Month: August 2019

China on Thursday vowed to retaliate against any new tariffs in the trade war with the United States — even as it said it would be willing to meet the White House “halfway” on trade issues. see also US-China trade talks: Beijing backs off retaliation threat over tariffs Beijing said Thursday it would be willingRead moreRead more

Philadelphia police arrested the suspected gunman who battled cops in an hours-long standoff and shootout that left six officers wounded and another injured in a car crash, authorities said. Maurice Hill, 36, was taken into custody soon after midnight after the standoff in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood, Philadelphia Police Sergeant Eric Gripp said on Twitter. HeRead moreRead more

A geeky recession indicator that blared red on Wednesday — freaking out Wall Street and Main Street alike — might be broken, economists say. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 800 points — marking its worst dip all year — after a rare inversion of Treasury market yields sounded alarm bells. see alsoRead moreRead more

ATLANTA — The energy that had buoyed the Mets during their consecutive winning streaks over the last three weeks was conspicuously absent Tuesday. But the sting of a bad night at the office was dull in comparison to the possibility their best pure hitter will be lost for an extended period. Jeff McNeil sustained aRead moreRead more

Nate Diaz gonna Nate Diaz. The controversial UFC star sparked up a joint — in a room full of reporters — before doing some light boxing on Wednesday during an open workout session. Diaz, 34, later clarified that he was smoking a CBD joint with no THC, the psychoactive compound found in marijuana, which isRead moreRead more

What’s in a name? Or in the case of New York’s new Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, what’s not in it? Roughly year-old signs for the long suburban bridge are being patched over because they don’t bear the former governor’s middle initial, the state Department of Transportation said Thursday. Department spokesman Joseph Morrissey said it’sRead moreRead more

Play ball! The 71st Annual Artists and Writers Charity Softball Game is coming up on Aug. 17, and the Writers, hoping to keep their three-year winning streak intact, are importing former NY Ranger star Ron Duguay to bolster the lineup at the event — held at historic Herrick Park in East Hampton. “He’s written hisRead moreRead more

She may be the only one smiling. Visitors to Paris’ famed Louvre Museum are furious that museum staff are allowing them less than a minute to view the famed “Mona Lisa,” after waiting in line hours just to see Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. The painting draws about 30,000 people per day — or about 80%Read moreRead more

Has Skip Bayless ever been wrong? “Honestly, I’ve never regretted an opinion because I work too hard at it. I prep too hard, I think too hard,” Bayless told The Post. “When I give that list [of 10-15 topics] to the coordinating producer, I give my nutshell opinion and once I say it, I don’tRead moreRead more

Let’s hear it for the great Lois Smith, who rode to the rescue this week when “The Inheritance,” coming in from London, was missing a key cast member: Vanessa Redgrave. She won raves for her performance as a mother trying to make sense of her son’s homosexuality, and producers Sonia Friedman and Tom Kirdahy hadRead moreRead more