Eldorado Resorts has agreed to buy Caesars Entertainment for about $8.5 billion in cash and stock, as it looks to build scale to take on competition from larger companies such as Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts. The deal comes more than three months after Caesars agreed to give billionaire investor Carl Icahn three board … Continue reading "Eldorado Resorts to buy Caesars Entertainment in $8.5 billion deal"

A postal worker was fatally shot Saturday in Louisiana while he was delivering mail — and a suspect has been arrested in connection to his murder, according to reports. Antonio Williams, a 52-year-old letter carrier, was gunned down around 11:20 a.m. as he delivered mail to a residence in Shreveport, news station KSLA reported. Williams … Continue reading "Postal worker fatally shot while delivering mail, cops say"

More than 150 children have died in eastern India from a “brain fever” believed to be linked to a toxic substance found in lychee fruit, officials said. Health officials said Monday that at least 152 children have died from acute encephalitis syndrome in the country’s Bihar state, Agence France-Presse reported. The deadly disease causes glucose … Continue reading "Dozens of kids are dead in India from ‘brain fever’ linked to lychees"

In a textbook example of the utterly careless way the Legislature operated this year, it almost mandated the registration of illegal aliens as voters. The goof was in a “motor voter” bill rammed through the state Senate, and about to pass the Assembly. At the last minute, Assembly Republicans pointed out that it ordered voter … Continue reading "The Legislature’s mindboggling bungling"

Page 1 of a survey on how a person’s race affects their daily life, hung on a bulletin board for students and faculty to see at the Life Sciences Secondary School on E. 96th on the Upper East Side. Page 2 of the survey Ad Up Next Close Three people shot by a bike-riding gunman … Continue reading "‘White privilege’ survey posted in mostly minority school in Manhattan"

The Rangers could still look very different in another 10 days. But if they don’t, then general manager Jeff Gorton is just fine with the heavy lifting he has already done. “I don’t feel like we need to do anything, to be honest with you,” Gorton said Saturday after one of the biggest drafts in … Continue reading "Panarin? Shattenkirk? Rangers’ makeover can come in many forms"

They crossed the Crossroads of the World — hundreds of feet above the pavement. A brother and sister from the famed Flying Wallendas circus family on Sunday night successfully crossed a tightrope suspended between two skyscrapers 25 stories above Times Square. Seventh-generation daredevil Nik Wallenda, 40, and his sister Lijana, 42, started at opposite ends … Continue reading "Flying Wallendas siblings triumphantly cross Times Square on tightrope"

Here is a sentence one does not often get the opportunity to write: Bill de Blasio is right. The progressive mayor of New York City is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he says former Vice President Joe Biden, another contender, “is out of step with the values of the modern Democratic Party.” That’s … Continue reading "Old school politicians could cause Democrats to lose the 2020 election"

The 2019 legislative session ended Friday, having provided proof positive that “moderate” suburban state senators do little but enable the extremists. The Senate joined the longtime-progressive Assembly in passing a host of badly thought-out, far-left bills that will hit New York hard for years to come. And Gov. Cuomo, who has long painted himself as … Continue reading "‘Moderate’ Democrats just gave New York a host of disastrous new laws"

The RJ Barrett-versus-Zion Williams buddy battle for NBA Rookie of the Year starts as early as possible when the Knicks face the Pelicans to open the Las Vegas Summer League on July 5. Vegas knows how to put on a show. Barrett said at his introductory Garden press conference Friday that the Rookie of the … Continue reading "There won’t be a wait for an RJ Barrett-Zion Williamson Summer League battle"