October 6, 2013
Cops probing deadly end to DC rampage
WASHINGTON — Police in Washington are reviewing the use of officers' deadly force in the killing of a woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier,...
Why reporters fear Team Obama
Many reporters covering national security and government policy in Washington these days are taking precautions to keep their sources from becoming casualties in the Obama administration’s war on leaks. They...
Navy SEALs aren't enough to win war on terror
The paradox, and saving grace, of the Obama presidency is that while the president is indecisive about big things — the Afghan surge, intervention in Syria, entitlement reform, repealing the...
Baby found dead in Brooklyn apartment
A 19-month-old baby boy was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment Sunday, and the police are questioning the child’s mother, cops said. The tot, Justin Stephens, was found inside the...
Going the extra Miley for Halloween
Here’s a scary thought: a Halloween costume inspired by Miley Cyrus and her twerking, tongue-lolling VMA performance. The Twerkin’ Teddy — a leotard adorned with the image of a bear...
Kenya attack 'planned weeks in advance'
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's counterterrorism police unit released closed-circuit television footage Sunday that showed two men entering a local bank where they collected money and paid for a car used...
Pop-culture inspired Halloween costumes
Here are some of this Halloween's pop culture-inspired costumes.
Joe Torre: I'd listen if commish job was offered
LOS ANGELES — Joe Torre showed up Sunday night at Game 3 of the NLDS at Dodger Stadium, his old workplace, making it clear he is too old to take...
Knicks like Melo-Bargnani forward combo
Granted, just one week into training camp, the Knicks haven’t seen it a heckuva lot, but the more they see it, the more they like it. What is “it?” Their...
Warren Buffett protégé in trouble at Benjamin Moore
Warren Buffett has ditched his usual hands-off approach with this particular investment — and so has his young protégé. The Nebraska billionaire — whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate typically gives free...
What would 'Mayor' de Blasio do about NY's finances?
‘Wall Street has not only recovered to its pre-recession levels, but managed to set new records,” Democratic front-runner Bill de Blasio proclaimed before a business group last Friday. But it...
This week's magazines are just being Miley
Miley Cyrus is the new quarterback for the Giants? Don’t rule it out. She’s everywhere else. And, goodness knows, Eli Manning could use the relief. You’ve got to hand it...
New York's campaign-finance limits are illegal
Get ready to see a major New York campaign-finance rule get tossed out by the courts. The state’s limit on PAC donations, even when the PAC is spending independently of...
Investor trying to pry Pepsi from its snacks business
Nelson Peltz is nothing if not persistent. Months after a mainly solo effort to get PepsiCo to split its snacks business from its beverage unit so it could then buy...
Toddler dies after being struck by vehicle
A 3-year old girl was struck and killed by an SUV while crossing a Queens street with her grandmother Sunday, witnesses and cops said. Little Allison Liao, 3, was walking...
Hack score undermines Broadway version of ‘Big Fish’
There's a huge gap between what you see and what you hear in “Big Fish.” Visually speaking, this new Broadway musical is inventive, playful and often downright magical. But then,...
Asham provides physical presence for Rangers
LOS ANGELES — Arron Asham had no illusions entering training camp. “I came in knowing that it would be do or die,” said the 35-year-old winger who will join the...
Coughlin's call contributes to Giants loss
Tom Coughlin cannot run the football for the Giants, nor can he open holes for the running backs or protect the quarterback. He cannot prevent turnovers on offense or produce...
DeSean Jackson leaves mark on Giants again
Something about MetLife Stadium brings out the best in DeSean Jackson. Nothing will ever top his walk-off punt return three years ago, of course, but the Eagles’ speedy wideout helped...
Justin Tuck: Giants offense not at fault
Whether you were inside MetLife Stadium, watching on TV or simply looking at the box score of Sunday’s 36-21 Giants loss to the Eagles, you had the distinct impression the...
David Wilson injury means trouble for Giants
It all looked so promising for the Giants and David Wilson when he scored on a 5-yard touchdown run early in the first quarter and punctuated the play with not...
Foles rescues Eagles, but Vick is still the man
Chip Kelly’s opinion is the only one that matters in this case, which is why the Eagles still don’t have a quarterback controversy after their 36-21 win Sunday over the...
Eagles QB switch altered Giants' game plan
The Giants spent all week leading into Sunday’s must-win game preparing for Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick’s legs. Turned out it was the mid-game switch to backup Nick Foles’ arm that...
Santonio Holmes a headache for Jets
ATLANTA -- Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes is out for Monday’s game with a hamstring injury, but that didn’t stop him from making headlines this week. Holmes came under fire...
Alvarez single puts Pirates on brink of NLCS
PITTSBURGH — The only chant at PNC Park that rivals “M-V-P” for an Andrew McCutchen sighting is “Pe-dro” for a certain third baseman. Pedro Alvarez was worthy of all the...
Woodson: Knicks will still be 3-point happy
Last season, the Knicks broke every NBA 3-point-shooting record known to man and machine. They took more (2,371) 3-pointers and made more (891) than any team ever.But now, their two...
Nets' Taylor thriving with Deron out
While Deron Williams spent the Nets’ week-long training camp at Duke University limited in practice because of a sprained right ankle, he liked what he saw from Tyshawn Taylor. “I...
'Juno' writer penning new teen series
‘Juno” writer Diablo Cody is penning a new series about a 16-year-old genius who’s home-schooled and isolated from her peers — until she enrolls in her local high, according to...
'Raymond' star Garrett writing script for ABC pilot
Emmy-winning former “Everybody Loves Raymond” co-star Brad Garrett is getting a second chance at ABC. Garrett, who starred last season on ABC’s short-lived “How to Live With Your Parents (For...
Antrel Rolle looking for Giants to fight back
Earlier this week, Antrel Rolle said his winless Giants could run the table the rest of the season and go 12-0 to reach the playoffs. But after suffering a 36-21...
New dining for Meadowlands Racetrack
New dining and entertainment options are coming to the Meadowlands Racetrack, which opens in November, in a 180,000 square-feet space over three floors, plus outdoor space, The Post has learned....
Eli's year looking like dad Archie's career
There has rarely been a time in his career as a professional quarterback when Eli Manning hasn’t been judged through the prism of his older brother. Part of that is...
Giants Blitz
HERO Eagles backup quarterback Nick Foles made quite the case for the starting job Sunday, taking over for the injured Michael Vick just before halftime and rallying Philadelphia to the...
Cubs would likely outbid Yankees for Joe Girardi
Joe Girardi likely can get more years and money to manage the Cubs, but that would mean his future would be dancing in the wind at least until Nov. 1...
Go to Greg: Am I a victim of age discrimination?
I am a 50-year-old marketing director, and my new boss told me I need to think “younger.” I am shocked. Is this age discrimination? You should be as shocked as...
Giants report card
OFFENSE Some big moments for Hakeem Nicks (9-142) and Rueben Randle (6-96, 2 TDs), but nothing doing again on the ground — long gain was seven yards. As for Eli...
Is it OK to juice cleanse at work?
They're expensive. They’re trendy. And if you’re trying to lose weight fast, they may be your only hope. Juice-cleanse devotees swear that going on an all-liquid detox like BluePrint Cleanse...
Bill de Blasio: Republicans can't help NYC 'move forward'
Bill de Blasio has a message for New York City Republicans: Leave! After attending a church service in Brooklyn Sunday, the Democratic mayoral candidate suggested Republicans don’t care about the...
Star Megan Boone talks early success of 'The Blacklist'
NBC has given “The Blacklist” a big vote of confidence by renewing the series for a full season after only two episodes. It was almost predictable, based on the show’s...
New legal show talks for Star Jones
Star Jones is in talks to co-host a syndicated legal show. The former co-host of “The View,” who left the ABC gabfest in 2006 after nine years, would be one...
Sofia Vergara to produce ABC sitcom
‘Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara is spreading her wings. Vergara, who plays Gloria on the hit ABC sitcom, will produce a sitcom for the network based on her own parenting...
Rex, Jets brace for Matt Ryan's Falcons
ATLANTA — When the Jets’ schedule came out in April, the month of October jumped off the page. It featured four teams that have been playoff fixtures in recent years...
Self-inflicted wounds killing Jets
Here’s the thing about the Jets four games into the season as they play the Falcons on Monday night in the Georgia Dome: They’re not that good. They’re not that...
Dead 2-year-old's father and uncle wanted for robbery
It's a family affair. The uncle of the two-year-old boy shot dead in his stroller in Brooklyn last month is wanted for a robbery in which the tragic tot's father...
What's really in your chicken nuggets?
Stand-up comedians have long joked that some things, like the actual components of chicken nuggets, are better left mysterious. Recently, Mississippi researchers found out why: two nuggets they examined consisted...
It's official: R.I.P. New York Giants
Inside what used to be a football stadium, their football stadium, the place they actually dreamed they might be playing on Super Sunday, the Giants, disgraceful 36-21 losers, lay dead...
Giants keel over in fourth as season spirals to death
The Giants were rolling and the joint was jumping. The Giants had dug themselves out of a 12-point hole and Eli Manning’s second third-quarter touchdown pass to Rueben Randle put...
Newborn with umbilical cord attached found in backyard
A newborn boy who still had his umbilical cord attached was found in a Queens back yard this morning, cops said. Gary Long woke up at his home on 132nd...
New York should cancel primary election runoffs
How about the winner wins? That’s our simple answer to the runoff problem. Last Tuesday, Letitia James beat Dan Squadron in the Democratic primary runoff for public advocate. Only 180,000...
Jamie Dimon stepping down isn't good enough
It won’t be enough. That’s our reaction to the news that JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon has stepped down as chairman of one of the company’s banking subsidiaries. In itself,...
Parents’ historic march for charter schools
Some 10,000 parents, kids and teachers are about to make city history: On Tuesday, they’ll march across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan to demand an end to the war on...
Good Samaritan in biker beating 'felt intense danger'
A churchgoing good Samaritan who helped stop a gang of bikers from stomping motorist Alexian Lien insisted Sunday that he’s not a hero for protecting the helpless victim from the...
The queen of crack was a 58-year-old grandma
BUFFALO, N.Y. — For a dozen years, Theresa Anderson was the queen of Deshler Street. The unassuming woman owned five small wooden houses along the poor side street, filling them...
Bloomberg: Government shutdown hurting Sandy recovery
Mayor Bloomberg on Sunday urged Congress to solve the shutdown crisis before it starts to really hurt victims of Hurricane Sandy, many of whom are reliant on federal aid to...
Thierry Henry: Getting points is all about attitude
Thierry Henry and Tim Cahill, without question the Red Bulls’ most acclaimed and accomplished players, say the team’s late-season streak has little to do with ability and everything to do...
Wind blows out Russia's Olympic flame
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic flame on Red Square on Sunday, but the four-month relay to Sochi for the Winter Games got off to a...
Coffee is actually better than morning sex
Our love of coffee is so strong most people would rather have a caffeine fix when they first wake up than sex, a new survey has found. The study by...
Netanyahu warns Obama: don't trust Iran
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his calls for President Obama not to trust Iran or ease tough sanctions until that nation gives up “the whole...
Inside the estate Cindy Crawford shares with George Clooney
George Clooney and Cindy Crawford's husband Rande Gerber built beachfront vacation homes alongside each other in Los Cabos in southern Mexico.
Hagel orders 350K Pentagon employees back to work
WASHINGTON — For days lawmakers have debated which federal workers should be put back to work. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ended the argument Saturday for most Pentagon civilian employees, ordering...
No one backing down in government standoff
WASHINGTON — Nobody is backing down from the standoff that so far has shuttered the government for a week. House Speaker John Boehner declared Sunday that it’s time for Republicans...
Woman violates tiger's space, tiger acts like a tiger
WYNNEWOOD, Okla. — A tiger ripped up the left arm of a worker at a central Oklahoma animal park after the woman stuck her hand into the giant cat's enclosure...
Experts start destroying Syria's chemical weapons
BEIRUT — International inspectors began destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said Sunday, racing under a tight deadline aiming...
Obama lambastes Republicans: 'Stop this farce'
President Barack Obama has called on Republicans to cooperate with Democrats as the US government shutdown entered a fifth day with no signs of an end to the impasse. With...
Twitter IPO will make co-founder a billionaire
The personal fortune of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams probably will take up 10 characters once the online communications company goes public. Williams, who was Twitter's CEO for two years until...
Monster truck kills 8 in Mexico
Spectators flee the scene where a monster truck hit a grandstand full of spectators during an exhibition in the northern city of Chihuahua, Mexico, 05 October 2013.
Out-of-control monster truck kills at least 8
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — An out-of-control monster truck shot into a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show, killing at least eight people and hurting 80 others, dozens seriously, officials...
Biker thug caught prison break from soft judge
The motor psycho charged with starting the biker-mob attack that left a young Manhattan dad beaten to a pulp flipped off photographers in court Sunday — as it emerged that...
Navy SEALs fail in assault on Kenya attack terrorist
MOGADISHU, Somalia — In a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya's capital, U.S. special forces on Saturday struck out against Islamic extremists who have carried...
Astronaut's worst fear: 'floating off into space'
Of the 7 billion people on the planet, only 530 have been in orbit, and less than half of those have ever physically been outside a module, walking and working...
Paris Jackson will finally leave her family's grim estate
Debbie Rowe, the baby mama to the King of Pop’s two eldest children but a persona-non-grata to the Jackson clan, will soon become co-guardian to her daughter, Paris Jackson, family...
Brothers let $500M in holdings sit mostly empty
It’s a real-estate mystery: In a city where studios sell for millions, why are more than a dozen prime Manhattan properties going to waste? Frank and Michael Ring inherited 15...
4 US soldiers killed in south Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb killed four US soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, American and Afghan officials said. They were the latest casualties in a 12-year conflict that shows...
Sea-Monkeys creator’s widow sues over royalties
Monkey “sea” — monkey sue! The widow of the inventor of Sea-Monkeys is suing a toy company for allegedly failing to fork over close to a million clams a year...
Cindy Crawford and hubby share estate with Clooney
Check out this girl next door! George Clooney and his BFF Rande Gerber are such good chums that they built beachfront vacation homes alongside each other in Los Cabos in...
Reggie Jackson wasn’t the #1 pick because of Mets ‘racism’
Arizona State standout Reggie Jackson was considered the best amateur ballplayer in the country heading into the 1966 Major League Baseball draft. The team picking first that year was the...
Lhota needs to hit back at de Blasio — and soon
Back in the day, the Pittsburgh Pirates had an excitable radio man who bled for the Bucs. On the rare days when the Pirates pulled off a shocking comeback, Bob...
Embassy bombing Al Qaeda leader captured
An elite US commando unit launched a daring raid into Libya on Saturday — and captured an al Qaeda leader on the lam since 1988. Anas al-Liby had been on the...
Dentist groped employees and patients: lawsuit
A Manhattan dentist seen in YouTube videos watching porn with patients and getting quickie lap dances in his office operates his business with the dignity of a high-school locker room,...
Cruise ship returns to port following outbreak
A cruise ship with a norovirus outbreak returned to Bayonne, NJ, Saturday — ending a two-week trip that confined more than 300 passengers to their rooms. The Celebrity Summit departed...
City park police want to carry guns
They wear bulletproof vests and arrest violent perps. Now city park police are fighting to bear arms. A week after a madman stabbed five people in Riverside Park in broad...
A’s tame Tigers, even series with walk-off win
OAKLAND, Calif. — For much of the season, Stephen Vogt caught Sonny Gray with Triple-A Sacramento. Neither could have pictured pairing up on such a sensational playoff moment for the...
School aide sprung from elevator duty
Fran Tortorici is free! The veteran school aide, 89, no longer has to sit in a tiny elevator all day at the Manhattan Center of Science and Mathematics. Principal David...
Shutdown denies sick girl her Statue of Liberty dream
A Kentucky teen with a deadly illness came to the city to fulfill a lifelong dream: to climb the steps of the Statue of Liberty. But Morgan Jones, who is...
Queens HS confines failing students in an outdoor trailer
This school treats its most troubled students like trailer trash, whistleblowers say. The principal of William Cullen Bryant HS in Long Island City, Queens, has rounded up more than 20...
Three arrested in Bronx double murder
Three people were arrested in connection to Thursday's double murder of a Bronx woman and her mother, including the young woman’s ex-boyfriend, police say. According to authorities, Andrew Scott, 23,...
Flip-flopping De Blasio now says he's a progressive
Well, that didn’t take long. A day after describing himself as a “fiscal conservative,” Bill de Blasio reversed course Saturday — casting himself as a progressive. “I’ll try this on...
New books celebrate the golden, silver ages of DC Comics
It’s a great time for comic-book fans: New York Comic Con starts Thursday, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is a hit for ABC, the CW’s “Arrow” starts its second season later this...
Rob Sheffield: My Karaoke New York
Rob Sheffield may be a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, but that doesn’t mean he has the musical chops to release his own chart-topping hit. “Tacos will grow on Christmas...
Russian Federation being pulled apart
Don’t let Vladimir Putin fool you. Russia’s president may be cutting an imposing figure on the world stage these days, but his country faces a daunting future. Today, the Russian...
Miguel Cotto KOs Delvin Rodriguez
Miguel Cotto stopped Delvin Rodriguez in the third round Saturday night in a junior middleweight bout at Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. Cotto improved to 38-4 with his 31st knockout,...
Miley Cyrus 'murdered' Hannah Montana on SNL
That "Video Music Awards" performance did mark the end of days, after all. Miley Cyrus spoofed her over-the-top antics during this weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live," donning her bear...
Giants offense must wake up to keep up with Eagles
Eli Manning doesn’t show the strain or the failure or the disappointment the way others do. His face does not contort, his veins do not bulge from his neck, his...
Serby's Q&A with Metta World Peace
New Knicks forward Metta World Peace blocked out some time for a Q&A session with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: How would you describe your on-court mentality? A: It changed....
Yankees: Cano works hard despite appearance
You are not the only one who has seen Robinson Cano jog to first base, exerting a tepid effort that harms his reputation and, perhaps, his earning power? Joe Girardi...