U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is very wrong to weaken the Senate’s historic filibuster procedure — which allows legislation and nominations to be slowed or blocked in the absence of 60 votes. Thune, pushed by fellow Republican President Trump, is taking this damaging and drastic step over frustrations at Senate Democrats, who have been… Read More »

An event to neither be celebrated nor mourned Newton, N.J.: Political violence — actually, violence of any form — is abhorrent. I don’t condone what happened on Wednesday in Utah, but I will not mourn Charlie Kirk. I can’t bring myself in good conscience to express sympathy for the demise of a hate-mongering, racist, misogynistic,… Read More »

Three New Jersey teens have been charged months after an early-summer pop-up party in Glassboro drew hundreds of people and ultimately ended with a chair-throwing brawl, a shooting and a stampede, officials said. Two 18-year-olds — Serenity Hall of Camden, and Elijah Evans of Pine Hill — and a 17-year-old from Glassboro are accused of… Read More »

Late Saturday night, police announced the arrest of a Chevrolet Suburban driver who is accused of horrifically mowing down and killing a 16-year-old girl in Queens after he had argued with her around 4 a.m. earlier that morning. Edwin Cruz Gomez, 38, of Uniondale, Long Island, was taken into custody at the scene in Jackson… Read More »

Dear Eric: My mother-in-law, Dana, 79, was married for 51 years before her husband passed six years ago. She still visits us frequently. When she does, she stays at either our house or one of my husband’s sister’s homes. Within the last six months, my MIL began dating another senior gentleman, Peter. Apparently, Dana and… Read More »

A 20-year-old man was shot in the leg in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Saturday night, police said. The victim was blasted once in the left thigh at 9:23 p.m. at Snyder and Utica Aves, according to cops. He was transported by EMS to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. It wasn’t clear if the victim was… Read More »

BOSTON — Jazz Chisholm Jr. followed a big performance with even bigger words after the Yankees’ 5-3, series-winning victory over the Red Sox on Saturday, as he once again declared his club the team to beat. “That we’re the best team in the league,” Chisholm responded when asked what statement the Yankees made by picking… Read More »

General Daily Insight for September 14, 2025 A busy day should wind down on a comforting note. The Moon is hurtling through Gemini, so we’re probably more than ready to engage with the world around us. Even so, we’ll want to be specific in our approaches to anything as the Moon squares the Sun in… Read More »

The future may look bright for the Mets, but the present continues to get more and more bleak. The Mets got six scoreless innings from standout rookie Brandon Sproat on Saturday in his second career start, only for their bullpen to implode in a back-breaking 3-2 loss to the Texas Rangers. Wyatt Langford’s two-out RBI… Read More »

No one deserves to have somebody sneak past security, climb to a rooftop with a high-powered rifle and take a shot at them. And, no one deserves to sit on a stage with a microphone in his hand and barely finish a sentence — about violence, no less — and have a bullet explode in his… Read More »