More than 100 Department of Correction officers turned out Friday at an Upper West Side hospital to applaud the release of a female colleague who was seriously injured after she was punched in the face by a man held on Rikers Island who is accused of also previously attacking an MTA station agent. The officers … Read more
One of the lead prosecutors handling the sweeping public corruption case against Mayor Adams resigned on Friday — in a searing letter to President Trump’s Department of Justice saying he wouldn’t be the “fool” who files a motion to dismiss the case based on support for the administration’s immigration objectives and not the law. Assistant … Read more
Outraged LGBTQ+ activists and human rights advocates gathered in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village Friday afternoon to protest against the Trump administration’s latest — and perhaps boldest — attack on the community. A day earlier, internet users noticed that all references to the words “transgender” and “queer” had been removed from the Stonewall National Monument website, a … Read more
A 14-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in Queens in a possible gang attack, police said Friday. The victim was stabbed in the abdomen around 3:30 p.m. near 38th St. and Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside, police said. Medics rushed the boy to Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, but he could not be saved. … Read more
A federal appeals court has rejected fallen R&B star R. Kelly’s bid to overturn his New York sex trafficking and racketeering conviction. Kelly, 58, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2022 on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, argued through his attorneys that he didn’t run a racketeering enterprise because his employees … Read more
Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit over a new documentary that details his alleged crimes. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, lists NBCUniversal, streaming service Peacock and production company Ample Entertainment as defendants, accusing them of causing Combs “severe reputational and economic harm” with their “Diddy: … Read more
President Trump Wednesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to begin talks to end the war in Ukraine during a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call. Framing Putin as a potential partner on the world stage, Trump said they would “work together, very closely” toward winding down the Ukraine conflict, which started when Putin invaded … Read more
Oh, baby — Gotham’s newest New Yorker is already a straphanger, born Wednesday morning on a southbound W train beneath Midtown, transit sources said. EMS was called to the 34th St. station of the M, N, Q, R and W trains just before 11:40 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson told the Daily News. Sources told The … Read more
There was never a question what Kendrick Lamar’s era-hopping Super Bowl LIX halftime show was building up to. For the past nine months, Lamar’s “Not Like Us” has been the pop-culture anthem, the gem of the rapper’s decade-long feud with Drake, which reached a fever pitch with the song’s release last spring. It was a … Read more
The mother of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in the bathtub of their Brooklyn apartment told police she was baptizing her daughter when the child tragically drowned, prosecutors revealed on Sunday. Mother Karla Espinal, 26, faces charges of felony assault, child endangerment and reckless endangerment after her daughter Madelyne Tavarez’s death at the … Read more