By KEIRAN SMITH NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — An Australian television journalist was hit in the leg by a nonlethal round Sunday while reporting live from downtown Los Angeles on the large-scale protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and subsequent deployment of California National Guard troops to the city. Video of the incident released by … Read more
A Manhattan judge in Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault retrial denied his motion for a mistrial Friday after a juror said he heard fellow jurors talking about another member of the panel in a courthouse elevator. Jurors ended the day without a verdict and are due back in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday morning. Weinstein’s lawyers … Read more
A young single mom who was involved with Sean “Diddy” Combs until his arrest last year said she was habitually sexually exploited by the multimillionaire rap mogul in gut-wrenching testimony at Manhattan Federal Court on Friday. In explicit detail, “Jane,” a pseudonym, described multiple days-long events spent sleeping with strangers in dimly lit hotel rooms … Read more
Two people were pinned to the ground and arrested by ICE agents who were waiting in the hallways outside federal immigration courtrooms as a blitz of migrant arrests at courthouses continued in lower Manhattan Friday. Over a dozen federal agents, some hiding their faces with neck gaiters or medical masks, stood talking in small groups … Read more
Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane may be in jeopardy due to a journalist coming forward to admit he used the wrong words in a text that was later included in the suit. Baldoni’s filing partially centered on a text sent by a reporter claiming that … Read more
A Queens middle school teacher was busted Tuesday morning for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager, cops said. David Ospino, 36, who teaches at Intermediate School 204 Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School in Long Island City, faces charges of rape and endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged victim was not a student at the … Read more
Two grandsons of the late Gambino crime boss John “Teflon Don” Gotti were arrested for beating up an in-law during an old-school neighborhood street beatdown, officials said. Brothers Frankie Gotti, 27, and John Gotti, 31, allegedly assaulted brother-in-law Gino Gabrielli for breaking into a Howard Beach home John Gotti shares with his wife, Eleanor Gabrielli, … Read more
The New York Knicks read the room — and the writing was on the wall for head coach Tom Thibodeau. The Knicks parted ways with Thibodeau, the fourth-most winningest coach in franchise history, just three days after their season ended in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers on Saturday, a … Read more
TikTok star Sana Yousaf has died after being shot at her home in Pakistan in what officials are calling a “cold-blooded murder.” The 17-year-old was fatally shot Monday night by a man who had repeatedly contacted her online, local authorities confirmed Tuesday. An unidentified 22-year-old was arrested roughly 20 hours later on suspicion of murder. … Read more
State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal has long spoken out about the need for more units to address New York City’s affordable housing crisis — but has consolidated multiple homes in a pricey co-op to create a multimillion-dollar apartment for himself. Between 2006 and 2016, Hoylman-Sigal and his husband combined three Greenwich Village apartments to form their … Read more