Welcome to the first year of the rest of the WNBA’s life. The WNBA’s 28th season, which tips off Tuesday night, is Year 1 of Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever rookie who has seized the popular sports imagination in a way not seen by a women’s basketball player in a generation, if ever. What will … Read more
Once it was clear Gerrit Cole was going to miss two-plus months, at minimum, where would the Yankees have signed up for having the second-best record in the AL and being 12 games over .500 one-quarter of the way into the schedule? How about having that record with Aaron Judge not himself for the first … Read more
Red Lobster abruptly closed the doors of at least 50 restaurants nationwide on Monday —including a dozen in New York and New Jersey, blindsiding seafood chain employees. TAGeX Brands, a restaurant liquidator, revealed it is auctioning off kitchen items and furniture from shuttered Red Lobster locations as part of its “largest restaurant equipment sale ever.” … Read more
Embattled Columbia University president Minouche Shafik claims to be a champion of free speech, urging her students to engage in “civil discourse” despite viewpoint differences. But when given a chance to bolster free speech, she didn’t just pass — she moved to actively undermine it. Shafik is not just the president of Columbia. She is … Read more
As city drivers brace for congestion-pricing tolls to take effect June 15, the MTA’s payroll hit a jaw-dropping $7.8 billion, while its overtime expenses hit a new record high last year — $1.37 billion, up 6% since 2022. Which raises the obvious risk that the agency’s congestion-pricing windfall will get eaten up by labor costs, … Read more
Kelly Clarkson has credited a weight loss drug for her slimmed-down frame. While chatting with Whoopi Goldberg, who recently lost weight with the help of the Type II diabetes weight loss drug Mounjaro, Clarkson opened up about her own experience. “I’ve lost a lot [of weight] as well,” she told Goldberg, 68, on Monday’s episode of “The … Read more
British middleweight boxer Sherif Lawal died after collapsing during his professional debut on Sunday. Fight organizers announced his death, which came after the 29-year-old was hit on the temple in the fourth round by his opponent, Malam Varela, at London’s Harrow Leisure Centre. “Unfortunately during Sherif’s fight, he collapsed and despite the best efforts of the paramedics, he was … Read more
Bradley Cooper was in full dad mode at Monday’s star-studded premiere of his latest project “IF.” Just one day after attending Taylor Swift’s sold-out “Eras” tour concert in Paris with girlfriend Gigi Hadid, Cooper was reunited with his daughter back in the Big Apple. The Oscar-nominated actor brought his 7-year-old daughter Lea De Seine along to … Read more
DEAR ABBY: Our daughter-in-law is morally corrupt, egotistical and narcissistic. For almost a year she has been blatant about having an affair and has abused and disrespected our son and two of her three daughters. She has taken innumerable vacations over the years without our son. When they are together at home, she constantly puts … Read more
The man suspected of sucker-punching actor Steve Buscemi in Kips Bay last week appeared to be talking to himself while walking down the street moments before the random attack, according to new video footage. The clip obtained by CBS News shows the suspect saying something indiscernible to himself while walking north on Third Avenue just … Read more