Gov. Hochul is asking Long Island’s Republican congressional delegation to speak up about a looming possible Long Island Rail Road strike as the MTA braces for possible labor action on the nation’s busiest commuter railroad. “A strike that paralyzes the nation’s busiest commuter railroad is not a partisan issue,” Hochul wrote Wednesday in a letter… Read More »
Political analyst Matthew Dowd is out of a job at MSNBC after on on-air comments about the shooting that killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Dowd’s comments came amid the network’s breaking news coverage of the deadly gunfire at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. Kirk was speaking at the Orem campus as part of his “American… Read More »
Saoirse Ronan and husband Jack Lowden have quietly welcomed their first child, just over a year into their marriage. Four-time Oscar nominee Ronan, 31, and the 35-year-old “Slow Horses” star were spotted smiling as they pushed a stroller in a London park, according to photos published by The Sun. It’s unclear when they welcomed their… Read More »
Vice President JD Vance Thursday was set to journey to Utah to pay his respects to slain Charlie Kirk and skipped the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero. Vance and his wife planned to fly to Salt Lake City to console Kirk’s widow, Erika, and their two children instead of attending the annual ceremony in lower… Read More »
Of the five relievers to pitch for the Yankees on Wednesday night, only one managed to deliver a scoreless outing: Austin Slater. Slater, of course, is a veteran outfielder who was pressed into mop-up pitching duty in the ninth inning of the Yankees’ 11-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers. It’s been that kind of week… Read More »
My wife and I were having lunch in downtown Buffalo last Sunday when we met a lovely family from Mississippi all decked out in Bills attire. I asked how they became Bills fans and the mother replied that her husband used to play for Buffalo. When she said his name was Kent Hull, I immediately… Read More »
An NYPD cop who reported having health problems from the toxins languishing over Ground Zero more than two decades ago has still not received any help from the federal government — because his illness hasn’t been certified by the World Trade Center Health Program amid ongoing turmoil at the CDC. “They haven’t even looked at… Read More »
Turmoil and a lack of communication at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, led by President Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, has left 9/11 advocates in the dark about the future of the World Trade Center Health Program and concerned about the first responders and survivors it’s designed to help.… Read More »
Every autumn, just as the air thins out and subway cars fill up with kids heading back to school, Fashion Week comes rolling into New York like the cool aunt back from a summer holiday with unexpected gifts no one knew they needed or wanted until then. The streets fill up with black cars bringing… Read More »
On one bright Tuesday morning 24 years ago today, our whole world changed. A city reeled. A war unlike any other in American history began. A generation of young adults has a hazy understanding at best of what transpired on Sept. 11, 2001, of the depth of the damage done, of its wider significance. In… Read More »