Yet another study is out showing New York City charters outperforming the regular public schools — even as Mayor de Blasio keeps on working to stifle charters’ growth. The study, by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes, used test scores to compare the gains of 75,000 third- through eighth-graders in 197 city charters...
As a candidate, President Trump denounced the “catastrophic” Iran nuclear deal and vowed to tear it up. He gets his next chance in 10 days — but evidence is mounting that he won’t do so. Yet he’s not leaving it perfectly intact, either. Multiple reports say he’s pursuing a middle strategy: Decertifying Iran’s compliance by...
After a five-year absence, the Yankees are back in the Division Series following Tuesday’s thrilling come-from-behind 8-4 win over the Minnesota Twins. These Baby Bombers, led by Aaron Judge, Didi Gregorius and Gary Sanchez, played like seasoned vets as they fought out from under a first-inning three-run deficit in the one-and-done wild-card playoff. MVP candidate...
Luann de Lesseps is helping with hurricane relief at the same time her divorce case is winding down.
The actor-husband of “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston is firing back at their Greenwich Village neighbor — who is suing him over noise from renovations and what he claims is a loud dog — saying the lawyer downstairs is making up false stories about him being an animal abuser. Worse, Justin Theroux claims in his latest...
The proceeds will support the Public Art Fund’s upcoming Ai Weiwei exhibition.
A Michigan couple was busted for allegedly holding a special-needs woman captive in a shed and pimping her out for sex, according to authorities. Michael Welch and Misty George are charged with selling the victim for sexual services in exchange for cash through online advertisements, Fox 2 reported. The 29-year-old victim was initially allowed to...
The worst part about the Jets pulling the rug out from Nick Mangold after 11 loyal seasons was how long he’s had to wallow in the news. The 33-year-old center has yet to sign with a new team after the Jets shocked him by making him one of their many veteran casualties this offseason. Breaking...
NBC’s “Will & Grace” is paying homage to the classic “shower scene” from the 1960s CBS series “The Lucy Show,” starring Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. On Thursday night’s “W&G” episode, Karen (Megan Mullally) and Grace (Debra Messing) get locked in Karen’s “smart” shower, which uses sensor technology and voice commands to customize the length...
Jennifer Welter remembers the exact moment she felt truly accepted as the first female coach in the NFL. It was back in July 2015, and she was training a rookie player with the Arizona Cardinals when the team’s linebacker Lorenzo Alexander strolled by. “I was working [with the rookie] on some specialty, but he couldn’t...
It’s been so long since there was an official NCAA college basketball video game, the most recent cover boy has played in five NBA All-Star Games and is reportedly dating a Kardashian. Eleven years after Blake Griffin was in an Oklahoma jersey on the cover of “NCAA Basketball 10,” college hoops junkies have a lifeline...
The girlfriend of Vegas madman Stephen Paddock said Wednesday she had no idea of the massacre he was planning — and only thought he was breaking up with her when he shipped her off to the Philippines and then wired her $100,000. Marilou Danley said through her attorney that Paddock sent her on a weeks-long...
No foul play is suspected, but Winter says the coroner investigates all deaths where the deceased hadn't seen a doctor in six months.
You don’t wanna meet Vince Vaughn in a dark alley. Not after seeing “Brawl in Cell Block 99,” anyway. The actor, who’s lumbered around for years in harmless comedies like “Wedding Crashers” and “Dodgeball” has, for this ultraviolent thriller, transformed into a skull-crushing man-beast. It’s a real fist for the eyes! Vaughn’s character, Bradley, is...
Alessandra Ambrosio recalls a shoot with Gisele Bündchen where Mazzucco kept them calm despite a hurricane.
Inquiries into the so-called “Mad Pooper” – who repeatedly used a Colorado home’s lawn as a restroom – can stop now, police say. A staff writer with Deadspin reported that the public information officer with the Colorado Springs Police Department told him to stop calling regarding the defecating female jogger whose story went viral in...
Cam Newton was the only one laughing after a female sports reporter asked a routine question during a Wednesday press conference. Fielding a question about wide receiver Devin Funchess’ routes from the Charlotte Observer’s Jourdan Rodrigue, the Panthers quarterback prefaced his response with a distasteful observation targeting her gender. “It’s funny to hear a female...
Political scribe: Gun Control a Losing Issue for Dems Why is federal legislative action on gun control close to impossible? Josh Kraushaar at National Journal explains that it goes beyond GOP control of Congress: “It’s more instructive to look at certain Democrats — the red-state variety who haven’t joined their national brethren in denouncing the...
Real estate scion Robert Durst hired private investigators to probe the director of the damning HBO documentary ”The Jinx,” in which he seemingly confesses to killing three people – including his long-missing wife. The existence of an investigation was confirmed in a sloppily redacted email filed in a Manhattan Supreme Court case the PI brought...
CASPER, Wyo. — Police say a central Wyoming man they arrested for public intoxication claimed he had traveled back in time to warn of an alien invasion. Casper police say the man they encountered at 10:30 p.m. Monday claimed he was from the year 2048. KTWO-AM in Casper reports that the man told police that...
CLEVELAND — Now that the Yankees have dispatched the hapless Twins, they’ll play in their first postseason series in five years beginning Thursday, when they face the Indians in Game 1 of the ALDS. Cleveland is coming off a history-making regular season in which it won 22 straight stretching from August into September, the longest...
Convicted tax cheat Michael Grimm huddled with President Trump’s former chief strategist Steven Bannon in D.C. Wednesday in a bid to reclaim his old congressional seat and oust his successor, Republican Rep. Dan Donovan. Grimm’s campaign spokesman Michael Caputo released a photo of the ex-congressman with Bannon
It all started when writer Shrabani Basu was researching the history of curry.
Condé Nast will become the first media giant to launch a brand specifically at the LBGTQ community. The publisher on Wednesday said that it was launching a digital platform on Oct. 26, to be called Them, aimed mostly at the Generation Z portion of the LBGTQ market. “We’ve been re-imagining our titles and creating new...
The CBS legal executive who was fired for posting on Facebook that she had no sympathy for Las Vegas shooting victims because they were “country music fans” told the NYPD she’s being harassed online, officers said Wednesday. Hayley Geftman-Gold posted Monday about the massacre a day earlier. “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were...