July 20, 2014
Mets want to trade Bartolo Colon — there's just one problem
SAN DIEGO — Bartolo Colon’s recent slump hasn’t exactly ♏made him a hot commodity moving toward the July 31 non-waiver tra🃏de deadline. According to a source, as of Sunday the...
Kirilenko blasts Kidd, says he 'couldn't handle' New York pressure
Andrei Kirilenko apparently doesn’t ge🗹t why Jason Kidd chose to leave Brooklyn for Milwaukee. In an interview with SovSport, a Russian national daily sports newspaper, Kirilenko said Kidd’s decision to...
𒊎 The familiar, and biggest, reason to be optimistic about the Giants
𝓰 This was maybe half an hour after we last saw the Gi🏅ants play a football game in anger, half an hour after they’d defeated the Washington Redskins at MetLife Stadium...
Newcomers ♔to rotation thriving for Yankees 🐭
You don’t have to be a baseball lifer to recognize the ramifications of a team losing four-fifths of its projected starting rotation to injury even before the All-𒉰Star break. But...
𝓡 Despite loss, Zack has a Wheel-y strong outing
SAN DIEGO — Zack Wheeler’s lone “mistake” Sunday wasn’t much of a mistake. Upon further review of the 91 mph changeup ☂he threw to Yasmani Grandal in the fourth inning...
Jeter Day (or night?) shows Yanks' lack of respect for fans
Sometimes — and ESPN NBA Ins🐎ider Chris Broussard should feel free to confirm this — my mind strolls a lovely path, “What If Lane.” Saturday morning, ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” of all...
Home cookin' for streaking Yanks
The Yankees finally have figured out how to win in The Bronx. After a fꦯirst half in which they consistently had problems at Yankee Stadium, the𝕴y have rattled off three...
Betances 'ticked' off after giving up lead
Joe Girardi admittedly was “shocked” when All-Star set-up stud Dellin Betances surrendered a game-tying homer Sunday. Betances said he was sometꦉhing else. “♛I was [ticked] that I gave up the...
Why 'pricey' drugs save money -- and lives
🐓 Expensive new drugs often get 🦩fingered as the culprit to rising US health-care costs. The truth is closer to the reverse. First off, it’s hard to see how pharmaceuticals can...
F🅰ight over Dodd-Frank lingers years after its passage ༺
♔ Should Washington bank on Dodd-Frank? The sweeping financial reform package, signed into law by President Obama four years ago on Monday, has come under renewed attack as congressional Republicans try... 🌠
Ellsbury solves Reds' stud closer, then uses legs to help Yanks win
Facing Cincinnati 💃closer Aroldis Chapman and his 102 mph fastball, the Yankees’ Jacoby Ellsbury explained, is just as much a mental exercise as physical. “Well, it just lessens your reaction...
The best and worst of what's on the newsstands this week
Preoccupied as we are by what the Kardashians are doing, how can we be expected to also focus on Prince George’s first b😼irthday? Yet these magazines are asking us to...
Locked-in Rory iꦺs closest thing to Tiger since Tiger 🐷
HOYLAKE, England — Rory McIlroy is the new Tiger Woods. No, McIlroy does not have the volume of hardware Woods possesses wherever he keeps his 14 major championship trophies. No,... ♌
Scotto's new eatery to serve up fast - but healthy - food
John Scotto, of the famed Scotto food family, is launching a new restaurant in the old Daily News building at 220 E. 42nd St., Side⭕ Dish has learned. Va Presto,...
Iꦛn snub to U.S., Argentina turns to China ahead of default
Argentina’s battle with US hedge-fund mogul Paul Singer is turning into a new cold war. Just ahead of Arg💖entina’s possible default at the end of this month, the embattled country...
Universal Music looking to cater to the YouTu🐓be crowd
Universal Music is looking to💧 YouTube to spawn the next generation of pop stars. The music 🐼major has partnered with TV producer Brian Robbins, Loud Records’ Steve Rifkind and hip-hop...
💛 Sergi꧑o Garcia is making a habit of falling just short
HOY꧒LAKE, England — Sergio Garcia was close in a British Open. Again. Sunday was the eighth time in Garcia’s career he f🙈inished in the top 10 of an Open, falling...
Mets avoid no-hitter, but can't get past Padres
SAN DIEGO — The roller-coaster r♑ide through the San Diego Zoo was complete for the Mets with Josh Edgin’s tumbling act in Sunday’s ninth inning. Long gone was the Mets’...
Nagginꦑg, surgically repaired elbow may forc🐷e Snee to retire
One more season. That’s what Chris Snee was hoping for, but it appears his body will not allow him to suit up for an 11th season at right guard for...ꦗ
Are the Giants entering training camp with no 'end' in sight?
They have five on th♑e roster, but for the Giants there is a real and legitimate question concerning the state of their tight end position: Do they have even one?...
'Boomerang' staffers heading back to the gigs they left
🔴 When Alison Williams was 24 years old, she landed a gig as a public relations intern at Hunter Public Relations. Though the internship𝄹 was unpaid, she was so thrilled to...
Al S𒁃harpton slams NYPD over chokehold death ꦯ
The Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday blasted the cops and🔥 emergency services workers who stood by as a diabetic dad lay unresponsive on a Staten Island sidewalk after being put...ꦚ
🌳 4 EMS workers barred from duty afterღ chokehold death
Four emergency🐲-service workers who found a man unconscious on the sidewalk after a cop put him in a chokehold — and apparently did nothing to aid him — ha🔜ve been...
10 things retirement co💫mmunities won’t tell you 🎉
You’ll need a Ph.D. to tell us apart Active-adult communities, assisted-living facilities, continuing-care retirement communities🌺 — that’s just the tip of the jar🌳gon iceberg for places people 55 and over...
Yankees wrap💎 sweep when Reds outfield collapses 🀅
♉ Maybe all the Yankees needed was a few days off. They won their third straight 🧸game coming out of the All-Star break on Sunday, this time with some help from...
Why Neil Young should keep playing in Israel ꦯ
With Hamas firing rockets and missiles all over Israel, Neil Young last week had to cancel his Thursday concert in Tel Aviv. But he intends to reschedule — he’s continuing... ﷽
🧔 The farce continues in the latest Iran nuke talks ꧙
🍌 The latest round of talks in Vienna on Iran’s nuclear program has ended with, guess ꦍwhat, tacit agreement to hold further talks for four more months. Both Iran and the...
A state assembly candidate's 'ragged' efforts for 'hope and change'
Michael Blake’s run for a corruption-plagued South Bronx seat in the state Assembly may b♐e turning out to be “historic” for the wronꦅg reasons. A former top operative for Barack...
Rory's dad scores thousands thanks to his son's Open victory
Rory McIlroy surely made his father p🌜roud Sunday — and a little extra cash. Ladbrokes confirmed on Twitter it is paying out more than🉐 $300,000 (180,000 pounds) in a series...
Bus equipped with hot showers fo☂r the homeless
🃏 SAN FRANCISCO -- A nonprofit group is taking a novel approach to helping the homeless in San Francisco with a new bus that allows theꦬm to take a shower. The...
The de Bl💙asios arrive in Italy 👍
Ma꧟yor de Blasio and his family arrived in Italy Sunday morning — and his teenage son, Dante, stole𓂃 the show. The 16-year-old, whose signature Afro haircut has fascinated the press...
♋ Woman who posted selfies in stolen dress is arrested
WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. () — Police investigating the theft of clothing and jewelry from a southern Illinois b൩outique say they arrested a woman after she posted Facebook photos of herself...
Cops shoot at, arrest 'armed robber' after dramatic chase
Police shot at and nabbed an armed robber during a drama-pa꧒cked chase in The Bronx early Sunday, authorities said. The suspec෴t and an accomplice had just robbed a 33-year-old man...
Malaysia Airlines releases names of 298 victims ꦿ
Malaysia Airlines on Sunday made public the names of all 298 innocent victims aboard the ill-fated MH17 flightꦍ that was blown out of the sky over Ukraine. The nine-page flight...
McIlroy 🌜wins his first British Open title
HOYLAKE, England — Rory McIlroy lifted the Claret Jug toward the slate-gray English sky as the 143rd British Open champion S𒁏unday afternoo🐟n in front of an elbow-room-only gallery of 25,000...
Cops didn't give medical assistance after chokehold
🎀 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT66U_Ftdng Dramatic new video shows how neither cops nor EMS workers gave any medical assistance to a Staten Island dad as he lay unconscious on a sidewalk after an officer...
Tiger lobbies foꦚr Ryder Cup spot after poor finish at British ღ
HOYLAKE, England — After Tiger Woods finished th🌞e British🙈 Open Sunday at 6-over par — five shots worse than 64-year-old Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson — Tiger Woods had the...
Kerry headed to Mideast to urge ceasefire; Obama voices 'concern'
President Obama on Sunday voiced “serious concern” about the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza and decried mounting civilian casualties ౠin Israel’s struggle with Hamas. Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Rookie cop has her teeth knockedꦗ ou🍸t
A rookie cop’s teeth were knocked out by a thug she had caught smoking pot at an East Harlem housing development early Sund⛎ay, police said. The 26-year-old uniformed officer and...
Carjacker tries to fake-out c🔯ops by pretending to be a victim
A Brooklyn carj🎃acker who smashed up five vehicles and injured an elderly bystander tried to escape by posing as a victim — limping down the block until witnesses frantically pointed...
5 hur🐭t when hot air balloon explodes
CLINTON, Mass. — A hot air balloon 𝐆crashed into power lines in a Massachusetts neighꦅborhood, injuring five people on board. The Federal Aviation Administration tells Boston's WBZ-TV that the balloon...
ꦉ Hamas attacksꩲ Israeli troops with bomb-covered ass
This suicide bomber is a real ass. Hamas militants sent a donkey strapped with expl🌳osives on a suicide mission toward Israeli troops in Gaza over the weekend — forcing the...
﷽ 🍸 Armed rebels take bodies by force in Flight MH17 crash
TOR🎃EZ, Ukraine — Rebels in easte💖rn Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir...
Free the Millennials!
So much did millennials believe in hope and change and the promise of smart government, they voted Barack Obam෴a into the Oval Office — twice. Now❀ that they are getting...
Storm in a Port
🔯 Among the many sources of scandal and corruption for our state and city legislators has been “member items” — taxpayer dollars given to each member to dole out to local...
Death toll rises in Gaza as Israel opens 'gate of hell'
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The first major ground battle in two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting exacted a steep price Sunday: It killed 65 Palesti🏅nians and 13 Israeli soldiers and...
🦹 Boko Haram extremists kil𒆙l over 100 in Nigeria
MAIꦿDUGURI, Nigeria — Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people a༒nd hoisted their black and white flag over a town left undefended by Nigeria's military, just 85 kilometers...
Daffodil Project conside🍸ring projeꦉct for Dutch MH17 victims
New York City flowers may bloom in the Netherlands in honor of those killed aboard Malaysia 💙Airlines Flight 17. Officials from greenspace group New Yorkers for Parks are considering a...
🀅 Startup’s couriers will deliver anything New Yorkers want
In a city that has everything, a speedy Manhattan startup is transporting wedding rings, sombreros and $1,000 bottles of Scotch. It even delivered ꦏa Jeep to Rosie O’Donnell. New Yorkers...
A messy bed sells 🍎for $4.3M
Now here’s soꩲme artwork On The M🤪oney can relate to. British artist Tracey Emin sold her installation “My Bed,” for $4.3 million, a record for her work. The piece consists...
Argentinian president: I didn't see a single World Cup match
We understand Argentine President Cristina Kir𒁃chner has a lot on her mind, with dealing with a looming deadline on her country’s debt payment, but her diss of the country’s national...
Fox charges for cont🐓ent with Time War🍰ner acquisition offer
It’s a media arms race. Comcast and CEO Brian Roberts have ಌtaken the distribution hill with its $45 billion deal for Time Warner Cable, while 21st Century Fox is charging...
🎶 Back-to-school stores luring shoppers with fun ༺
This September, T🌺ribeca children’s boutique Torly Kid will host its seconꦡd annual sidewalk chalk contest, luring shoppers with good old-fashioned fun instead of yet another 50 percent off sign. Kids...
Billionaire fighting surf gr♐oup that wants access to California beach
Dude you’re on my land. Billionaire Vinod Khosla, a Sun Microsystems co-founder is battling a surfing group looking to gain public access to a norther💜n California beach on the 56-acre...
Tattoo-removဣal business flowin🎃g in the black
Actress Melanie Griffith is going through a painful divorce. But the removal of he๊r tattoo with the first name of her husband Antonio Banderas may hurt almost as much. And...
Actor Jꦓames Garner dead at 86 🍷
LOS ANGELES — Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style i♓n the 1950s TV Western "Maverick" led to a stellar career in TV and films such as "The Rockford Files" and...
R𝓰ussia led mi⛦ssile attack on Malaysia plane
Ukrainian officials said “irrefutable evidence” proves that Russia’s military operat🐭ed the missil♋e system that blew a Malaysia Airlines jet from the sky, killing 298 people. “This terrorist act was committed...
Lost bodies, wasted money: Inside NYC's Medical Examiner’s Office
The city Medical Examiner’s Office is a mess — plagued with errors, including bodies being lost, mistakenly cremated or 𒐪wrongly donated to science — while millions of taxpa𒊎yer dollars have...
🍎 Nuns raise rents at immigrant home to oust residents 𒀰
🍷 They’re kicking them like a bad habit. The nuns running St. Joseph’s Immigrant Home in Hell’s Kitchen are boosting the rent on young female residents and trying to boot women...
City OKs UWS development with 'poor door' for residents
𓂃 The city approved a de🐻veloper’s controversial plans for a “poor door” on the Upper West Side, The Post has learned. Extell came under fire last year when it introduced plans...
💖 Triathlete who suffered brain injury wants defective helm🐻et back
A Manhattan athlete who💦 suffered a traumatic brain injury during the 2012 New York City Triathlon wants his bicycle helmet back. John Draghi, ൩55, believes the headgear was defective and...
𝄹 Fans fume at $10,000 a s🐻eat Derek Jeter farewell
Outraged Yankee fans are crying foul — griping that ticket🍎 prices fo🎀r a special game honoring Derek Jeter are way off base. Tickets were topping out at $9,999 on resale...
Bronx mom sues foster parent an🤡d agency after death of her son
A 2-year🐎-old boy was beaten, starved and tied to a bed before dying while in the care of a conv✱icted criminal who was allowed to be his foster parent, the...
Bloomberg, allies pourin🥀g money into Lyft and U♊ber
A year after then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed to “destroy” the yꦆellow-cab industry, his allies and surrogates are pouring energy and cash into ride-sharing ventures fiercely opposed by New York’s hacks...
Brooklyn man sues brother for alle꧑gedly killing their mother
A Brooklyn man is suing his brother for allegedly killing their mother. Richard Cohen, 34, was charged witജh murder for allegedly stabbing Ann Cohen 40 times in her Midwood home... 🎶
Va⛎ndal paints swastika inside of Bronx 🌸Zoo
What an animal. A vandal painted a swastika 🐎inside the Bronx Zoo, police sources said. A ticket agent made the discovery at around 11:30 a.m. Thursday on Southern Boulevard near...
Rikers inmate sues fo🍎r $30M claiming rཧeligious discrimination
ꦜ An accused child molester is suing the city for $30 million becau🎀se Rikers Island jail bosses allegedly won’t let him practice his Wiccan religion behind bars. Roberto Nieves, 47, charged...
Terry Collins 'not that concerned' about d'Arnaud's passed balls
SAN DIEGO — Travis d’Arnaud has been among the 💞bright spots offensively for the Mets over the last three weeks, but the rookie catcher has experienced defensive lapses. On Saturday,...
‘Newburgh Four’ terrorism case🅘 was FBI entrapment: HBO film
On May 20, 2009, four M😼🥀uslim men from upstate Newburgh were arrested by the FBI and charged with plotting to bomb two Jewish synagogues in The Bronx and shoot missiles...
♍ꦑ Brooklyn synagogue bans panhandlers from property
🌱 A Brooklyn synagogue is giving panhandlers the bum’s rush, banning th🐷em inside and outside its building. “No loitering, soliciting, panhandling. Violators will be prosecuted,” reads a sign outside Congregation Veretzky...
Brooklyn's older singles have toughest time dating online
Brooklyn’s older singles have the hardest time dating online — and hipsters might be to blame — according to a new study. Of 6.2 millioꩲn online interactions surveyed, a Brooklyn...
Former Knick 'Ticky' Burden’s rise-and-fall saga
🎃 It was one of the fastest falls from grace in professional sports. Luther “Ticky” Burden was drafted by the Knicks in 1975, but by 1981 he 🐭hit rock bottom —...
Firef𝔉ighters outraged FDNY is sear🔜ching phone records for press leaks
FDNY firefighters are fighting the depar🍌tment’s snooping into their personal phone records to hunt the source of news leaks. Outraged by FDNY tactics — including subpoenaing cellphone records — the...
Anti-Israel protesters vent tไheir rage at cops in Paris Saturday
Paris was burning Saturday — with hatred of Israel. Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters hurled rocks, burned an Israeli flag and set at least one car on fire 𒀰in the northern...
Mets' four-game win streak snapped by Padres
SAN DIEGO — A rare overcast summer day in this city was a precursor to Tyson Ross sticking it to the Mets where the sun doesn’t shine. Th൩e 27-year-old right-hander...
🌃Colorado movie theater massacre victims to be honored
🦩 DENVER — The suburb of Aurora, Colo., will hold a Day of Remembrance on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the slaughter of 12 people in a local movie...