned into a slugfest — literally — thanks to Brandon Marshall and Darrelle Revis. The two veteran stars exchanged blows and had to be separated after an...
Hot watch 'thief' accused of ripping off her rich beaus
A slinky blond grifter convinced wealthy Manhattan marks to take her home — and then swiped their pricey watches, authorities said Friday. Yulia Sedunova, 27, of Miami, was slapped with...
Trump paints bleak picture of America under 'unhinged' Hillary
Donald Trump warned that America will be destroyed if he loses the presidential election. “If Hillary Clinton becomes president, you will have terrorism, problems, you will have really, in my...
Dad shot dead retrieving his son's stolen hat
A father was shot dead in Brooklyn Wednesday night when he tried to help his teenage son stand up to a group of thieves, police sources said. The tragedy started...
Insecure 'Suicide Squad' fans want critics to coddle them
Fans of the new movie “Suicide Squad” need their mommies and some pacifiers. After the comic-book flick opened to scathing reviews this week — The Post’s Kyle Smith called it...
Trump looks to Wall Street for economic team
Donald Trump unveiled an economic team Friday that includes some of the best-known names on Wall Street. The list of 13 advisers is heavy on businessmen, hedge fund managers and...
Mark Teixeira overcome with emotion at Yankees goodbye
The mind and spirit are willing, but the body, well, it’s a mess after 14 seasons. So Mark Teixeira, one of only five switch hitters in baseball history to slug...
Stray dog follows runner through the desert and wins his loyalty
Dion Leonard started out competing in a race through the Gobi Desert on his own, but he picked up a companion along the way. He plans on bringing the stray,...
This minor league hitting streak's getting close to DiMaggio
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? To a minor league park in Lynchburg, Va., perhaps -- where Francisco Mejia is putting together a hitting streak that's magnetically close to the...
MTA vows to clean all trash from subway tracks
Subway rats might soon have less to nosh on. The MTA has started clearing trash from more of its subway tracks more often in the hopes that it will cut...
Who returned to Giants practice? Just look at this photo
The lacerations to Odell Beckham Jr.’s left leg only cost him three practices. The Giants wide receiver was back on the field in the team’s walkthrough on Friday, taking part...
Obama's double standard on terror, how liberals made Trump, and other notable commentary
Foreign desk: Obama’s Muslim Double Standard President Obama seems to have two different strategies when it comes to Islamist terrorists: one for Shiites and another for Sunnis, writes Max Boot...
Mom sues celebrity trainer after suffering torn hamstring
Celebrity trainer Rich Barretta conditioned magician David Blaine for his record-breaking breath-holding event and actor Liev Schreiber for his role in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," but all that a suburban New...
Jeweler says $1M worth of gems mistakenly tossed in trash
A fistful of diamonds worth nearly $1 million was accidentally thrown out with the trash in Manhattan’s Diamond District, a new lawsuit says. “I’m upset myself about how stupid I...
Proceeds of Clinton-Kaine book will go to charity
The proceeds of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine's forthcoming book will be given to charity -- but not the Clinton Foundation, a spokesman told The Post. The 256-page book, "Stronger...
Mika Zibanejad and what it'll take for Rangers to win Brassard trade
There is seemingly a clear understanding from Mika Zibanejad about the shoes he has to fill, and the newest Ranger knows everyone's looking for what he described as his “breakout year.”...
These mutant mosquitoes will kill Zika
Mutant mosquitoes designed to wipe out skeeters carrying the Zika virus were approved by federal officials Friday, according to reports. The Food and Drug Administration signed off on plan to...
'I've cried a lot this week': Controversy around US gymnastics team
"Coach knows best" is being pushed to the limits. Laurie Hernandez, 16, is the youngest member of the United States gymnastics team and finished second in the all-around standings at the...
Donald Trump finally endorses Paul Ryan
Donald Trump has formally endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan, after saying he wasn't ready to do so earlier this week. Trump made the announcement during a campaign stop Friday in...
Iranian propaganda video claims to show US' $400M cash drop
The mad mullahs took a victory lap when $400 million delivered by the Obama administration touched down at an Iranian airport — bragging that they had snookered the United States...
New clues could point to slain jogger's killer
Cops were testing potential DNA evidence they hope will lead directly to whoever killed a Queens jogger, sources told The Post on Friday — as devastated family and friends gathered...
Man hiding in a truck knifes his way out into rush-hour traffic
This alleged illegal immigrant in London was seen slicing through a truck's canvas siding. He used a knife to break through the siding before jumping off the truck and running...
US assigned over 1,000 spies to Rio Olympics
The US has assigned more than 1,000 spies to a hush-hush mission to protect the Rio Olympic Games and the American athletes there, NBC News reported. Hundreds of law enforcement...
Clinton mistakenly refers to Trump as her 'husband'
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton nearly called rival Donald Trump her “husband” on Friday in an embarrassing slip-up that drew laughs from the crowd and Twitterverse. The flub came as she...
Electrical fire prompts evacuation of Manhattan court
The Manhattan Criminal Court building was partially evacuated Friday because of an electrical fire, officials said. The blaze started when a transformer exploded in the basement around 12:18 p.m., and...
Ranking all 66 Dream Teamers, from Michael Jordan to Vin Baker
Since 1992, 66 different NBA players have been part of the Dream Team. In those seven Olympics tournaments, the United States has won gold five times and is a heavy...
Cops fire on moving car before unarmed suspect killed
Dramatic police bodycam video was released Friday showing a Chicago Police Department officer firing his gun at an unarmed teenager speeding away in a stolen car before he was shot...
Man mounts moving car in hardcore road-rage incident
A bystander in Leicester, England, filmed this road-rage incident in which a man climbed on top of a convertible as it rolled down the street. The cause of the encounter...
How Tom Brady is dealing with the post-Deflategate blues
In his first public comments since waving the white flag on Deflategate, Tom Brady called it a "personal decision" to drop his fight against the NFL to overturn his suspension....
This terrifying subway ceiling collapse could have been so much worse
A ceiling collapse at Siping Station in Shanghai, China, was captured on surveillance cameras. An engineer determined that the collapse was caused by high humidity. No subway passengers were harmed.
Cops suspended after allegedly killing groundhog with golf cart
TROY, N.Y. — Two police officers for Rensselaer, New York, have been suspended as authorities investigate claims the cops used a golf cart to run down and kill a groundhog...
Teen charged with killing abusive dad is terrified of getting life in prison
A cherubic 14-year-old Ohio girl who allegedly shot to death her extremely abusive father with his own gun is terrified about the prospect of spending the rest of her life...
Booby traps found scattered along popular park trail
A minefield of booby traps made from nails, barbed wire and broken bottles have been placed on a popular park trail in northern New Jersey, sending shivers through hikers and...
Philippines promises to return $81M stolen from Bangladesh
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given a commitment that $81 million stolen by cyber criminals from the account of Bangladesh Bank in New York and funneled through bank accounts in...
How Jerry Jones nuked Cowboys' chances to sign legit backup QB
Jerry Jones' big mouth has become an even greater problem than his team's quarterback debacle. After Nick Foles was released by the Rams in late July, Jones said signing him...
Charges to be dropped against naked Times Square guy
Charges will be dropped against a former Ford model whose apparent mental breakdown led him to romp nude in Times Square while ranting about Donald Trump, authorities said Friday. Prosecutors...
The Westbrook-Durant narrative has turned a complete 180
Russell Westbrook was holding Kevin Durant back. That was the storyline through the years as the Thunder repeatedly failed to capitalize on their immense talent in the postseason. Inevitably a...
North America's first pizza ATM installed on college campus
CINCINNATI — Customers will soon be able to get pizza from an ATM at one Ohio university. Xavier University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the...
Conor McGregor's private trauma over witnessing MMA death
Conor McGregor knows fighters put their lives on the line every time they step into the cage with an opponent, but no one truly expects not to walk out again....
Brazil opens Olympics with Olympic corruption
Every four years, political leaders have tried to set aside feuds and celebrate the world’s best athletes as they compete for medals and glory — a tradition that harkens back...
This creepy clown is freaking everyone out
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Police say they have received a number of calls after someone was spotted dressed up as a scary clown holding black balloons. Meanwhile, someone has started...
Olympic boxer lured waitresses into sexual assault with selfies: police
A Moroccan boxer was knocked out of the Rio Olympics Friday after allegedly luring two Brazilian chambermaids to his room and sexually assaulting them, authorities said. Hassan Saada, 22, was...
Police search for suspect who tried to rape woman near NYU
Police released surveillance footage late Thursday of a man who assaulted and tried to rape a 20-year-old woman near NYU last weekend. The predator wrapped his victim in a bear...
DC-area mayor charged with offering meth for sex
FAIRFAX, Va. -- A northern Virginia mayor is facing drug charges after police say he was arrested in a meth-for-sex sting.
Ryan Fitzpatrick was 'kind of smiling' about losing haircut bet
Ryan Fitzpatrick threw one hairy interception this week. Fitzpatrick revealed on “Boomer and Carton” on WFAN on Thursday that rookie cornerback Juston Burris cut off Fitzpatrick's long locks after he intercepted...
Hit-and-run driver rams man in Bronx parking lot
Police are looking for this hit-and-run driver who rammed his red pickup truck into a 38-year-old pedestrian in a Bronx parking lot Tuesday night. The victim, who was left in...
Clinton wooing a new group of voters: Republicans
LAS VEGAS — Hoping to capitalize on the criticism battering Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has begun portraying support for her candidacy as a patriotic duty of voters. She's broadening her...
Everything you need to know about sex at the Olympics
The first record of the Rio Olympics was set ahead of the opening ceremony when 450,000 condoms were ordered for the athletes’ village. There are 10,500 competitors in Rio, making...
Tim Kaine calls Trump 'confused' about Iran cash drop video
Democratic VP nominee Tim Kaine is calling Donald Trump “confused” — just as the Republican presidential candidate is correcting an erroneous claim. Kaine made the comments in response to Trump’s...
Altered Malaysia Flight 370 course was on pilot's simulator
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to...
Jobs report beats expectations with 255K jobs added in July
Exhale, America! The US economy, despite its sluggish spring performance, created 255,000 jobs in July, well above expectations — and May and June results were revised up. In addition, average...
Mark Teixeira to retire in end of a Yankees era
Mark Teixeira’s body simply kept breaking down. As recently as this spring training, he talked boldly about wanting to play five more years. But then he incurred injuries to his knee,...
Most young Americans don't like Democrats or the GOP
WASHINGTON — Most young Americans say the Republican and Democratic parties don't represent them, a critical data point after a year of ferocious presidential primaries that forced partisans on both...
Trump trails Clinton in solid red state
Donald Trump may be rewriting the electoral map as Hillary Clinton has taken the lead in solidly red Georgia. A new poll from the Atlanta Journal Constitution finds Trump losing...
Fired firefighter arrested for torching home of black former colleague
Police in a Buffalo suburb said Thursday that a recently fired firefighter has admitted to starting a blaze that badly damaged the home of an African-American ex-colleague who recently received...
Lucas Duda to Dae-Sung Koo: 20 unsung Subway Series heroes
Since 1997, many big names have dominated the Subway Series — Mike Piazza, Mariano Rivera, David Wright and Roger Clemens to name a few. But it’s lesser names, some of...
Soldier who served with Captain Khan stands with family against Trump
A former comrade-in-arms of US Army Capt. Humayun Khan, whose Muslim parents have been engaged in a bitter feud with Donald Trump, has joined a growing chorus of people calling...
ISIS captures up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqis
Islamic State fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in a daily report...
How do you get a mob nickname?
Frank DiMatteo, a.k.a. Frankie D, is a former mobster whose memoir, "The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia," is filled with colorful anecdotes about being in the Life. We sat down...
You'll never guess what Facebook is trying get rid of
Facebook is taking another stab at ridding users' news feeds of "clickbait," the links and headlines that ask readers to "guess what happened next" but don't provide any useful information,...
Morris Day remembers the last time he spoke to Prince
Back in January, Morris Day got a surprise call from Paisley Park: Prince wanted his childhood friend, musical compadre and on-screen rival to come to Minneapolis with his band, the...
Pair try to pawn off items stolen from pawn shop owner
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities say two people who tried to pawn some stolen PlayStations didn't realize that they had burgled the home of the pawn shop owner. Citing a Clarksville,...
Prolific host Nick Cannon actually doesn't like 'hosting stuff'
Over a two-decade career in Hollywood, Nick Cannon has been a stand-up comic, writer, film actor and hip-hop artist, but these days he can most often be found as a...
Shooting victim dies after driving himself to police station
A 28-year-old man was shot in Brooklyn Thursday -- and died after driving himself to a police station house. The victim was shot in the chest in the parking lot...
Camila Alves reveals Matthew McConaughey's favorite home-cooked meal
Camila Alves may have grown up in Brazil, but the 34-year-old model didn’t know how to make her favorite dishes like feijoada (rice and beans cooked with sausage and other...
Mets veteran utilityman celebrates 'bucket list' homer
Kelly Johnson has bounced around to so many teams in his career, there is a good chance a road ballpark will have a familiar feel for the Mets utilityman. Yankee...
Georgia dad arrested after twin babies die in hot car
CARROLLTON, Ga. — A Georgia father has been arrested in the deaths of 15-month-old twin girls found in a hot car outside Atlanta, authorities said. Asa North of Carrollton was...
5 things to know about Twenty One Pilots
Two singles — “Stressed Out” and “Ride” — from alt-rock duo Twenty One Pilots’ fourth album, “Blurryface,” hit the Billboard Top 10 this year, sending singer-keyboardist Tyler Joseph and drummer...
Hot-headed Hansel Robles told to chill after Teixeira meltdown
Hansel Robles probably could use an occasional chill pill. The Mets reliever has never been shy about confrontation and may have been distracted Wednesday by Mark Teixeira, with whom he...
'Bully' won't be a bad word on Steve Spagnuolo's Giants 'D'
A defense that can terrify the passer. A defense with playmakers in the secondary. A defense that can close out the fourth quarter. A defense that is feared again, honors...
Dean Skelos will be able to stay out of prison pending his appeal
Disgraced former state Sen. Dean Skelos will be able to stay out of prison pending an appeal of his corruption convictions, a Manhattan judge ruled on Thursday. Skelos and son...
US set to meet goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees
After a slow start, it appears increasingly likely that the Obama administration will hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States before the end of September....
Aide hired to solicit Asian vote posted anti-Asian rants online
A young political operative disparaged Asians on social media — and then landed a job requiring him to solicit their votes for a state Senate candidate, The Post has learned....
Julie Taymor will be back on Broadway next season
Decades before she soared with “The Lion King” — even longer before she crashed with “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” — Julie Taymor saw her first Shakespeare play. It was...
Hostage: We couldn't leave until second plane landed in Iran
One of the American hostages who was released the day the United States sent $400 million to Iran said his plane to freedom was not allowed to take off until “another...
Why Joe Girardi ignored the numbers and sat A-Rod
Joe Girardi was aware of Alex Rodriguez’s impressive numbers against Mets starter Bartolo Colon Thursday night in the final Subway Series game at Yankee Stadium. Yet, just like people at...
Russian diplomat fatally shoots Rio mugger with torch nearby: report
Russian diplomat in a vehicle fatally shot a gun-carrying mugger who tried to rob him as the Olympic torch was being carried past in Rio de Janeiro, a report said....
Dan Patrick: Why Olympics will make you forget Rio issues
NBC is hoping you’ve heard the last about polluted water, doping, the Zika virus or any other of the Olympic storylines that have dominated the months leading into the Rio...
One life-changing call put Simone Biles on path for Olympic gold
One phone call changed their lives. It expanded a family, and set in motion the development of one of gymnastics’ great stars. Of course, nobody knew it at the time....
Terrorism, refugees, champions: 10 biggest stories to watch in Rio
Rio 2016 will have plenty of storylines and talking points over the next few weeks, starting with the Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies on Friday. The Post looks at the 10 biggest,...
The Soho club where rich, bald dudes pick up gorgeous models
Even on a Friday night in the dog days of summer, when the who’s who of Manhattan has scurried to the Hamptons, the Blond lounge in Soho still attracts a...
'One moment': The baseball lesson Jay Bruce hasn't forgotten
Jay Bruce was just a kid then, 23 and enjoying his first bloom of prosperity as a big leaguer. Jim Edmonds was at the end, 40, scratching out the final...
City boasts higher Common Core scores — but it may not mean much
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña bragged about an increase in the number of city kids passing the state Common Core tests — but that success may have more to do with...
Bloggers are pissed this ad-hosting site isn't paying up
Passionfruitads, an ad-hosting network that hooks up bloggers with advertisers, will close its doors Dec. 31 — and many bloggers are complaining that they are not getting paid for the...
Time Inc. shares sink after double-digit dive in print-ad revenue
Time Inc. shares got slammed on Thursday, falling 8.4 percent after CEO Joe Ripp lowered 2016 revenue guidance to flat to a 1.5 percent gain. That’s down from earlier guidance...
Another InStyle editor leaves the company
A senior staffer at Time Inc.’s InStyle magazine is following longtime Editorial Director Ariel Foxman out the door: Angela Matusik, a deputy editor who headed InStyle.com and was most recently...
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Staten Island Cops are looking for two thugs who slashed and robbed a man near a St. George condo. The 41-year-old male victim was walking behind the Accolade at 90...