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New York Post
21-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Trump wades into Bryan Kohberger murder case, demands answers on why he did it: ‘There are no explanations'
President Trump also wants to know why Bryan Kohberger did it. On Monday, the commander-in-chief weighed in on the controversial plea deal that will spare Kohberger from facing a firing squad for slaughtering four University of Idaho students in 2022. 'These were vicious murders, with so many questions left unanswered,' Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday afternoon. 'While Life Imprisonment is tough, it's certainly better than receiving the Death Penalty but, before Sentencing, I hope the Judge makes Kohberger, at a minimum, explain why he did these horrible murders.' 3 Trump seen in the White House on July 18, 2025. Andrew Leyden/ZUMA / 3 Brian Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, July 2, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. AP 3 Donald Trump's Truth Social post commenting on the Bryan Kohberger Idaho murder case. Truth Social Kohberger, who was a criminology student, pleaded guilty earlier this month to the quadruple slaying of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20. The guilty plea allowed Kohberger, 30, to skirt the death penalty, though a clear-cut motive for the murders remains unknown. 'There are no explanations, there is no NOTHING,' Trump raged. 'People were shocked that he was able to plea bargain, but the Judge should make him explain what happened.' The families of the victims are divided on the plea deal.
New York Post
19-07-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Mexico City plans to tackle gentrification after protests against mass tourism
The Mexico City government on Wednesday announced a preliminary plan to deal with gentrification, a week after a fierce protest against rising housing prices some link to mass tourism and an increase in foreigners often called 'digital nomads' who live temporarily in the capital city. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said the plan will include regulation so that landlords cannot increase rents above inflation. Authorities will also share a list of 'reasonable rental' proposals. Brugada said her government will open a discussion with residents of Mexico's capital about her plan, but that the idea is to work on a bill that includes measures to promote affordable rent. Advertisement 4 People attend a protest against gentrification in Condesa neighborhood, one of the most popular among digital nomads settled in Mexico City, Mexico July 4, 2025. REUTERS 4 A demonstrator holds a banner reading 'Airbnb leave' during a protest. REUTERS The protest in early July was fueled by government failures and active promotion to attract digital nomads who work remotely often for foreign companies from Mexico City, according to experts. Advertisement Hundreds of people marched in neighborhoods popular with tourists, but the demonstration turned violent when a small number of people began smashing storefronts and harassing foreigners. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the protest was marked by xenophobia. 'The xenophobic displays seen at that protest have to be condemned. No one should be able to say 'any nationality get out of our country' even over a legitimate problem like gentrification,' Sheinbaum said back then. 4 The Mexico City government announced a preliminary plan to deal with gentrification, a week after the fierce protest. Josue Perez/ZUMA / Advertisement 4 A demonstrator sprays graffiti during a protest against gentrification. AP Many Mexicans have complained about being priced out of their neighborhoods — in part because of a move made by Sheinbaum in 2022, when she was the Mexico City mayor and signed an agreement with Airbnb and UNESCO to boost tourism and attract digital nomads despite concern over the impact short-term rentals could have. During the protest, some people marched with signs reading 'Gringo: Stop stealing our home' and 'Housing regulations now!' Some anti-gentrification groups have called for a new protest this weekend.
New York Post
09-07-2025
- Automotive
- New York Post
Self-driving robotaxi service Waymo makes debut in NYC with pilot testing program
Futuristic robotaxis are coming to Gotham — and could make the city's iconic yellow cabs a thing of the past. Driverless rideshare service Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet, deployed its fleet to New York City this week to begin mapping out the city roads – with humans still sitting behind the wheel while they await a change in state law to allow fully driverless riding. 5 The California-based company deployed its fleet to New York City this week, but with humans still driving the vehicles instead of its self-driving software. Courtesy of Waymo Advertisement 'We're on the move in the Big Apple,' the company posted on X Monday night. 'We've begun testing in New York – be sure to give us a wave and snap a pic if you see us in the city.' Waymo submitted its DOT application last month, which will include a 'human safety operator' behind the wheel to comply with the state rules, a DOT rep said. 5 Waymo will still need a 'human safety operator' behind the wheel if its testing application is approved, a DOT rep said. Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA / Advertisement 'We are working hard to bring Waymo to New Yorkers in the future, starting with this testing and advocating for changes to state law,' the rep said. A pair of state bills introduced in January – both of which are stuck in committee – seek to overturn the matter. If approved, it would be the city's first testing fleet of autonomous vehicles, according to a Waymo rep — who added the service won't be providing rides to the public during testing. 5 'We are working hard to bring Waymo to New Yorkers in the future, starting with this testing and advocating for changes to state law,' a Waymo rep said. Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA / Advertisement 'The data to date shows that Waymo outperforms human drivers, significantly reducing the frequency of injury-causing traffic collisions,' the Waymo rep added, claiming the service's trips result in 78% fewer injury-causing collisions, including 93% fewer that involve pedestrians, and 81% fewer that involve cyclists, compared to human-driven ride shares. The arrival of robotaxis in New York City could also mean upending the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of taxi and ride share drivers. 'What's the plan for potential joblessness of over 200,000 New Yorkers and the plan to keep one million riders a day safe?' Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the NY Taxi Workers Alliance, told Fox 5 before testing began. 5 Waymo cars parked at a San Francisco, California facility in June 2025. Getty Images Advertisement The electric vehicles, equipped with self-driving technology, will be tasked this summer with mapping out the concrete jungle's terrain in Manhattan and Brooklyn – including Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill – and use collected data to improve the artificial intelligence. Jersey City and Hoboken will also be trekked through as part of the metro-area tour, the rep said. The company first manually drove through Manhattan in 2021, although that trip primarily focused on weather data collection. 5 The company first manually drove through Manhattan in 2021, although that trip primarily focused on weather data collection. Courtesy of Waymo This time, the company's Waymo Driver technology will be collecting information to help its system navigate jaywalkers, cyclists, carriage horses, taxi cabs and street construction. 'We have every intention of bringing our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to the city in the future,' Waymo said in a statement. Waymo already completes about 250,000 fully driverless trips each week in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin and Atlanta, and is planning to launch its autonomous drivers in Miami later this year and Washington D.C. in 2026. –Additional reporting by Taylor Herzlich.
New York Post
28-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Birthright citizenship remains law of the land — for now — despite SCOTUS ruling
Birthright citizenship remains a fact of life in the US — for now — following the Supreme Court's ruling Friday limiting judges' ability to issue universal injunctions halting executive action. Moments after the 6-3 ruling, the Trump administration announced plans to move forward with the president's Day One executive order redefining the 14th Amendment's promise that '[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.' 'Thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, and some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore,' President Trump said during a rare appearance in the White House briefing room. Advertisement The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling did not judge the birthright citizenship question on its merits. Eric Kayne/ZUMA / 'That was meant for the babies of slaves. It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation.' 'Yes, birthright citizenship will be decided in October in the next session by the Supreme Court,' Attorney General Pam Bondi affirmed moments later, even though the high court has yet to finalize its argument schedule and no cases related to the executive order have been picked for review by the justices. Advertisement In an opinion authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court ruled that the practice of a single district judge issuing a nationwide ruling 'likely exceed' the authority laid out by the Judiciary Act of 1789. Notably, the court did not decide whether Trump's actual order was constitutional. 'If there's a birthright citizenship case in Oregon, it will only affect the plaintiff in Oregon, not the entire country,' was how Bondi explained the ruling. Trump's order would limit US citizenship to children who have at least one parent who is a US citizen or lawful permanent resident. Advertisement The action was enjoined three days after Trump signed it by a Seattle federal judge, who called the move 'blatantly unconstitutional.' President Trump said the administration now can go forward with 'numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis.' On Friday afternoon, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a fresh class-action lawsuit challenging the birthright citizenship order, a legal maneuver which must meet certain requirements before getting a hearing. 'This new case seeks protection for all families in the country, filling the gaps that may be left by the existing litigation,' the organization said in a press release. Advertisement The 22 Democrat-led states that challenged Trump's order also expressed confidence that it would never be enforced. 'We have every expectation we absolutely will be successful in keeping the 14th Amendment as the law of the land,' said Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, 'and of course birthright citizenship as well.' Locally, a City Hall spokesperson confirmed to The Post that Friday's Supreme Court ruling has no effect on New York City at this time. With Post wires
New York Post
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Billy Idol reveals he nearly died from a heroin overdose — and more bombshells from his new doc
His new documentary, which premiered at NYC's Tribeca Festival on Tuesday night, is called 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead.' And the snarling punk-rocker indeed suffered a near-fatal heroin overdose in 1984 after becoming an early MTV sensation with hits such as 'Dancing with Myself,' 'White Wedding' and 'Rebel Yell.' 'There was a moment there where, you know, I'd done what I set out to do,' Idol recalls of conquering the US after moving to New York in 1981. 'I was coming back to England … in triumph, and I nearly ruined it. 7 Billy Idol survived a near-fatal heroin overdose in 1984. 'I was basically dying, I was turning blue,' he says in new doc. Sonia Moskowitz Gordon/ZUMA / 'We flew to London where we met a load of our pals that we knew,' he continues in the doc. 'They had some of the strongest heroin, Persian brown I think it was. Everybody did a line or so, and they all nodded out, except for me and this mate of mine. We kind of went, 'Well, that's funny.' So we did a few more lines.' But the overdose nearly turned deadly for him. 'I was basically dying. I was turning blue,' he recalls. 'So they put me in an ice cold bath, and I remember them walking me around on the top of the building, you know, on the roof.' Indeed, the artist born William Broad had been seduced by heroin as the '80s rock god known as Billy Idol. 'That's what was going on. The scene had embraced hard drugs really,' he reflects. 'A number of people were on it. [So] you know, you're wide open for it.' 7 Billy Idol rocked the red carpet at the Tribeca Festival world premiere of his new documentary. Sonia Moskowitz Gordon/ZUMA / 'A lot of the people we loved were all heroin addicts,' adds Idol. 'Lou Reed wrote the song 'Heroin.' The New York Dolls were all heroin addicts practically. So we weren't thinking how dangerous it was. In fact, you're thinking quite the opposite. Maybe this could unleash something.' But, at 69, Idol has survived his severe drug addiction and lived to tell the tale. And he's still going strong, taking off his shirt to reveal a ripped torso after finishing a five-song set with longtime guitarist Steve Stevens — including 'Dancing with Myself,' 'White Wedding,' 'Eyes Without a Face' and 'Rebel Yell,' plus new song 'People I Love' — following his doc's premiere. Here are five more of the biggest revelations from 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead.' He wrote 'Dancing with Myself' after, yup, seeing someone dancing by themselves. Idol's breakout 1981 US hit, which was originally recorded with his band Generation X, was inspired from a night out on the club scene in Japan. 7 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead' traces the singer's rise from Generation X to solo stardom in the '80s. Serial Pictures 'We were standing having a drink, and we were watching this kid dancing with his reflection in the mirror of walls in this club,' recalls Gen X bassist Tony James, who co-wrote the song with Idol. 'And Billy went, 'Wow, look at that kid. Look, he's like dancing with his reflection.' And I went, 'Yeah, dancing with myself.' I'm like, 'Billy, that's gonna be a great name for a song.' ' True enough, Idol came up with the beginnings of a tune to go with that title. 'Literally, in the space of like two minutes, we wrote all the lyrics, just the two of us,' says James, 'and by the afternoon, we'd recorded the demo.' While trying to kick heroin, he turned to crack. Idol, who once even lived next door to his drug dealer, hid out at the Park Meridien hotel in Midtown Manhattan while trying get off heroin. 7 Billy Idol's longtime guitarist Steve Stevens is among those featured in the punk-rocker's new documentary. Serial Pictures 'And it's only when I really tried to give up heroin that I did start to smoke crack,' he says. 'And, yeah, it was a nightmare. I mean, it's horrible because I was seeing and hearing things. Like, people in the next room talking about me or above me.' Shortly after that, friends convinced him to go to the hospital to detox, and his father flew in from London to clean house. 'My dad believed everybody was a drug dealer,' says Idol, who is now 'California sober.' He finally kicked heroin after one wild final binge in Bangkok — and a run-in with Mel Gibson. Idol and his friend Harry Johnson went on vacation to Bangkok, Thailand in 1989, with the idea that it would be a drug-free trip. 'We started out just drinking and stuff, but after a week or so of that, we asked a cab driver if he could get us some coke,' recalls Idol. 'But he brought back this long, thin vial of this white stuff' that turned out to be heroin. 7 Billy Idol and Steve Stevens performed five songs after the premiere of the singer's documentary. Serial Pictures 'It was so strong that … you only needed a pin prick, and you were just as high as a kite,' he says. During his long 'zombie' trip, Idol had a strange celeb encounter. 'At one point, I passed out in the elevator with the elevator doors closing on me, and Mel Gibson was there with his family on holiday, horrified,' he recalls. 'The silver lining was I did put heroin behind me,' he says. 'It was too horrible, the whole experience. It actually really put me off.' He almost lost a leg in a motorcycle accident — and did lose a big role in 'Terminator 2.' Idol was hit by a car when he ran a stop sign at a Hollywood intersection on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in 1990. He broke his right leg, which was so badly damaged between his knee and ankle that he had to have a steel rod inserted, and fractured his left wrist in the horrific accident that required seven hours of surgery. 7 The documentary 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead' had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Wednesday night. Serial Pictures It also cost Idol a big role in 1991's 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day,' with him being originally cast to play Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator T-1000 rival. But the singer couldn't do the required running. 'I just had a really bad limp, so I couldn't do it,' he says. 'But I wish I could've done it, it would've been incredible. And you never know where that would have led?' He discovered that he had another son several years ago. Idol, who has never gotten married, raised son Willem, 36, with former partner Perri Lister and daughter Bonnie, 35, with ex-girlfriend Linda Mathis. But several years ago he found out that he had a second son, Brant, 39, from a weekend fling. 7 Billy Idol originally recorded his breakout hit 'Dancing with Myself' with his band Generation X. Getty Images The discovery was made through a 23andMe DNA test that Bonnie did. 'And then a few weeks later, I get the results back on the app and open it, and I'm like, 'Who is this? This Brant,'' she says in the doc. A DNA test had also raised questions about who Brant always thought was his biological father. 'I was like, 'Mom, is there a chance Mark might not be my biological father?'m' he recalls in the doc. 'And she's like, 'Well, it's pretty crazy, but back in the day, we broke up and I actually spent a weekend with Billy Idol.' '
