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New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have reportedly endured a 63-percent rise in assaults over the past six years. A New York Post article published on Saturday reported the alarming numbers of assaults on cops and numerous instances of the Big Apple’s officers being injured. The outlet continued: There have been 970 assaults on uniformed police officers in the city so far this year, up from the 595 officers attacked at the same point in pre-pandemic 2019, NYPD data show. The number of assaulted cops, which includes all city law enforcement officers, is up 57% so far this year...

Import prices ticked up slightly in April, driven by higher costs for nonfuel goods even as fuel prices continued to slide, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Import Price Index rose 0.1 percent in April, following a 0.4 percent decline in March. Over the past year, import prices were up just 0.1 percent. But excluding fuel, prices for imported goods rose 0.4 percent in April and were up 1.2 percent from a year earlier, suggesting continued resilience in U.S. demand for foreign goods despite the implementation of new tariffs in early April. The Trump...

Hall of Fame Chairman of the Board Jane Forbes Clark issued a statement on Tuesday regarding MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred's policy decision about individuals losing their permanently ineligible status after death. "The National Baseball Hall of Fame has always maintained that anyone removed from Baseball’s permanently ineligible list will become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration," Clark said in the statement. "Major League Baseball’s decision to remove deceased individuals from the permanently ineligible list will allow for the Hall of Fame candidacy of such individuals to now be considered. The Historical Overview Committee will develop the ballot of eight names...

President Donald Trump will announce his reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, or “Liberation Day,” in his administration’s first Rose Garden event of his second term. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Monday that Trump will make his much-anticipated tariff announcement in the Rose Garden. “On Wednesday, it will be Liberation Day in America, as President Trump has so proudly dubbed it. The Cabinet will be here for the event. It will be our first Rose Garden event of this administration,” Leavitt told reporters outside the West Wing.

Former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) claimed Wednesday on “MSNBC Reports” that the “nature’ of the MAGA base was “very angry, aggressive” and disregarded facts. Guest host Yamiche Alcindor said, “So, congressman, what do you make of this support for Matt Gaetz among Trump allies and do you think he will be able to really have a run for office especially after now this report comes out with all of these allegations?” Rose said, “This is pretty sick and disturbing thing to think about. That, one, there could be clear evidence that someone did these things while they were a member...

The heartless crook accused of stealing a gold-plated rose from a 9/11 memorial at a Midtown Catholic church was arrested Friday for the unholy crime, according to the NYPD. Deikel Alcantara, 21, was turned over to police by his father and charged with grand larceny for allegedly pilfering a $3,000 rose — forged of metal from Ground Zero and plated in gold — from a shrine inside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on Wednesday, police and sources said. The memorial at the West 31st Street house of worship honors all the lives lost in the terrorist attacks on...

A “lone ranger” thief barged into a Midtown Catholic church Wednesday and stole a $3,000 gold-plated rose from a memorial honoring the lives lost on 9/11 in a brazen “act of desecration,” according to cops and the pastor of the parish. The suspect walked into the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street near Seventh Avenue around 2:30 p.m. and grabbed the rose – created out of the steel from Ground Zero – a cherished part of the 9/11 Memorial Shrine, according to authorities and the Rev. Brian Jordan. “This was not only a robbery, as far...

Inflation ticked higher once again in March, with consumer prices up 0.4 percent over the previous month and 3.5 percent compared to one year earlier. The latest data marks the third month in a row that the consumer price index (CPI), a closely watched gauge of inflation, has come in hotter than expected, likely throwing cold water on hopes that the Federal Reserve would begin cutting interest rates soon.

Median rent in the U.S. rose for the third consecutive month in March, up 0.8 percent from a year ago to $1,987, according to a new report from real estate company Redfin. While rents had decreased nationally during the preceding three-month period, rental prices have started to tick up again, as has inflation. Redfin pointed to high mortgage rates — driven by high borrowing costs set by a committee of Federal Reserve officials — as a contributing factor. More people are putting off buying a home and opting to rent, driving up demand for rental units.

Inflation and personal incomes rose in January, according to federal data released Thursday, another sign of economic strength that could delay long-anticipated interest rate cuts. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge of inflation, rose 0.3 percent in January and 2.4 percent over the past 12 months. Monthly inflation picked up slightly from December, when the PCE index rose 0.1 percent, even as the annual inflation rate fell from 2.6 percent in the final month of 2023. Inflation without volatilte food and energy prices, known as “core” inflation, sped up to 0.4 percent gain in...

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose used “fame, status and power” to violently rape a one-time Penthouse Pet back in his rock ’n’ roll heyday, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Sheila Kennedy, now 61, accuses Rose, also 61, of violently attacking her and anally raping her in a Manhattan hotel room in 1989, according to the complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court. The Post has reached out to Rose’s spokesperson and attorney for comment. The assault allegedly took place in February 1989 after Kennedy — who was Penthouse’s Pet of the Year in 1983 — first met...

ESPN has let go of NBA Countdown’s Jalen Rose, The Post has learned. Rose, 50, had been on ABC/ESPN’s top NBA broadcast for a decade, which was especially impressive because of the amount of changes the network has made over that time. The Post first reported Friday morning that ESPN was laying off around 20 on-air personalities. Top NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy was also let go by the network. ESPN had reduced Rose’s role at the network after his daily program with David Jacoby was canceled at the end of 2022.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.4 percent in February for an annual increase of 6 percent, right in line with what economists had been expecting, according to data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The 6 percent annual inflation rate was the lowest yearly price increase since September 2021. Without food and energy prices, which are more volatile, the CPI rose 0.5 percent in February and 5.5 percent over the past 12 months.

Kate Winslet, 47, floated her opinion Saturday on the infamous “Titanic” door debate using her experience with paddle boarding while appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. The debate — which has been going on for nearly 25 years since the film’s release — first floated to the surface during the climatic scene of James Cameron’s “Titanic,” where Rose (played by Winslet) is laying on a shattered door leaving her love interest Jack ( played by Leo DiCaprio) to freeze in the water. Several people who have watched the 1997 film have argued that if Rose had moved over, both...

Figures from the National Poison Data System (NPDS) show adolescent cannabis use spiked by 245 percent between 2000 and 2020. Research findings were published on Monday in the journal Clinical Toxicology, and detail a decline in the rate of alcohol abuse over the same period. “Ethanol abuse cases exceeded the number of marijuana cases every year from 2000 until 2013,” explained study author Adrienne Hughes, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, in a release. However, “since 2014, marijuana exposure cases have exceeded ethanol cases every year, and by a greater amount each year than...

​Republican Rep. Nicole​ Malliotakis has a 6 percentage-point edge over Democratic challenger Max Rose in a House district that comprises Staten Island and parts of south Brooklyn, according to a poll released Thursday. Malliotakis leads Rose 49% to 43% in a rematch of their 2020 race in which she knocked off Rose, then the incumbent, by slightly more than 6 points, a Spectrum News/Siena College poll found. The survey found that Malliotakis, running in a district that former President Donald Trump won by 10 points in 2020, is getting a boost from independent voters and a smidgen of Democrats who...

A person of interest connected to an attack where six people were gunned down six people and many others were injured during a shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, a wealthy suburb of Chicago, has been captured following an hours-long manhunt.

“Kevin Love is on the team because of tokenism,” the former NBA star, who has the Renaissance Man column and podcast host for The Post – said on his “Jalen & Jacoby” podcast Thursday. “Don’t be scared to make an all-Black team representing the United States of America. I’m disappointed by that.”

"This is not over."

Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) of New York’s Staten Island declared that Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has lost control of the city’s streets and called for the deployment of the National Guard to assist with enforcing Tuesday’s 8 p.m. curfew. Rose said in a statement that the “majority of the protests yesterday were peaceful,” but he acknowledged the “mayhem that occurred in parts of the city last night—the unprecedented looting and attacks on officers and bystanders.” “It was not part of the movement to ensure justice for George Floyd and other victims of police brutality. And anyone who would say...