How de Blasio, like Bloomberg, abuses mayoral control
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the landmark state legislation that ended the dysfunctional New York City system of decentralized governance of the public schools and replaced it with mayoral...
View ArticleDe Blasio’s latest pathetic gym excuse
Mayor de Blasio’s latest laughable excuse for his morning SUV treks to a Park Slope gym is that they’re not so much about the workout as about remaining a man of the people. Traveling the 12 miles to...
View ArticleEvan Engram’s glaring weakness doesn’t scare Giants
Evan Engram said “I don’t pay a lot of mind to it,’’ but he cannot entirely block out the criticism of his blocking. He hears it, because it is impossible not to. “That’s one of, I guess people would...
View ArticleL’Oreal in talks to sell The Body Shop
L’Oreal is in talks to sell The Body Shop to the largest beauty company in Latin America, Natura Cosmeticos, the companies said on Friday. Brazilian-based Natura offered $1.1 billion for the 40...
View ArticleCollege baseball ace asks not to play after sex-offender past leaks
Oregon State just lost its best pitcher for the stretch run of the College Baseball World Series for a crime he committed five years ago. Luke Heimlich announced Friday he was removing himself from the...
View ArticleMore than 19M people tuned in to watch Comey testify
LOS ANGELES — An estimated 19.5 million viewers watched James Comey’s widely televised U.S. Senate testimony. Nielsen figures released Friday tallied the audience for the fired FBI director’s...
View ArticleTrump’s hard-line approach clashes with Tillerson on Qatar
President Trump on Friday demanded that Qatar stop funding terrorism, striking a hard line against the tiny emirate just hours after his State Department had urged other Gulf nations to end their...
View ArticleThis has to be Masahiro Tanaka’s last chance to prove himself
One day now. Ten days next. Don’t think of it as a threat to Masahiro Tanaka. Obviously don’t even tell Tanaka this is the plan. Yet that should be the plan as the Yankees find themselves in the highly...
View ArticleOver a dozen bodies found in mass grave near Mexican resort
The bodies of 11 men and three women were found in a mass grave near the tourist resort of San Jose del Cabo on the southern tip of the Baja peninsula, where violence between rival drug gangs has...
View ArticleBoxer accused of being Russian mob muscle denied bail
A Manhattan federal judge denied a prizefighter known as “Mini Mike Tyson” bail on Friday after prosecutors said his workout regimen includes beating people up on behalf of a reputed Russian mob boss....
View ArticleCity basically ignores tens of thousands of noise complaints: report
Noise complaints in the city surged through 2015 — especially at bars and clubs — with authorities rarely taking action, according to an audit by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. “The number of noise...
View ArticleFrauds convicted of pretending to be medical professionals
Two fake medical professionals have been convicted in separate trials in Brooklyn and Queens this month, the state attorney general’s office said Friday. Both phonies were practicing despite having no...
View ArticleDe Blasio tries telling journalists how to do their jobs
Mayor de Blasio came up with a new standard for the press on Friday — cover the stories that I tell you are important, not the ones I don’t like. During a panel discussion in Brooklyn about the media,...
View ArticleAaron Hicks provides power as Yankees roll to third straight win
Aaron Judge is unquestionably the biggest reason the Yankees are leading the AL East. Yet where do you think they would be if Aaron Hicks were the same player he was a year ago, when he was two-plus...
View ArticleTiger Woods told cops he took Xanax, Vicodin on night of DUI arrest: report
Tiger Woods was taking Xanax on the night he was arrested after falling asleep at the wheel of his Mercedes on a Florida road last month, according to redacted portions of the police report released...
View ArticleAckman struggling to drum up interest in $4B agrichemical business
Martin Franklin and Bill Ackman’s plan to sell their agrichemical business is in the weeds, The Post has learned. The investors, who control Platform Specialty Products Corp., have had the company’s...
View ArticleTech stocks nosedive after Goldman Sachs report released
Tech stocks tumbled from nosebleed heights on Friday after a report from Goldman Sachs warned investors that they could be leaning too heavily on Facebook, Apple, Amazon and other hot companies. The...
View ArticleMatt Harvey finally pitches well but Mets still find a way to lose
ATLANTA — If there was a worst-case scenario for the Mets on Friday it was this: A short start by Matt Harvey that would necessitate extended bullpen usage, capped by a loss, heading into Saturday’s...
View ArticleThe London attacks were almost much worse: police
One of the attackers tried to rent a larger truck that could have killed more people, police said.
View ArticleComptroller of the Currency gig probably the easiest in DC
Keith Noreika, the acting Comptroller of the Currency, might have the easiest job in Washington. Picked in May as the interim regulator of federally-chartered banks, Noreika has had to recuse himself...
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