By New York Post | Tracy Swartz | 10/31/2025 10:00 AM
"Once I've finished the marathon, gotten my medal, it gives me two or three months of just that runner's high," Liz Healy told The Post. ... Read full Story
Law enforcement personnel carried out the inspection at a federally authorized container freight station as part of an ongoing campaign to ensure compliance with immigration regulations. ... Read full Story
Sources told The Post that the victim originally made it out of his flooding home, but doubled back to save his dogs. It's unclear what happened to the dogs. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Alex Mitchell | 10/31/2025 2:01 AM
It’s an epic storyline that writes itself at the AAA class as defending champion Syosset goes to battle with Herricks, a six seed that hasn’t won it all since 2005. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Vaughn Golden | 10/30/2025 11:55 PM
Gov. Kathy Hochul is crying poverty, even while the state once again saw a massive boom in tax revenue over the first half of the fiscal year -- eclipsing her office’s projections by a nearly $3 billion. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Alex Mitchell | 10/30/2025 11:21 PM
A Long Island golfer spotted an extremely rare avian for these parts perched over a golf course on the East End, leading to a flock of bird enthusiasts traveling from hours away to get a glimpse. ... Read full Story
Younger New Yorkers are starting to make their mark at the ballot box — turning out at a higher clip over the past few days of early voting in the highly-watched mayoral race. New Yorkers under 50 years old, who are more likely to pick 34-year-old Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, have been closing the gap... ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Amanda Woods | 10/30/2025 11:04 PM
“My training kicked in,” Ramos said. “My partner was there – it was just a good, you know, a good moment for us to be there. We saved his life. And it was a good feeling.” ... Read full Story
Clive Porter, 33 – who has a whopping 86 previous arrests and was most recently cut loose because of the state’s lax bail reform laws – is accused of randomly sucker-punching a 45-year-old man in the face. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Ben Kochman | 10/30/2025 10:54 PM
The postal service worker mother of the alleged mastermind of a massive NBA betting scandal expressed sticker stock Thursday when she learned she would have to put up $250,000 bail to keep him out of jail. ... Read full Story
Upstate Rep. Nick Langworthy, the former New York State Republican Party chairman, endorsed Andrew Cuomo instead of GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa for mayor to stop "communist" Zohran Mamdani. ... Read full Story
Stephen Johnson, 30 — who was snatched from a Chelsea playground as a 4-year-old by registered sex offender Tony Sanchez — said he was inspired to join the force by the officers who returned him to his mom when he was a scared little boy. ... Read full Story
The giant, inflatable rat that was stabbed outside the upscale Babbo restaurant in Manhattan this week is getting patched up -- and its injuries were even worse than previously thought, The Post has learned. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 2, 2025 is:
arbitrary \AHR-buh-trair-ee\ adjective
Arbitrary describes something that is not planned or chosen for a particular reason, is not based on reason or evidence, or is done without concern for what is fair or right.
// Because the committee wasn’t transparent about the selection process, the results of the process appeared to be wholly arbitrary.
// An arbitrary number will be assigned to each participant.
“The authority of the crown, contemporaries believed, was instituted by God to rule the kingdom and its people. England’s sovereign was required to be both a warrior and a judge, to protect the realm from external attack and internal anarchy. To depose the king, therefore, was to risk everything—worldly security and immortal soul—by challenging the order of God’s creation. Such devastatingly radical action could never be justified unless kingship became tyranny: rule by arbitrary will rather than law, threatening the interests of kingdom and people instead of defending them.” — Helen Castor, The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV, 2024
Did you know?
Donning black robes and a powdered wig to learn about arbitrary might seem to be an arbitrary—that is, random or capricious—choice, but it would in fact jibe with the word’s etymology. Arbitrary comes from the Latin noun arbiter, which means “judge” and is the source of the English word arbiter, also meaning “judge.” In English, arbitrary first meant “depending upon choice or discretion” and was specifically used to indicate the sort of decision (as for punishment) left up to the expert determination of a judge rather than defined by law. Today, it can also be used for anything determined by or as if by chance or whim.