A fun aside — MSG, owned by Trump pal James Dolan, tried to tell us that the party wasn’t cancelled because of Trump. And not long after, the NYPD sent an updated statement — yes, it’s cancelled because of the presidential visit. Here are the statements.

Cry more, New York Post.

Virginia Giuffre's family on the arrest of ex-U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson: "The contrast with the continued inaction in the United States is undeniable. Survivors deserve transparency, swift investigation, and real justice, no matter who is implicated." Full statement

In a lengthy call in June, Obama congratulated Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time. Others in Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mamdani, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

No evidence at all in this story to support its headline www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...

NEW: Detainees at a Manhattan ICE jail could turn toothbrushes into “improvised” weapons, US Attorney Jay Clayton warns. He did not give an example of a migrant using a toothbrush as a weapon. Lawyers say they’ll be used to clean teeth. nypost.com/2025/08/14/u...

Despite Pam Bondi’s announcement that the feds would seek to kill Luigi Mangione, there was no movement on the docket today. But more than $20k in donations rolled in to his legal defense fund. “Keep your head high my little bambino!!!!” one donor wrote. nypost.com/2025/04/01/u...

Columbia protest leader Mahmoud Khalil has been locked up, away from his pregnant wife, for more than two weeks. Did a judge listen to arguments today on whether to release him on bail? He did not. nypost.com/2025/03/28/u...

Letters from Mahmoud Khalil’s Jewish peers are pouring onto the court docket: “I can state with full confidence that Mahmoud has never expressed support for Hamas.” “Mahmoud has protected Jewish students at Columbia like myself more than the university ever has.”

NEW: Congestion pricing has turned some of its staunchest critics into supporters. “I’ve definitely changed my mind,” one commuter told me, whose daily bus trip has gone from more than an hour down to 25 minutes.

Diddy defense PR messaging screenprinted on hoodie: "The media and social media has this case all wrong...There are no celeb sex tapes. No minors. No celeb freak off tapes in this criminal case."

PUFFED DADDY nypost.com/2025/03/14/u...

The scene outside of the Manhattan criminal courthouse on Friday for Luigi Mangione's first NYC court appearance since his December 2024 arraignment.

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams and Trump's Justice Department have insisted that Adams' corruption case is over and done with. It's not. Judge Dale Ho has appointed an independent lawyer to weigh in before he rules on the government's unprecedented request: nypost.com/2025/02/21/u...

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I second this motion!!

NEW: The son of a British banker was arrested for violently assaulting Sienna Hubert-Ross, a comic known for Kamala Harris impressions. Months later, charges were quietly dropped. “This is a travesty of justice,” Sienna told me. We take a closer look: nypost.com/2025/02/16/u...

important story about a monstrous character

NEW: Manhattan federal prosecutors have ditched a criminal probe into WWE boss Vince McMahon — months after a judge quietly found that there was “probable cause” that he covered up payoffs to women at his company, his atty says. We take a closer look: nypost.com/2025/02/12/u...

The Justice Department says it’s shutting down an FBI task force targeting foreign influence because it has more “pressing priorities”. Russia, Russia, Russia cyberscoop.com/doj-disbands...

"It has become ever more apparent that to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals," Reagan-appointed Judge Coughenour said as he blocked Trump's birthright citixenship order. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Andrew Taake pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump pardoned him. Now he’s been rearrested on charges of sending sexually explicit texts to a minor. nypost.com/2025/02/06/u...

Interim SDNY boss Danielle Sassoon blasts Biden for making pardons on his way out of office “without consulting the career prosecutors who handled the cases.” Sassoon is overseeing the case of Eric Adams — whose camp is angling for a Trump pardon www.wsj.com/opinion/bide...

Trump has lawyered up to fight his felony conviction in his Manhattan hush money case — remember that one? His new attorneys for his appeal are from a very prominent law firm but you won’t see me calling any lawyers “elite” 😉 nypost.com/2025/01/30/u...

In court, Bob Menendez said he was a “chastened” man. Outside, he called the case a political “witch hunt” — even though he’s Democrat and the case was brought by a Democrat. I asked him about this. He slunk away without answering.

When asked repeatedly why he was claiming the case was “political” given that it was brought against him by another Democrat, former Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams, Menendez slunk away and walked to a waiting car without answering. nypost.com/2025/01/29/u...

“Mr. Patel’s pattern of peddling misinformation is at sharp odds with Mr. Trump’s proposal to put him in charge of the nation’s premier agency charged with figuring out what is true.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

Disgraced former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez — who’s reportedly seeking a pardon from President Trump after selling out his office for gold bar bribes — lost his bid for a new trial Wednesday. nypost.com/2025/01/22/u...

Eric Adams docket, another slap-down of Spiro: Judge Ho denied his motions for sanctions for leaking - and notes that Damian Williams' op-ed is mostly about STATE government needing reform. So is his website directed at running for Albany, with Lawler and Torres?

Trump said this when he kicked off his campaign in 2022: "We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts. Because it's the only way." Tonight, he announced he's pardoning the Silk Road guy as a favor to Libertarians

“Mayor Eric Adams had a dream — to attend President Trump’s inauguration.” nypost.com/2025/01/21/u...

The day after the mayor attended Trump's inauguration, the mayor implicitly compares himself to MLK Jr., who, he says, put partisan politics aside for the greater good.

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Soft on crime

trust your eyes and report the news www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Gael Monfils is the greatest of all time

Sunday: Trump tweets “save Rudy!!” Monday: Negotiations heat up in deal to end his $148M defamation debt to Georgia election workers. Thursday: Rudy strikes deal to keep ALL his property — in exchange for mystery 💰 Who’s picking up the tab? nypost.com/2025/01/16/u...

Indictment expert Damian Williams — whose office prosecuted Bob Menendez, SBF, Eric Adams and more — weighs in on local government’s alleged failures…

Feds say Jontay Porter sent a message before the Jan. 26 Raptors game to an alleged co-conspirator: “Hit unders for the big numbers. I told [Co-Conspirator 2] no blocks no steals. I’m going to play first 2-3 minute stint off the bench then when I get subbed out tell them my eye killing me again.”

DON SENTENCED TO...NOTHING. But Friday's hearing crystallized the soon-to-be 47th commander-in-chief’s historic status as the only convicted felon ever to become president. nypost.com/2025/01/10/u...

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And that’s a wrap. nypost.com/2025/01/10/u...

Wow. Trump loses his emergency bid for SCOTUS to block sentencing in his Manhattan hush money case. But four justices — Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — thought it would be “irreparable harm” for Trump to appear for 1 hour on video for a hearing where he will get no penalty.

Just out here having a great time refreshing the SCOTUS docket for Trump’s emergency bid to stop his hush money sentencing in New York every minute or so. The docket number is…666.

Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to freeze his long-delayed sentencing in his Manhattan hush money case — which would cement his status as the first convicted felon to ever be president. Here, I break it all down while wearing a corduroy blazer youtu.be/yQbuI_UyRtY?...

We roamed Lower Manhattan to speak with New Yorkers on the first day of congestion pricing. "I think congestion pricing is a thumbs up. If I had four thumbs, I'd give them all up."

the Most Tri-State Man Possible gets it