Jose Alvarado was surrounded by microphones in the bowels of Madison Square Garden, but spoke like he was still on the streets of Brooklyn. He spoke with loyalty toward Jalen Brunson, the recipient of a Game 3 cheap shot from Victor Wembanyama. He spoke without fear of the Spurs’ 7-foot-4 superstar, who stands at least 17 inches taller and outweighs him by at least 75 pounds. “He got away with that one,” Alvarado said before Game 4 of the NBA Finals. “That’ll be the last one.” Alvarado then backed it up in the best imaginable way. The boy who grew…
Republican lawmakers crushed their Democratic counterparts Wednesday at the annual Congressional Baseball Game in Washington, DC. The GOP’s 11-2 win over the Dems in Nationals Park marks the sixth straight year Republicans have defeated their political rivals on the diamond. The highlight of the night was a dazzling catch in…
It might have come a game too late, but the Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama was finally given a flagrant foul. It came in the third quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals with the Knicks trailing by 29 points and just under 9:30 left on the clock. Wembanyama’s elbow came…
Ciara Miller wasn’t just changing her hair color — she was making a statement with her “cherry-cola” Summer House reunion look. Miller, 30, opened up about the burgundy shade she donned during the three-part Summer House reunion in a new interview with Allure on Wednesday, June 10, noting, “I don’t…
Fairfield’s mayor abruptly resigned Tuesday just hours before city leaders were set to consider the findings of a contentious residency investigation that had clouded her final months in office. Catherine Moy stepped down ahead of a special City Council meeting called to address questions about whether she met the residency…
The US military launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran Wednesday evening, hours after President Trump warned additional attacks on the Islamic Republic were coming to try and force Tehran to re-enter serious peace negotiations. “U.S. Central Command [CENTCOM] forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m.…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Brian Johnson as his choice to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, turning to a trusted former aide and financial services executive who helped run the CFPB during his first term to now run the bureau for the rest of…
Highly questionable from the beginning. Knicks fans were irate at the officiating in Game 3, and nothing about that has changed in the first quarter of Game 4, as Knicks star center Karl-Anthony Towns was called for a foul on an opening drive from De’Aaron Fox 18 seconds into the…
Hayden Panettiere spilled the Nashville tea fans have been impatiently anticipating for more than a decade — and it turns out the country-music drama didn’t facilitate the quite backstage sisterhood viewers might have imagined. In her debut memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning — released in May 2026 — Panettiere got…
A New York Times journalist on Wednesday shockingly downplayed accusations leveled against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner by his ex-girlfriends as “not like classic abuse allegations.” Jodi Kantor, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse, suggested Maine voters may have been willing…
The Martian is learning to inhabit a new planet. Jasson Domínguez played right field Tuesday at Triple-A and was scheduled to do so again Wednesday, according to Yankees manager Aaron Boone. Dominguez has never played right field in the majors — and only done so once in his minor-league career…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is reflecting on what ex-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn said before killing her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in 2015. “She had asked, ‘Who are you,’” Gypsy, 34, recalled during the “We Need to Talk” podcast episode released on Tuesday, June 9, detailing the night of her mom’s murder.…
Spencer Pratt has yet to make an official public appearance since he was officially ruled out of the Los Angeles mayoral race, but wife Heidi Montag appears to be shifting the spotlight back to her own music career. Montag, 39, who best known for her years on reality television alongside…
Federal prosecutors have hit JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other Wall Street giants with sweeping subpoenas in a criminal probe of whether they “debanked” customers over their politics, two sources familiar with the matter told The Post. The demands from US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s Washington, DC, office…
Scientists have discovered a vast whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean, with some fossil bones dating back over 5 million years.The deep-sea “megasite,” which the researchers have named the Diamantina Zone necropolis, is the most extensive accumulation of whale carcasses and fossils ever found, the…
Two-time US Open winner Bryson DeChambeau could be ready to return to the PGA Tour. On Wednesday, Golf Channel analyst and former PGA pro Brandel Chamblee shared his thoughts on DeChambeau’s possible future on the PGA Tour and what might explain a dip in his game since joining LIV four…
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares rose 23% on Wednesday after it reported a second straight quarter of surprise profit and lifted its annual targets, signaling that the restaurant chain is moving on from a tumultuous period of backlash around its logo change. Store traffic was improving gradually, and consumers were responding to the company’s…
When the U.S. faces Paraguay in the World Cup in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on June 12, the teams will play on a natural-grass surface that, a month earlier, was carefully stitched together atop an underlying artificial-turf field. This “hybrid turf” installation was part of a broader effort in advance…
Mahomes with another record. The Chiefs have reworked star quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ contract to make him the first NFL player to sign a deal valued at over half a billion dollars, ESPN reported. Mahomes contract is now worth $504.75 million, with the new money on the deal valued at $239.05…
Travis Kelce was not by the side of his fiancée, Taylor Swift, at the red carpet premiere of Toy Story 5 on Tuesday, June 9 — but the Kansas City Chiefs star had a good excuse. Kelce, 36, was thousands of miles away at the first day of Chiefs mandatory…
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Wednesday that US officials are working to ensure the “right people” come into the country for the World Cup after fans, team officials and even a match referee were denied entry. “We’re working on it very closely to make sure the right people come into…
Foreign investment in the US jumped in 2025 after falling for four years in a row, a possible result of companies rushing to minimize exposure to President Trump’s tariffs. International investors spent $232.2 billion in the US last year, mostly to acquire American businesses – a 49.5% jump from the…
A mysterious “cold blob” in the Atlantic Ocean is a sign that key ocean currents are weakening, a new study has found, with potentially devastating long-term impacts on our climate and weather.The cold blob, or North Atlantic Warming Hole, is an area south of Greenland and Iceland where average sea…
BLUE HILL, Maine — Controversial oyster farmer and Marine veteran Graham Platner easily won Maine’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday night despite a string of scandals, including sporting a Nazi tattoo on his chest. The Associated Press called the race for Platner at 9:23 pm ET, just over an hour after…
Coming off their second consecutive World Series title last year, the Dodgers entered this season planning to visit the White House to celebrate their 2025 World Series title, as The California Post first reported in February. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was even quoted in an LA Times article at the…
Machine Gun Kelly didn’t have the smoothest blackout tattoo process. MGK, 36 — whose real name is Colson Baker — opened up about getting sick from his ink while chatting with Billboard Canada in a new interview published on Monday, June 8. To achieve his look, MGK worked with celebrity…
Democrat California Rep. Ro Khanna claimed an infuriated Spencer Pratt-supporting “close friend” has lost so much trust in the state’s chaotic vote-counting process that he unregistered to vote in protest. “He is convinced Spencer Pratt was robbed of the election,” Khanna wrote on X Tuesday, after the former reality TV…
Veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl says the recent upheaval at CBS News is “by far the worst experience” she has witnessed in a journalism career spanning over five decades. Stahl told Puck News that she remains furious over the recent purge that claimed executive producer Tanya Simon, senior executive…
Legendary basketball coach Rick Pitino has some thoughts on the officiating in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Pitino appeared on The Post’s “Schein Time” on Tuesday, the morning after attending Game 3, which the Knicks dropped to the Spurs 115-111. “It was unreal,” Pitino said of the fans at…
Grace Gummer is standing by her portrayal of Caroline Kennedy in FX’s controversial series Love Story two months after Jack Schlossberg criticized her performance. “All I can say is, I really can’t imagine what it’s like to see your life portrayed onscreen,” Gummer, 40, said in an interview with The…
US military on Tuesday unleashed strikes against Iran in retaliation for its “unjustified” downing of an American military helicopter and its two pilots, US Central Command said Tuesday. President Trump ordered the “proportional” strikes after determining Iran on Monday shot down a US Apache attack helicopter in the Strait of…
Wyoming residents are in an uproar over plans to build a “man camp” to house thousands of out-of-state workers flocking to the region to build massive, power-hungry data centers — the latest instance of Americans revolting against such projects. Local officials are weighing a pitch from project developer Iron Guard…
Kalshi, which allows users to bet on topics from sports to geopolitics, is now requiring people making certain wagers to disclose where they work – after a string of insider trading scandals rocked it and other prediction market platforms. Users who want to bet in markets that have the potential…
About 2,000 years ago in the far North of Scotland, a woman was buried after her brain was scooped out and her bones were whittled into tools, a new analysis reveals.The highly unusual burial is giving archaeologists new insight into social networks and funeral traditions in prehistoric Britain.Archaeologists excavated a…
There is the obvious that can be seen and heard and, often, felt when Cam Skattebo launches his 215-pound body at an opposing linebacker or defensive back. There is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get quality to this particular running back. It appears there is also the unseen and unknown with Skattebo to those…
Joshua Jackson can’t help but praise longtime friend Katie Holmes after they worked together on the upcoming movie Happy Hours. “It takes many hands to make a movie. And I am thankful to every hand that touched this one. But … this is a Katie appreciation post,” Jackson, 47, captioned…
WASHINGTON — Congress has finally passed a $70 billion funding bill for federal immigration enforcement on Tuesday, putting to rest a four-month fight over the fate of President Trump’s mass deportations agenda. House Republicans, in a party-line vote of 214-212, approved the spending for the Department of Homeland Security after…
Megyn Kelly defended President Trump’s decision to walk out of his contentious interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, arguing that the “Meet the Press” moderator made the exchange about herself and her network’s reputation instead of the issues. “I don’t blame him,” the pundit said on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s “The…
Rick Pitino is pointing the finger at gambling companies for the growing betting issues involving college athletes. During an appearance on The Post’s “Schein Time,” the St. John’s basketball coach told host Adam Schien he expects to see more cases like Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who is in the…
Sue Bird is breaking down what led to her split from Megan Rapinoe after 10 years together. “It’s like anything,” Bird, 45, told Women’s Health in an interview published on Tuesday, June 9. “It’s like, you grow, you change, you start having conversations about that in your relationship, and it…
WASHINGTON — The embattled Southern Poverty Law Center’s CEO Bryan Fair appeared Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee for a grilling over Justice Department allegations that the ostensibly anti-racism group secretly funded the extremism it claims to oppose. Fair broadly defended the center while declining to answer for specific alleged…
Amid widespread anxiety that AI could wipe out jobs, Meta has announced America’s Workforce Academy — a $115 million training program for electricians, welders, plumbers and fiber technicians that guarantees each trainee a job upon graduation. “People want to be part of this economic transformation but they don’t have a…
After hyping potential safety threats posed by its latest AI model, Anthropic says it is releasing a version with tweaks that make it “safe” for the general public. A day after filing for its initial public offering, the company on Tuesday trumpeted a new version of the Mythos model with…
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