December 18, 2016
ACS employs more bosses than abuse caseworkers
The city’s beleaguered child welfare agency has become bloated with bosses under Mayor Bill de Blasio, with honchos accounting for more than one-quarter of its workforce — and even outnumbering...
The perfect boozy drinks for your holiday parties
The holiday season is upon us, which means lots of parties — and loads of opportunities to impress your colleagues, family and (most important) your boss when it comes to...
Cory Booker's protégé taking on Bill de Blasio for mayor
A protege of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker who supports charter schools and using tax dollars to send poor students to private and parochial schools is among the Democrats challenging...
There's no way these Electoral College voters will abandon Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — GOP members of the Electoral College are under siege by Democratic activists and Hollywood elites as they prepare to cast their decisive votes for President-elect Donald Trump on...
Rangers escape shootout after raucous OT in Devils showdown
Here was the save that had been missing, the reading of the play that enabled Henrik Lundqvist not only to give his Rangers a chance to steal two points from...
John McCain: Russian hacks threaten to 'destroy democracy'
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan team of senators Sunday broke with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in demanding the formation of a special cyber-committee to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election...
How this game explains Eli Manning's career
Another quarterback might get antsy. Another quarterback might start to force things, leading to unnecessary mistakes. But Eli Manning is not another quarterback. He is the same guy, whether he’s...
Americans think Trump will bring change — for better or worse
WASHINGTON — Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe Donald Trump will usher in change in Washington, but they are divided on whether it will be for the better, according to...
Schumer says e-cigarettes are 'ticking time bombs'
Huff, puff, explode. Sen. Chuck Schumer railed against e-cigarettes Sunday morning, citing recent "explosion" data released by the Food and Drug Administration. "E-cigarettes have become ticking time bombs," the senator...
Deer loaded up with sedatives while de Blasio and Cuomo bickered
Big Apple critters are living in fear they’ll wind up the next victim of Mayor de Blasio after the death of a beloved one-antlered deer which, The Post has learned,...
Inside the 'doppelganger' bond that found Knicks a point guard
Ron Baker has a good idea why he’s a Knick and Chasson Randle is in the D-League, lighting it up with Westchester. Coach Jeff Hornacek sees himself in Baker, the...
Isles come apart late as terrible finishes becoming a trend
Losing ugly would be easier. Lopsided defeats wouldn’t be so demoralizing. At least then, the Islanders could tell themselves they’re merely not good enough. No, this five-game losing streak is...
Barack Obama’s new office is nothing like the Oval
President Obama could be going from the Oval Office to the garage. After he leaves office in January, the former Leader of the Free World will become just another shlub...
Janoris Jenkins nearly gave Rodgers-Cromartie a heart attack
As soon as Janoris Jenkins took a hit and did not get up, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie started thinking and pleading. “I was on the field like, ‘No, don’t do that,’ ’’...
Justin Pugh's sleep issue sounds worse than his Lions issue
Justin Pugh said he experienced something the night before a game he has never really felt before. He had trouble falling asleep Saturday night. “First time I was struggling to...
Joel Embiid humiliates Nets in thrilling NBA-sewers battle
PHILADELPHIA — The Nets dropped their basement battle in Philadelphia, losing 108-107 to a team that came in tied for the worst record in the NBA. And it was Philadelphia...
What happens if Bryce Petty can't play?
There was not much clarity on the Jets’ quarterback situation Sunday. When coach Todd Bowles spoke to the media on a conference call, he had yet to get the CT...
Meet the 'Savages': The Giants force with a Super Bowl vision
Odell Beckham Jr. readily concedes that Defense Wins Championships, and if you don’t think these Giants can win the Super Bowl, you'd better think again. Beware the New York Football...
How a Giants afterthought used his head to swing game
November was not a good month for Leon Hall. But so far, this has been a December to remember for him. The four consecutive games in November that Hall watched...
New York's never-ending asbestos racket
A year after his corruption conviction, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s influence is still harming our courts. The American Tort Reform Foundation now ranks New York City’s Asbestos Litigation court as...
MIA Port Authority cops are a hole in our anti-terror defense
Last week brought fresh proof of problems at the Port Authority Police Department — potentially deadly problems. As The Post reported, 44 PAPD officers stand accused of skipping out on...
Facebook's fresh 'fake news' follies
With the left obsessed with the idea that “fake news” helped Donald Trump win the presidency, Facebook is promising a cure that could prove worse than disease. Why not face...
MVP candidate Matthew Stafford glows about Giants defense
The Giants’ defense ended up giving Matthew Stafford a lot more trouble than his injured finger Sunday. Led by a secondary that the Lions quarterback labeled “probably the best we...
De Blasio and Trump are more alike than they'd like to admit
Mayor de Blasio is up for re-election next year, and he’s running against Donald Trump. But the president-elect and the mayor have a lot in common, an uncomfortable fact for...
Trump's tech summit was just the start of re-centering the economy
One of Donald Trump’s biggest and most urgent challenges is to usher Americans out of the post-2008 slow-growth world — without ushering the economy off a cliff. His meeting last...
Bowles should fire this coach and learn a lesson that Rex Ryan hasn't
Rex Ryan is viewed largely as a defensive coordinator masquerading as a head coach, and Todd Bowles is in danger of heading down that same path. That is why if...
This is the winter of Bill de Blasio's discontent
Now comes the winter of Bill de Blasio’s discontent — or, at least, now arrives a pair of grand juries, rooting through his administration just as he enters his re-election...
Obama's Russian-hack hypocrisy and other notable comments
From the Right: Iran Needs Some ‘Art of the Deal’ Donald Trump has “a golden opportunity” to fix what he’s called the “dumbest” deal he’s ever seen — the nuclear...
If this was Victor Cruz's goodbye, at least he salsa'd — weirdly
It didn’t escape Victor Cruz’s attention that he might have played his last game in MetLife Stadium as a Giant on Sunday. The Big Blue wideout is likely to be...
Small town being graffitied with swastikas — even in the snow
Long Island neighbors were stunned to spot five swastikas drawn in the snow — the latest in a spate of hate-fueled images in the area, police and neighbors said Sunday....
Catholic schoolgirls demand private bus following attack
A group of Catholic schoolgirls is demanding that the city give them their own private MTA bus to ferry them to and from school after some classmates were attacked on...
The final Jaguars calamity that got their coach fired
The Jacksonville Jaguars have fired Gus Bradley, ending the least successful coaching tenure in NFL history. Owner Shad Khan announced the decision following a 21-20 loss at Houston on Sunday,...
How a forgotten play typifies an attitude growing within Giants
The other stuff is important, sure, the big stuff, the dominant defense and the efficient offense and the special teams that seem to be forever downing footballs inside the 5-yard...
Giants report card: The defense somehow reached another level
Grades from the Giants' 17-6 home win over the Lions on Sunday: Offense Quite a bounce-back performance for Eli Manning (20-of-28, 201 yards, 2 TDs). He completed his first 11...
Martin Scorsese's hard partying nephew arrested - again
Legendary movie director Martin Scorsese's trouble-making nephew channeled his inner “Raging Bull” to kick down a Staten Island neighbor’s door — leading to his second arrest in less than a...
Clinton advisers point fingers at Huma Abedin, inner circle for loss
While many of Hillary Clinton’s top advisers have focused their post-presidential election fury on blaming alleged Russian interference and FBI Director James Comey for Clinton’s loss, some in the so-called...
Giants ride same ferocious blueprint to bust mighty Lions
The Giants were already ahead 7-0 when Matthew Stafford and the Lions’ offense took the field for the first time and it did not take long to notice something special...
Here's how to disconnect from work when you're on vacation
I’m attending a family reunion for a week and I don’t want to be online the whole time. I’ve compiled a document with the status of each project for my...
Here's how rogue electors can still steal the election
While Donald Trump won more Electoral College points than Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8, the election is not over. On Dec. 19, appointed state electors will vote for president and vice...
Jeff Fisher: Secret big mouth is everything wrong with Rams
The Los Angeles Rams cut ties with head coach Jeff Fisher last week after an embarrassing 42-14 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. That, paired with the team’s terrible 4-9 record...
Russia, France agree to send aid to Aleppo
BEIRUT — France struck a compromise Sunday with Russia on a UN resolution that it said would prevent "mass atrocities" in besieged areas of Aleppo, where thousands of trapped civilians...
This ugly Christmas sweater will set you back $90K
One happy shopper will sleigh ’em at the annual ugly-sweater party, thanks to 2 Chainz. The rapper teamed up with his personal jeweler, Avianne, to design “The World’s Most Expensivest...
Rutgers' Steve Pikiell era is off to roaring start (with an asterisk)
The Steve Pikiell statue will be going up any day now in Piscataway. The first-year Rutgers coach, called upon to fix the decimated men’s basketball program, has the Scarlet Knights...
Slain cop's widow, fellow officer gifted with $5K check
The widow and a colleague of an NYPD officer who was killed in the line of duty last month have received $5,000 each from The Archangel Blue Foundation. Lisa Tuozzolo...
US Marshal arrested for pointing gun at McDonald's cashier
A McGrumpy US Marshal wasn’t lovin’ the wait at a Brooklyn McDonald’s — so he whipped out a loaded gun and pointed it at the terrified cashier and customers, cops...
Texans have finally had it with $72M Brock Osweiler
The Houston Texans signed quarterback Brock Osweiler for four years and $72 million last offseason, but they decided Sunday that it was time for a change. After falling behind the...
ISIS-trained teen's tale of being an almost suicide bomber
An ISIS-trained teen said his sympathy for children led to his failed attempt to bomb an Iraqi soccer stadium over the summer. “When I reached the target, I knew it...
The real orchestrator of this Jets wreck won't come out of hiding
The Jets suffered another humiliating loss on Saturday night, getting slapped around by the Dolphins 34-13 at MetLife Stadium. They are now 4-10 with two games left in this miserable...
The Knicks are starting to admit their Joakim Noah disaster
Joakim Noah hit the weight room at the Pepsi Center late Saturday after playing just 11 minutes in the Knicks' dispiriting 127-114 loss to the Nuggets that ended their West...
NYPD pushes for feds to cover $35M Trump Tower security cost
The NYPD's counter terrorism chief said the city will continue its efforts to seek reimbursement for the $35 million it shelled out for providing round-the-clock protection for president-elect Donald Trump...
Chris Mullin doubts arise as St. John's hits new rock bottom
Last season was supposed to be the low-water mark, an eight-win campaign that was necessary for the future health of the program. Instead, with a far more talented roster, St....
Mom convinced shrink 'conspired' with baby daddy in custody battle
A former model in a bruising custody battle with her billionaire baby daddy claims a Long Island shrink colluded with her ex to keep her away from her child. Sidra...
Alleged burglar snapped by doorbell camera
A tiny camera hidden in her doorbell didn’t spare a Queens woman’s home from a second break-in — but it did give cops a picture of a suspect. The Bay...
Woman stuffed 61-year-old lady's head in a trash can: cops
https://twitter.com/NYPD42Pct/status/810269954100563968 Police are looking for a thug who roughed up a 61-year-old woman at a Bronx liquor store and then stuffed her head first into a garbage can earlier this...
Seven women flee 'Isis' – on a birth certificate
Seven women have filed to drop the name Isis, an Egyptian goddess’ name now known as the acronym of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Their new names are...
Sheldon Richardson in hot water over 'F--k this' Snapchat
Sheldon Richardson stood at midfield on Saturday night, chosen by Jets coach Todd Bowles as a team captain for their game against the Dolphins. If only Bowles had known what...
Beloved Harlem deer will be cremated
The poor deer died terrified and alone. The city plans to cremate the remains of a buck who delighted Harlem residents before he was captured by city workers and became...
Man jumps out of window two-stories high to escape fire
A man jumped from a second-story window to escape the two-alarm fire that destroyed his family’s Queens home Saturday. “I smelled smoke and I woke up,” said Willie Anderson, 58,...
Odell Beckham's tribute to Craig Sager
Immediately after legendary NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager passed away, social media was flooded with heartfelt tributes and sentiments. He was a man loved by all, from inside the NBA...
Three-year-old dies in road rage shooting while out with grandma
https://twitter.com/KATVSarafina/status/810297034020388864 A road-rage driver shot into a woman's car -- killing her 3-year-old grandson -- because she “wasn’t moving fast enough at a stop sign,” Arkansas cops said. The horrific...
The Bills are really dragging out Rex Ryan's misery
The Bills know it. Rex Ryan knows it. Now the world knows it's looking at a fired man walking. Buffalo is preparing to move on without its head coach at...
Ereck Flowers vs. sack-less Lions star: One slump must go
This is a strange one: Lions defensive end Ziggy Ansah has started 10 games this season and does not have a sack. He had 30 sacks in his first three...
'I like your mouth': Philippine president likens himself to Trump
Profane Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Washington on Saturday, declaring “Bye-bye America,” as he threatened to repeal a 1998 agreement that lets American troops conduct military exercises in...
Drunk crook passes out after stuffing his face with bananas
Now this banana bandit is in a pickle! A crook with the drunk munchies was caught on camera breaking into a Long Island salad shop, scarfing down nearly a dozen...
Trump is shirtless Putin's pawn on 'SNL'
“Saturday Night Live” skewered Donald Trump, again, this time casting him as an oblivious, unwitting tool of Vladimir Putin. In the last “SNL” before Christmas, the show’s cold opening skit...
Time to face reality, Obama — Trump is going to be president
So this is how it ends — in a whimper wrapped in self-pity and recriminations. With President Obama on the defensive at his final press conference and Hillary Clinton’s last...
Ivanka looks to join DC temple with Trump-hating rabbi
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are looking to join an Orthodox temple as they move their family to Washington, DC, before the inauguration. A rep from the Kushner family inquired...
Trump to break another tradition after becoming president
At what he had billed as his final post-election “thank you” rally, Donald Trump hinted that he just might keep on holding them after being sworn in as president next...
New York is about to get warm again
That fleeting glimpse of winter weather has given way to Springtime for Santa. The first storm of the season dumped nearly 3 inches of snow in Central Park and blanketed...
Times Square victims were 'stabbed in anger'
Two men were stabbed in Times Square early Sunday, authorities said. The victims, both 25, were knifed during a fight with the attacker in front of Madame Tussauds wax museum...
How a Scottish maid became an acclaimed Harvard astronomer
In 1879, Williamina “Mina” Fleming was hired as household help for the couple that ran the Harvard College Observatory. An immigrant from Scotland, she had been a teacher before coming...
How this brilliant mathematician made John Glenn a national hero
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, taking “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” But he got there thanks to a woman,...
Principal treated faculty to Yankees game with tickets meant for students
A Brooklyn principal treated himself and 43 on-the-job faculty members to a Yankees game with complimentary tickets meant for students, The Post has learned. The Yankees gave 100 tickets to...
Snake collector ready to find new digs for his boa constrictors
After almost 20 years of living with roommates, Warren Taylor has decided it’s time for them to move out. Taylor is seeking new digs for three large boa constrictors, a...
Carl's Jr hottie Charlotte McKinney has given up meat
She’s biting the hand that fed her! Charlotte McKinney went from unknown bikini model to bona fide sex symbol in 2015, when she appeared in a Super Bowl ad for...
Landlord duped 80-year-old into leaving her pad for holidays: suit
An elderly Upper West Side woman says she can’t go home for the holidays because her landlord tricked her into vacating her apartment while her building is gut-renovated. May Asher...
Millionaire returning $4M piece of Manhattan to Indian tribe
An eccentric millionaire is giving Manhattan back to the American Indians — at least his small part of it. Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois, 76, an architectural historian and activist for Native...
Teachers are getting ridiculous gifts from one-percent parents
New York City’s teachers might make a paltry salary, but the perks are grade A. One-percent parents lavish their offspring’s educators with cash tips and over-the-top gifts for the holidays...
Flash bombs used in NYPD raid left me traumatized: suit
A Bronx woman is suing the city over a series of loud and frightening police concussion bombs that knocked her off her feet. Monet Oliveras, 40, thought it was just...
Typo from 60 years ago means I can't get birth certificate: suit
A Queens man whose last name is misspelled on his birth certificate says he’s in a bureaucratic Catch-22 — which city workers won’t fix unless he brings his parents back...
GOP lawmaker's billionaire son favorite for Mexico ambassador
A Texas financier who could probably afford to build a border wall on his own is a top contender to be the new US ambassador to Mexico. Billionaire Toby Neugebauer,...
Teacher axed for allegedly flirting, asking for sex with female students
A Bronx teacher was booted from his job after two investigations found he made a series of lewd comments to girl students. Donald Cerrone, 69, a visual-arts teacher at the...
Trump's pastor pal wants to be a 'black advocate on the right'
Move over, Al Sharpton. There’s a new — more conservative — reverend on the political scene. “We don’t have a black advocate on the right,” said Dr. Darrell Scott, the...
Intel officials won't brief electors on Russian hacking before vote
Intelligence officials have declined to brief electors on the extent of Russian interference with the election before they cast their ballots for president Monday, NPR has reported. A group of...
Obama leaves a mixed economic legacy after inheriting a mess
Dear John: I saw an article on Yahoo about how the economy during the Obama years wasn’t as bad as some people are making it out to be. I wanted...
Sumner Redstone has paid fees to just about everyone this year
Sumner and Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. sure likes to keep bankers and lawyers employed. When Sumner, the controlling shareholder of the $40 billion CBS and Viacom empire, wanted to...
Social Security, Medicare aren't freebies if you paid into the system
Dear John: I’m now retired and collecting my due. But every time I hear Social Security and Medicare referred to by the bums in D.C. and Albany as “entitlements” my...
Trump's victory lifts city hot spots after publicized visits
The election of Donald Trump has some obvious winners and losers in the city. While Trump Tower security continues to disrupt business for Tiffany’s and others, our sources say the...
Velvet is flying off the shelves at Neiman Marcus
Luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus reported lousy quarterly earnings last week, with sales down more than 7 percent from a year ago. But one thing that’s flying out the...
The Polo Bar is becoming a hot spot for media elites
Ralph Lauren’s latest hit has nothing to do with plaid shirts. The Polo Bar, next door to his Fifth Avenue store at 55th Street, is fast becoming the hottest, most...
CBS boss jets to Japan in possible bid for Sony Pictures
CBS chief Leslie Moonves is wasting no time now that the merger with Viacom is kaput. On the Money’s Tokyo tipsters claim Moonves jetted over to Japan with the aim...
New Yorkers changed their names to some strange things this year
Seeking to be emancipated of his birth name, Edmundo Delvalle of The Bronx wants to be known as Abraham Lincoln. Delvalle — who is not presidential enough to have a...
De Blasio's 'bomb throwing' risks aid to secure Trump Tower: GOP
Mayor de Blasio risks billions in federal aid to New York if his “bomb-throwing” rhetoric provokes President-elect Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress, a local Republican congressman warned. De Blasio asked...
Staten Island Ferris wheel is $300 million over budget
The big wheel keeps on burning — through cash. The cost of the New York Wheel project on Staten Island is nearing $600 million, more than $300 million over its...
Jets give up easy blocked punt that totally wrecked their night
The latest undoing of the Jets began with a special-teams disaster Saturday night. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. In what virtually has been a weekly...
Jets' missing ingredient was there all along
There was way too much aqua and orange in a stadium that is supposed to be a home-field advantage. It seems all but the most loyal fans have given up...
Robby Anderson keeps making Jets' receiver decision harder
Rookie wide receiver Robby Anderson continues to be one of the only positives to take away from this miserable Jets season. Anderson caught a 40-yard touchdown pass in the first...
Bryce Petty gets chest-caving reminder: He has a lot to learn
The perils of learning your craft on the fly on a 4-10 Jets team belted Bryce Petty square in the chest and left him flat on his back on the...
Obama's 'conceptually flawed' mortgage lifeline effort to end this year
The foreclosure crisis is still raging, but on Dec. 31, President Obama’s first and largest mortgage-modification program ends. In February 2009, when a tidal wave of foreclosures threatened America’s ailing...
Bernard Hopkins, 51, knocked out of ring in final fight
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Joe Smith Jr. stopped Bernard Hopkins 53 seconds into the eighth round of their WBC international light heavyweight title fight Saturday night. Smith used a six-punch combination...
Jets report card: Todd Bowles lays blame where it belongs
Grading the Jets’ 34-13 loss to the Dolphins on Sunday: Offense The Jets moved the ball at times, but committed four turnovers and managed just 13 points. QB Bryce Petty...