YouTuber Mikayla Raines, whose SaveAFox channel and organization focused on animal rescue, has died by suicide after years of online bullying reached a boiling point. She was 29. The activist’s husband, Ethan, announced her death Monday in an emotional video, just two days after Raines’ last post. “A couple days ago, Mikayla Raines passed away,” … Read more
President Trump dropped an F-bomb on both Israel and Iran Tuesday as he urged the warring nations to respect his fragile ceasefire to end the two-week war. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing,” Trump said as he left … Read more
New Yorkers are heading to the polls Tuesday to vote in local elections — including the hotly-contested Democratic primary for mayor — bracing a heat wave that’s projected to drive the mercury to at least 100. As of 9 a.m., nearly 99,000 New Yorkers had voted Tuesday, according to returns released by the Board of … Read more
A Brooklyn ballet dancer who stopped into his local 99-cent store to buy balloons — only to be attacked with a razor by a 79-year-old worker accused of spewing homophobic slurs — says the suspect appeared to be trying to stab his eye out. Nathaniel Platt was in a hurry to make a dance performance … Read more
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained for more than three months, pushed his infant son’s stroller with one hand and pumped his fist in the air with the other as supporters welcomed him home Saturday. Mahmoud Khalil greeted friends and spoke briefly to reporters Saturday at New Jersey’s Newark International Airport a day after … Read more
Around three dozen people were injured after a mega yacht struck a Hudson River dock in upper Manhattan on Saturday afternoon, the FDNY said. First responders rushed to the scene around 4:18 p.m. near the Henry Hudson Parkway and W. 130th St. off of West Harlem after a large cocktail cruise ship with several hundred … Read more
New York City elected officials and the NYPD announced Saturday night an increase in police presence at sensitive sites following the U.S. striking three Iranian nuclear facilities. “We’re tracking the situation unfolding in Iran,” the NYPD said in a post on X around 9 p.m., an hour before President Trump discussed the strikes in a … Read more
The husband of Food Network star Anne Burrell reportedly first found his wife collapsed on the shower floor before she was pronounced dead Tuesday morning. It was six or seven hours after Stuart Claxton had last seen his wife alive in their Brooklyn apartment around 1 a.m., reported TMZ, citing law enforcement sources. Burrell was … Read more
By LUIS ALBERTO CRUZ and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Powerful Hurricane Erick made landfall in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca early Thursday as a major hurricane before moving inland and weakening as it dumped heavy rain, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. The hurricane’s center was located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) … Read more
A BMW driver has been arrested after a four-month investigation for fatally striking a 75-year-old Bronx man walking home from mosque, police said Thursday. Rafael Delgado, 61, was charged Wednesday with reckless endangerment, failure to yield and failure to exercise due care, cops said. Victim Wahid Miah had the right of way as he crossed … Read more