June 21, 2015
🏅 Have ღfans, announcers, MLB forgotten about A-Rod the cheat?
Wait a second. What happened? Is it me, or did it suddenly get warm 𝄹in here? A few weeks ago, Alex Rodriguez was a self-scandalized, dishonest disgrace to The Game, even... 🐼
Jordan Spieth wins US Open after Dustin Johnson's meltdown
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Cue the Grand Slam chatter, break out the rꦿecord books and let the Tiger Woods comparisons commence. Jordan Spieth — already with a Masters green jacket...
DNA ties esca♏ped killers to cabin
൲ An army of law-enforcement officers descended on a wooded area 30 miles west of Dannemora Sunday after cops confirmed that DNA evidence removed from a hunting camp a day earlier...
Experts keep it posh at the Fo♔od & Wine Classic
ASPEN, Colo. — So what if there were no billionaires in attendance at this year’s Food & Wine Classic in Aspen? Wine expert M🥀ark Oldman ﷽still fed our curiosity about...
Phil Jackson's pal's plan to bulk up the Knicks
Charley Rosen, Phil Jackson’s longtime confidant, gave a recipe for what he would like to see the Zen Master do at Thursday’s draft. Even if the two heralded big 🅰men,...
Mets' struggling infield will miss key piece for a little longer
ATLANTA — Daniel Murphy isn’t ready to rejoin the Mets just yet. Though general manager Sandy 📖ꦰAlderson had targeted Tuesday in Milwaukee for the infielder’s return from a left quadriceps...
Fight for Ellsbury's outfield spot becoming battle of attrition
Filling in for Jacoby Ellsbury can be a dangerous occupation. Mason Williams was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday, two days after jamming his right shoulder diving back into... 𒊎
🉐Summer magazin🦹es for the extreme
Yo, extreme sports addicts! Summer has arrived. Are you jon♛esing to skate the half 🔥pipe, or surf the Pipeline? Or maybe trade that tailpipe for a carbon kevlar titanium model?...
New app gives Broadway goers a discounﷺt
Ogling your smartphone during a Broadway show is extremely uncool — but it’s a📖 different story if you’re bꦚuying tickets for the show beforehand. That’s the message from TodayTix, a...
Anthem's $47.5B takeover of Cigna rejected by board
Bring out the emergency-room paddles, Anthem. That $47.5 billion takeover offer for Cigna doesn’t make the grade, th𒊎e board said, rejecting the “highly conditional, non-binding proposal” for its smaller rival...
🍌 Hon🍎do looking for long shots
Charlie “Two-Thirds” Morton failed to achi꧅eve against the Nationals on Sunday, getting obliterated in the first inning and causing Hondo’s deficit to grow to 1,490 luzinskis. Monday night: Mr. Aitch...
Designer's shop locale moves from chic to 'shabby'
Luxury fashion designer Domenico Vacca, who has dressed such stars as D🍃enzel Washington, Glenn Close and Jeremy Piven, is moving his New York City flagship store to a most un-posh...
Tanaka dud should have 🌺Yankees on phone with ꦏReds
This was the sound and the fury. And the Yankees better take this warning to heart as the decli꧙ne of Masahiro Tanaka continues. Tanaka and his tender elbow looked terrible...
Tigers' secret to clobbering Tanaka will make Yanks exhale
In 27 career major leagಞue starts before Sunday afternoon, Masahiro Tanaka had allowed seven runs just once. He had failed to pitch into the sixt🌌h inning just three times. But...
Evaluating Stephen Drew's bizarre, all-or-nothing year
Stephen Drew’s season at the plate makes as much sense as the sudden Alex Rodriguez love-in. The Yankees second baseman isn’t hitting for avera♌ge (.188). He isn’t getting on base...
The steep price Yankees paid to shore up t༺heir bullpen
With Andrew Miller sidelined for about a month, Dellin Bet🍸ances has become the Yankees’ closer while Chasen Shreve and Justin Wilson have graduated to be the main setup men. So it...
💦Bells chime for Charleston victims while mourners heal
CHARLESTON, S.C. — For several minutes Sunday, the sweltering skies above this grieving city were alive with the 🐼sound of bells: high in steeples and in the hands of toddlers,...
H🐟illary Clinton’s profile in cravenness on trade
Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be the first Democratic presidential nominee who was for something before she was agains🐭t it. But her turnaround on President Obama’s trade deal rivals John Ker🦋ry’s famous...
The Dominican Republic’s obscene ‘no🅘n-ci🌠tizen’ drive
Last week the Dominican ⭕Republic geared up to deport hundreds of thousands of ex-citizens, mostly native-born Dominicans of Haitian descent. The DR government has been building to this outrage for...
Homeless Service🍌s’ lunatic perv dump
Add one more offense to the long litany of bureaucratic bullying fr🔜om the city’s Department of Homeless Services. DHS’s latest stunt is trying to force Brooklyn’s Porter Shelter, run by...
🍰 The feds’ trans-fat ban boosts all the food conspiracy theories
We’ve all seen the Facebook status or posti🌳ng in a group that says something alarmist along the lines of: “The FDA finally admits they’ve allowed a cancer-causing agent into our... ꦫ
If Andr🌸ew Cuomo leaves the subways to hang, he proves the Tea Party right
Gov. Cuomo left unfinished business behind in Albany last week. But there’s one piece of business Cuomo hasn’t even started: finding money ꦜfor the MTA. Yeah, it’s just as much...
Pitiful Mets s♎hut out, waste Harvey gem for 5th straight♍ loss
ATLANTA ♛— They are the walking dead. A lineup of corpses wouldn’t have fared much worse Sunday, when the Mets agai🌟n demonstrated they aren’t very good at hitting a baseball....
Millions beౠnd and twist for International Yoga Day
NEW DELHI - Indi𝓰an Prime Minister Narendra Modi spread his mat among rows of people, including his Cabinet members and foreign diplomats, at New Delhi's main thoroughfare, which was transformed... 🤡
Mets💖 strikeౠ out on Gee deal, place him on waivers
ATLANTA — The Mets’ effort to trade Dillon Gee wen🐽t nowhere over the last week, so the team has placed the right-hander on waivers, an industry source confirmed Sunday. If...
Willie Cauley-Stein on Knicks, genius Phil Jackson and being 'best' in draft
NBA prospect Willie Cauley-Stein, out of Ke💝ntucky, took a break from watching draft boards for some Q&A with The Post’s Steve Serby. Q: Why do you consider yourself the best...
ౠ In runup 🤡to nuke deal, Iran ups its ‘Death to America’ game
In promoting a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, President Oba💟ma and others have often expressed the hope that such an event might signal the end of four decades... ღ
Teen✃ crushed to death by 650-pound stone slab ඣ
Authorities say a teenager was killed when a stone slab weighing about 650 pounds fell on him outside a southern New Jersey business th🌱at makes countertops. Ocean County prosecutors say... ꦯ
Tanakꦦa, bullpen destroyed as Yan🌸kees crushed by Tigers
Masahiro Tanaka looked pretty gꦡood in his previous three starts. And there no signs of👍 trouble against the first two batters he faced on Sunday. But before the Stadium crowd...
Minor league team decides 'Caucasian Night' not great idea
//twitter.com/OremOwlz/status/611662072535908352 SALT LAKE CITY — A minor league baseball team in Utah h☂as canceled a promotion called "Cauca🐠sian Heritage Night." The Orem Owlz, a minor league affiliate of the Los...
Charleston shooter tried to kill himself, but 'he ran out of bullets'
The racist white gunman who slaughtered nine black people in a historic South Carolina church tried to put a bullet in hiꦰs own head after the rampage — but he...
Parents✅ charged after infꩵant drowns in bathtub
DEPTFORD, N.J. — The parents of an infant wh♓o authorities say drowned when his mother fell asleep in a bathtub for several hours have been charged with child endangerment. Gloucester...
Cheap-shotti🍬ng Colombia star rips, guarantees win over U.S.
Colombia’s 🐠loudmouthed Lady Andrade claims the U.S. had belittled her team, and guaranteed an upset victory to knock out the Women’s World Cup favorites Monday in Edmonton. The American🐟s shot...
🎀 Taꦡylor Swift slams Apple: Pay artists for their music!
Taylor Swift accused Apple of being mean to musicians. The country-turned-pop queen on Sunday published an open letter to the computer giant defending her decision🅰 to keep her hit album... 🤡
Andrea Pirlo agrees to expe𒁃cted megadeal with NYCFC ♚
New York City FC’s pursuit of Andrea Pirlo is finally finished and successful. Sources told The Post🍌 that the big-spending MLS expansion side has landed the Italian star, and that🎃...
ജ Man stabbed in Harlem Foot Locker 🌼
A man was slashed inside an East Harlem Foot Locker Sunday, cops sa𒀰id. The 3rd Avenue shoe store near East 106th Street was bustling with customers around 11:30 a.m. when...
Is Paulina Gretzky's, Dustin Johnson's son next Riley Curry?
//instagram.com/p/4FyKTiMj8y/?taken-by=paulinagretzky Riley Curry captured the nation's heart, her name punctuated with an "aww!" ෴by just about everyone who watched her steal her MVP father's spotlight. But now that the Warriors...
'Abusive' college coach gets $48.5K payout upon leaving
//twitter.com/IlliniMBB/status/299225502210748416 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois gave a nearly $48,500 payout to a former assistant women's basketball coac📖h who left amid accusations that he mistreated players, a newspaper...
Did Pirate lean in to pitch to break up perf🍰ect game?
WASHINGTON — Just one strike from a perfect game, Max Scherzer saw it sl🍸ip away with a misplaced slider. Or, some thought, a misplaced elbow. Scherzer lost his bid in...
Uber banning riders, drivers fro🍰m carrying guns
Ride-hailing ap🐎p company Uber says it is banning its riders and driv🥀ers from carrying guns. Uber Technologies says it is banning firearms of any kind during rides arranged through the...
Obama to blame ꦑfor anti-cop sentiment: NYPD union boss
A top NYPD union leader said on Sunday cops fear they’ll be prosecuted simply for doing their jobs -- and went as far as blaming President ♔Obama for anti-police sentiment....
🐭 💖 Police stumped after deadly gunfire erupts at block party full of kids
Detroit police say they have few leads in their in😼vestigation of a shooting at a blocܫk party that left one man dead and nine people wounded.
Suspected gunman nabbed in fatal New O🎀rleans cop shooting
New Orleans cops on Sunday caught the man suspected of gunning down one of their own, authorities said. Travis Boys, 🐻33, was pinched near the intersection of Reynes Street and...
Video surfaces of brawling NFL'er hitting woman with belt
Warning: explicit language a🌸nd content //www.youtube.com/watch?t=68&v=MeYCVSVadhk A video has been circulating that appears to show New Orleans Saints linebacker🌳 Junior Galette strike a woman with a belt in a South...
Google expands on unprecedented 'censorship' policy
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google plans to cens﷽or unauthorized nude photos💖 from its influential Internet search engine in a policy change aimed at cracking down on a malicious practice known as...
Russell Simmons:൩ De ꧟Blasio is pushed around like a b--ch
Hip Hop mogul Russell Simmons has started a rap-worthy feud with Mayor de Blasio, calling him a “punk” and a “bitch” for not standing up to Gov. Cuomo an💖d Police...
Fool filmed 'surfing' a subway train
Next stop: Idiot Avenue. A straphanger filmed a numbskull with a death wish𝔉 “surfing” an E train at a Queens station last week. The unidentified subway surfer clings to the...
Why Aasif Mandvi never wanted to fill Jon Stewart's shoes
There’s a scene in HBO’s new comedy series “The Brink,” in which Aasif Mandvi — playing a driver for a government operati🌃ve in Pakistan — begs an ambassador to save...
Child miraculously unscathed after ♑falli🌱ng from brownstone window
A 3-year-old boy fell out of a first-floor window of a Brooklyn browns💎tone Saturday, but didn't appear to be hurt, police said. The yo💧ungster, identified by a source as Walsh...
Ethics gro𝔍up says Rangel personally benefited from fund-raiser
Rep. Charles Rangel violated ဣethics rules when he sent out a fund-raising appeal asking for money to “help me enact laws th🉐at open trade with Cuba,” a watchdog group has...
𝐆 Laid-back Brooklynite seeks a woman for a duet 🅰
Mike, a 31-year-old product designer, strums guitar in his free time, aꩲnd he’d love a gal who can join him for a duet. Family drink: His favorite cocktail is a Manhattan...
Travel agency fined 💖for stra🎀nding tourists
A Staten Island travel agency must pay a $25,000 fine and get out of the travel꧙ business for ripping off Balkan tourists. Cuka Tours billed Eastern European travelers round-trip air...
Road raging man with mache🥂te attacks fellow motorist
Some people honk horns, others whip out machetes. A Brooklyn man with road rage slashed the side of another man’s car inside the Holland Tunnel last Wednesday night, th🎃e Port...
Fraudster who scammed celebs demandಞs ൲to be paid for his services
Celebrity clients scammed by convicted Ponzi schemer Kenneth I. Starr are being told by a court trustee to pay the felon for his “services.” Starr, a Bronx accountant who ama🌠ssed...
Woman suing to reclaim spot in community garden 🌌
She was given the heave-hoe. A Queens woman tossed from her൲ community garden like a rotten radish is hoping a judge will plant the seeds for her return. Mary Caulfield,...
Parishi😼oners gathe🔥r for emotional return to Charleston church
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church threw open its doors for Sund༺ay morning service, as heavyhearted worshiper🃏s filed into the same sanctuary where nine of their fellow...
Insurer w🍃on’t pay widow they say is a suspect in husband’s deat🌟h
A Brooklyn widow whose husband was gunned down outside theiꦗr Brownsville home is either a grieving widow or a money-hungry killer angling for $680,000 in life-insurance money. Her husband, iron...
Do these skinny je꧃an addicts look better in flares? ꦺ
The long reign of skinny jeans may finally be coming to an end. Victoria Beckham, Jessica Alba, Vanessa Hudgens and Jennifer Lo𒁏pez have all recently traded their skinnies for fabulous...
The heart-wrenching story behind four-legged flick 'Max'
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPPMCwD5bw Sheldon Lettich got his first Belgian Malinois by accident. The LA-based scre🐻enwriter had just put down a pet when he and his wife went to the pound to look...
Dear John: Where is the reꦐcovery?
Dear John:ꩲ I keep hearing how our economy is improving, but I can’t see it here in the New Jersey/New York area. I guess you can say it’s better than when...
Banღks introduce new fees and servic𒁃e cuts
The small customer is toast at US banks. Banks are chasing the fast buck — and “gouging” their retail customers with hefty new charges👍, overdraft fees and serღvice cuts to...
ꦦ Ambassador reveals how Obama undermined Israel
On Nov. 8, 2011, 🙈President Obama met with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Cannes after what had been a particularly rough 🅰week for US-Israeli relations. The week prior, the UN...
ꦏ Final pieces of fall🌞en Twin Towers distributed as mementos
ꩲ The last few pieces of steel from the fallen Twin Towers are being parceled out as mementos — still coveted nearly 15 years after the 9/11 attacks. A JFK airport...
How an amateur snake hunter helped create the Bronx Zoo -- ღin his attic
🐓 The Bronx Zoo’s World of Reptiles is among the city’s favorite attractions. Tw♎o million people visit the zoo each year, and most make a beeline to gawk at deadly Egyptian...
Holly Madison reveals hell with Hef in Playb꧟oy Mansion 🅰
This, s⛦he thought, w🐟as clearly the way out. She was Holly Sue Cullen back then, a girl from a small town in Alaska, and she’d come to Los Angeles to...
Uptight prudes aౠlmost censꦅored this famous line
💧 When Shaun Usher was putting together his 2014 book, “Letters of Note,” he discovered something almost all his favorite subjects had in common: They made lists. “Since we first began...
Gap and J.Crew's real problem: I just want a good pair of pants!
Sometimes more is less. Like when you’re shoppin𓆉g for jeans and you’re faced with a dizzyin🐻g array of choices. At The Gap, for instance, there are 11 different styles of...
♉ Clinton confidant cuts ties with the formidable family
Just weeks before Hillary Clinton kicked off her campaign for president on Roosevelt Island, a Clinton family loyalist quietly parted ways with the pow🃏erful clan. Doug Band, a man once...
Gen. George Patton's grandson helps soldiers coping with PTSD
One of the most decorated generals of WWII, George S. Patton’s legacy is rich in color and folklore. Killed 🅰only months after the end of the war, just bef♌ore Christmas...
Democrats veer left then blast everyone else for being 'right wing'
Hillary Clinton knows she has more baggage than Newark Airport. She doesn’t care, because she is counting on two strong forces to carꦚry her to victory: Demographics and the leftward...
Online guidꦗe helps New Yorkers get more bang for their buck
If you are a bank, why lend money and put it at risk when you can simply gouge your ♒customers for profit? Banks have been hurt by a raft of...
🎶 Dads vote on top commercials of 2015
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDCZ4Z5pxWk It’s Father’s Day, but is he really hankering for another tie? Not according to Nielsen, which in honor of the holiday i🐻dentifiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚed the Top 10 commercials that US dads...
Upper East Sid𝄹e man goes missing during shopping trip ♉
An Upper East Side man went missing Saturday afternoon after failing to return fro﷽m a shopping trip, according to police. Robert Moriarty, 54, sent an email to his husband stating.꧃..
This week's couple: Age unlimit
When Ru🅷th volunteered to be set up on a blind date by The Post, 💯the 34-year-old literary magazine editor said she would prefer the guy not be younger than 30....
Principꦅal who mishandled c🐼hild abuse claim returns to school
Greta Hawkins, the Coney Island principal who once barred kids from singing “God Bless the USA,” was returned to P🦩S 90 last week despite investigator💮s finding she improperly handled a...
Woman🗹 arrested and chained to hospital bed for 17 days sues cit🦹y
A Brooklyn landlord who was arrested and shackled to 🥃a hospital bed for 17 days is taking her case against the city to a jury. A trial is slated to...
Woman dies of suspected c♍arbon monoxide poisoning 🔜
Carbon mono♕xide p𒈔oisoning is suspected in the death of a Brooklyn woman early Saturday, police sources said. Nilda Sing, 55, was found by her brother at about 2:30 a.m. in...
Cops go on summons-s♐pree targeting tourist traps
🎃 Cops swept through the Staten Island Ferry terminal in lower 𝕴Manhattan Saturday morning, issuing summonses to about a dozen brokers hawking tickets for helicopter tours and the Statue of Liberty...
ඣ The twists and turns of a US Open moving day
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ. — For much of the afternoon, a fire burned out of control just north of Chambers Bay, with black smoke billowing high into the air over the...
Jordan Spieth in position to snag second straight major ꦍ
🌸 UNIVER⛦SITY PLACE, Wash. — Jordan Spieth not only will be chasing his first U.S. Open championship on Sunday, he will be chasing Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods and a...
Rory McIlroy unable to mount big 🗹Saturday charge
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Though he felt like he played well enough to do so, Rory McIlroy never made the Satu🌺rday move he hoped to make to vault himself into...
Joe Girardi: Ivan Nova will be in Yankees rotation 'pretty soon'
Ivan Nova didn’t have much success in Friday’s rehab start for Triple-A Scranton/W🍸ilkes-Barre, but he apparently did enough to get back into the Yankees’ rotation. “We’ll sit and talk about...
Phil Mickelson falls short in latest bid for c⛄areer grand slam
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Phil Mickelson’s second bid to complete the rare career Grand Slam — though not official🌄ly over until 🔥the end of Sunday’s final round — is over....
🦋 One outcome that can rescue an otherwise forgettable US Open
University Place, Wash. — It can go either way at this point. The 115th U.S. Open could 🙈be remembered as a bold experiment with links golf that culminated in a...
Politicians focusi☂ng on critters instead of humans
If only Albany treated real people like animals. State lawmakers in the waning days of the annual legislative session are strangely fixated ♉on hamsters, wood frogs, scup and other critters....
Osama bin Laden’s son wanted dad's death certificate
ꦦ Trust us — he’s dead, the State Department told Osama bin Laden’s family. Abdullah bin Laden, one of the terrorist mastermind’s sons, requested a death certificate from the𝕴 US embassy...
Terrorist attacks rose by 35 percent in 2014 ⛄
Terrorist attacks worldwide soared by more than a third last year🥃, according to the State Department. Attacks in🉐 2014 increased 35 percent — with 81 percent more deaths, according to...
ℱ Can flawed, powerful Y♚anks ride streakiness to playoffs?
🌃 The numbe♐r 30 occupied both infield foul territories at Yankee Stadium Saturday night, and it proved more fitting than the Yankees ever could have planned. They honored the best-known No....
Fan who caught A-Rod's 3,000th hit had catch down to a science
He caught superstar Mike Trout’s first homer. He snagged hom꧋e-run king Barry Bonds’ 724th long ball. Then, on Friday night at Yankee💟 Stadium, Upper West Sider Zack Hample grabbed Alex...
Pope Francis' out of touch climate change warning
As luck would have it, I was about to jump into the pope’s new environmental encyclical when I stumbled on 🍰an old story out of Israel. It seems that archaeological...
Eovaldi puts Miami🍸 meltdown in the past with strong outing
Yankees starter Nathan Eovaldi went from brutal to brilliant in just one bounceback start. There weren’t༒ many positives to Eovaldi getting shelled in two-thirds of an inning last Tuesday against...
🔥 ༒ After Familia scare, Mets confident about return date
ATLANTA — Jeurys Familia is confident he won’t be headed to the d🤡isabled list. The Mets closer was unavailable Saturday and may sit Sunday to rest his sore lᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeft groin,...
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The Bronx Two thugs knocked over aꩵ Longwood bodega at gunpoint, authorities said.The suspects walked into Neymar Candy & Grocery on Vyse Avenue near Home Street around 8:30 p.m. on... ♐