By New York Post | Emily Crane | 7/16/2025 8:17 AM
AOC, who loudly backed Mamdani during the primary, said she was eager for people in DC to meet her fellow lefty firebrand face-to- face to hear his plan for NYC. ... Read full Story
An iconic Meatpacking District diner featured in the movie “Taxi Driver” will shut down as part of a deal with the city – as locals said the “spirit” of old New York is slowly vanishing. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Alex Mitchell | 7/16/2025 6:30 AM
A Long Island culinary artist has exactly what home grillers need for their barbecue to stand out from the rest this summer -- a delectable lamb skewer from Italy's Adriatic coast that isn't sold anywhere else stateside. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Brandon Cruz | 7/16/2025 6:00 AM
A Suffolk County cop fatally shot a knife-wielding madman who allegedly charged out of the woods to finish off his bloodied victim, officials said. ... Read full Story
The City Council voted to reject a land-use change for Bally's Corp. to open a casino at the golf property formerly operated by President Trump's firm at Ferry Point in The Bronx -- effectively killing the bid for a gaming license. ... Read full Story
Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani stuck to his socialist guns during a highly anticipated powwow with Big Apple business leaders Tuesday -- doubling down on his plan to raise their taxes. ... Read full Story
The handler of a frail carriage horse who collapsed on a busy Manhattan street “ignored” clear signs of the struggling colt’s distress, prosecutors charged Tuesday at the start of the alleged animal abuser’s trial. But driver Ian McKeever’s lawyer shot back that the horse “Ryder” merely “tripped and fell” at the end of his shift on... ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Brandon Cruz | 7/15/2025 6:49 PM
Garbarino slept through the first House vote on his party's linchpin One Big Beautiful Bill -- delivering a major nail-biter at the time for Republicans, who ended up passing the legislation by just one vote without him. ... Read full Story
Rep. Elise Stefanik called for CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez to resign after flunking his House testimony Tuesday on combating campus antisemitism -- including allowing the hiring of a chief diversity officer who previously worked for a pro-Hamas, Israel-bashing group. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Amanda Woods | 7/15/2025 6:13 PM
The man was discovered unconscious and unresponsive in the rear of the shop on Port Richmond Avenue near Catherine Street around 9:50 a.m. Saturday, police said. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Brandon Cruz | 7/15/2025 5:28 PM
A Long Island man already accused of rape in a high-profile missing-teen case is now facing sex-trafficking charges for allegedly pimping out a woman for drugs and savagely beating her when she protested. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | David Propper | 7/15/2025 4:44 PM
“They are the last of the hunters in a sense of harvesting high-protein, unspoiled seafood source,” Brady said. “Someone is forgetting about them.” ... Read full Story
A local photographer captured lightning striking One World Trade Center during Monday's torrential downpour -- and it wasn't the first time. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Vaughn Golden | 7/15/2025 4:26 PM
An employee of Public Partnerships, LLC -- the company hand-picked by Hochul's administration to act as the sole payment go-between for the state and participants in the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program -- had been falsifying the direct-deposit information of up to 10,000 participants, sources told The Post. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | James Franey | 7/15/2025 4:19 PM
A number of other Wall Street hotshots stayed away, too -- sending non-executive underlings in their place, according to sources familiar with the matter. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 16, 2025 is:
abject \AB-jekt\ adjective
Abject usually describes things that are extremely bad or severe. It can also describe something that feels or shows shame, or someone lacking courage or strength.
// Happily, their attempts to derail the project ended in abject failure.
// The defendants were contrite, offering abject apologies for their roles in the scandal that cost so many their life savings.
// The author chose to cast all but the hero of the book as abject cowards.
“This moment ... points toward the book’s core: a question of how to distinguish tenderness from frugality. Is ‘Homework’ about a child who took a remarkably frictionless path, aided by a nation that had invested in civic institutions, from monetary hardship to the ivory tower? Merely technically. Is it a story of how members of a family, protected by a social safety net from abject desperation, developed different ideas about how to relate to material circumstance? We’re getting there.” — Daniel Felsenthal, The Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Did you know?
We’re sorry to say you must cast your eyes down to fully understand abject: in Middle English the word described those lowly ones who are rejected and cast out. By the 15th century, it was applied as it still is today to anything that has sunk to, or exists in, a low state or condition; in modern use it often comes before the words poverty, misery, and failure. Applied to words like surrender and apology, it connotes hopelessness and humility. The word’s Latin source is the verb abicere, meaning “to throw away, throw down, overcome, or abandon.” Like reject, its ultimate root is the Latin verb jacere, meaning “to throw.” Subject is also from jacere, and we’ll leave you with that word as a way to change the subject.