The top producer of “60 Minutes” quit Tuesday amid rising pressure stemming from a $20 billion lawsuit President Trump filed against CBS. Bill Owens, executive producer of the venerable Sunday night news magazine, suggested the show’s editorial independence has been whittled away as corporate parent Paramount seeks to make peace with Trump. “It has become … Read more
Earth Day environmental activists defaced Lower Manhattan’s iconic Charging Bull statue Tuesday, then rushed to clean it up before cops arrived, officials said. Videos on social media and photographs from the scene show a handful of Extinction Rebellion activists spray-painting “Greed=Death” onto the flank of the life-size Arturo Di Modica sculpture on Broadway near Morris … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Opponents of President Trump’s administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation’s democratic ideals. The disparate events ranged from a march through Midtown Manhattan and a rally in front of the White House to a … Read more
A 38-year-old mentally ill woman and her 8-year-old autistic son mysteriously died in a Bronx home, leaving her 4-year-old traumatized daughter alone in the apartment with the two corpses for several days, police said Saturday. The little girl was heard “screaming for days” inside the E. 231st St. home near White Plains Road in Wakefield … Read more
As the Trump administration escalates its campaign against international students and Palestinian activists, Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly refuting the idea that the president’s efforts are actually about fighting antisemitism. After Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at his U.S. citizenship test in Vermont, a group of his Israeli classmates penned a letter against his … Read more
The first three quarters were cute. The real Knicks stood up in the fourth. The Detroit Pistons had the Knicks in the first half. They made things tough in New York with their combination of rough-housing centers (Jalen Duren and Isaiah Stewart), held Jalen Brunson in check through the first two quarters, and even took … Read more
Buzz is buliding aroung a potential 2028 presidential run by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the progressive lawmaker smashes fundraising records and draws record crowds to rallies in red states. Polling guru Nate Silver Thursday even predicted Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) will be the next Democratic nominee for the White House. “I thought I was gonna surprise … Read more
A 61-year-old man sleeping under a box truck parked on a Bronx street was killed early Thursday when the driver pulled out of the spot, not knowing anyone was beneath the vehicle, police said. The victim was run over by the Hino 338 truck on Coster St. near Randall Ave. in Hunts Point at about … Read more
One man was killed, and two others injured Wednesday in a bloody brawl inside an upper Manhattan deli, police said. Police responded to a call of an assault around 5:30 p.m. near Broadway and W. 212th St. in Inwood — where a 24-year-old man was found outside the Ameer Deli and Grill, fatally stabbed in … Read more
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Tuesday called on Bronx and Manhattan prosecutors to crack down on recidivist criminals going through their courts and “reevaluate any blanket policies” that put them back on the streets without consequences. “These [blanket policies] are not isolated mistakes or unintended consequences,” Tisch said at the City Law Breakfast at New … Read more