December 25, 2018
Short-lived de Blasio official got $23K for movingꦉ expenses
The city’s s⭕hort-lived chief technology officer tried to squeeze every penny from the city for his 2016 move from San Francisco to the Big Apple — seeking $27,315 in reimbursements...
NYCHA way behind sc♒hedule as deadline nears for lead-paint fix
The New York City 🐠Housing Authority is raciꦑng the clock to fix peeling and possibly lead-tainted paint in more than 2,800 apartments with young children to meet its commitment to...
I gave up binge-eating and booze — and dr♌opped🧜 40 pounds
The Post talks w🌌ith six New Yorkers who were looking for and found fitness and diet plans that work, helping them to shed pounds and gain confidence and hope in...
Dead man's family to receive refund over litter fines
A Bronx man passed away while battling the city over two fines he received for litte🦋r outside his Bronx home earlier this year — and although he has been dead...
Meet the elite K-9 unit helping to protect El Chapo's trial
There’s an elite team of public defenders on the case of accused drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in Brooklyn federal court — and they’re working like dogs. The four-legg💦ed...
🌠 LeBron James exits W꧃arriors showdown with groin injury
OAKLAND⛎, Calif. — The Los Angeles Lakers lost LeBron James in the third quarter to a strained left groin then went out and beat the two-time defending champions without him...
The perils of New York's single-payer health care plan
Dear John, I am becoming nervous about the proposal for single-payer health care in 🔥New York. If this becomes law and state taxes go up to 27 perc✤ent on people...
Bronx cop sues NYP🍒D ♏alleging racism, physical abuse
A Bronx c🧜op is suing the NYPD because he says his job is hell — and it has 🦹nothing to do with the criminals. Officer Wilfrido Bonilla, 41, says in...
Volu🤡nteer firefighter killed responding to call on Christmas
ꦍ A volunteer firefighter in New Jersey — who was only 21 years old and preparing to become a cop — was killed in a car crash while responding to a...
Gap's Fifth Ave. store closure is a bad sign for NYC retail scene
The Gap is closing its three-level sto🦄re at 680 Fifth Ave. — th🎃e latest holiday-season lump of coal for the city’s troubled retail real estate scene. The shutdown, planned for...
ꦓThe new and lighter Amazon Kindle is a best-value buy 🍃
When Amazon introduced the Kindle more than a de🍨cade ago, it single-handedly createಞd the mass market for e-readers — despite a slew of initially bulky, clunky devices that elicited complaints...
🦂Dems are at it again — this time, smearing wall supporters as ‘deplorables’
Tal🌠k show host Jimmy Kimmel is mocking 🎉the “very dopey people” contributing to a GoFundMe campaign to support President Trump’s southern border wall. All Kimmel has got to lose by...
Univision struggling to find b🍷uyer for Gizmodo sites
🅺 It’s a tough market for digital news sites and blogs — and Gizmodo Media Group is starting to look like the latest casualty. The money-losing𒁃 operator of sites like Jezebel,...
Hezonja misses revenge chance after brutal Bucks website rip 🅺 🌳
🧔 Mario Hezonja didn’t get a chance to prove the Bucks’ website editors wrong. Knicks🅺 coach David Fizdale did not play Hezonja in the Bucks’ 109-95 Christmas rout of the Knicks,...
An ‘America First’ strategy for ღTrump in 2019
As the year comes to a close, and as President Trump’s foreign policy suddenly veers in the wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrong direction with wild and ill-advised moves on Syria and Afghanistan, here’s a...
How hawks bypassed the Co🌜nstitution to fight in Syria
There 🐻is a lot to be said for critiques of President Trump’s decision to pull out of Syria, especially shameful if he made it in response to a threat from...
Koreas ♍hold groundbreaking ceremony for railway project
SEOUL, South Korea 🐓— South Korean officials have traveled to North Korea by train to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for an aspirational project to modernize North Korean railways and roads...
Vermont community will attempt to make world's largest s'more
MIDDLESEX, Vt. — One Vermont community is celebrating the holidays and the winter solstice with a 𒊎massive bonfire and what they hope will be the world's larges🌜t s'more. The Winter...
The Russian youngster Rangers hope is the next goalie ꧑sup🍰erstar
The stats come pouring out of Russia and it’s easy t𝕴o wonder if there is a typo. Then it’s easy to wonder about the competition and tꦍhe league, and how...
Cop honored after fighting off vagrants in a♊ subway station
An NYPD cop was honored Tuesday for single-ꦡhandedly battling a group of hostile homeless men in a Manhattan subway station. Officer Syed Ali got a Christmas Day visit from Councilman...
This was the groin shot th𒅌e Knicks were afraid of 🦋
The Knicks became the tomato cans of Christmas — not belonging on the NBA’s grand stage with their 9-26 record and potential superstar still sidelined another two mont♏hs. They kept...
Guatemala 🗹wants fu🐭ll probe into boy who died in ICE custody
﷽ The Guatemalan foreign ministry called for an investigation into the Christmas Day death of an 8-year-old boy while in US government custody, according to a report from the Associated Press....
The Noah Vonleh play that dro♔pped jaws around the NBA
𒐪 There it was, mixed in with the coal that filled the Knicks’ stocking in a Christmas afternoon mismatch against the Bucks: a genuine highlight. A defensive highlight, at that. Wi💯th...
𒉰 Manhattan doctors help Syrian g🤡irl who was shot in head
A little girl who was shot in the head♕ as she fled her home in war-torn Syria two years ago is finally getting a chance at a normal life thanks...
'Bonnie & Clyde' duo allegedly hunted down sex workers to beat and rob
A ruthless Russian Bonnie and Clyde targeted Manhattan sex workers in a string of brutal robberies, court papers say. Menacing 💦muscleman Alexander Popenkov, who is trained as an MMA fighter,...
🦩 Husband accused of hurling 2 𒁏dogs off balcony during feud
CHICAGO — Chicago Police say criminal charges are pending against a man after they say he threw two small dogs off a second-floor balcony ꦗduring a fight with his wife....
Allonzo Trier return reminds Knicks what they were missing ♏
It took Allonzo Tri𒊎er two-and-a-half weeks to recover from his first NBA injury. It took him 30 seconds to get a bucket once he was back on the floor. Trier,...
Meet the kid Trump questioned about be⛄lieving ☂in Santa
She still believes in Santa Claus — despite Pr🅺esident Trump’s nationally televised skepticism. Seven-year-old Collman Lloyd of Lexington, South Carolina, was identified Tuesday as the 🌠child on the other end...
𒁏 Man allegedly threw ham in fight over Christmas dinner
A Ke♚ntucky man was arres💜ted Sunday after he threw ham and other items at a woman while they were arguing over what day the family was hosting Christmas dinner, police...
🔥 Now Hizzoner wants to subsidize weed 🐻— with taxpayer money
Mayor de Blasio has been skeptical of legalizing pot, but now — suddenly — he wants to subsidize it in the name of redistributing wealth. Talk about high aspirat🎃ions. As...
Don’t gꦫive Schumer & Co. a pass for government shutdown
President Trump may deserve all the heat he’s getting for his bumbling role in triggering a government shutdown over border-wall funding, but Democrats — 𝄹Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in...
Mexican girl's wish list for Santa lands in US, granted by Arizona man
A balloon launched by a Mexican girl and carrying her Santa present list floated over the US border wall and was found by an Arizona man who granted the 8-🤡year-old’s...
The Democrats' struggles and other commentary
Tim Kaine: Dems Weak on National Security, Economy Victories in the recent midterms “can obscure an important warning” for Demo🐼crats, suggests Sen. Tim K🌜aine at Politico: “Our party is struggling...
De Blasio’s last chance to c🤪ome through ♎for NYCHA
President Trump’s housing and urban development secretary, Ben Carson, did Mayor Bill de Blasio a solid lastꦉ week: He bought him an extra month to shore up his plan for...
Dad accused of beating child with selfie stick ⛄
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Police in Tennessee say a Nashville man beat his 6-year-old daughter with a selfie stick after the girl broke i📖t. WSMV-TV reported Sunday that Metro Nashville police...
PBA rips Manhattan DA for not prosecuting vagrant🌊s who attacked cop
The head of the NYPD’s largest union blasted Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. on Tuesday for not prosecuting the hostile homeless men who♎ had to be fought off by a...
🙈 Mexican political power couple killed in Christmas Eve helicopter crash
MEXICO CITY — A husband-and-wife political power couple who were the current and ex-governors of the central Mexican state of Puebla died in a Christmas Eve helicopter crash, off🎀icials announced....
Baltimore police pay $500 for rocket launcher at gun buyback ♓
BALTIMORE — Baltimore police say a rocket launcher was among the more than 1,000 firearms turned in during recent gun buyback events. Th♓e rocket launcher was traded for $500, and...
🔯 William Thompson Sr., barrier-breaking politician, dies𝐆 at 94
🌄 William Thompson Sr. — the first African American to represent Brooklyn in the state Senate and father of former city Comptroller Bill Thompson — has died at the age of...
Star safety finds a new team after Redskins 'spit in my face'
D.J. Swearinger's new team can't claim it doesn't know what it's getting into. The transparent safety, who has shown he's not afraid to call out 𝄹anyone, including his own coaches,...
False alarms of more ts🍃unamis wreak havoc on Indonesia 💧
ꦯ The tsunami death toll in Indonesia nearly doubled to 429 on Tuesday — as fears about additional massive waves sent hundreds of traumatized residents fleeing to higher ground. Panicked locals...
Suspects arrested after woman rap𒐪ed outside church on Christmas Eve♕
Two men have been arrested afte💃r a woman was raped in a churchyard in a Christ🍃mas Eve sex attack. The woman, in her 30s, had to be taken to a...
ꦍ UFC star injured by exploding grenade
🧔 Brazilian UFC star Alex Oliveira was reportedly injured after a grenade exploded near him on Christmas Eve. According to Braz🦋ilian news site Globo, “Cowboy” was celebrating the festive season in...
The best holiday movies to watch on Christmas Day 🍬
It’s Christmas Day — and, if you haven’t had your fill 🔜of holiday programming by now, you can still play catch up while you’re opening presents, programming your newest iPhone...
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez compares refugees to♐ baby Jesus
🀅 Even a holiday greeting from newly-elected♑ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked controversy when she compared refugees to the baby Jesus. “Joy to the World! Merry Christmas everyone - here’s to a...
It took more t𝔍han 8 hours for MTA to notice bus had been taken on joyride
When it🌼 comes to Christmastime joyrides, this may be second only to stealing Santa’s sleigh. A brazen bandit swiped an empty MTA bus in the Bronx last weekend — and...
NYPD pa🌸ys holiday visit to mom of ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚslain Bronx cop
The NYPD precinct of slain Detective Miosotis Familia made sure that her family wouldn’t be forgotten over the holidays, paying a 🐬visit to the fallen cop’s mom. “Merry Christmas!” called...
Dog desperately paws at car's doors after being abandoned by owner
This is the distressing moment a helpless dog tries to catch up with his cruel owner who had abandoned him in the street. CCTV foo🐻tage captures the callous behavior of...
Meghan McCain mourns her father on Christm🐟aﷺs Eve
🌌 Meghan McCain gave solace to those mourning the loss of a loved one as she spends her first Christmas grieving her father, Sen. John McCain, who died last y♊ear. "I...
8-year-old Guatemalan🧸 boy dies in US custody on Christmas
An 8-year-old Guatemalan bo𒉰y died Christmas Day in government custody, immigration authorities said. The child passed 🍬shortly after midnight, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. After the...
The secret dark side to the classic 'Mary Poppins'
🅺 Far from being practically perfect in every way, Julie Andrews once put a bumper sticker on her car that said: “Mary Poppins Is A Junkie.” It was a jokey, failed...
🍌 Man accusღed of killing Google employee uses language barrier defense
A man who has been indicted for murder is claiming a language barrier le🌜d him to unknowingly provide investigators his DNA without voluntary consent, MassLive reported. Angelo Colon-Ortiz is accused...
Tr🐈��ump wishes troops a Merry Christmas from the White House
President Trump on Tuesday wished US troops stationed around the country and the world a Merry Christmas. "I know it's a great sacrifice for you to🌜 be away from your...
✃ Eli Manning is not the real Giants problem that d⭕raft can fix
🐭 It is too early for any of this, of course, but this is the way it is when the playoffs are nearing for some and the Giants are all but...
Sole survivꦕ꧋or of Indonesian pop group hit by tsunami buries his wife
The only surviving member of an Indonesian pop group swept out to sea by the tsunami buried his actress wife Tuesday, a day after t♈he funerals of his three bandmates♒....
The real superstar steals Knicks' Christmas show
The Knicks are on the NBA’s annual Christmas schedule on the basis of tradition. The Bucks are there on merit — ꧑a rising Eastern Conference contender powered bꦡy a lanky,...
Mattis sends final mess🐟age to troops as defense secretary 🐓
James Mattis wished a merry Christmas “to all you lads and la🐈sses holding the line in 2018” in what was likely his final message to America’ꦜs troops as defense secretary....
Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas' is still shattering records
Itꦦ may be more than two decades old -- but Mariah Carey'♛s festive anthem "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is still breaking records. The holiday staple was played...
Even Giants' game times show how disastrous this year has been
When🐓 the schedule was released, the likelihood the Dec. 30 season finale would remain a 1 p.m. kickoff was remote. The Giants and especially the Cowboys have large national followings,... 🃏
Elderly wom🌠an beaten, robbed on Christmas morning
An elderly Brooklyn woman was beaten in her bed Christmas morning by a home-invasion robber — who waltzed right into the NYCHA building,ꦿ which residents say hasn’t had a working...
Letter surfaces from JFK assur𒁏ing child that Santa is safe from the Russians
A day after President Trump asked a 7-year-old if he still believed in 😼Santa, a letter surfaced from President Kennedy reassuring a little girl that Santa was alive and well...
Cops buy Christmas gifts for family whose presents were 🎃stolen
A group of New Jersey cops played Santa to a family whose gift-filled car was stolen days before Christmas𝕴. The Florence Township family had parked the car, containing most of...
Woman dressed as Rudolph❀ caught on camera robbing store
Rudolph the R💮ed-Nose Reindeer has made Santa’s naughty list in Colorado. Actually, it was a woman who disguised herself 🦹as the iconic caribou to burglarize a business in Fort Collins,...
Team USA's Ryder Cup disaster spawned a butt tattoo
No ifs, ands or buts about it -- Thomas Bjorn is a man of his word. The Europ𒀰ean Ryder C𝔉up captain promised his team he would get a tattoo if...
Pope Francis' Christmas prayer is for peace in war-torn nations
Pope Francis called for people around thﷺe world to see their differences as a positive, not a threat, as he prayed for peace in war-torn countries during his Christmas address...
Colorblind man sees girlfriend's blue eyes for first time during proposal
A colorblind man used a special pair of glasses to see his girlfriend’s blue e𒊎yes for the first time after get🤡ting down on one knee to propose. Taylor Smith, 31,...
Maria Taylor rise, Michelle Beadle dive: 2018 sports media awards 💛
We are dusting off the SportsClicker Awards to look back on 2018 and ♎ahead to 2019. As much as we can, we try to not just rehash what we have...
E﷽rdogan says he will meet with Putin over US withdrawal from Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would probably meet with Vladimir Putin to talk about the Tr🦄ump administratiꩵon's plans to withdraw 2,000 US troops from Syria, according to a...
Mexican 'sicario' hitmen film themselves gunning down 4 cops
A pair of videos has emer🌳ged online that appear to show Mexican hitmen ambushing and killing four police officers. In the🐻 video, apparently made by the assailants, at least seven...
Misplaced 2,000-year-old ring unearthed in Jerusalem's City of David
Israeli archaeologists hav💧e discovered a 2,000-year-old bronze ring with a solitaire gemstone in what appears to be a former ritual bath, or mikveh, in the City of David National Park...
Trump celebrates Christmas by complaining about econ𒊎omy🐼, border wall
President Trump delivered a downbeat Christmas greeting to Americans Tuesday morning, airing a laundry list of grievances about his border wall♍, the ec🅺onomy, government shutdown and even James Comey. "It's...
'Die Hard' brings NYPD and LAPD together for Christmas
LOS ANGELES — The New York and Los Angeles police departments are poking some fun at their perceived rivalry and wading into a hotly contested debate: Is "Die Hardꦚ" a...
🔴 Death toll nearly doubles in aftermath of Indonesia tsunami
The death ♏toll of the tsunami that battered Indonesia over the weekend nearly doubled to 429 confirmed dead Tuesday -- as authorities vowed to start work on a new disas🌼ter...
Best 𒊎receiver, JaMarcus 🐟Russell regret: Josh McCown tells all
In 16 NFL seasons, Josh McCown has played with hundreds of teammates and against hundreds of opposing players. He🍨 gave Emmitt Smith his last hand-off. He threw Larry Fitzgerald his...
Trump signs bill 🦩naming post office for Army Capt.💜 Humayun Khan
President Trump has signed a bill naming a p꧂ost office in Virginia after fallen US Army Capt. Humayun Khan, whose parents the then-candidate feuded with during the 2016 presidential campaign....
Suspe✅cted ISIS militants carry out deadly attack in Libya
T𓄧hree suspected ISIS militants stormed the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, killing at least three people – including a prominent militia leader — and wounding...
Tr💞ump may throw Mnuchin under the bus over stock market 𒈔
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's odds of remaining part 🔴of the Trump administration are falling about as quickly as the stock market, a repo💖rt said. President Trump, already seething at the...
The Kevin Durant comment that really 'pissed off' LeBron James
LeBron James jabbed back a🍨t Kevin Durant after the Warriors star labeled the environment surrounding James as “toxic.” Speaking in an interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols, the Lakers star admitted...
Jets get closer to top draft pick after Raiders-Bronc🐲os gift
On Christmas Eve, Jon Gruden let the Jetܫs unwrap their gift early. The Raiders, in possibly their final game ever at the Coliseum, knocked off the Broncos, 27-14, on Monday...
Police dog killeꦗd in♑ shootout at Florida mall
Police in Florida are mourning the loss of a canine who was killed during a Christmas Eve shootout with an attempted murder suspect outside a packed mall, according 🌳to reports....
꧃ Adorable kid sits out of Christmas perfಌormance
Sometimes you’re not in the mood to be fes💙tive. Gavino, an adorable tot in El Paso, Texas, wanted nothing to do with his day care’s C🌄hristmas performance. Watch the funny...
Over 3,000 pati🐼ents possibly exposed to HIV, ♛hepatitis
SADDLE BROOKꩲ, N.J. — The New Jersey Department of Health says m🌟ore than 3,000 patients at a surgery center may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C....
Iconic New ⛦England strip club can reopen without dancers
𒅌 PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island officials say they will allow New England's oldest and most well-known strip club to reopen — without the dancers. The state Department of Business Regulation...
Vagrants not charged for wild subway ꧟melee with cop
The bums get a break for Christmas. Fivꦜe vagrants who sparred with an NYPD officer during a wild melee in a Manhattan subway station were released on Monday night without...
🃏 LeBron James is practically begging Lakers for Carmelo Anthony
LeBr❀on James thinks he can fix his friend Carmelo Anthony. The Lakers star has already said he ꦚwould want Anthony — who is a free agent — to join in...