DAILY NEWS
Bragg: Not soft on crime, just got ‘legalistic’
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg pushed back Thursday against allegations that prosecution policies he outlined as he took office make him soft on violent crime. The newly minted DA clarified...
PASS FOR VAX FOE GOPer OKd for Council session despite jab rule
Masked but is she vaxxed? Controversial Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino was granted a waiver to attend a City Council meeting in-person Thursday despite refusing to disclose whether she’s...
HIS DIGITAL DOUGH Eric has first pay converted to crypto in tech shoutout
Crypto ka-ching! Mayor Adams revealed Thursday that he will convert his first City Hall paycheck into cryptocurrency, seeking to make good on a campaign promise to use and promote the virtual cash...
Council OKs new chiefs, nixes Adams pick
The City Council ratified dozens of leadership posts Thursday, including the assignment of several key roles that will almost certainly have a bearing on the future of Mayor Adams’ policy goals. The...
COP SHIELDS PALS DESPITE SHOT TO LEG Susp not even focus of S.I. drug bust
A gutsy NYPD narcotics detective cheated death while protecting his colleagues’ lives when a hulking gunman opened fire on cops taking down a major Staten Island drug operation in the Thursday morning...
Police kill man in shootout tied to rape
A Bronx man died in a hail of police bullets Thursday after he opened fire on cops who’d found him burglarizing the apartment of his ex-girlfriend, who had accused him of rape. The officers were...
Teen charged in NYPD shoot is rising rap star
A 16-year-old Bronx boy accused of shooting a cop during a struggle over the teen’s stolen gun is the rising rap star C Blu — and a close associate of Kay Flock, the popular hip-hop artist recently...
133 CONVICTIONS ‘CANNOT STAND’ Bronx DA withdraws cases tied to former NYPD detective who faces perjury raps
Bronx prosecutors withdrew charges in 133 felony cases linked to a detective who was previously indicted for lying under oath about drug busts in Manhattan, officials said Thursday. The cases tied to...
Mom ‘leaving it to God’ after baby was shot
The heartbroken mother of an 11-month-old Bronx girl shot in the face by a gunman’s stray bullet wept Thursday after spending the night sitting by her daughter’s hospital bed. “She’s stable. She will...
Sucker-punched & robbed in Queens
A 43-year-old man was sucker-punched in the head and knocked unconscious during a caught-on-video Queens mugging, police said Thursday. The victim was looking down at his cell phone as he stood at the...
BELARUS ‘PIRACY’ Feds charge officials in ruse to land plane, bust dissident
Government officials from Belarus who concocted a phony bomb threat last year to force a European jetliner to land with a wanted dissident journalist onboard were charged Thursday by federal...
Promoter dies after he’s shot at B’klyn party
A club promoter shot in the head as he tried to calm an angry gunman during a Brooklyn hip-hop party last week has died of his wounds, police said Thursday. Shawn Jeffrey, a local DJ who goes by the...
Ivanka is asked to talk to panel on Jan. 6 crisis
We’d like a word, please. The House committee investigating the breach at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has asked Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to voluntarily testify as the...
Chuck: It was right to vote on election reform
Sen. Chuck Schumer gave an impassioned defense of the Democratic push to enact voting rights reforms, which collapsed when two moderates joined Republicans to block a needed change in the filibuster...
Remember their names, and fight hatred TOP U.S. DIPLO WARNS RUSSIA Crossing into Ukraine would bring ‘severe’ response
Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Russia on Thursday to count on a “swift, severe” response from the United States if it invades Ukraine, no matter how widespread an attack might be. In an...
INSIDE ANDY’S CRISIS Last data from Tish details early response to scandal
ALBANY — Attorney General Letitia James’ office released the final batch of transcripts and videotaped interviews related to her office’s sexual harassment investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo....
Chris on camera concedes he helped his brother
The state attorney general’s office on Thursday released videos of Chris Cuomo’s testimony from its probe into sexual harassment allegations against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, showing a somber TV news...
Eddie Gibbs is 1st ex-con elected to state Assembly
A Democratic district leader from East Harlem became the first formerly incarcerated person elected to the state Assembly on Wednesday after winning a special election for the seat. Eddie Gibbs beat...
TIDYING UP $25G MESS Lt. gov. repays elex cash he used for personal expenses
ALBANY — Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin coughed up roughly $25,000 to cover car loan payments and other personal expenses he had charged to his old Senate campaign account, filings with the state Board of...
A RAIL ‘OPPORTUNITY’ Gov: Plan would cut commutes ‘30 or 40 mins’
The MTA must do a delicate dance with freight railroad companies to build a new passenger rail service between Brooklyn and Queens, according to a feasibility study released by Gov. Hochul Thursday....
Say rats at B’klyn park are sickening dogs
A deadly dog disease may be spreading in a corner of Brooklyn and worried pet owners are pinning the problem on a-rat infested park in Williamsburg. At least four dogs have died after recent visits to...
Saget’s widow: ‘Love’ in their last conversation
Bob Saget’s widow Kelly Rizzo says the couple’s last conversation was like the rest of them: full of love. “I think I said, ‘I love you dearly,’ and he said, ‘I love you endlessly,’ ” the food and...
‘SANFORD’ TURNS 50 Groundbreaking sitcom sent Foxx into living rooms
When Demond Wilson heard that Redd Foxx was going to star in a TV sitcom, the actor brushed it off as a joke. Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to be a...
EDITORIAL
Disingenuous bail debate in New York
Reading the headlines about New York’s bail reform law, which eliminated cash bail for most misdemeanor and many felony offenses, you’d think the purpose of bail in New York was to prevent dangerous...
Just the facts
In remarks meant to quell criticism from these and other quarters, a contrite Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg yesterday said “I understand why those who read my memo of Jan. 3 have been left with the wrong...
Turning on Teddy
The American Museum of Natural History, a wonderful institution founded in pursuit of science and truth, has been fulfilling a lifesaving mission for the past nine months, administering COVID vaccines...
Digging into Donald
One of the best presidents, Teddy Roosevelt (see above), was the only native of this city to become president until the worst, Donald Trump, won the high office. Now, the state of New York is helping...
BRAMHALL’S WORLD
Adams must hold law enforcement accountable
The start of Eric Adams’ tenure as mayor raises troubling signs for law-enforcement accountability, in stark contrast to a dramatic episode from over two decades ago when our organization stood with...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Dems don’t fight — unless it’s with each other
Brooklyn: The Democrats are doing it again: They’re so busy fighting amongst themselves that the Republicans and the Trumpians can just sit back and laugh, knowing they’re going to win because the...
DAILY NEWS
Sharp look for the red, white & blue at Games Former Pope Benedict aware of abuse, did nothing: report
Retired Pope Benedict XVI was aware clergy had been abusing children while he served as archbishop of Munich in the 1970s and ’80s but did not do anything to address it, according to a long-awaited...
HOROSCOPE
Your HOROSCOPE BY TAROT.COM For Friday, January 21
Practicality and beauty can go hand in hand today. This is especially true when the reserved Virgo Moon trines traditional Venus in Capricorn. However, we might need to know when to stop doing things...
GRIDLOCK SAM
Fri. Jan. 21-Sun. Jan. 23 ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING RULES ARE IN EFFECT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Temperatures will barely rise above freezing this weekend, but that won’t stop New Yorkers from taking to the...
SPORTS
IT’S PLAIN UGLY FROM THE START Cam’s Knicks debut could be right around the corner
Cam Reddish’s first appearance in a Knicks jersey “should be any day now,” coach Tom Thibodeau said Thursday. That day won’t be Thursday night’s matchup against the Pelicans, which Reddish missed...
Randle, Knicks starters get run off court in miserable loss to Pels
It was the same old story for the Knicks Thursday night: The starters were absolutely brutal, and it took the bench to make it look like a game. Julius Randle, Kemba Walker and company ran up a...
Net assistant, team fined for helping hand
The NBA fined the Nets and assistant coach David Vanterpool Thursday after he interfered with a pass from the Wizards’ Spencer Dinwiddie on Wednesday. The Nets were fined $25,000 and Vanterpool was...
CLEVELAND, THIS IS F-YOU Kyrie fined 25G for cursing out Cavaliers fans
Kyrie Irving has been fined $25,000 for “directing obscene language toward a fan,” the league announced on Thursday. The incident occurred at the 4:19 mark of the second quarter in Irving’s return to...
DAWN OF NEW GIANT ERA Big Blue on verge of hiring next GM, Schoen, Poles or Peters, as soon as today
The Giants are on the verge of naming their fifth GM since 1979. Today should be the day. San Francisco 49ers assistant GM Adam Peters’ Thursday trip to the Giants’ facility in East Rutherford, N.J.,...
Mock draft has Jets playin’ it safety first
Gang Green needs all the help they can get this offseason. And the Jets will fill two major areas of need with their two Top 10 picks in April’s NFL Draft, according to veteran ESPN draft guru Mel...
Rays’ Tampa-Montreal split season plan axed
Two and a half years ago, the Tampa Bay Rays devised one of the most innovative, controversial, and frankly, laughable proposals in recent sports history. During the 2019 season, the Rays came to...
Slow-motion negotiations MLB’s snail-paced lockout talks to resume with union offer on Monday
Locked out baseball players plan to make a counteroffer to management on Monday, 11 days after clubs gave the union a proposal when the snail-paced negotiations resumed following a 42-day break. The...
Medvedev withstands Kyrgios, crowd to advance in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia — Daniil Medvedev faced a hostile crowd and a full array of Nick Kyrgios’ outbursts and tricks, and still remained calm for long enough to reach the third round at the Australian...
BETTORS GUIDE
BETTORS GUIDE INSIDE THE MATCHUPS WITH HANK GOLA
BENGALS at TITANS Saturday, 4 :3 0 p.m., Titans by 3 ½, 47 ½ HANK’S HONEYS: Derrick Henry’s return has Titans bettors pumped and naturally so. Still, are we to assume that Henry can immediately regain...
SPORTS
Arbitrator: Ollie improperly fired
An arbitrator has ruled that UConn improperly fired former men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie and must pay him more than $11 million, Ollie’s lawyer said Thursday. Attorney Jacques Parenteau called...