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Rory McIlroy won the Ryder Cup. Then he called out the hostile New York crowd for “unacceptable and abusive behavior.” My latest (and last) dispatch from Bethpage ⬇️ apnews.com/article/ryde...

On a raucous Saturday crowd at Bethpage Black that tried to will the US back into the #RyderCup, got into it with Rory McIlroy and fled to the exits when Europe made it a rout: apnews.com/article/ryde...

Saturday at Bethpage: Rory McIlroy gives as good as he gets at Ryder Cup, telling fans to shut up, then sending them to exits apnews.com/article/ryde...

Trump swings by the Ryder Cup, soaking up fans’ love after vowing revenge on more of his enemies apnews.com/article/dona...

“We will absolutely fight this tooth and nail!” union president Brandy Moore-White said. apnews.com/article/fede...

The federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protections for federal employees. apnews.com/article/fede...

My latest: President Donald Trump heads to the Ryder Cup, embraced by a golf world that once shunned him apnews.com/article/trum...

And now for something completely different: Me, writing about golf. My first contribution to @apnews.com’s Ryder Cup coverage! ‘You deserve to be on this team': Veteran US players get rookies like J.J. Spaun ready for Ryder Cup apnews.com/article/ryde...

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

NEW: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urge judge to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. apnews.com/article/unit...

No guns for Elmo, Spider-Man or anyone else in New York’s Times Square — and don’t try sneaking them into the subway, either. That’s the decision from a federal appeals court effectively upholding a New York law that bars firearms in “sensitive” locations. apnews.com/article/new-...

More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees. apnews.com/article/nyc-...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City high school student was arrested Thursday after bringing a loaded gun to class and writing on social media that he wanted to “shoot the school up,” authorities said. apnews.com/article/new-...

It’s another blow to Rudy Giuliani’s withered wallet: A judge has ordered the former New York City mayor to pay $1.36 million in legal fees he racked up during investigations into his efforts to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. apnews.com/article/rudy...

A New York judge on Tuesday threw out terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, rejecting the Manhattan DA’s theory in a state murder case that the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “intended to evoke terror.” apnews.com/article/unit...

A New York City couple in their 70s was killed in what the police commissioner said was a “horrific double homicide, robbery and arson" — the man tied to a pole and stabbed, the woman’s body severely burned as their home went up in flames. (w/Jake Offenhartz) apnews.com/article/new-...

Nepal premier does resign www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

New York Attorney General Letitia James moved Thursday to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Donald Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty, appealing a lower-court decision that slashed the potential half-billion-dollar fine to $0. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump plans to ask Supreme Court to toss E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million abuse and defamation verdict apnews.com/article/trum...

X/Grok/Twitter summary says Trump’s Oval Office address re: Space Command relocation has already happened. It’s not until 2 pm EDT. If this is the future of news, it needs an editor.

Bad news: North Carolina is down 20-7. Good news: Belichick’s one half of coaching so far is longer than his entire Jets tenure.

Army football player and his dad save a man from flames after a car crash near West Point apnews.com/article/army...

Needed Verne in the booth to drop a “What are they doing?!” on that last Notre Dame play

Long-elusive Mexican drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada pleads guilty in US apnews.com/article/mexi...

A guy named George Herman Ruth, aka Babe Ruth, is accused of using the names of hundreds of dead or retired professional baseball players in a $550,000 fraud scheme. www.justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge denies Justice Department's request to unseal transcripts from grand jury that indicted Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump weaponization czar urged New York Attorney General James to resign over mortgage probe, letters show apnews.com/article/trum...

Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to plead guilty next week in a drug trafficking case that accuses him of ordering torture, plotting murders and flooding the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and other illicit drugs. apnews.com/article/el-m...

For Trump and Putin, handshakes on a red carpet and a joint limo ride, then an abrupt ending With ⁦‪AP’s Jill Colvin: apnews.com/article/trum...

Brooklyn construction magnate gets probation for funneling illegal donations to NYC Mayor Eric Adams apnews.com/article/mayo...

A judge has rescinded his order that ICE provide toothbrushes to migrants detained at 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan after DOJ said they "can be readily improvised as weapons." Meanwhile, at the federal jail in Brooklyn, inmates can buy toothbrushes at the commissary for 85 cents.

Judge orders ICE to improve conditions after NYC immigration detainees complain of mistreatment apnews.com/article/immi...

There was a teleconference hearing this morning in the suit against DHS regarding conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, but the press and public were shut out due to “audio issues,” and we have no idea what happened. The courts have had at least 5 years to figure out remote hearings and have not.

EasyJet suspends pilot after claims he wandered naked around luxury hotel: Pilot reportedly removed all his clothes and walked into reception area of Cape Verde hotel after drinking session www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

Great lede here from @joshuabenton.com: "Alden Global Capital just can’t understand. Why would any newspaper not want to be the next to pass through its digestive tract?" www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/alde...

Social media algorithms are drowning breaking news and important public safety alerts in anachronic nonsense. Why show something that's happening *now* when you can induce panic with a 14-hour old alert? Do that enough and the audience becomes numb to everything — at its peril.

UX on most news websites continues to be dreadful. Do you want us to read your stories or watch your videos? Because the clutter, popups and nonsense are making it nearly impossible.

A great dive into the unraveling of the Etan Patz case, 46 years after the boy’s disappearance (by Hurubie Meko) ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/n...

"Rodriguez’s girlfriend... took abortion pills on two occasions, once in September and another in January... According to Rodriguez’s complaints, his girlfriend is now pregnant again." Maybe the abortion pills aren't the "problem" here... www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters

NYC Buildings Department cracking down on illegal Kars 4 Kids billboards. Now if someone could just do something about that earworm of a jingle!

“All told, the Stephen Colbert-hosted show averaged 2.42 million viewers across 41 first-run episodes… growing its audience by 1% quarter over quarter.” No. 1 show in late night… canceled. latenighter.com/news/ratings...

Maurene Comey prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean Combs, among other cases involving high-profile defendants and/or sex crimes. 👇 WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department fires Maurene Comey, prosecutor who worked on Epstein case and daughter of ex-FBI director.

LIRR brown-bag drinker screaming into cell phone: “You’re a snitch, dog. I don’t talk to the police. Fuck tha police... they can suck my fuckin’ you know what.”

The City of New York is absolutely abusing the FOIL process. One of these requests is from 2020. The city has repeatedly delayed its response and has now set a deadline of March 2026, which is sure to be delayed again. Unacceptable.

We finally have copies of the jury’s notes to the judge during deliberations in Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial. These were read in court at the time but only now appeared on the docket. Among them: the jury saying it couldn't reach a verdict on RICO, then... saying it had.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentencing set for Oct. 3 after split verdict in federal sex crimes case apnews.com/article/sean...

NEW YORK (AP) — In rejecting Sean “Diddy” Combs’ release on bail, a federal judge confronted the hip-hop impresariowith a disturbing aspect of his criminal case that his lawyers couldn’t deny: his history of violence. apnews.com/article/sean...