Month: July 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — Extra, extra, it’s nine innings or bust for the Mets. For the third time in four games, the Mets and Giants on Sunday played into extra innings. And like in the previous two instances, the Mets cracked, wasting a strong starting pitching performance. Mike Yastrzemski’s walk-off homer against Robert Gsellman in theRead moreRead more

Dear John: With all this talk about writing off student debt, no one mentions the tax consequences of the forgiven debt. Will that be forgiven too? M.G. Dear M.G.: Good point. Let’s forgive all debt! Everybody, your debts are forgiven. Nobody owes taxes. Everybody now can go out and spend and increase your credit cardRead moreRead more

Dear Bill de Blasio, Everyone knows you’re a terrible mayor — maybe the worst in the past 100 years. But can’t you at least pretend that you love us? Like, by showing your face when we’re scared or in need of solace? There’s a low-cost way to make people ignore your dereliction and laziness: JustRead moreRead more

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The locals, loud and proud, have been anticipating some Irish magic in this 148th British Open held at Royal Portrush for the first time in 68 years. They’ve been willing it to be one of their own hoisting the Claret Jug late Sunday evening at this gem of a golf courseRead moreRead more

Owners of the trendy Bowery Hotel so infuriated a NY judge with their delay tactics that she has refused to hear their defense in a multimillion-dollar fraud case. Now it’s time for them to pay up. The epic legal struggle over the Lower East Side hot spot — known for entertaining A-listers Gigi Hadid, JenniferRead moreRead more

Iranian leaders said the country seized a British oil tanker on Friday in retaliation for the UK’s role in impounding an Iranian ship two weeks ago. “The rule of reciprocal action is well-known in international law,”  said Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, a spokesman for Iran’s Guardian Council, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. He added,Read moreRead more

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson is not letting his new nickname “de-facto mayor” go to his head, but he took another shot at Hizzoner for being missing in action during last weekend’s blackout. “They say that 90 percent of life is showing up. Well, 100 percent of being an elected official is showing up,” heRead moreRead more

Former First Lady Michelle Obama weighed in on the furor over President Trump’s remarks against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), stating, “it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.” Click Here: bape jacket cheap “What truly makes our country great is its diversity,” she tweeted Friday. “I’ve seen that beauty in so many waysRead moreRead more

Take a pew, sitting down just got woke! A British student has snagged a nifty design award for creating an anti-manspreading chair. Fed up with men who luxuriate in their seating, University of Brighton student Laila Laurel, 23, fashioned a pair of his and hers chairs that challenge the way men and women “command space.”Read moreRead more

Not such a sweet deal. Experts from the University of Sussex are sounding the alarm over aspartame, an artificial sweetener used in everything from diet soda to chewing gum. In the US, it is commonly sold under brand names including NutraSweet. A new academic paper from professors Erik Millstone and Elisabeth Dawson say a EuropeanRead moreRead more