Miller Sanford East New York has a reputation for violence — with good reason. The 75th precinct has a violent crime rate that’s 84% higher than New York City as a whole and 279% higher than the rest of the country, according to FBI data. It wasn’t always this way. During the early 20th century, it was … Read more
Three federal judges in Washington, DC, reluctantly dropped the cases of several Jan. 6 rioters who were among the 1,500 protesters President Trump pardoned on his first day in office. “No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021,” said Judge Tanya Chutkan in a ruling Wednesday dismissing the pending … Read more
By now no one should be surprised at President Trump’s sweeping reversals of the conventional wisdom on everything from A (asylum) to W (wilderness access) — sorry, no executive orders affecting anything beginning with Z yet. But in revoking President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246 that launched our decades-long imposition of de facto racial … Read more
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave Americans a look behind the podium in a telling Vanity Fair piece published on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre, who chose to keep her personal life private while working in the Biden-Harris administration, revealed a private health battle that put significant weight on her and her family. Jean-Pierre recalled attending the Bidens’ … Read more
(Patrick Hruby / Los Angeles Times) Togetherness can be a mixed blessing. As the Palisades fire raged, every member of the Cullen family — deeply rooted in Pacific Palisades since the 1960s — found themselves displaced. 10 family members from multiple households there were forced to flee the homes they owned as the inferno swallowed … Read more
The devastated widow of a firefighter who died on New York City’s notorious “Black Sunday” — exactly 20 years ago Thursday — said she’s still struck by sudden tearful waves of grief when she least expects it. Jeanette Meyran — whose husband Lt. Curtis Meyran was one of three firefighters killed in two blazes on Jan. … Read more
The Fearless Girl bronze sculpture faces the New York Stock Exchange building in the Financial District of New York City. (Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images) U.S. stocks rose to a record Thursday as Wall Street regained some of the momentum that catapulted it to 57 all-time highs last year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose … Read more
Angelina Jolie is surely “devastated” over being snubbed by the Oscars after pouring her own pain into “Maria,” Hollywood insiders say. Jolie, 49, spent months learning to sing for the role of Maria Callas — and said she made the opera singer’s anguish “personal to me”. Although nominated for a Golden Globe, she missed out … Read more
Country musician Billy Ray Cyrus is “not healthy” and has pushed his family away, his son Trace Cyrus asserted this week in an open letter. (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press) Trace Cyrus, as a child, wanted to be just like dad Billy Ray Cyrus growing up. Nowadays, he says, he can “barely recognize” … Read more
Eleonora Srugo is shutting down rumors that she’s romantically involved with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. In an exclusive interview with Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea,” the real estate guru — who recently made her reality TV debut in Netflix’s “Selling the City” — confirms her close relationship with Adams, but insists it’s strictly platonic. … Read more
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