By New York Post | Vaughn Golden | 3/23/2025 9:33 PM
The Hochul administration softened its deadline for a pro-union overhaul of the state’s $9 billion home care system -– after a rollout so chaotic one insider called it "a s--t show." ... Read full Story
"In our great city, with a large population of Jewish residents, one of the candidates running for mayor is spewing antisemitism," an attendee recalled the mayor telling Jewish community members. ... Read full Story
"It's disappointing that four years later, we're still waiting for regulations to come out," said The Cannabis Place Executive Director Osbert Orduna. ... Read full Story
"This is terrible. A dead body lying right there next to the jogging path and the car with the blood on the doors?" one local said. ... Read full Story
Parent advocates are making an 11th hour push to urge state lawmakers to back Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed statewide “bell-to-bell” ban on the use of smartphones in schools, and not leave the decision to the local school districts who might back off a full-day prohibition. ... Read full Story
"We're calling on him to step down as minority leader because he's not the leader we need at this moment," said Jennie Spector of Indivisible Brooklyn. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Brandon Cruz | 3/23/2025 3:32 PM
An ambitious $3 billion plan to build a state-of-the-art medical center at Nassau Community College is now officially on hold -- and all but dead. ... Read full Story
New York City has drafted a rule to implement a law making jaywalking legal — despite prior objections from transportation officials and the NYPD. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Steve Janoski | 3/23/2025 2:32 PM
The crass shirt shows Garfield, paws spread like wings, as he careens into the two upright pans of lasagna — with the caption, “9/11? Yea! I’ll take 911 … orders of lasagna!” ... Read full Story
In a now-viral clip, the woman branded the hat-wearer a "racist" aboard a No. 6 train entering the 28th Street station in Manhattan last week. ... Read full Story
The wind speeds themselves weren't out of the ordinary for March, but ripped through the five boroughs much more frequently than in years past. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Rich Calder | 3/23/2025 9:28 AM
The highest prices for full in-patient treatment were at New York-Presbyterian ($92,727) and Montefiore Medical Center ($83,573), while Stony Brook University Hospital was the lowest ($36,876). ... Read full Story
The New Jersey teen who allegedly gunned down a Newark detective and wounded another in a hail of 29 bullets caught their attention less than an hour before -- when he flashed the eventual murder weapon live on Instagram, The Post has learned. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Shane Galvin | 3/23/2025 12:31 AM
A massive fire broke out at a home on the north shore of Staten Island, resulting in three of the Bravest being sent to the hospital. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 24, 2025 is:
garble \GAR-bul\ verb
To garble something, such as a word, name, message, etc., is to cause it to be unclear or distorted. This type of garbling can be the result of an accident, ignorance, or a transmission error. Garble can also mean "to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or change the meaning."
"Noisy environments and interruptions garbled the audio or led to the services transcribing voices of people in the office who weren’t in our meeting." — Danielle Abril, The Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
Did you know?
Garble is a word with a spicy history, and we're not just saying that to curry favor with gastronomes. It is presumed that this word was passed from Arabic to Mediterranean Europe through trade in Eastern spices, and was first introduced into English from the Anglo-French verb garbeler, used for the action of sifting out impurities—such as dust, dirt, husks, etc.—from spices. In the 15th century, the English garble carried this same meaning as well as "to cull," i.e., to sort or pick out the best parts of something. If these origins seem curious given garble’s now more common meanings of "to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression" and "to cause to be unclear or confusing; to introduce error into," consider that one way of garbling someone’s story is to take bits and pieces out of context.