By New York Post | Daniel Farr | 6/18/2026 12:26 AM
A woman is facing murder charges after the self-proclaimed “fire goddess" allegedly set her friend's Honda Element ablaze following a fight over Xanax as two people slept inside with a propane tank nearby. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Ben Chapman | 6/18/2026 12:18 AM
Federal agents and LAPD swarmed MacArthur Park Wednesday, targeting drug users and dealers in an ongoing blitz to reclaim the area. ... Read full Story
A beloved Bay Area mom of two, wife, and coffee shop owner vanished without a trace months ago and now investigators hired by the family are seeking surveillance video they believe will give a clue as to what happened to her. ... Read full Story
The Madison Square Garden station was repainted in the Knicks' iconic blue-and-orange scheme on June 1 to honor the New York team’s first finals appearance since 1999. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Zoe Hussain | 6/17/2026 10:36 PM
Dozens of doppelgangers entered Jalen Brunson lookalike contest in Washington Square Park on Wednesday for a chance to win $5,000 — but only one young fan took home the cash. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Daniel Farr | 6/17/2026 9:54 PM
Anger and anxiety filled a packed town hall Tuesday as hundreds of Altadena residents pushed back against proposals that could transform single-family neighborhoods devastated by the Eaton Fire. ... Read full Story
Several major California metropolitan areas have found themselves at the bottom of a new study measuring the best and worst-run cities in America. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Daniel Farr | 6/17/2026 9:21 PM
A family-owned raisin company is distancing itself from one of its heirs after his arrest over a string of racist and antisemitic outbursts in the Pacific Palisades. In a statement Wednesday, Lion Raisins denounced the conduct of family scion Bruce Lion, 64, following reports detailing his repeated verbal attacks against Jewish neighbors. Lion’s home in the... ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Nina Joudeh | 6/17/2026 9:18 PM
The pair appeared engrossed in an animated discussion before the USA’s matchup against Paraguay, with photos showing Trudeau gesturing emphatically throughout. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Justin Choi | 6/17/2026 7:25 PM
A dramatic fire that rapidly spread across solar panels erupted at a cold-storage facility in Los Angeles, sending massive amounts of smoke into the air and forcing a shelter-in-place order on Wednesday afternoon. The inferno was reported a bit after 2:30 p.m. in the Boyle Heights area in the 1400 block of South Los Palos... ... Read full Story
Homeowners in California are getting beat up by staggering insurance costs and a new map proves that the hardest hit areas are the ones with the highest wildfire risk. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Greg Carlton | 6/17/2026 7:00 PM
The sicko who raped a dead man for more than 30 minutes aboard a Manhattan subway last year will spend five years behind bars — after he sat speechless in court Wednesday. ... Read full Story
An unidentified individual plunged a knife into the 32-year-old tourist on the platform of the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station around 4 p.m., according to the NYPD and sources. ... Read full Story
“You need somebody who goes and doesn't trade stocks, but tries to get legislation passed that makes your life better,” said Vance. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 18, 2026 is:
acquiesce \ak-wee-ESS\ verb
To acquiesce to something is to accept it, agree with it, or allow it to happen by staying silent or by not arguing. Acquiesce is somewhat formal, and is often used with in or to.
// Eventually, the professor acquiesced to the students’ request to have the seminar’s final class be a potluck lunch.
“It may be just the right time for a chicken burger to become a significant stop on the American burger’s continual evolution—but whether beef-clinging purists will acquiesce to a poultry spin, or cry fowl, remains to be seen.” — Talib Visram, Slate, 6 Apr. 2026
Did you know?
If you’re looking to give your speech a gentle, formal flair, don’t give acquiesce the silent treatment. Essentially meaning “to comply quietly,” acquiesce has as its ultimate source the Latin verb quiēscere, “to be quiet.” (Quiet itself is also a close relation.) Quiēscere can also mean “to repose,” “to fall asleep,” or “to rest,” and when acquiesce arrived in English via French in the early 1600s, it did so with two senses: the familiar “to agree or comply” and the now-obsolete “to rest satisfied.” Herman Melville employed the former in Moby-Dick, when Ahab orders the “confounded” crew to change the Pequod’s course after a storm damages the compasses: “Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts, Starbuck said nothing, but quietly he issued all requisite orders; while Stubb and Flask—who in some small degree seemed then to be sharing his feelings—likewise unmurmuringly acquiesced.”