January 24, 2016
Von Miller dedicates Brady annihilation to teammate 'idol'
DENVER — Von Miller might have been the player of the game for the Broncos in their 20-18 AFC Championship victory over the Patriots Sunday at Sports Authority at Mile...
Belichick dared Peyton to beat him -- and it only took 30 minutes
DENVER — You fight like hell to swim against the advancing tide of your athletic mortality, but it is a tsunami. You were born to play quarterback, and you made...
De Blasio: Trump is too arrogant to be president
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s suggestion that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still win the election is “incredibly arrogant” — and evidence he’s not ready for the White...
Panthers merciless in all-out onslaught for Super Bowl date
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam-tastic! Cam Newton and the Panthers are Super Bowl-bound after throttling the mistake-prone Cardinals from start to finish Sunday night in a 49-15 blowout in the NFC...
Nets muzzle Thunder (besides Durant) for shocking knock-off
More Jonas, please. Maybe the historic blizzard and forced time off refreshed the slumping Nets and cooled off red-hot Oklahoma City. Or maybe Brooklyn was just due. Whatever the reason,...
Your winter escape is awaiting you here
Who doesn’t have visions of short shorts, T-shirts and deck shoes after the weekend we’ve had? Well, stop dreaming and start reading for the best in the winter escape magazines....
Chinito Latino keeps the Chinese-Cuban lineage alive
Just when it seemed like the older generation of Chinese-Cuban restaurants was dying out, a newcomer has arrived on the scene. In the tradition of La Caridad 78 and Flor...
Grand Central's rising rents spark eatery turnover
Grand Central Terminal is headed for its biggest restaurant makeover in nearly two decades. The historic terminal became a shopping and dining destination in 1998, following an ambitious overhaul that...
'I lost the game': Patriots goat kicker pours out his soul
DENVER — There was not a more stunning turn of events in Sunday’s AFC Championship game than seeing Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski miss an extra point in the first quarter...
Rob Gronkowski's 'screw it' plan nearly saved the Patriots
DENVER — The hands of Rob Gronkowski seemed to reach from somewhere beyond the back of the end zone with 12 seconds left to snatch a Tom Brady pass out...
Kavanaugh's staffers tried faking info to help grab him Oscars glory: report
Ryan Kavanaugh wanted a producer’s credit for “The Fighter” so badly, his staff constructed a phony paper trail to strengthen his apparent involvement with the film that won two Oscars...
Eli Manning has 2 to beat out for NFL Man of the Year
Eli Manning is one step closer to earning a prestigious award that no Giants player has ever won. He is one of three finalists for the Walter Payton NFL Man...
Why the Port Authority is an unmanageable mess
Mired again in scandal — this time allegations of favor-trading with airline executives — the unwieldy Port Authority of New York and New Jersey desperately needs reform. The agency was...
The real special-ed scandal is in regular public schools
The latest attack on the city’s largest charter-school network comes via a federal complaint filed by parents of 13 special-education students once or still enrolled in a Success Academy. Yet...
If Hillary loses the next debate, will she get another do-over?
For surefire proof of panic in the Hillary Clinton camp, look no further than tonight’s hastily organized Democratic town-hall debate on CNN. The Jan. 18 debate was supposed to be...
New York doesn't really have an 'energy policy'
New York’s energy future is a house of cards, built on a foundation of rhetorical flourishes, not meaningful results. And it’s about to collapse. Putting forward programs with great names...
Why Leo DiCaprio is just another climate hypocrite
Like most A-list celebrities in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio is frequently in the news. There’s DiCaprio, in Cannes, France, on David Geffen’s mega yacht, alone. And there he is on a...
Garcia shouldn't be the only Republican in NY's top court
Gov. Cuomo just took our advice and named former US Attorney Michael Garcia to the New York Court of Appeals — restoring a measure of ideological diversity to the state’s...
Critics are now bashing Israel's pro-democracy efforts
If you believe Israel’s relentless critics in the media and now in the State Department, Israeli democracy is on death’s door. The irony is, this accusation comes in response to...
Lunatic hacks off woman's hand, slits her throat in unprovoked attack
A lunatic hacked off his Bronx neighbor’s hand and then fatally slit her throat with a machete in an unprovoked attack on Sunday, according to police sources. Angel Feliz-Volquez, 25,...
Neighbor records lady's dogs suffering through blizzard
A Brooklyn resident left her wailing elderly pooches out in the wicked weather Saturday -- and caught heat from some neighbors. Evelyn Tully Costa of Crown Heights recorded the woman’s...
Broncos brutalize Brady to get Peyton Manning to Super Bowl
DENVER — At the end, all Peyton Manning could do was watch as nemesis Tom Brady tried to prove the postseason was his once again. After 59 minutes and 48...
Snow shovelers wanted to help with Jonas clean up
The city is now hiring — snow shovelers. “This was one of the worst storms to ever hit New York City, and we need all hands on deck to dig...
St. John's inspired play falls short -- and the worst is coming
A moral victory will have to do, since the preferred alternative continues to elude St. John’s. Despite an inspired second-half comeback, which sliced a 20-point Marquette lead to one possession,...
'I'm outta here': Vigneault blasts Rangers after huge letdown
OTTAWA — It was like you could see the steam coming out of Alain Vigneault’s ears, see the fire burning in his belly, see his face slowly start to turn...
It's Hogwarts-meets-'Gossip Girl' in the world of Syfy's 'The Magicians'
As this series begins, college student Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph), epitome of a moody fanboy, gets a talking-to from his best friend about growing-the-hell up. “It was fun, silly, nerdy...
Spurs deflate hyped Warriors showdown with Duncan letdown
OAKLAND, Calif. — Even with that NBA-record 24-0 start, Stephen Curry and Co. can't shake the San Antonio Spurs. Now, the defending champion Golden State Warriors finally get to face...
'I had to come back': nurse braves blizzard for patients
A Bronx nurse went above and beyond the call of duty during the worst of Winter Storm Jonas. Chantelle Diabate, a 31-year-old licensed practical nurse, works the 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m....
Inmates escape from California jail by rappelling from roof
Three inmates who busted out of a maximum-security jail in Southern California hatched an escape plan worthy of “The Shawshank Redemption.” The men, who are charged with crimes ranging from...
Clinton to Bloomberg: Don't waste your time running
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton insisted Sunday she'd secure the Democratic nomination -- so Michael Bloomberg can put his presidential hopes to rest. Bloomberg sees an opening for a third-party run...
Thousands of 'Hamilton' ticket-holders SOL thanks to Jonas
The Great White Way only went dark for a day, but it’s still causing misery for some Broadway fans. Nearly 2,600 theatergoers were planning to see the hottest show in...
Hillary not worried email flap will hurt candidacy chances
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton said Sunday she’s not worried about her email server damaging her presidential campaign despite an independent investigator finding super-secret messages on her homebrew server. “I’m not...
David Wells is back with vaguely racist, wildly crude Kardashian joke
Off the mound, nine years after his retirement, David Wells still is throwing heat. His target has changed, though. The longtime big leaguer, who spent two stints in New York...
Inside the $80M scam that rocked the art world and hits courts this week
The painting was easy to love, and Domenico and Eleanore De Sole fell hard. The Rothko even came with a romantic back story. As explained to the De Soles by...
Is Tyronn Lue's tiny tinkering 1st step to quiet LeBron?
The Cavaliers game against the Bulls on Saturday featured a different coach behind Cleveland's bench, perhaps a slightly more involved Kevin Love, and little else to differentiate the Tyronn Lue era from...
Watch these snowboarders make NYC streets their slopes
https://youtu.be/qRv7G7WpOoU These snowboarders took Manhattan by storm during the blizzard. A 34-year-old filmmaker and his pal thumbed their noses at Mayor de Blasio’s travel ban at the height of the...
Man goes on joyride during blizzard, gets DWI
A Brooklyn man went beyond just breaking the blizzard traffic ban and went for the full house of bad-driving conduct. Aleksey Tsvetkov, 36, of Bergen Beach, blew through red lights...
We finally know what Peyton Manning's 'Omaha' means
The biggest NFL mystery this side of Nebraska has been solved. Peyton Manning's line-of-scrimmage hollerings are a thing of legend. They serve to instruct his offense while confusing the defense -- and,...
Wife of Russian ‘hitman’ stars in Putin-friendly propaganda film
The gorgeous wife of accused Kremlin poisoner Andrey Lugovoy is starring in a twisted new Russian propaganda movie that — surprise — clears President Vladimir Putin in the assassination of...
Thief pistol-whipped woman, stole her rings, then shot her mom
Police have released sketches of four rings stolen from a 20-year-old woman minutes before the thief shot her mother in the parking lot of a Queens hotel -- and investigators...
Oscar contender 'Manchester by the Sea' wows Sundance crowd
A wrenching family drama with an intensity to rival “Ordinary People” or “In the Bedroom,” writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” stars a brilliant Casey Affleck as a tortured...
Whit Stillman brings metropolitan flair to Jane Austen
I don’t want to pre-judge next month’s release “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” but Whit Stillman may have fashioned the finest Jane Austen movie this year: the delightfully droll “Love...
'The Fundamentals of Caring' is a cookie cutter indie film comedy
The 25-year-old Welsh actor Craig Roberts was stellar in one of my favorite films of the last decade, “Submarine” (2010) and is equally good (while doing a flawless American accent)...
'Captain Fantastic' proves that left-wing dreams don't come true
“Captain Fantastic” is a right-wing dream disguised as a lefty one: What if Bill de Blasio, Bernie Sanders and all their fans put their money where their mouth is and...
‘The Big Short’ takes Oscar race lead with key win
The most confusing Oscar race in recent memory took a new twist when the financial comedy-drama “The Big Short’’ pulled off a dramatic upset at the Producers Guild of America...
Nets push back Sunday start time to 7:30 pm due to weather
The Brooklyn Nets’ game against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder was delayed to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, due to winter storm Jonas. The game was initially slated for 3:30 p.m. at...
Empanada Mama goes up in flames
A popular Hell’s Kitchen eatery was destroyed by a blaze Sunday morning when firefighters had trouble finding the hydrants that were buried under piles of snow. The four-alarm fire broke...
Des Moines Register endorses Rubio, Clinton
Marco Rubio scored the first major endorsement of the Republican presidential race, with the Des Moines Register naming him as its pick for the White House. The nod from the...
Dozens of poorly equipped ambulances get stuck in storm
Dozens of Emergency Medical Service ambulances got stuck in the massive snowstorm blanketing the city Saturday, in part because they either didn’t have snow chains on their tires or had...
Egypt puts 8 on trial for botched restoration of King Tut mask
CAIRO — Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famed golden burial mask of King Tut, which was corrected late last year, have been referred to trial for...
Probe finds 'dirty dozen' used DOE credit cards for personal expenses
Twelve city Department of Education administrators, including top deputies of Chancellor Carmen Fariña, used their DOE credit cards to throw lavish staff parties, bought expensive goods that couldn’t be found,...
South African mayor awards scholarships to virgin women
JOHANNESBURG — A South African mayor has awarded college scholarships to 16 young women for remaining virgins to encourage others to be "pure and focus on school," her spokesman said...
Cuomo praises 'President Bloomberg' -- sticks with Clinton endorsement
Gov. Cuomo on Sunday praised former mayor -- and potential presidential hopeful -- Michael Bloomberg’s handling of past New York snowstorms, but stuck with his Hillary Clinton endorsement. Cuomo, stone-faced...
Students spell out n-word during yearbook photo shoot
A suburban Phoenix school district is taking disciplinary action after a photo of students spelling out a racial slur with T-shirts showed up on social media.
I could have died on the Challenger
Thursday marks 30 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which claimed the lives of all seven crew members — the most famous being social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe, who...
How a Coast Guard crew defied the odds and saved 32 lives
The Coast Guard gets no respect. Just ask 84-year-old Andy Fitzgerald. A few years ago, a man in church asked the former engineman if he’d been in the service. When...
Girl gets hurt after Bryant Park denies 'safety penguin': suit
In an unhappy feat, an Upper West Side mom says her ice-skating daughter was injured because Bryant Park rink staffers refused to give her a “safety penguin.” Brigitte Casper rented...
The great dig begins: LIRR still buried as NYC starts to thaw after Jonas
Cars, buses and subways are rolling again in New York, but the historic blizzard has derailed the Long Island Rail Road for now, officials said Sunday. City schools will be...
Woman claims she was fired because of her 'whiteness'
A Bronx woman believes she lost her job at a nonprofit because she’s Italian-American, according to a lawsuit. Anne Marie Nolan-Griffin says her African-American and Hispanic supervisors at AHRC made...
School reverses decision, grants transfer to threatened student
A Queens mom who was denied a transfer for her son after he was threatened by a kid with a torch lighter got good news last week. Days after The...
Famed artist's murals may end up in Midtown trash heap
Her art graces the walls of the country’s most prestigious museums, but Dorothea Rockburne’s monumental mural installations at a Midtown office tower could be headed for the trash heap, The...
Mystery donor breathes new life into city's oldest bookstore
The Big Apple’s oldest independent bookstore may live to turn another page thanks to a mystery mogul who has offered the $68,000 they need for back rent. St. Mark’s Bookshop...
Principal demoted after faking classroom evaluations: officials
A Bronx principal has been demoted after a probe confirmed she faked teacher observations and blew taxpayer money on extravagant purchases, officials said. Charlette Pope, 42, was principal of Banana...
More NYers are complaining about quality of drinking water
More New Yorkers are worried about the quality of their drinking water, 311 records show. There were 1,233 water-quality complaints in 2015, up 4 percent from 1,186 in 2014 and...
Israeli guard shoots teen girl dead after knife attack
https://twitter.com/IsraelBreaking/status/690840250785140736/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw A 13-year-old Palestinian girl whose fight with her family left her suicidal tried to stab an Israeli security guard before he shot her dead Saturday at a West Bank...
De Blasio hasn't met a problem he doesn't want to throw money at
On Thursday, Mayor de Blasio said he’s really worried about a new economic crisis. “I’m a lot more concerned than I was this time a year ago,” he told the...
Medical mystery: Why are placebos becoming more effective?
There’s a drug that can make you run faster, feel less depressed and experience reduced pain. Don’t believe me? You shouldn’t. That’s because this miracle drug isn’t a drug at...
Obama just made Iran's brutal regime stronger
“Evident victory!” This is how Iranian President Hassan Rouhani describes the diplomatic swindle, known as the “Iran nuclear deal.” The Koranic term (in Arabic Fatah al-Mobin) refers to one of...
Vladimir Putin will only become more murderous and dangerous
On Thursday, a formal British inquiry into the assassination of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko released its findings: Litvinenko was murdered, and Vladimir Putin “probably” approved the operation personally. No one...
De Blasio is undoing all the quality of life gains of the last 25 years
In Bill de Blasio’s New York, chaos comes in on little cat feet. Fresh from dropping a fresh dose of bad behavior on the city’s schools, City Hall now seems...
Women are still romantics, despite what Hollywood thinks
“I think the show ultimately betrayed what it was about, which was that women don’t ultimately find happiness from marriage.” That was Darren Star, creator of the “Sex and the...
Washington schlepped here -- how George's goodwill tour united a nation
Father of his country, the man who could never tell a lie...Yelp reviewer. Unanimously elected our first president, George Washington nonetheless knew the union was a fragile one. He went...
Hillary brushes off heath concerns, touts 'endurance'
Hillary Clinton on Saturday dismissed concerns that she lacks stamina to be president. At a rally in Clinton, Iowa, the Democrat frontrunner, 68, sighed when a crowd member questioned her...
Hillary's team copied intel off top-secret server to email
The FBI is investigating whether members of Hillary Clinton’s inner circle “cut and pasted” material from the government’s classified network so that it could be sent to her private email...
I delivered takeout during the blizzard, and you won't believe who stiffed me on tips
I battled my way for 12 blocks through mountains of snow and against treacherous winds, while teetering on the back of a bike. My mission: Pick up an order of...
The story that destroyed Truman Capote -- and high society
They were his swans, the most beautiful, stylish, wealthy and envied women in all of New York. And he, Truman Capote, was their ultimate trophy: the boy genius whose masterpiece,...
Trump's campaign has been very good for business
He’s leading every national poll in the GOP race for president, but Donald Trump can’t let go of his day job. After almost every event in Iowa or other primary...
Syfy's 'The Magicians' has more than tricks up its sleeve
The Magicians Monday, 9 p.m., Syfy Best friends since childhood, Quentin (Jason Ralph) and Julia (Stella Maeve) are recruited to take an entrance exam to Brakebills University, an institution for...
Man showing off gun accidentally kills friend, cops say
A Brooklyn man was killed Saturday night in the city's only recorded homicide of the blizzard when his roommate accidentally shot him, cops said. Zdzislaw Golabek, 37, was fatally shot...
Teacher blasts exposé on abuse in NYC schools
Last Sunday, The Post featured the book “The Battle for Room 314,” Ed Boland’s account of teaching for a year at the Lower East Side’s Henry Street School of International...
Nippy desnuda cleans up Times Square
This delightful desnuda warmed more than a few hearts in snowy Times Square on Saturday. “What a country!” one male passer-by bellowed in a Russian accent. “I love America!” agreed...
Husband secretly divorced wife after wedding 'to protect assets'
They were married for 20 years, raising a son and living the good life jetting between homes in New York and France. It was all perfect, except for one thing:...
Woman sues after being dropped in 'Dirty Dancing' lift
She did not have the time of her life. Manhattan model-maker Suzanne Couture, 56, was dancing in Vermont last winter when her partner, a Patrick Swayze wannabe, attempted a “Dirty...
This election feels like a reunion of the Woodstock generation
Forget the chatter about millennials, the tech revolution and a new world order. The presidential campaign is taking a U-turn and suddenly feels like a reunion of the Woodstock generation....
Daily Blotter
Queens A 20-year-old man was shot in the face by four thugs who ambushed him in Far Rockaway early Saturday, law-enforcement authorities said. The men approached the victim on Beach...