Tossing Boone for another’s chirp? A bad call Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.: Re “You don’t say!” (April 23): I am an avid Yankees fan, and was very disappointed to watch the beginning of the game Monday afternoon. We rely on umpires to make the most accurate decisions during the game. I understand that Aaron Boone has the tendency to say how he feels about a certain call (especially if he is correct). ...

PHILADELPHIA — Josh Hart remembers the name, though he can’t pronounce it properly, and as a result, won’t say it. The 76ers traded up to get pick No. 25 from the Orlando Magic in the 2017 NBA Draft. Hart, who had just finished his final season at Villanova, just a 33-minute drive from the Wells Fargo Center where the Sixers play their home games, was still on the board. “Yeah, I wanted to go ...

A search is underway in the San Francisco area for the 16-year-old daughter of billionaire Stewart Butterfield, the former CEO and co-founder of Slack. Mint Butterfield, who uses they/them pronouns, is “believed to be in the Tenderloin” district of San Francisco, a spot that has become notorious for drug use and homelessness in recent years. Police said the teen had been known to frequent the ...

PHILADELPHIA — Maybe Josh Hart is speaking tongue-in-cheek. Or maybe he’s dead serious. Either way, he’s not concerned with any of 76ers head coach Nick Nurse’s potential adjustments. The Sixers — who face an 0-2 deficit in their first-round playoff series against the Knicks — are a desperate basketball team largely due to Hart’s timely and unexpected three-point shooting. Nurse’s playoff game ...

The conservative Supreme Court Thursday sounded surprisingly open to former President Donald Trump’s claim of blanket presidential immunity in make-or-break oral arguments over the federal Jan. 6 election interference case. Several members of the right-wing majority seemed open to Trump’s claim, which lower courts have rejected as outlandish, that he should have some protection from being ...

Anti-Israel chants erupted late Thursday at a pro-Palestinian encampment at City College of New York, where one passerby was driven away when a protester claimed she could “smell” he was a “Zionist.” Concern about antisemitism at protests sweeping campuses around the nation has grown in recent days, sparking demands for university officials to act more decisively to dismantle the demos. ...

A member of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail landed in the hospital after an altercation with several other Secret Service agents near Andrews Air Force Base in Washington D.C., officials said. Harris was not present when the incident unfolded on Monday morning, Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the U.S. Secret Service, told CBS News on Wednesday. The agent, who ...

An NYPD chief blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wednesday over her criticisms of police treatment of Columbia University pro-Palestine protesters who were temporarily cleared out of their encampment. Ocasio-Cortez slammed Columbia’s decision to call on the NYPD to clear out the protesters. “Not only did Columbia make the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students, but the ...

Former President Donald Trump has downplayed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where a counter-protester was killed by right-wing extremists. Trump said the violent Unite the Right rally was “a peanut” compared to the pro-Palestinian protests sweeping college campuses since Israel invaded Gaza in retaliation for the Oct. 7 terror attack carried out by Hamas. ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s love story featured some fan favorite characters last week as the stars went on a double date with Swift’s longtime pal Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper. Donna Kelce, mom of the 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end, said Wednesday at QVC’s Age of Possibility summit in Las Vegas that the Super Bowl champ sent her a snap from the foursome’s beach day in ...