Cathy Burke
The Archive
Total number of FDNY members who've died from a 9/11-related illness nearly equals how many died at Ground Zero: officials
A heartbreaking milestone haunts this year's 9/11 anniversary as 341 FDNY members have now died of Ground Zero-related illnesses, nearly equaling the death toll of 343 firefighters who died on 9/11.
St. Louis kids gender clinic 'morally and medically appalling': whistleblower
"Anyone who raised doubts ran the risk of being called a transphobe," the whistleblower said.
China estimates 37M infected with COVID in one day, stoking global fears new variant on horizon
Minutes from an internal meeting of the National Health Commission (NHC) revealed that as many as 248 million people – nearly 18% of China's population – came down with the virus...
Ex-con arrested in Paris shooting that killed three, injured three
An ex-con was arrested after opening fire in central Paris, killing three people and wounding three others during a bloody rampage at a Kurdish cultural center in the city.
Trump warns potential indictment off Mar-a-Lago raid would 'tear this country apart'
Former President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that he had declassified the trove of documents seized by FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago last month – and warned that if he was indicted...
Jacko’s girl is reel deal
The King of Pop would be proud — his little girl is following his moonwalk right into showbiz. Paris Jackson, the 13-year-old daughter of Michael Jackson, will star in “Lundon’s...
Va. Tech cop-slay madman’s escape plot
He planned every detail. The mad shooter who killed a Virginia Tech cop Thursday stole a car to drive to campus for his murderous plot — and even brought a...
Latest ‘perv’ coach
Another sex-scandal bombshell has dropped on the world of sports.The president of one of the largest and most powerful youth sports organizations in the United States allegedly molested two former...
Va. Tech – Again
In a haunting replay of carnage on a campus where one of America’s worst mass murders unfolded in 2007, a Virginia Tech cop was shot to death yesterday by a...
Joe never asked
Ousted Penn State football coach Joe Paterno never once confronted top aide Jerry Sandusky about allegations that he was molesting little boys, the accused sex predator claims. Despite an eyewitness...
Careless Rihanna’s UK Savoy soaker
They all needed umbrellas during Rihanna’s visit. The 22-year-old pop star, performing in the UK a week ago, forgot to turn off the bathwater in her $3,100-a-night suite at the...
Apple putting on warm-up jacket
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — but feel a lot like spring.This streak of shirt-sleeve weather will continue today and tomorrow, with highs in the 60s, said...
Fat’s in the flier
It was a big, fat travel horror story. A Pennsylvania businessman had to stand for an exhausting seven-hour, cross-country flight because a morbidly obese passenger’s blubber was spilling halfway across...
Kutsher’s comeback
Famed “Borscht Belt” resort Kutsher’s goes highbrow in a new downtown bistro set to open Monday.The 140-seat Kutsher’s Tribeca will be a leaner version of the iconic 400-room resort that...
Paterno cancer shocker
Fired Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno is in treatment for lung cancer, his son said yesterday. “His doctors are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” Scott Paterno said...
Atlantic Yards building with ‘Legos’
It’s prefab-ulous. A rendering of the first of three projected Atlantic Yards residential towers was unveiled yesterday — a honeycomb-looking glass-and-steel behemoth that would be the world’s largest prefabricated “modular”...
B'klyn subway station vandalized with anti-Jewish graffiti
Less than a week after an arson and hate crime in Brooklyn, vandals have struck again, defacing the Avenue J subway sign in Midwood by adding the letters “EW” so...
The skinny on Snooki
Now she’s a low-fat meatball. A slinky Snooki, obviously off the snackies, showed off her reduced frame to fans on Twitter, posting a photo that flaunted her now slim legs,...
Sandusky 'preyed' at bowl games
Accused Penn State pedophile Jerry Sandusky is the focus of probes in Texas and Florida for allegedly sexually abusing a teen traveling with the former assistant football coach to national...
Heat on O energy big
The White House last night turned over a slew of e-mails to a congressional committee investigating the government’s aid to failed solar company Solyndra -- including one that bluntly advised...